"Anora" - quite a good movie actually, some funny/absurd scenes in an otherwise serious movie...

Welcome from me too & thanks for already posting on various Cure topics!

Quote from: nerdiee on September 26, 2024, 15:39:24what is missing here, what is really missing is a living melody, a melody that comes not from the skill to write music, but from the soul...

IMO, if they missed this with 'Alone', they definitely achieved it with 'All Ever I Am'

Quote from: Brisk on December 24, 2014, 22:19:17What is the best live version of Faith ever?

The In Orange version for me.

Best song on this album?

If you asked me in November, I would say 'Endsong', such a powerful song, and perhaps the best Cure closing song in history? But as I listened more and more the album, I just couldn't but decide for 'All I Ever Am'. It's like if Robert was writing about me. Best lyrics in the album and that great sad melody, the best song on SOALW for me.

I lose all my life like this
Reflecting time and memories
And all for fear of what I'll find
If I just stop and empty out my mind
Of all the ghosts and all the dreams
All I hold to in belief
But all I ever am
Is somehow never quite all I am now

I don't really like WMS, I chose This is lie because it's more bearable than the rest of the album. I usually play a Fantasy Cure game in my head every now and then on an alternate version of this record, which I end up calling Adonais and includes all the bsides plus this is a lie, want and perhaps a couple more from the official bunch of songs they've chosen, not sure which ones though... It used to me would be the opening song and Adonais the last, the rest of the tracklist varies according to my personal mood swings...

Wow! I'm so glad there's a section about BOOKS, and not necessarily Cure-related ones...
I'm currently reading several books simultaneously, among which Titus Groan by Marvyn Peake (part one onf the Gormenghast trilogy), Possession by A.S. Byatt and a study on Goth culture by Paul Hodkinson.

Lost. I can listen to the song 8 times in a row without ever tiring. I like the way the voice and the lyrics build up in a frenzied kind of way, and it's by far the most emotional moment of a record which, though not as bad as many think it is, sounds a bit superficial at times. I also enjoy The End of the world, I think it's funny.

Bloodflowers. Robert's voice has never sounded that sensual, and the lyrics creating a comparison between an optimist's and a pessimist's pov are both simple and effective.