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The Cure
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"The air no longer in my throat,
Another perfect lie is choked" Primary
The Cure belong to what I call Surrealist Gothic - a dark/strange reality where nightmares can come true. In this world, even pleasant dreams have dark undertones.
10 Favorite Songs
10. Close to Me Head on the Door
9. Boys Don't Cry Boys Don't Cry
8. Lovecats Japanese Whispers
7. Fire in Cairo Boys Don't Cry
6. The Big Hand Wish (b-side)
5. Just Like Heaven Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me
4. Burn Crow soundtrack
3. Fascination Street Disintegration
2. Never Enough Mixed Up
1. Wrong Number Galore
3 Favorite Albums
3. Head on the Door
2. Disintigration
1. Mixed Up
Favorite Video
Never Enough - The band manager is a boardwalk sideshow owner and the band members are the freaks. Singer Robert Smith is portrayed as a fat lady in one shot, and in another, a dummy of him falls through the boardwalk and into the water below. It's very realistic until you look closely.
Video Releases:
The Cure in Orange
Staring at the Sea
The Play Out
Picture Show
Galore
Movie Connections:
The band did "Burn" for The Crow, "More Than This" forThe X Filesand "Dred Song" for Judge Dred.
Long time video director Tim Pope tried his hand at directing movies with Crow II: City of Angels
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Shriekback
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"He's on a mission from God,
But he don't know who's,
And he don't know why." Fish Below the Ice
Shriekback is very tribal - partly in music, but mostly in attitude. Songs emphasise the group rather than the individual.
10 Favorite Songs
10. Petulant (live) The Dancing Years
9. Faded Flowers Oil and Gold
8. This Big Hush Oil and Gold
7. Fish Below The Ice Oil and Gold
6. Exquisite Corpse Sacred City
5. Bastard Sons of Enoch Sacred City
4. Psycho Drift Sacred City
3. Hammerheads Oil and Gold
2. Nemesis Oil and Gold
1. All Lined Up Care
3 Favorite Albums
3. The Dancing Years
2. Sacred City
1. Oil and Gold
Favorite Video
Are there any?
Movie Connections
Apparently there is a video to accompany "Sacred City"
"Faded Flowers" was in the movie Band of the Hand, "Coelecanth" was in Manhunter and "This Big Hush" was in one of the two movies, but I can't remember which.
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New Order
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"I get this feeling I'm in motion;
A certain sense of Liberty" True Faith
New Order is best described as post-punk, post-pop electronic music. they definately have their own niche.
10 Favorite Songs
10. Fine Time Technique
9. World in Motion single
8. Bizarre Love Triangle Brotherhood
7. Perfect Kiss Substance
6 Round & round Technique
5. True Faith Substance
4. Shellshock Substance
3. Subculture Lowlife
2. Regret Republic
1. Touched by the Hand of God
3 favorite Albums
3. Techique
2. Lowlife
1. Substance
Favorite Video
Bizzare Love Triangle - it's a series of random images, interrupted in the middle by a short scene between a man and a woman:
she: "I refuse to believe in reincarnation because I don't want to come back as a bug or a rabbit."
he: "You know, you're a real 'up' person."
Video Releases
Substance
New Order Story
Movie Connections
"Shellshock","Elegia", and "Thieves Like Us" were all in Pretty in Pink.
"Bizarre Love Triangle" was in Married to the Mob and countless other 80's movies.
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