What I’m feelin’ #3
So I’m back. I’m really trying to make this a usual thing, I have it on my calender for every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Todays choice was pretty easy.
The Cure
The newest album release by The Cure, “4:13 Dream”, was release 3 weeks ago, to mixed reviews. Rather than being a very direct theme as many of their previous albums had, “4:13″, mixes it up a little more. Where “Bloodflowers” fit into more of a gothic tone and “Boys Don’t Cry” had the dance thingy going on, “4:13″ runs back and forth between between the dark and light, hanging out a little more in the light. So this isn’t quite to the extremes of “Wild Mood Swings”. I bring all this up because I started off with a distaste for the new album, but it had grown on me pretty efficiently.
It’s hard to compare Cure albums because they do fit into so many mediums of Rock music, but when it comes to what made them who they are is they Robert Smith’s voice can seem to beckon a hurt soul. There is something about his voice calling out in pain on a track like “Pictures of You”. It makes you feel better in that dark place. People always think I am some weird, sad, dark guy when I say that The Cure is probably my favorite band ever. Listening to The Cure doesn’t make you sad, it makes you feel okay while sad. It makes you feels as though someone else is right there with you. It’s no longer a lonely void. Dammit, I just proved the weird, sad, and dark theory. The Cure wasn’t the birth of emo music, blame that on The Smiths.
There is very little music that will move me and my emotions every time I listen to it, and The Cure is one of those bands. There isn’t a Cure album that doesn’t directly correlate to a particular time period in my life. Just like John Legends album “Once Again” always reminds me of a big mistake, The Cure’s “Disintegration” reminds me of that rough break-up, “Bloodflowers” was there for the awkward Jr High to High School switch, and “Boys Don’t Cry” made me not care about leaving after High School. The Cure very well could be the sound track of my life, all the good, all the bad, they influence so much, while nullifying most.
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