I’ve made myself so sick,
I wish I’d stayed
asleep today.
You waited hours to open a pointless thread?
Get a life.
Some people like the cure.
But a lot more people aren’t familiar enough with the Cure to be able to associate your title/post with the band. I was confused myself – not confused enough to post a rude reply or anything, but confused. You may want to give more of an indication in the subject line where exactly you’re going with the thread…
It’s been years since I’ve heard a Cure song, but I knew I recognized the title of the thread, which made me take a look inside…So, successful attempt on the part of the poster, in my opinion. I think.
Me too. I’ll play!
Whenever I’m alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again.
Whenever I’m alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again.
A) I got the title of the thread right away. I haven’t heard the Cure for years either.
B) This hardly seems like cafe society material, more like MPSIMS. However I see no need to to say “get a life” to her for it. If you have to throw insults, do it in the pit.
[sub]For the record I think starting a pit thread over this is stupid[/sub]
Well, yah - what would it say:
“Gee Alice you started a thread possibly in the wrong form, you goat felching, whore mongering…”
Well, you get the idea.
Besides, the description says
I wanted to talk about the Cure - apparently, except for Morgainelf no one else does. (Although why they just couldn’t stay out of my thread in the first place, I’ll never know.)
Oh, and Morgainelf:
You’re so gorgeous I’ll do anything
I’ll kiss you from your feet
To where your head begins
You’re so perfect you’re so right as rain
You make me
Make me hungry again
Jeez, y’all, Bryan didn’t get it, for cryin’ out loud. As SolGrundy pointed out, the reference was pretty tenuous even for some who did get it.
So lighten up before you reinforce the prejudices some of us have about fans of The Cure.
It has nothing to do with being a cure fan or not. It deals with the one board rule “dont be a jerk”.
Nuff said.
Alice in wonderland - I’m sorry. I wouldn’t mind discussing the cure. I just thought you felt like posting song lyrics which was pretty much all I have seen thus far.
My personal favorite cure album is boys dont cry. I really like the garage band kind of sound of the album as opposed to some of their later material which is much more polished.
I personally became a fan in 1985 when I first saw the video for “Close to Me” - I thought it was really fresh - rather unlike the most of the concert type videos that the '80’s hair bands were making and I’ve been a fan ever since. The Head on the Door is still my personal fave - nostalga maybe.
Oh, and I also always had a big crush on Robert. 
We have had plenty of threads just like this before without any more explanation than alice gave without anyone being a jerk about it.
For the record, I got the thread title immediately.
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me
Seventeen seconds
A measure of life…
the spider man is having me for dinner tonight
P.S. What grendel72 said.
Great. Now I have the little song (played on the comb) from the <i>Close to You</i> video stuck in my head.
I have a sudden urge to go sliding about in a wardrobe.
Any of the first three albums would be my favourite but I’d probably give the slight edge to Faith.
I’ve never been a big fan of Pornography, which seems to put me in an extremely small minority of Cure fans. It’s not a bad album but I just don’t think the songs are as good.
And Alice, I wanted to smudge Robert’s lipstick for him too 
Apparently, I code too much in HTML and have forgotten how to use the Dope. Sorry.
Personally I think Pornography is their best album, but I’m in a similar position as you as I think Disintegration is vastly over-rated. And don’t get me started on how much I disliked Bloodflowers…
Ooh! Ruadh! Thanks for that one!
Faith and Pornography are definitely two of their best albums… Seventeen Seconds is up there for me, too… (Now, I’m feeling a little disloyal to the other Cure albums… jeez. Love 'em all, I do.)
Oddly enough – I came across my official Cure lyric book today, as I was unpacking my things… Haven’t looked at it in years. Ah, the memories.
My high-school yearbook quote?
“She flies outside this cage/Singing girlmad words/I keep her dark thoughts deep inside/As black as stone/and mad as birds.”
Speaks volumes, dunnit?
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me,
Your tongue’s like poison.
So swollen it fills up my mouth.
when i was in junior high, I was the biggest Cure Fan I knew. room full over posters (including the rare, long sought, Robt. Smith and Betty Boop poster- yay)
then somewhere in highschool I realized that thier melodrama was silly and that a lot of thier stick was lifter from Joy Division, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, and half understood existentialist tracts.
I became a Joy division Fan and left the Cure for the Kids…
Then a few years ago, I saw them live (friend had an extra ticket for 10$ and i had no plans so i went). I had totally forgotten how great they could be,and how, at thier best they were an amazing pop band. They put on a great show, completely sans the faux goth atmospherics I remembered from thier heyday, and more closely resembles a bunch of geezers out having a really good time and plaing a bunch of great hits.
So I went out and bought Galore and Staring at the Sea and rediscovered exactly why they were great. and the funny thing is: it was for totally different reasons that I used ot like them. Now i like the catchy melodies, the great guitar work, the general sense that they were having a lot of fun.
And even more recently i stumbled across the CD Single for Lovesong and remembered that its B-Side: “2Late” is one of the
best. songs. ever.
CJ