# I've waited hours for this...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 3, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121 "2002-08-03T03:19:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/21 "2002-08-05T06:17:03Z")
(ahem)
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thank you.
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### Author:  [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/22 "2002-08-05T06:57:10Z")
For a long time I couldn’t listen to them because I associated them powerfully with high school, but a friend has had “Standing on a Beach” playing in the car lately and I forgot how much I loved “Primary” and “Charlotte Sometimes.”
I like Seventeen Seconds best, I think. That and Head on the Door. And Japanese Whispers. And the b-sides from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. Never liked Pornography, or Boys Don’t Cry. Or the Top! Heh. The more I think about them the more songs I remember!
-fh
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/23 "2002-08-05T08:14:35Z")
I always _hated_ “Love Song”. It’s got the lamest most vacuous Hallmark card lyrics ever. Blech.
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### Author:  [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/24 "2002-08-05T13:52:09Z")
My favorite Cure album is probably _Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me._
As to “Love Song’s” lyrics, I have to agree, although something about it is still very appealing. Maybe that it’s such a simple song.
I sometimes wonder how a band that can write “How Beautiful You Are” can also put out “Friday I’m in Love.” How does that happen? And how is it that the second one was a big hit and the first wasn’t?
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/25 "2002-08-05T21:29:51Z")
Horray! [size=1]I knw there had to be SOME Cure fans out there…[/small]
I was always pretty medium about _Love Song_ - it’s pretty smarmy.
I always thought _Why Can’t I be You_ was terribly appealing, in a stalkeresque sort of way. 😃
I read an interview with Robert in Teen Beat or something like that in '86 I think - it was a tad dissapointing because he just talked about being a vampire the whole time - personally, I blame both the reporter and the magazine - you can only answer what your asked - however; I have to admit to being kinda dissapointed.
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### Author:  [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/26 "2002-08-05T23:12:21Z")
Well… they didn’t really write “How Beautiful You Are,” they lifted it from a short story by Baudelaire.
-fh
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### Author:  [@Semp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Semp)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-waited-hours-for-this/122121/27 "2002-08-05T23:59:48Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ruadh \*
> \*\*I always _hated_ “Love Song”. It’s got the lamest most vacuous Hallmark card lyrics ever. Blech. \*\*
I agree pretty much, but at the same time I think the lyrically-similar (well, kinda) _Halo_, a B-side of _Friday…_, is easily one of the best songs they’ve made. The lyrical schmaltz somehow becomes much more palatable when it is given a shot of exuberance, whereas with _Love Song_ it’s kind of dreary and almost creepy.
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