I was at a college friends funeral recently and one of my college flat mates who I had not seen for forty years reminded me that everyday I came home the first thing I would do was stick on an album, Boys Don’t Cry’ by The Cure. That is not quite the way I remember it but my listening to The Cure obviously left an impression on my friend.
I first saw the band at Reading Rock 5 years earlier and I somehow just got them despite not many other people appearing to pay much attention and being more interested in telling John Peel what part of a females anatomy he was.
A couple of months later The Cure were headling at the London School Of Economics, supported by The Associates and The Passions, all for just £1.50 on the door IIRC with free badges from each band thrown in. I had a brilliant time and though the set was short, less than an hour including two encoores I left a fan with a Jumping On Someone Elses Train earworm in my head.
Their next album Seventeen Seconds is probably my favourite with A Forrest easily making my top ten most played tracks, I have and could still easily listen to that one track all day, again and again and again …
I kind of lost touch with the music world soon after Pornography was realeased and have not been tempted to buy anything new from The Cure since.
Thanks to the wonders of the intelweb and fb I found out that the band were to play a streamed live set to launch their new Album Songs From A Lost World yesterday and I managed to tune in just as they started a new track I Can Never Say Goodbye which I found immediately mesmerising.
After going back and watching the whole gig this morning I have been listening to I Can Never Say Goodbye almost all day, linked in the blue text is just the one song from another live performance.
After just putting a new turntable in my kitchen I’ve just listened to a 1969 pressing of Donovans Greatest hits, just given to me by my hippy of a father in law!
The cover is well old and battered but the vinyl has not one scratch.
As a German speaker, from birth, I always thought Bowies Helden version of Heroes was quite remarkable, infinitely more convincing than Cliff Richards Rote Lippen for example, but adding Till Lindemann into the mix on vocals with Apocolyptica really takes Helden onto another level :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWtSygdtj7s
Deep Purple Machine Head. What an album, the band are really rocking. This track ‘Never Before’ is brilliant. Played the album out in my ND this morning enjoying some Autumn sun.
Dark Side of the Moon & Wish You Were Here transport me immediately back to my Sixth form days. I never tire of hearing them. (I know all of the lyrics but I’ve forgotten most of what I was supposed to learn for my A levels). Make of that what you will.
