The Friday Canon: GOTH SPECIAL!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

So we've done modern pop, we've done classic pop - let's go a bit indie, I thought, and then I thought, this is LJ after all, so today's Friday canon spotlights an individual dear to many of your hearts....



YES its FAT BOB and his Cureists. Some people think the Cure are a bunch of fannies, but even those people tend to tip the hat to a few classic singles.

Here are all the Cure's UK Top 40 singles. In an attempt to find, by poll science, which are best, we would ask you to select a generous SEVEN for inclusion in the Friday Canon.

[Poll #679272]

Fly, children of the night, fly!

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Thing about the Cure is that vvvv few real actual goffs of my acquaintance like them AT ALL. The crossover band rejected by original constituency phenom. is hardly rare, but it seems particularly marked in the case of Bobmug and pals.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they never struck me as particularly goff. As Tom says in the poll bit, they were more Joy Div/New Order copyists I'd have thought. BUT they never sounded JD enough ergo not goff enough I'd expect.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think they're probably everyone's idea of 'goth' rather than being goth, just as yr actual metaller does not have much time for Def Leppard (FOOLISHLY!) and yet DL were always 'metal' to the non-metal kids.

In fact I dunno if they were ever goth, and yet they are forever so!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I think they def were goth, at least in their second period (roughly A Forest up to (but not including) The Walk). But yeah, I take your point re Lep. It just seems much more extreme with The Cure.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The dancefloor at B Movie says thee "NAY!"

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Bbbbut everyone who goes claims B-Movie ISN'T a goff club!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But all goths claim not to be goths!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Claiming not to be a goth = most gothest thing ever!