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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

wow haha this is showin my age i guess (ie i can remember the first LP a million times better than anything they did in the 80s or 90s or 00s) but the JD/NO copyists idea seems NUTS to me and my ears!!

also BOBBLEMUGG is a billion times a better singer than either curtis i. or albrecht b.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

The first album is NOTHING like JD/NO, but there are def elements of both from A Forest onwards. Simon Gallup's bass playing is very Hookesque indeed.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hah xpost!

The first LP they're not copyists at all AFAICR, it's spindly new wavey stuff. And yeah as a singer Bobmug does not cleave to IC or Barney. But the sounds of their 2nd and 3rd albums are JDish I think, and then shortly after NO started doing the expansive Ceremony-style pop they moved onto doing stuff like "Primary" which is quite similar, and THEN "The Walk" is an outrageous Blue Monday clone, and then quite suddenly they found an entirely workable style of their own.

But maybe this is all hindsight!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

where does WISH come in this trajectory (as i am playin it this very minute)?

i think this is a an i-word issue to be honest -- even if i couldn't put a name to it or summarise it well, i think bobmug's project has been his own from the first*, and (to me) the fact that he uses elements NO possibly came up with merely introduces inflected elements into the bobmug project

hahahahahahaha

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile in a parallel universe where light from our universe has yet to penetrate:
http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=6747003

Good old Geir!