It's hard to believe that the Cure could release an album even more sparse than Three Imaginary Boys, but here's the proof. The lineup change that saw funkstery bassist Michael Dempsey squeezed out in favor of the more specific playing of (eventually the longest serving member outside Robert Smith) Simon Gallup, and the addition of keyboardist Mathieu Hartley resulted in the band becoming more rigid in sound, and more disciplined in attitude. While it is not the study in loss that Faith would become, or the descent into madness of Pornography, it is a perfect precursor to those collections. In a sense, Seventeen Seconds is the beginning of a trilogy of sorts, the emptiness that leads to the questioning and eventual madness of the subsequent work. Mostly forgotten outside of the unforgettable single "A Forest," Seventeen Seconds is an even, subtle work that grows on the listener over time. Sure, the Cure did better work, but for a new lineup and a newfound sense of independence, Robert Smith already shows that he knows what he's doing. From short instrumental pieces to robotic pop, Seventeen Seconds is where the Cure shed all the outside input and became their own band.
Detached: A word that epitomizes "Seventeen Seconds" position amongst the cumulated back catalogue of Robert Smith's Cure. Detached: The abstract blurry images of the cover further drove the band away from traditional Rock iconography and indeed enhanced The Cure's "anti-image". Detached: "Seventeen Seconds" is the first point where Smith wrestles free of any hint of the Producer's control that...
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Go ahead, put that red button in your Post-Punk Friday and smoke it.There was a time, a long time ago, when I didn't have every Cure album readily available to me. I hadn't delved into the back catalog beyond the Japanese Whispers mini-album, didn't have that desire to have every song Robert Smith committed to tape/vinyl/plastic/whatever.Taking a chance and picking up the Concert casette change...
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I was in a cafe in Amsterdam sophomore year in college. On the TV screens they had a really, *REALLY OLD* concert of *The CURE*. As I sat down with my six girlfriends & ordered 7 beers & some smokes ;), this song came on & time *STOPPED*. I've loved this song completely from the first moment I heard it... but to see it live (in video form)... well, let's just say - I was forever changed that...
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Well, I just got done listening to the latest Cure single. Huh, I don't know what to say. It was o.k. I guess. While Wild Mood Swings had a few good songs and Bloodflowers was an unbelievable disappointment I really need to here all of 4:13 Dream. I've been a rabid fan for 20 some odd years and there was a time when all I listened to was The Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Nitzer Ebb, New Or...
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Detached: A word that epitomizes "Seventeen Seconds" position amongst the cumulated back catalogue of Robert Smith's Cure. Detached: The abstract blurry images of the cover further drove the band away from traditional Rock iconography and indeed enhanced The Cure's "anti-image". Detached: "Seventeen Seconds" is the first point where Smith wrestles free of any hint of the Producer's control that...
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Sometimes I get in the mood for a particular sound. And sometimes that sound is specific, not to a genre or even to an artist, but to a single record. This week it's The Cure's second album ??Seventeen Seconds??. I imagine that many fans of the band's previous album and singles were baffled by the the departure it signalled. It's so spare, so tonally restricted. And it lacks the bottom end of o...
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| 1 A Reflection |
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| 2 Play for Today |
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| 3 Secrets |
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| 4 In Your House |
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| 5 Three |
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| 6 The Final Sound |
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| 7 A Forest |
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| 8 M |
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| 9 At Night |
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| 10 Seventeen Seconds |
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