So a number of different things I'm curious in discussing, but may stretch across a number of different genres but, instead of making multiple threads over time, I'll just condense it to this one thread.
So I'm going to start with The Cure. One of my favorite bands. However, over time I've noticed that when I sometimes speak to other people about The Cure, we're essentially talking about different bands. A good highlight for this was a youtube video that was recently suggested to me. (This guy has some good videos on his channel, though):
At the end he does have a couple songs from Disintegration that I feel more capture what I think of when I think of The Cure, but it does seem as if they're two different bands. They have the really happy, upbeat songs that are typically fairly short (most, but not all, of their singles fall into this category). I had always known who The Cure were, but never really got in to any of their music because most of what I was exposed to was this more popular side of them. Starting in 5th grade was when I got really into music, and I would stay up each night to find out who was playing on Letterman or Leno and record it on VHS. It's fun going back to youtube and finding those performances that I watched many times since youtube didn't exist then and it wasn't as easy to get a hold of music. But in 6th grade I remember my dad having me record The Cure when they came on Letterman, and I remember coming away not liking it (not hating it, but having no interest):
And I remember watching Trent Reznor give his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame introduction speech for them and recalling (it's been a while since I've seen this) that he was listing songs he really likes, and saw that it was (obviously) a lot of older stuff, but in particular a number of the peppier songs, which I wasn't expecting from him. So that was another one of those moments where it seems I'm listening to a totally different part of the catalogue.
Bu then you have another side of The Cure, which is the depressing, ambient, long tracking time side, which is amazing, and I didn't really discover until I was in high school. Some stuff coming off Disintegration, but then stuff into the 90s and even 2000s. You had songs like "Friday I'm in Love" become big hits of Wish, but then songs like "To Wish Impossible Things" from the same album blow that song out of the water:
As do others:
And later songs that were pretty amazing:
And then a much more recent one which is among the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNW96KQd68
So I'm going to start with The Cure. One of my favorite bands. However, over time I've noticed that when I sometimes speak to other people about The Cure, we're essentially talking about different bands. A good highlight for this was a youtube video that was recently suggested to me. (This guy has some good videos on his channel, though):
At the end he does have a couple songs from Disintegration that I feel more capture what I think of when I think of The Cure, but it does seem as if they're two different bands. They have the really happy, upbeat songs that are typically fairly short (most, but not all, of their singles fall into this category). I had always known who The Cure were, but never really got in to any of their music because most of what I was exposed to was this more popular side of them. Starting in 5th grade was when I got really into music, and I would stay up each night to find out who was playing on Letterman or Leno and record it on VHS. It's fun going back to youtube and finding those performances that I watched many times since youtube didn't exist then and it wasn't as easy to get a hold of music. But in 6th grade I remember my dad having me record The Cure when they came on Letterman, and I remember coming away not liking it (not hating it, but having no interest):
And I remember watching Trent Reznor give his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame introduction speech for them and recalling (it's been a while since I've seen this) that he was listing songs he really likes, and saw that it was (obviously) a lot of older stuff, but in particular a number of the peppier songs, which I wasn't expecting from him. So that was another one of those moments where it seems I'm listening to a totally different part of the catalogue.
Bu then you have another side of The Cure, which is the depressing, ambient, long tracking time side, which is amazing, and I didn't really discover until I was in high school. Some stuff coming off Disintegration, but then stuff into the 90s and even 2000s. You had songs like "Friday I'm in Love" become big hits of Wish, but then songs like "To Wish Impossible Things" from the same album blow that song out of the water:
As do others:
And later songs that were pretty amazing:
And then a much more recent one which is among the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNW96KQd68