Poor old The Cure. For their sins, they've attracted far more than their fair share of "tribute" albums, rich-pickin' for cover-version atrocity hunters such as yours truly. They also took a good and well-deserved pasting a couple of weeks ago, and it seems in keeping with the cyclic nature of things that we now turn the spotlight onto 1980's Seventeen Seconds is one of the few truly great Cure albums; brooding and melancholic, with sparks of driving pop-motorik in the singles, and flashes of madness in-between times. The short titular track concludes the album perfectly with a repetitive
I just really have one thing to say to "darkwave"-clowns The Escape, and it's to the vocalist leading this bunch of butchers: Who the fuck do you think you are.. Andrea Boccelli?
The Escape - Seventeen Seconds [from VA - Our Voices: A Tribute to the Cure] (3.38 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)
Here's a review of the Our Voices compilation this track is part of; notable principally for being possibly the worst review I've ever read in my entire life.
NP: Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves / Alien Soundtracks (allmusic)
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every time you post one of these i think that this time it must be as bad as it can conceivably get, but the next one always seems to surpass its predecessors in pure, unrepentant wretchedness.
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