We be dancing!  I mean really shaking it!  Love it!

 

 V12Silly wrote: 

Congrats for that!  This is a great song...

I love it!  I am 54, my wife is expecting our first child.  

and i know i was wrong
when i said it was true
that it couldn't be me and be her
inbetween without you
without you

denk je dat je door google translate verder komt,
nou mooi niet, ik snap nog steeds geen bal van wat the cure nou eigenlijk bedoelde, 25 jaar geleden ;-)
dit bakt ie er van:

en ik weet dat ik fout was toen ik zei dat het waar was dat hij me niet kon worden en moet haar daar tussenin zonder jou zonder jou

nouja, wel een mooi liedje, dat blijft het....

 romeotuma wrote: 

I think you've just nailed the exact and only reason The Cure songs are loved...

Dunno why I like the Cure so much. I just love Robert Smith's voice and his songwriting.

oooooo efff yeah!  girls night in starts right now baby!       

This song is fantastic every day...  we be dancing...

 gatorade wrote: 

Yes, this song is as good today as the day it was released...

Love The Cure. Again, multi-generational. My daughter was amazed I was familiar w/them when she first "discovered" them!

We be older and still loving this great song...

 fredriley wrote: 
You Brits must have had a different tape from North Americans.  I thought the Standing on the Beach" cassette was amazing.  This is what the Canadian pressing was:

Side one - The singles

1. "Killing an Arab"
   
2. "Boys Don't Cry"
3. "Jumping Someone Else's Train"
4. "A Forest"
   
5. "Primary" 
6. "Charlotte Sometimes" 
7. "The Hanging Garden" 
8. "Let's Go to Bed"
9. "The Walk"
   
10. "The Lovecats" 
11. "The Caterpillar" 
12. "In Between Days"
    
13. "Close to Me" 

Side two - The b-sides

1. "I'm Cold"
   
2. "Another Journey By Train"
3. "Descent" 
4. "Splintered in Her Head" 
5. "Mr. Pink Eye"
   
6. "Happy the Man"
   
7. "Throw Your Foot"
   
8. "The Exploding Boy"
   
9. "A Few Hours After This" 
10. "A Man Inside My Mouth" 
11. "Stop Dead"
    
12. "New Day" 

And I must say, it is one of my all-time favourite compilations, with every song seeming to flow into the next.

And this is what really pisses me off about a lot of CD remakes.  They move the songs around so that they don't meld together like they did on the album or, in the case of "Staring at the Sea" half of the original is missing and you have to buy another CD (in this case, "Connecting the Dots") to get all the songs and then you get a lot of extras which is fine, but the continuity of the album is gone.  A real pet peeve of mine!

The lyrics are truly amazing. Since they haven't been posted for several pages, here they are:

yesterday i got so old
i felt like i could die
yesterday i got so old
it made me want to cry
go on go on
just walk away
go on go on
your choice is made
go on go on
and disappear
go on go on
away from here

and i know i was wrong
when i said it was true
that it couldn't be me and be her
inbetween without you
without you

yesterday i got so scared
i shivered like a child
yesterday away from you
it froze me deep inside
come back come back
don't walk away
come back come back
come back today
come back come back
why can't you see?
come back come back
come back to me

and i know i was wrong
when i said it was true
that it couldn't be me and be her
inbetween without you
without you

This has been sitting at a 9 for too long now. Today it's a 10!

Love the sets today.

We be dancing...  ain't getting any younger, are we?

love it...

another perfect pop tune. powerful. joy and sadness blended.

This concept has always resonated for me. Lamenting limbo status, yet with hope of escaping.  

 Mandible wrote: 

Keith Richards?

Nah, looks too young.

 countyman wrote: 

VH1 Classic actually has their version of 120 Minutes now, which shows many of the same videos you'd see on the original version. It comes on late at night a few nights a week (thank goodness for TiVo). Most common artists played are The Cure, The Smiths, Morrissey, REM, and U2, but they do a pretty good job of mixing it up (although there are a few videos that they always seem to show too often). I've actually seen a few videos on there that I had never seen before ("There She Goes", by the La's, and "Mountain Song" by Jane's Addiction, among them).

 Mandible wrote:   no one knows.

I've got this album on tape (ancient, or what?), and whilst the A side with the singles is good, the B side has lots of remixes and experiments and obscure B-sides which should have been consigned to the dustbin ages ago, and I suspect are included by the record company just to pad the package out with an extra CD. Worth getting for the A side, though.

 countyman wrote: 
What about Dave Kendall?

 MLavender wrote:  120 Minutes was an excellent showcase of the "alternative" music back then.  It started out with guest vj's, usually musicians and then Matt Pinfield took over.

Great tune.  It has a real strong sense of place for me.