thewiseking wrote: 

...close, but those few years do make a significant difference - seventeen seconds was released in mid-1980...

thewiseking wrote:



If you think X and its chemical equivalents weren't around in the 70s, you must not have been there.  Trust me, it was a pharmacy, and X was referred to as MDA or, more commonly, the "love drug."

copymonkey wrote:

this song was originally released around 1978
pre-X.
the somethings who originally dug on this are now well into their 40somethingness.
i suppose you are referring to the extended mix release date. i always thought those extended "club" mixes were awful. sadly, for some songs they are often the only versions readily available. a particularly egregious example was Billy Idol's White Wedding. Great song-awful extended remix which effectively replaced it. This also happened with alot of the Human Leagues material.

thewiseking wrote:

also proof that they overestimated the buying power of the ecstasy munching twenty-somethings that seemed to like this kind of shit back when it was released.

Should follow this with Bare Trees by Fleetwood Mac.

this is a godawful mix of what was a powerful early Cure pop nugget.

proof that you should damn well leave well enough alone

Darkmatter wrote:
You're really going out on a limb to get those puns in, aren't you? Maybe you should get back to your roots. Or leave.

Not that I'm trying to needle you or anything.

WOW! R. Smith is my favourite singer. "a Forest" 2 memories! +1.

The audience seems to be splintered about this album, but this song is nothing to get barked up about. I think it is of high fiber!

It's a great remix of a great track, but it isn't quite as good as the original.

Please please play the original version soon.

9 for this 10 for the orginal

Yey! Please play more songs from this great re-mix album by The Cure. I generally hate all remixed stuff, but this album is outstanding, despite all the bashing it receives, even from Cure fans. A particular highlight is the Close to Me remix, of course. Plus, Never Enough is among the all-time best Cure singles.

salice wrote:Going to have to con(i)fer with some poor saps about that.

LOVE the Cure, love the original version of this song, Don't understand why anyone would choose the remixed version. It is taunting me with its aproximation of the original...

spraehbuer wrote:


looking forward to see einsturzende neubauten this monday in Graz....

sweet!

TexasAggies wrote:

Oak dear! Leaves me pin(e)ing for a proper comedian

They should "leaf" this out of the playlist!

Oooooh I should be banned for the lameness of this post!

siandbeth wrote:

Yes, much unrest in the Forest. Rush/Cure: beyond the four-letter name, they're not two artists one often hears in the same breath. But why not?

I'm going to see Rush at Concord in May. Perhaps I'll run into Mr Smith?

uncled wrote:
yes, that's it.

this mix is not as good as the original or most other mixes of this song.............still a 9

Had to go to my library and play Devo's Gut Feeling after hearing this one.....

out_to_lunch wrote:
aah . . . memories

love The Cure btw

Simply Godlike

aquadonia wrote: Nah. I doubt it.

man that bastard could play guitar. if only they had gone down this path instead of the one they did.

...this is one of the few remixes from that collection which i feel works...

Never tire of hearing this, it's aged well after 25 years or so. The Cure are still going strong, very popular in Brazil apparently.

not a good mix but the original is a "10"

A nice mix of one of the better Cure numbers - really pulls you along. Yer man always sounds like he's on the verge of crying, to my ears at least, which is either cute or irritating depending on personal taste. 7 from the Nottingham jury.