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The Cure — Close To Me
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Zargos
(France)
Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 21:18
 
so close to me forever......

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 08:58
 
 I know it dates me, but I think my first 45 RPM record was The Beatles,  I want to hold your hand. Danimal174 wrote:


First cassette tape - Duran Duran, "Decade", I think, but I can't remember if it was that one or another one by them

First CD - "Little Earthquakes" by Tori Amos, in college. Two of my roommates both had a pretty large collection of CDs, so I'd usually just listen to theirs and only buy one that they didn't own. I've since added quite a bit to my collection (around 2,000 CDs now), mainly from working at a local music store for five years.
 


Diamond_Dog
(Round Equatorial Pound)
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 03:30
 
Absolutely!

unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 14:31
 
Seems like all the Cure fans don't care for this.  Funny, this is one of the few Cure songs I really like.  Oh, wait!  Maybe that makes sense after all.

Edit:  And the RIPPING horn solos!  Verrrrrry schweet! 

JrzyTmata
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 12:57
 
 lemmoth wrote:

Like the Cure but this tune is only one degree of separation from a Hall and Oates tune.

 
You say that like it's a bad thing. {#Snooty}

ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 12:55
 
 Kanuffen wrote:

Okej, so I am no Cure magnate or anything either, but I do like this song as well.... but yeah, rocks?  Not so much.  bounces maybe
 
... it doesn't even bounce, it hops

Sasha2001
(The business end of Bloomberg's education machine.)
Posted: Dec 25, 2012 - 18:53
 
 ziakut wrote:
More cooing and moaning from Robert Smith. Oh man...why can't it just be music only.
 
Because that's what a band is; a little of this, a little of that.

That's the extent of my wisdom for today.

rascal
(Toronto)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 21:06
 
Great sound in the Stax headphones

Zeito
(Sieur du Lhut)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 06:15
 
Probably the most claustrophobic video ever made.  

Kanuffen
(Trelleborg, Sverige)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 07:27
 
 Stingray wrote:

This song does what...? ROCKS...?????
 
Okej, so I am no Cure magnate or anything either, but I do like this song as well.... but yeah, rocks?  Not so much.  bounces maybe

ziakut
(Right Here)
Posted: Sep 30, 2012 - 09:32
 
More cooing and moaning from Robert Smith. Oh man...why can't it just be music only.

Stingray
Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 13:28
 
 Talula wrote:
I'm not a fan of The Cure but this song ROCKS!
 
This song does what...? ROCKS...?????

Stingray
Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 13:27
 
This terrible 1980's...

Cornelia
(Arlington VA)
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 08:42
 
I might be liberal with my 10s, but this song is just the best right now.  Infusing me with good energy!  Thanks Bill & Rebecca. : )

Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco)
Posted: Aug 19, 2012 - 12:24
 
Nice mix this morning — but I REALLY must stop dancing in the kitchen and get on with my day.
{#Dancingbanana}{#Bananajumprope}{#Bananasplit}

Talula
Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 10:32
 
 Talula wrote:
I'm not a fan of The Cure but this song ROCKS!
 
Actually I'm going to change my 8 to a 9.  Can I do that?



Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 10:32
 
 NeuroGeek wrote:
7 —> 8.  But, my fav version of this song is the slower "Closer Mix" on Mixed Up.
 
agreed!

Talula
Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 10:31
 
I'm not a fan of The Cure but this song ROCKS!

Xstar
(Florence, Kentucky)
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 01:58
 
{#Dancingbanana}

linden
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Posted: May 28, 2012 - 14:52
 
 NeuroGeek wrote:
7 —> 8.  But, my fav version of this song is the slower "Closer Mix" on Mixed Up.
 
Yes!

NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There)
Posted: May 14, 2012 - 11:33
 
7 —> 8.  But, my fav version of this song is the slower "Closer Mix" on Mixed Up.

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 09:28
 
 jpfueler wrote:
somewhere along the line I gave this a 9. it's a week 9 but I can't bring myself to give it an 8 so it stays.
and my first album was Aldo Nova in 82. Then later I think I got Planet P Project, the whole Kate Bush library(Hounds had just come out and I finally had money), and several Pink Floyds as cassettes all about the same time
 


Aldo Nova!

jpfueler
(Burleson Texas, (South o' Ft Worth))
Posted: Apr 01, 2012 - 23:24
 
somewhere along the line I gave this a 9. it's a weak 9 but I can't bring myself to give it an 8 so it stays.
and my first album was Aldo Nova in 82. Then later I think I got Planet P Project, the whole Kate Bush library(Hounds had just come out and I finally had money), and several Pink Floyds as cassettes all about the same time

shakitten
(Trying to get back into a good dream)
Posted: Apr 01, 2012 - 23:20
 
 lemmoth wrote:

Like the Cure but this tune is only one degree of separation from a Hall and Oates tune.


 


OMG! I never heard it before, but you're right. It's Maneater.
And now I'm totally depressed.

islander
(Seattle)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 08:16
 
 GuiltyFeat wrote:
Practically perfect pop.
 
True. And why there are soooooo many much better Cure songs.

GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 08:13
 
Practically perfect pop.

Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 10:13
 
HATE IT!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 19:10
 


Everybody in my hotel room be dancing...  love it...

 

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 15:51
 
Just great .....

jberko
(Franklin, TN)
Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 06:36
 
Just awful....

capzfan
(Virginia, USA)
Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 19:45
 
 1wolfy wrote:
i think the first album i ever owned was Meet The Beatles (mono recording) and or Introducing The Beatles, on Vee Jay Vinyl...still own them
 
I am not sure what order I bought them in, but my first five albums were Between the Buttons by the Stones, Highway 61 Revisited by Dylan, Super Session (Bloomfield/Kooper), East-West (Butterfield Blues Band), and Sunshine Superman by Donovan. (Glad to see all are on the RP playlist).

First concert was Blood Sweat & Tears in an auditorium in Rochester NY in winter of 1967-8. They played everything that they had worked up, and finally around 1 AM Steve Katz, who had just left the Blues Project, showed the band the chords and they played through the Blues Project playlist too.


fatcatjb
(Sunny Sacramento)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 16:32
 
just not my style...

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 11:02
 
 lemmoth wrote:

Like the Cure but this tune is only one degree of separation from a Hall and Oates tune.


 

I don't hear it myself. However, if it were true there are a lot worse musical groups you could be compared to. Hall and Oates is pretty damn good.

Mita
(Santa Fe, NM)
Posted: Aug 16, 2011 - 05:59
 
Happy feet!

Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Aug 06, 2011 - 00:28
 
The Cure is one of those bands that always makes me laugh.  Not because I don't like their music (I do) or because I don't think they are all talented (they are).  What really makes me laugh is that The Cure's music is quite varied, but the modern bands that mimic their look and attempt their sound (at least on their darker recordings) are all so one dimensional.  Their look was what would be considered now to be something like "emo" or "goth" but they made music like this...  This song is so happy and upbeat in tone, the contrast between them and their "followers" sonically is what I find funny.

On a side note, can we hear the Jamie Cullum - Katie Melua cover of The Love Cats?


Shawnmcc
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 15:29
 
 lemmoth wrote:

Like the Cure but this tune is only one degree of separation from a Hall and Oates tune.


 
I was thinking the Thompson Twins.



1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 15:27
 
i think the first album i ever owned was Meet The Beatles (mono recording) and or Introducing The Beatles, on Vee Jay Vinyl...still own them



Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 12:55
 
There is something tawdry about this one I like.

htowncoog
(Texas)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 14:04
 
 lemmoth wrote:

Like the Cure but this tune is only one degree of separation from a Hall and Oates tune.


 
Wow. {#Snooty}

htowncoog
(Texas)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 14:03
 
One of the coolest pop songs ever written. 9+

JordanFromAbroad
(London)
Posted: May 03, 2011 - 10:18
 
lumper5 wrote: Not sure I like this trumpet version as compared to the "original".

 rickhoran wrote:


agree

I agree as well -am generally a fan of adding a funk twist, but this doesn't work. Original gets a 9/10 this certainly doesn't..

rickhoran
(Eastern PA)
Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 07:03
 
 lumper5 wrote:
Not sure I like this trumpet version as compared to the "original".
 

agree

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 08:03
 

Like the Cure but this tune is only one degree of separation from a Hall and Oates tune.



Zeito
(Sieur du Lhut)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 11:01
 
Recently dug out the singles video that was released at the same time as this singles album.  Some real good stuff on there.

lumper5
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 11:01
 
Not sure I like this trumpet version as compared to the "original".

mgoldman
(Wherever you Go, There You Are)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 20:50
 
The ONLY Cure song that I can tolerate.  The rest to their stuff just bores me to EMO.

juanos
(Somewhere between the US and Guatemala)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 20:49
 
what can I say other than:
{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana}{#Bananajam}{#Bananapiano}{#Bananasplit}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dance}

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 14:51
 
I don't remember what the first 45 I bought was, but I do recall the first album I bought was Black Bear Road by C.W. McCall, featuring that trucker classic Convoy:

Let them truckers roll, 10-4

Followed closely by KISS Alive (still one of my favorties):

Rock 'n Roll All Nite!


gregormiz
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Jan 29, 2011 - 01:40
 
 Jelani wrote:
 I think the first record(45) I ever bought(well my mom actually) was Bobby Sherman on the back of a Raisin Bran box when i was like...five or six?
edit: maybe I was around ten, and maybe it was The Archies...http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/images/cbmany.jpg
 
Ok, that's nice!  So, um...  The Cure?

Anyhow, I remember when my Sister bought raisin bran (which she hated) to get that Bobby Sherman song.
"Easy come, easy go"!  Yep...  I'm old.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 17:31
 
 CamLwalk wrote:
First album I ever owned was this...

Monkees
  I think the first record(45) I ever bought(well my mom actually) was Bobby Sherman on the back of a Raisin Bran box when i was like...five or six?
edit: maybe I was around ten, and maybe it was The Archies...http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/images/cbmany.jpg