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Musicbrainz DBI never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones
The columns are all men
Begging to crush me
No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes
And no flags wave me home
In the caves
All cats are grey
In the caves
The textures coat my skin
In the death cell
A single note rings on and on and on
| d48m02h1918 | Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 10:23 Love this!! One of my 3 favorite songs by The Cure. Dark and atmospheric....in a good-sounding way!! | ||||||||||||||||
| Euskadita (MX) | Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 10:22 The Funeral Party, another excellent track of this album. Nice, Bill! | ||||||||||||||||
| coccyx | Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 10:22 And here I was thinking "another slit-yer-wrists morning on RP..." mayorr7 wrote: This is just an amazing set you've got going this monday morning...Dire Straits , "follow me home", Radiohead, "separator", and now the Cure and "all cats are grey". What beautiful songs. Thanks for keeping the good stuff coming. I don't know how you manage to program such an disparate mix of tunes across genres and musical eras so incredibly well and so consistently. Randy Birmingham, AL | ||||||||||||||||
| mayorr7 | Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 08:47 This is just an amazing set you've got going this monday morning...Dire Straits , "follow me home", Radiohead, "separator", and now the Cure and "all cats are grey". What beautiful songs. Thanks for keeping the good stuff coming. I don't know how you manage to program such an disparate mix of tunes across genres and musical eras so incredibly well and so consistently. Randy Birmingham, AL | ||||||||||||||||
| spiggy | Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 08:36 My fave song from this album. .. so quiet and conducive to contemplation | ||||||||||||||||
| cShaggy (..in the general vicinity..) | Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 00:12 ..atmospheric..sucks my mind upwards.. | ||||||||||||||||
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 10:38 yes, but how many shades of grey? 50, perhaps? ;) | ||||||||||||||||
| Tippster (Washington, DC) | Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 15:50 vivyruest wrote: "Faith" album is from 1981, not 1988.... CD came out in '88, maybe? | ||||||||||||||||
| vivyruest (San Rafael) | Posted: Aug 18, 2012 - 20:26 "Faith" album is from 1981, not 1988.... | ||||||||||||||||
| mmoyer (Silicon Valley) | Posted: Aug 10, 2012 - 18:18 Biscobret wrote: 'Faith' & 'Seventeen Seconds' are both such great, brilliant really, moody albums. Atmospheric. The best of the best early - mid Eighties music!! Yep! | ||||||||||||||||
| Biscobret (Vashon, WA) | Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 23:10 Biscobret wrote: 'Faith' & 'Seventeen Seconds' are both such great, brilliant really, moody albums. Atmospheric. The best of the best early - mid Eighties music!! & it definitely did NOT come out in 1988!
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| Biscobret (Vashon, WA) | Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 23:08 'Faith' & 'Seventeen Seconds' are both such great, brilliant really, moody albums. Atmospheric. The best of the best early - mid Eighties music!! | ||||||||||||||||
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Jul 09, 2012 - 12:41 Not Grey  | ||||||||||||||||
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 19:07 I'm not familiar with this one — like it! Opening notes made me think of the "Drive" soundtrack (which is soooooo completely 80's inspired). | ||||||||||||||||
| le_colonel | Posted: Mar 04, 2012 - 15:23 Big Cure fan here. Maybe my favourite band ever. Seen them perform this song live a couple of times. 9. | ||||||||||||||||
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 10:31 Amazing tune - one of the best from The Cure. Uplifting and inspiring in a down way! | ||||||||||||||||
| shakylegs (Montreal) | Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 10:29 Oh wow, flashing to 1985. | ||||||||||||||||
| oldviolin (Esse Quam Videri) | Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 17:08 some things just strike me as resonant. I don't know why, and that's what I like about it... | ||||||||||||||||
| gatorade (Peninsuland) | Posted: Jun 25, 2011 - 20:35 Don't care what color your cat is or isn't. Love the Cure though. | ||||||||||||||||
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 25, 2011 - 20:35 Jelani wrote: Well, actually, the saying goes: "All cats are grey in the dark" referencing the hesitance of one having a random shag with another of the opposite sex that isn't "that great looking"...once the lights are out.... I still don't get it, I guess. I have a cat that glows in the dark (well, if you rub his fur the wrong way...) Still, I like this song, so I'll just switch to glide now... | ||||||||||||||||
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 15:48 Cynaera wrote: I have twelve cats, and only one of them is grey - and she's still a kitten, so leaning towards calico. Still - would the title have worked had it been "All Dogs Are Grey"? All (insert single-syllable animal name here) Are Grey. All Mice Are Grey. All Snakes Are Grey. I have GOT to stop over-analyzing songs. Well, actually, the saying goes: "All cats are grey in the dark" referencing the hesitance of one having a random shag with another of the opposite sex that isn't "that great looking"...once the lights are out.... | ||||||||||||||||
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 15:54 I have twelve cats, and only one of them is grey - and she's still a kitten, so leaning towards calico. Still - would the title have worked had it been "All Dogs Are Grey"? All (insert single-syllable animal name here) Are Grey. All Mice Are Grey. All Snakes Are Grey. I have GOT to stop over-analyzing songs. | ||||||||||||||||
| Tippster (Washington, DC) | Posted: Sep 30, 2010 - 16:10 Whoever added this song deserves a glass of red wine... served by a pale crying wench in a stained wedding dress. Gothtacular! Such a great tune. | ||||||||||||||||
| Jeff09 (Gainesville, Florida) | Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 20:19 I'mmmm sinnnnkkkkinnnng innntoooo aaa traaaaannnnce... | ||||||||||||||||
| sbird (Potsdam NY - the north country) | Posted: May 10, 2010 - 07:46 Check out the lyrics - death - that's always been my thinking. hypnotique... the piano at the end = very cool... I never thought that I would find myself In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men Begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves | ||||||||||||||||
| Bocephus (Boulder, CO) | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 14:27 This is probably one of their best songs. If you get a chance to check the video out to this on Youtube you should. Fits perfectly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSBK-JS-O0 | ||||||||||||||||
| rage | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 14:26 one of their finest | ||||||||||||||||
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 11:47 I like the Cure, but have never heard this one and feel that I was a better person for that.   | ||||||||||||||||
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 11:46 I have 5 cats, 2 dogs and one wife and they all like this tune. | ||||||||||||||||
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 16:24 My family does have a grey cat! So I have to give this song a high rating because of its truthiness.  | ||||||||||||||||
| EssexTex (Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Nov 02, 2009 - 07:16 Cat obsessives the lot of em. | ||||||||||||||||
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 17:26  | ||||||||||||||||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 16:34 This song is good for the ears... | ||||||||||||||||
| fuh2 (salmon land) | Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 20:23 My cat is white and he likes this song. | ||||||||||||||||
| jpfueler (South o' Ft Worth) | Posted: Dec 21, 2008 - 06:24 My cat Annie (Animalus Insanus) is not gray. Her colors separated and she is black and white. Isabeau (the nutty) is a bit of gray though. She is a Tabby point Siamese looking thing. So, does anyone want some Grey Tea? Not made from cats BTW. | ||||||||||||||||
| lattalo (Beartooths) | Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 15:47 dionysius wrote: We used to have a gray cat, but then he died. Now none of our cats are gray. I think that Mr. Robert Smith should be more observant, and not make such blanket statements that are so easy to disprove. Faulty use of inductive reasoning leads to strange songwriting. I repeat my original observation of people who live in Texas, something happens to them. And it occurs no matter where they come from, maybe their brain shrinks, I don't know. But this observation is hillarious!!!!! | ||||||||||||||||
| WhiskeyDude | Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 15:39 Definitely excellent! I haven't heard this one in YEARS... thanks Bill! | ||||||||||||||||
| Zep | Posted: Oct 31, 2008 - 13:11 Beautiful.... somber, hypnotic, dramatic, a chill wind sweeping across the Russian steppes.... | ||||||||||||||||
| OHMish (Copenhagen) | Posted: Oct 31, 2008 - 13:09 Faterson wrote: I'm a fanatic The Cure fan, but most of their songs are 7 at best, just as with any other artist. Let's not get overly excited.  And you gave The Bangles "Walk Like An Egyptian" a golden 10  | ||||||||||||||||
| Faterson (Slovakia) | Posted: Oct 19, 2008 - 03:24 I'm a fanatic The Cure fan, but most of their songs are 7 at best, just as with any other artist. Let's not get overly excited. | ||||||||||||||||
| smehan55 (Beneath a Carolina blue sky) | Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 11:53 All cats are grey ... and most Cure songs are 10. :-) | ||||||||||||||||
| SantaFeGrace (Santa Fe, NM) | Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 11:51 Actually, my cat is white with five-point tabby coloring....  | ||||||||||||||||
| F1 | Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 11:50 Never heard this before, but I'm likin' it. | ||||||||||||||||
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 11:48 ...wow!..i'm really surprised to hear this on radio paradise - it's a stellar song, not contesting that at all, but it's not by any means what i would consider radio-friendly... | ||||||||||||||||
| seandevine (Glastonbury, CT) | Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 06:42 Since I can't make 1 louder, this one needs to go to 11. | ||||||||||||||||
| lathyris (Houston, TX) | Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 06:40 6 -> 8. What was I thinking? This song is awesome! | ||||||||||||||||
| aragon (West Lafayette) | Posted: May 14, 2008 - 07:41 Great archeological pop discover! | ||||||||||||||||
| tripi (Madrid, Spain) | Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 12:34 Austin2Florida wrote: Should follow this with Love Cats to keep the cat theme going.
jeje, so true.. that song is awesome!!! | ||||||||||||||||
| sonic67061 | Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 13:24 ......"now there's nothing left but....faith" - Thanks for spinning a great song of the season. Happy Halloween everyone..... | ||||||||||||||||
| magnoliase (Erf) | Posted: Oct 31, 2007 - 13:21 Why do I have the sudden urge to swallow a bottle of xanax and wash it down with a box of merlot? I miss being a teenager. | ||||||||||||||||
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