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Listening to The Cure's "Carnage Visors"—it may be thirty years since I last played it, when it was on the b-side of the Faith cassette. Holy crap, it's total Joy Division/early New Order. Nothing to change anyone's world, but it's decent.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 2:34pm
Listening to The Cure's "Carnage Visors"—it may be thirty years since I last played it, when it was on the b-side of the Faith cassette. Holy crap, it's total Joy Division/early New Order. Nothing to change anyone's world, but it's decent.
Airlock is an interesting piece of music, too.
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WestwayKid wrote:
14 May 2018, 4:36pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 2:34pm
Listening to The Cure's "Carnage Visors"—it may be thirty years since I last played it, when it was on the b-side of the Faith cassette. Holy crap, it's total Joy Division/early New Order. Nothing to change anyone's world, but it's decent.
Airlock is an interesting piece of music, too.
Never heard of it, but will investigate!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 5:17pm
WestwayKid wrote:
14 May 2018, 4:36pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 2:34pm
Listening to The Cure's "Carnage Visors"—it may be thirty years since I last played it, when it was on the b-side of the Faith cassette. Holy crap, it's total Joy Division/early New Order. Nothing to change anyone's world, but it's decent.
Airlock is an interesting piece of music, too.
Never heard of it, but will investigate!
Similar concept to Carnage Visors. It was played before shows on the tour that supported Pornography and it can be found on the deluxe version of that LP. Worth checking out!
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Never been a big fan, but I always preferred their pop music to their Joy Division imitations.
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eumaas wrote:
14 May 2018, 5:58pm
Never been a big fan, but I always preferred their pop music to their Joy Division imitations.
That's where I'm at. When I was a mopey teenager, I was into their goth-y stuff, but now I think "Friday I'm In Love" is the best thing they ever did.
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WestwayKid wrote:
14 May 2018, 5:29pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 5:17pm
WestwayKid wrote:
14 May 2018, 4:36pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 2:34pm
Listening to The Cure's "Carnage Visors"—it may be thirty years since I last played it, when it was on the b-side of the Faith cassette. Holy crap, it's total Joy Division/early New Order. Nothing to change anyone's world, but it's decent.
Airlock is an interesting piece of music, too.
Never heard of it, but will investigate!
Similar concept to Carnage Visors. It was played before shows on the tour that supported Pornography and it can be found on the deluxe version of that LP. Worth checking out!
Not as keen on this. Might have been fucking dicking around in the studio to produce it, but less so to listen to.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2018, 6:17pm
eumaas wrote:
14 May 2018, 5:58pm
Never been a big fan, but I always preferred their pop music to their Joy Division imitations.
That's where I'm at. When I was a mopey teenager, I was into their goth-y stuff, but now I think "Friday I'm In Love" is the best thing they ever did.
Agreed. Love Cats is another good pop tune although The Caterpillar is my favourite.

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I don't think they ever sounded anything like Joy Division.
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Kory wrote:
14 May 2018, 7:51pm
I don't think they ever sounded anything like Joy Division.
Carnage Visors has a definite JD/early NO sound to it, you durn dude.
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Kory wrote:
14 May 2018, 7:51pm
I don't think they ever sounded anything like Joy Division.
Don't really see an influence either. Doom laden death sound sure but they ran parallel to each other. Even their previous bands Malice/Easy Cure and Warsaw mined similar styles. I don't think either were influenced by each other.
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I've been on record many times here saying Head on the Door is Peak Cure imho
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Flex wrote:
14 May 2018, 10:25pm
I've been on record many times here saying Head on the Door is Peak Cure imho
Good album.
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Hello,

The Three Johns - Volume. Solid. Odd. Collection. This is a LOT of material from a Mekons' side project. Most of it is pretty good. There are some off-beat tracks but overall more rock than typical Mekons - really worth checking out.


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The Join The Dots boxset of Cure B-sides is an outstanding pickup, BTW. They left strong material on the cutting-room floor nearly every time. Nobody would've called them out for pushing quantity-over-quality if 2, 3, 4 halcyon-era albums ended up instead getting released as double-LP's for sake of including a bunch of these cuts.

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