Heather said...
"Love Social Distortion. Mark proposed to me at a Social D show, during "Ball and Chain." It's our unofficial wedding song (can't really dance to that song, ya know?).
You know, you have musical taste. In my opinion."
Not fishing for compliments by any means, just thought that was a cool comment. Just nice to connect with someone like that when it's not expected.
This is going to be another crap post probably, because I only got 2 hours of sleep last night and I am a bit brain fried at the moment. (So for those keeping count, I have gotten 8 hours sleep total since Tuesday.) I'll try to make it better than the last one, but no promises.
96. Pornography by The Cure (1982)
For a long long time I didn't like this album. Just couldn't get into it. Finally gained a real appreciation when The Cure released the Trilogy DVD a few years ago. It was simply Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers played consecutively from beginning to end, and it's just phenomenal. It changed my opinion not only of Pornography, but Bloodflowers as well. (Granted, I already liked Bloodflowers, for the most part.) Pornography was the album that really gave The Cure their whole gloom and doom image. "One Hundred Years" starts the album with an assault on drums, then a searing guitar, then one of the bleakest lines from any Cure song: "It doesn't matter if we all die." This song is just awesome, plain and simple. "A Short Term Effect" is next, a machine gun drum part accompanied by some very dreary guitars and bass. Decent tune, but could have been better. "The Hanging Garden" was one of the two singles from this album, and is a very good song with one of my favorite drum parts from any Cure song. "Siamese Twins" is probably the most depressing song ever written about a guy losing his virginity. The whole act is made to seem more like torture than pleasure, yet this is probably the most musically beautiful song on the album. Awesome awesome song. "The Figurehead" is nearly seven minutes of beautiful misery. As long as it is, it never feels like it drags at any point, partially because of all the hatred in the lyrics, partially because the music is just nice and steady and soothing. "A Strange Day" was the other single from this album, another bad ass song. It has some of my favorite Cure lyrics ever. "Cold" has some of the best keyboards of any early Cure song. The lyrics are blah, and the drums are pretty simplistic, but it's a decent song. "Pornography" closes the album in a spiral of chaos and absolute desperate desolation. It is almost three minutes into the song before Robert Smith starts singing, and once he does, his voice is full of alienation and self loathing. Not necessarily a great song, but definitely a very emotionally charged and emotionally draining song. I still don't really know why it took me so long to enjoy this album. I don't really consider anything on it bad, which is actually rare for me on a Cure album. As much as I like the band, there is usually at least one song per album that I flat out hate, but Pornography might actually be the exception to that. It's not their best album, but for a lot of Cure fans it is their favorite. For me, that came seven years later.
5 Best Songs:
5. "The Hanging Garden"
4. "The Figurehead"
3. "A Strange Day"
2. "Siamese Twins"
1. "One Hundred Years"
"The Hanging Garden"
"The Figurehead"
"A Strange Day"
"Siamese Twins"
"One Hundred Years"
95. Sailing the Seas Of Cheese by Primus (1991)
Wow, kind of burned myself out on Pornography, so this may very well be the worst review I've ever written for an album I actually like. Here goes nothing. "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" was the song that really introduced Primus to most people who've heard them. It was their first video played on MTV (back when MTV did that sort of thing) and even though it isn't really that great of a song, it was good enough to get people interested. "Here Come the Bastards" and "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" are, in my opinion, the two best songs on the album. Both kick ass big time. "Tommy the Cat" is one of the band's most famous songs, a nifty little narrative about a horny alley cat. "Sgt. Baker" and "Is It Luck?" are also pretty kick ass, as is "American Life". "Eleven" is okay, but nothing special. "Fish On" is part of a series of songs Les Claypool wrote about fishing, and is probably the best song of that series. The rest of the album is little filler tracks, none more than a minute and a half long,except the closer, "Los Bastardos", which just uses what sounds like outtakes from "Here Come the Bastards". This album, like the two yesterday, is a lot better than I am making it sound, but... well... sorry. 8 hours of sleep in nearly 4 days will do that.
5 Best Songs:
5. "American Life"
4. "Tommy the Cat"
3. "Is It Luck?"
2. "Here Come the Bastards"
1. "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers"
"American Life"
"Tommy the Cat"
"Is It Luck?"
"Here Come the Bastards"
"Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers"
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