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What smoking music are you listening to? (2024)

AVB said:
Stone Free - one of the best tribute albums ever IMO. It starts off with The Cure reinventing a classiv to Clapton playing like we all wish he would do more often


Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck let loose but the real surprises are some of those you would never think of on a Hendrix tribute like P.M. Dawn.


This is the whole album except for the Cure's lead off song that I have included below. It needs to be played at house shaking volume.

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That Cure rendition is fkn fire!!!!!

ETA: My neighbors are going to love it for a few days!!! 😎
 
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The Cure w/ The Twilight opening
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Columbia, MD 6/16

A family show with my brother and sister who I turned onto the Cure back in 1980. Somehow we all married spouses that weren't fans. This was only the 4th and most likely the last time I'll see them since they haven't toured the US after 2016. IMO there are 3 reasons for the Cure's enduring popularity.
1. Robert Smith is argueably the best post punk romantic lyricist of his generation and that brings the girls,
2. Where the girls go the boys will follow and they stayed for the music and the hooks.
3. The Cure makes the audience feel they have some small amount of control and that the band rewards them for their efforts..

An example of what I mean in #3 is that the Cure has mostly played fairly long shows but instead of playing for 2 hours or more and then have the audiane stomp and clap to get a 2-3 song encore. The Cure will play for 90 minutes and come out for the 2-3 song encore. If the audiance shows their gratitude they do another 3 song encore and then a 3rd or 4th turning a 90 minute show into 150-180 minute show with audiane thinking they were the reason .

The show at Columbia was no different, 4 encores spanning 13 songs going just shy of 3 hours. If I need more I'll have to go to Europe where they tour quite regularly or watch the 3 hour live streaming show they just put out on November 1st.

This is the 2016 tour, the next show after the one I saw.
 
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AVB said:
The Cure w/ The Twilight opening
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Columbia, MD 6/16

A family show with my brother and sister who I turned onto the Cure back in 1980. Somehow we all married spouses that weren't fans. This was only the 4th and most likely the last time I'll see them since they haven't toured the US after 2016. IMO there are 3 reasons for the Cure's enduring popularity.
1. Robert Smith is argueably the best post punk romantic lyricist of his generation and that brings the girls,
2. Where the girls go the boys will follow and they stayed for the music and the hooks.
3. The Cure makes the audience feel they have some small amount of control and that the band rewards them for their efforts..

An example of what I mean in #3 is that the Cure has mostly played fairly long shows but instead of playing for 2 hours or more and then have the audiane stomp and clap to get a 2-3 song encore. The Cure will play for 90 minutes and come out for the 2-3 song encore. If the audiance shows their gratitude they do another 3 song encore and then a 3rd or 4th turning a 90 minute show into 150-180 minute show with audiane thinking they were the reason .

The show at Columbia was no different, 4 encores spanning 13 songs going just shy of 3 hours. If I need more I'll have to go to Europe where they tour quite regularly or watch the 3 hour live streaming show they just put out on November 1st.

This is the 2016 tour, the next show after the one I saw.
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My wife's favorite band! We've seen them in Dallas, Atlanta, Little Rock, Hawaii, and Germany. Agreed that they are one hell of a show.
 
AVB said:
The Cure w/ The Twilight opening
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Columbia, MD 6/16

A family show with my brother and sister who I turned onto the Cure back in 1980. Somehow we all married spouses that weren't fans. This was only the 4th and most likely the last time I'll see them since they haven't toured the US after 2016. IMO there are 3 reasons for the Cure's enduring popularity.
1. Robert Smith is argueably the best post punk romantic lyricist of his generation and that brings the girls,
2. Where the girls go the boys will follow and they stayed for the music and the hooks.
3. The Cure makes the audience feel they have some small amount of control and that the band rewards them for their efforts..

An example of what I mean in #3 is that the Cure has mostly played fairly long shows but instead of playing for 2 hours or more and then have the audiane stomp and clap to get a 2-3 song encore. The Cure will play for 90 minutes and come out for the 2-3 song encore. If the audiance shows their gratitude they do another 3 song encore and then a 3rd or 4th turning a 90 minute show into 150-180 minute show with audiane thinking they were the reason .

The show at Columbia was no different, 4 encores spanning 13 songs going just shy of 3 hours. If I need more I'll have to go to Europe where they tour quite regularly or watch the 3 hour live streaming show they just put out on November 1st.

This is the 2016 tour, the next show after the one I saw.
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kann said:
My wife's favorite band! We've seen them in Dallas, Atlanta, Little Rock, Hawaii, and Germany. Agreed that they are one hell of a show.
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Seen them a couple times in the early 2000's, both times multiple encores... They posted this last week, the first 8 songs are the new album that was released last week... Still to this day every time we hear a Cure song come on, when its done my wife and I always without hesitation say "CURE" in our best British accents, because it seemed like Robert Smith literally said it after every song at one of those concerts.

 
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TexasTraveler said:
Seen them a couple times in the early 2000's, both times multiple encores... They posted this last week, the first 8 songs are the new album that was released last week... Still to this day every time we hear a Cure song come on, when its done my wife and I always without hesitation say "CURE" in our best British accents, because it seemed like Robert Smith literally said it after every song at one of those concerts.

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"....or watch the 3 hour live streaming show they just put out on November 1st."

Thanks for the link.
 
dawgie34203 said:
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Anytime you hear "I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side. You can still barrelhouse baby, on the riverside" you know that this is not the original Robert Johnson version but the Clapton/Cream variation. For some real trivia, Eric has said he doesn't even like his version of the song.
 
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Said to be the most controversial song never caught to make into the US top 10. This song was released in June 1970.

Can you guess what it is?
 
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