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tetsab(That stands for Nice Tea Writing Night. The current Nice Tea is a honey-ginger black but before I actually started writing I had a vanilla bean black. It's pretty funny I've opted to do NiTeWriNi as my usual policy is to not have tea after 4pm as I don't want it to keep me up. Ha).
Fully expect since it's 10 to 12 as I start this that I'll just write this one thing and call it a Ni. Was, of course, going to do the traditional life-y things catch-up but that's too boring for my one single post so instead I'm going to talk about The Cure 'cause of their album launch yesterday.
I came -> this close <- to not watching that 'cause based on what I'd heard about their new album in bits and pieces, here and there, I knew it was going to be more of what enraged me 20 years ago when 'The Cure' came out. Being enraged was not a good follow-up to being Annoyed As Heck 4 years prior to that with the release of (hate the name of the album to this day) 'Bloodflowers'. After that experience the Cure mentally ended for me in 1996 with the quite shaky but still had some good tracks 'Wild Mood Swings'. I've not listened to either album since those very negative first listens (though I was super tempted to go try digging them out after yesterday's show just for the sake of comparison) and I've never listened to 4:13 Dream.
The only reason I did watch is someone pointed out it was still going on hours after I got home from work so I pulled a "oh what the hell' opened it, dragged the bar back to the start, and let it go. I made a conscious decision as I did so to Try To Not Be Too Annoyed and it kinda (but not completely) worked.
The historical reason I was annoyed, then enraged, then anticipated I'd be annoyed again, was that as far as I'm concerned the Cure has been singing the same not very good song for 25 or so years now and I can hardly take that when the reason I first loved them is because I found what they did all so very different.
I think I'm more uniquely intensely annoyed by this than most but I'm certainly not the only one to notice. Just for the heck of it, right now I searched for 'Cure word cloud' fully expecting to get results and at the very least got 'Wordflowers' and I also pulled up the tracklisting of the last four albums just to see how many dreams, and nevers, and losts, and ends, and nothings I'd find and just in the titles and spotted A Bunch. I actually think part of the reason I was able to be less annoyed is that the day before I happened to hear DJ Christabel play the Vandal Moon's heavy pastiche 'Robert Smith (I Love You Since I Was Six)' and it did what music should do and made me feel less alone in my frustration (even if I think the Vandal Moon ain't actually that frustrated based on the song title).
The method I used to try to be less annoyed was to lean real hard into "pretend you've never heard a Cure album since Disintegration". It had to be since Disintegration as I feel like it was actually Wish that became the template for the unending Cure song (which also makes Wild Mood Swings an extra odd anomaly for its time in failing to fully follow said template). If I'd never heard a Cure album since then I think my general feeling about this one in this first listen is that it didn't seem half bad. I couldn't wholly suspend disbelief, though, eventually after a barrage of those keywords (and especially after learning the name of the last track) I'd be gritting my teeth but then trying to wave my way back with pretend-pretend-pretend.
There is a whole lot I still love about the Cure (I'll never not love most of what comes from before the Dead To Me era), I love that Robert hates Ticketmaster about as much as I do (and actually has some power to do something with that hate), and that if I look at the comments on that video, that the band still brings joy more than annoyance in general to most folks. :)
Fully expect since it's 10 to 12 as I start this that I'll just write this one thing and call it a Ni. Was, of course, going to do the traditional life-y things catch-up but that's too boring for my one single post so instead I'm going to talk about The Cure 'cause of their album launch yesterday.
I came -> this close <- to not watching that 'cause based on what I'd heard about their new album in bits and pieces, here and there, I knew it was going to be more of what enraged me 20 years ago when 'The Cure' came out. Being enraged was not a good follow-up to being Annoyed As Heck 4 years prior to that with the release of (hate the name of the album to this day) 'Bloodflowers'. After that experience the Cure mentally ended for me in 1996 with the quite shaky but still had some good tracks 'Wild Mood Swings'. I've not listened to either album since those very negative first listens (though I was super tempted to go try digging them out after yesterday's show just for the sake of comparison) and I've never listened to 4:13 Dream.
The only reason I did watch is someone pointed out it was still going on hours after I got home from work so I pulled a "oh what the hell' opened it, dragged the bar back to the start, and let it go. I made a conscious decision as I did so to Try To Not Be Too Annoyed and it kinda (but not completely) worked.
The historical reason I was annoyed, then enraged, then anticipated I'd be annoyed again, was that as far as I'm concerned the Cure has been singing the same not very good song for 25 or so years now and I can hardly take that when the reason I first loved them is because I found what they did all so very different.
I think I'm more uniquely intensely annoyed by this than most but I'm certainly not the only one to notice. Just for the heck of it, right now I searched for 'Cure word cloud' fully expecting to get results and at the very least got 'Wordflowers' and I also pulled up the tracklisting of the last four albums just to see how many dreams, and nevers, and losts, and ends, and nothings I'd find and just in the titles and spotted A Bunch. I actually think part of the reason I was able to be less annoyed is that the day before I happened to hear DJ Christabel play the Vandal Moon's heavy pastiche 'Robert Smith (I Love You Since I Was Six)' and it did what music should do and made me feel less alone in my frustration (even if I think the Vandal Moon ain't actually that frustrated based on the song title).
The method I used to try to be less annoyed was to lean real hard into "pretend you've never heard a Cure album since Disintegration". It had to be since Disintegration as I feel like it was actually Wish that became the template for the unending Cure song (which also makes Wild Mood Swings an extra odd anomaly for its time in failing to fully follow said template). If I'd never heard a Cure album since then I think my general feeling about this one in this first listen is that it didn't seem half bad. I couldn't wholly suspend disbelief, though, eventually after a barrage of those keywords (and especially after learning the name of the last track) I'd be gritting my teeth but then trying to wave my way back with pretend-pretend-pretend.
There is a whole lot I still love about the Cure (I'll never not love most of what comes from before the Dead To Me era), I love that Robert hates Ticketmaster about as much as I do (and actually has some power to do something with that hate), and that if I look at the comments on that video, that the band still brings joy more than annoyance in general to most folks. :)