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Popel Vooje
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Re: The worst CD ever?
Feb 08, 2009, 17:51
Stevo wrote:
Popel Vooje wrote:
Leaving aside the obvious and indisputable fact that the worst album of original meterial ever released is "Pornography" by the Cure,


why pick that one? would've thought it'd be the opposite from what I know of your tastes.
even ironically seems like a weird choice.



I wasn't being tongue-in-cheek except for the "obvious and indisputable fact" bit. I do dislike that album a lot. Maybe it's due to over-exposure (my elder bro used to play it to death when it got came out), but it smacks too much of lame, affected, theatrical angst to me - plus the lyrics seem about as bad as sixth-form poetry gets (I mean, opening an album with "It doesn't matter if we all die?" Like, yeah dude, that's a real insightful take on the human condition you've got there).

Maybe I wouldn't mind so much if it had a few decent tunes to support it -like the earlier, more poppy Cure albums have - but all I can hear on that record is a relentless, grinding, morbid cacophony. Sure, you could
level that same accusation at some of the bands I do like - the Birthday Party or early Swans, for instance - but both of them sound far more convincingly unhinged than Robert Smith to me.
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