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Black Symphony

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by: Within Temptation

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Sleep When I'm Dead (Mix 13)

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by: The Cure

Release Date July 14, 2008
Barcode: 0602517785045

So, with the third single from the new album we are treated to another energetic song, packing a catchy chorus and some nice guitar work combining to create something that like the previous two singles sounds at once both like the old Cure we all fell in love with while re-invigorating it with a freshness that promises the band most definitely still has it. Everything is well produced and Sleep When I'm Dead highlights a slightly more melancholy, atmospheric sound, providing an interesting contrast to the more clean-cut punchy nature of The Only One and Freakshow.

B-side Down Under is perhaps even more reminscent of the 'classic' Cure sound, showcasing a cohesiveness to the band's new material. ... Read More:

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Pornography

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by: The Cure

Release Date September 05, 2005
It's a shame in a way that nowadays this album seems to fit in with a vast amount of similarly aggressive and agonising music. On it's release it was the first of it's kind and to describe its impact as harrowing would be a serious understatement.

Seminal it undoubtably was but where other bands strive to achieve the same effect they fail because 'Pornography' is so sincere. Only Nirvana reached the level of outright desperation that brutally stabs out of this recording. But cacophony in itself is not enough. These are really great songs produced by a man who was driving himself way too hard.

In amongst the relentlessly attacking sound, evidence of a great songwriter emerges in moments of astonishing beauty. This is why ... Read More:

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Once

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by: Nightwish

Release Date June 07, 2004
Well you know when you read reviews off some album, and the reviews are raving about the album then you buy and when you listen you think "What's so great about it?", well this album lives up to that hype. Every song on this album is amazing and with vocalist Tarja and her amazing opera vocals it's just so much better and makes it more epic and beautiful and heavy at the same time. The guitarist is excellent playing some awesome heavy riffs, and brilliant solos. The drumming is great aswell. Best tracks for me are Dark Chest Of Wonders, Wish I Had An Angel, Nemo & Creek Mary's Blood.

If you're looking for an album that's heavy yet melodic with Opera vocals and has an epic feel to it? Then this is a great buy for you.

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Wish

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by: The Cure

Release Date March 19, 2001
1992 must have been an unusual time to be in the Cure. After having released "Disintegration", a record that would eventually come to define the band, and having had to fight to get that album released, the world finally succumbed to the charms of the band. American success, hit singles, big tours, etc. However, in between 1989 and 1992, the entire musical climate had shifted, and the world into which "Wish" was released was very different from the times when "Disintegration" had appeared.

Faced with the prospect of being challenged by grunge, baggy, and shoegazing, the three major genres of the day, the Cure retreated into their own little soundworld, releasing an album that didn't rely on current trends or sounds, and as such has stood the test ... Read More:

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Peepshow

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by: Siouxsie And The Banshees

Release Date December 03, 2007
All bands/soloists make at LEAST one masterpiece album and this has to be Siouxsie & The Banshees'crowning moment.

BRILLIANT from start to finish - my ultimate fave track has to be Scarecrow.

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Karmacode

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by: Lacuna Coil

Release Date April 03, 2006
I bought this when it came out, having loved their previous stuff - especially Comalies. So, on release day I was utterly dissapointed by the repetitive, nu metal bass. Don't argue about it; it's there, through most of the album. Fine if you like that sort of thing; I can't stand it. Maybe it's cos I'm an old goth that's allergic to metal...

Also, the songs themselves just don't seem to have the same dynamics or atmosphere that you expect of this band. There's nothing that even approaches, for example, the layered build-up of 'Swamped'; or the folk-pop sensibilities of their earlier stuff. Just full on, in yer face metal. Yawn.

Excuse me while I go and listen to Eilera.

CD-Charts Position 28
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The Head On The Door

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by: The Cure

Release Date October 30, 2006
people always rate this as their favoirite cure album. it could be described as ' the cure do new romantic' but they do it better than all of their comtemporaries (Maybe not Adam Ant). but it is let down by mediocre tracks that dont have a great deal of meaning behind them and even less emotion. It is the cure, but it is almost like a singles collection really. Push and Six Different Ways are just pop ditties. The only song with any depth is really 'sinking' and its hardly depth.

That said - I ADORE this album. As a pop album it is perfect! As a cure album ... it seems to be lacking something.

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The Head On The Door - Deluxe Edition

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by: The Cure

Release Date August 14, 2006
OK, I confess: despite my admiration for Robert Smith's undoubted talent, I've not been any more than a fair weather fan of the Cure and have only bought a handful of albums over the years. However, `Seventeen Seconds' is one of my all time favourites so perhaps I'll be forgiven. Nevertheless, I did buy `Head on the Door' on glorious vinyl in 1985 and quite liked it but like so many other vinyl albums, it fell into non-use when CD came along and I have not played it for at least 10 years. So when this newly remastered version hit my CD player, I was astounded to be reminded what a good album it is.

Kicking off with the bubbling `In Between Days', the album bursts into life and unlike some other Cure albums, this energy hardly drops through most of the first ... Read More:

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Faith (Remastered)

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by: The Cure

Release Date September 05, 2005
This admittedly patchy album was and presumably still is held in almost religious regard by fans of the Cure. Like most really new creations it mixed less successful moments with others of astonishing revelation.

When this album works it works so well that all other music seems irrelevant. Its seductive draw is so compelling that it almost consumes the listener. Nowhere more so than on its title track.

In fact the core of this extraordinary release reveals itself in two songs: 'Faith' and 'All Cats Are Grey'. They are tonally and emotionally linked and indeed could be part of one work.

The remastered version features all sorts of stuff that may actually detract from the impact of the original although 'Carnage Visors' was on the original cassette ... Read More: