The Cure: Reflections

posted by Leigh on November 27, 2011

I can not come fresh from seeing one of my all time favorite bands without somehow expressing in words the experience and sharing some music from the wildly unforgettable show. It doesn’t matter that I recorded the tracks on an IPhone 3 (I’m old fashioned … ) and that they are fuzzy and poor quality and unabashedly sound like a child pointed the recorder directly at the floor while the sound was coming from the ceiling and proceeded to stomp both feet (to the music, of course) … Even amidst this interference, the power behind this grandly influential band does not go unnoticed in these recordings. The Cure, a band that was so influential in shaping my musical repertoire of today, a band that once upon a time made me feel like I wasn’t so alone, and a band that can still make me feel that camaraderie in isolation today.

The Cure saved me many times over, so it’s not a surprise that they did so again. I was having a day of typical city set-backs … being pushed by a man twice my size on the train, feeling lonely and oppressed by the holiday madness, surrounded by displays of love while feeling my own need for it crushingly present … The minute I found my seat in the second row of the Loge at The Beacon, sharing a nod with a fan to my right also alone in his presence and excitement, I knew I was home.

The Cure guided us through three hours of time travel, through three pivotal years, exposing the evolution of their musical genius at every timepoint along the way. The journey, masterfully executed, involved 1979, 1980 and 1981, Three Imaginary Boys (“Fire in Cairo” always a favorite), Seventeen Seconds and Faith, respectively, played in succession in their entirety. Always giving their fans more, The Cure dazzled with two encores, consisting of less often heard B-Sides and some of their later, more popular tunes, all complemented by the usual charming banter and witticisms of Robert Smith. So charming was his stage presence that a fan in the front row could not help but jump onto the stage in the middle of “Let’s Go to Bed,“ managing to steal a kiss on the cheek before security hauled her away, forever outcast to the streets of the Upper West Side. Smith barely missed a beat, and segued comically into “The Walk.“ Follow along with the track below (and hope for some upgraded recording devices in my near future).

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The Cure – Fire in Cairo (Downloaded 92 times)

The Cure – Lets Go to Bed and The Walk (Downloaded 98 times)

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» Meaningless labels: Beautiful Lyrics • Dark • Male vocal • New Wave • Vintage

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