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The Cure - Greatest Hits

Advantages: All the best songs in one place
Disadvantages: Not worthwhile for the aged-old fan

Being the impressionable 21-year old, I'm always keen to find new music to add to my collection or taste. But sometimes it helps to go back a few years as well.... A couple of years ago, if you'd have asked me to name a couple of Cure songs, I'd have said "what?" and the closest I'd be able to come is say "isn't their lead singer a bit 'eccentric' for an old man?".... However, upon a visit to the iTunes store and typing in 'The Cure', I recognised ...
...Well, I thought maybe it would be because Robert Smith & co have been doing rather well off royalty money from adverts/theme tunes/backing music in recent year.....no, it's because they've produced music that has stood the test of time and is just as good now as it was then. It's music that still gets played in rock nightclubs, radio stations, TV channels and maybe it does get the odd bit of 'extra' airtime. (E.g. "Close To Me" being on a BBC Three ...

carl.mcqueen 26.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Greatest Hits - Cure

Dark. Nothing More To It

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Generally weak

...that not all of the dark material they do has to stick to conventions. However, the way that they did it wasn’t particularly strong and I can’t say that I felt that they went anywhere with it. **One Star** 4. “Killing Loneliness” With this one they are seen to get into the kind of thing that they were seemingly appearing to escape before as although they are able to adapt the Metal sound to this a deeper material, it seems to be an unsuccessful attempt ...
...coming as a result of the quite changes in the style and which all conflict with each other. I can’t really see much to enjoy in this one and it brings it down massively. **One Star** 5. “Dark Light” The titular track to the album is able to make the oxymoronic phrase make sense to the listener here as they make for a tune that brings together these two things in just the way that you would have expected, based upon how it led up to this point on ...

XICripZ 21.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dark Light - HIM

I'm Not A Slave To A God That Doesn't Exist

Advantages: A high level of lyrical intelligence, terrific vocal power.
Disadvantages: A couple of weak tracks.

'Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)' is the fourth full length studio album from Marilyn Manson, a nineteen track construction of music and one that has a run time of over an hour in length. It's really quite a powerful piece of music, a well put together album and one that features many excellent tracks. The album tackles subjects such as religion, fame, and gun crime also; the lyrical content of the album is strong and always Marilyn ...
...with 'Godeatgod', the first of many tracks to reference God in the title of the track alone. It's a decent way to start the album, not the best track on 'Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)' but certainly a strong one nonetheless. The lyrical content of the track lays our clearly what you can expect from the rest of the album; the fickleness of fame is spoken about here, the 'plastic' nature of people and God and guns do of course also ...

RazzaLazza 25.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) - Marilyn Manson

And they say prevention is better than The Cure-By The Cure!

Advantages: Stuffed with the sound that they are famed for.Atmospheric,melanchol y,different&definitely worth
Disadvantages: At times it feels a bit messy,heavy on the drums and not all the tracks are great.

...are not familiar with The Cure, I ask 'how the hell have you managed to avoid them all these years?' If this is the case, be proud because it is quite a feat. The Cure have been around since the late 70s-pushed to stardom by Robert Smith (guitarist/vocalist). Even in the late 70s when punk rock was the home for a lot of funny looking people, Robert Smith still stood out-and still does. With his messy mop of dark hair (that is so popular even to this ...
...his smudged red lipstick-it's fair to say you couldn't miss the guy. But it's not just his looks that stand out: the bands slow, delicate, vampiric sound stirred bedroom miserabilists all over the world to attention. I am certain that this band paved the way for today's Emo/Goth scene and if you take a listen to their music you can definitely hear where many of today's bands get their influences from. This album is fairly typical of their evolved ...

SpookyMoon 20.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Cure, The - Cure

Romance Metal

Advantages: bright pink cd!
Disadvantages: some songs reminiscent of each other

...Gone With The Sin 9. Razorblade Kiss 10. Resurrection 11. Death Is In Love With Us 12. Heaven Tonight Your Sweet 666 is an old song, from the Greatest Love Songs Vol.666 album, but redone in a new style. This is an epic song, starts with some loud monster driving riffs, then fades into quieter drum and bass backing, with Ville singing over the top. The loud riffing comes back in for the very catchy chorus. Poison Girl is a more laid back song, ...
...song on the album! Razorblade Kiss, hmm controversial title! One of the better songs in this half of the album, catchy and emotional chorus, interesting lyrics too, this song gets better as it goes along. Resurrection is another slow song, a v nice and relaxing chillout song. Death Is In Love With Us is a good song, one of my favourite songs on the album. Has some very catchy lyrics and a cool tune. Heaven Tonight is an odd choice to close the ...

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Review of Razorblade Romance - HIM