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The rumbling toms, simple bass lines, chorus drenched guitars, lyrics about death... isn't that the first few albums in a nutshell (minus the debut)? If I'm not in the right mood, those can really bum me out.
Johnny Marr (backintheday) made an interesting distinction between meloncholy and depression; meloncholy has a sweetness to it that depression doesn't. Smiths=meloncholy, early Cure=depression.
'how beautiful you are' off kiss me is a damn near perfect lyric.
So sue me, I love Disintegration. There's more going on that on, say, Porno. D can have, like, three or four guitar parts going on at the same time, whereas the minimal music on the early stuff means that you better like the first 30 seconds of the song because it ain't changing much.
The boxed set has a handfull of masterpieces.
What's up with their newer stuff? The Cure, Bloodflowers, etc. Anyone get into those? The acoustic versions on the Best of? How did they made that boring?
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