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The Cure: Bloodflowers

For a band forever associated with doom and gloom, the Cure has crafted some of the catchiest, and happiest, melodies of the last two decades. If "Just Like Heaven," "Boy's Don't Cry," "Why Can't I Be You," or "Friday I'm in Love" don't get your feet tapping and head bobbing, the odds are very good that you are in fact dead. There is that other musical side of the Cure though, the one where darkness and densely atmospheric arrangements preside (as evidenced on "Fascination Street" and "Pictures of You"). In the battle for musical supremacy between leader Robert Smith's dueling personalities, the moody side reigns supreme on the band's latest, and reportedly final, album, the aptly named Bloodflowers. Given the subject matter of Smith's lyrics throughout, anything but the brooding arrangements would feel inappropriate. Using symbolism so thick D.H. Lawrence or Henry James would pat him on the back and offer to buy him a drink, Smith does everything but spell "I have nothing left to give right now" in big capital letters on the album's cover. Against the bittersweet strum of the melodic "The Last Day of Summer," Smith declares, "It used to be so easy, I never even tried / But the last day of summer never felt so cold." Where he lets it all hang out though is the explosive "39." After a quirky synthesizer intro (perhaps an homage to the band's early synth days), Smith sings/speaks, "So the fire is almost out, and there's nothing left to burn / I've run right out of thoughts, and I've run right out of words." It's hard to misinterpret that sentiment. But if there was any doubt, Smith lays it to rest later in the same song. Propelled by a devastating mixture of drums and keyboards, Smith yells, "Half my life I've been here, half my life in flames, using all I ever had to keep the fire ablaze." The album says goodbye with the epic title track, one of the most honest and mesmerizing songs of the group's career. There is a hypnotic undercurrent to the music as Smith continually contradicts himself by saying such things as, "These flowers will never die," and "These flowers will always die." Later in the track, in a level of intimacy between listener and artist rarely achieved since John Lennon's landmark Plastic Ono Band album, Smith confesses, "Between you and me, it's hard to ever really know who to trust, what to think, what to believe. Between me and you, it's hard to ever really know who to choose, how to feel, what to do. Never fade, never die." Bloodflowers is a marvel. It has something to say, and it delivers that message with passion. The fire may indeed have gone out for Smith, but on Bloodflowers it shines as brightly as it ever has for a great band.

Artist: The Cure Date: 2000-02-15 Label: WEA/ELEKTRA ENTERTAINMENT Genre: Rock Category: Rock/Pop 如果您喜欢这张大碟，请投上一票	TRACK LISTING		MP3下载	歌词
	1	Out Of This World	Download
	2	Watching Me Fall	Download
	3	Where The Birds Always Sing	Download
	4	Maybe Someday	Download
	5	Last Day Of The Summer	Download
	6	There Is No If...	Download
	7	The Loudest Sound	Download
	8	39	Download
	9	Bloodflowers	Download