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TechnoTV - 4:13 Dream
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Manufacturer: Geffen
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517642256
Label: Geffen
Manufacturer: Geffen
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geffen
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Studio: Geffen
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Summary: Lucky Number 13
Comment: Underneath The Stars: is a Bloodflowers-ish sounding epic opener clock in just over six minutes. An awesome track to start with Robert signing about the universe's 13 billion years (so poetic). My only minor bummer is that vocals are a tad low and do get meshed during the outro.
The Only One: is a Wish-era throwback song, an alien hybrid of Doing The Unstuck/High if you ask me. Not a favorite, a bit too "happy" sounding for me.
The Reasons Why: is a groovy Head On The Door-ish tune with lyrics to boot about Robert talking about his suicide/sacrifice. One of my faves.
Up next get the psychedelic track Freakshow. Filler track, in my opinion.
Sirensong: sounds like something off Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness meets Wild Mood Swings. A song your can drift away to.
The Real Snow White: a so-so track, nothing to write home about.
The Hungry Ghost: It took a while to like this track, lets just say I don't skip it anymore.
The David Lynch-y identity finding track Switch takes the listener on a rockin' journey.
My favorite track is The Perfect Boy. A dreamy track that could be the star-crossed lover to Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me's The Perfect Girl. Genius!
This. Here and Now. With You: Is it me or does This. Here and Now. With you/Prayers For Rain/Sadacic have similar bass intros? Anywho, probably my 3nd fave track.
Sleep When I'm Dead: is past Cure with catchy chorus and all.
The Scream: With hypnotic rhythms and an alarming scream this track is made WIN.
It's Over: is something that came out of the ashes of Disintegration then shot to the atmosphere into outer space pass the edge of the solar system and finished with a whisper "I can't do this anymore." Great ending track!
The Bass is mixed way too low on some tracks, the vocals are mixed too too high w/ reverb on other tracks. This album takes a few listens for you to get a feel of it, right off the bat I didn't like the sound of the album and was disappointed. Usually Cure albums are mixed really well, you wouldn't expect The Cure to have an Steve Albini sound to it. Other than that 4:13 Dream is a good record even with no keyboards this time around. I've been a fan since the 80's and I think you'll really enjoy this album. This is where I would rank 4:13 Dream.
1 Disintegration
2. The Head on the Door
3. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
4. Pornography
5. Wish
6. The Cure
7. 4:13 Dream
8. Join The Dots
9. Faith
10. Blue Sunshine (Disc 2)
11. The Top
12 Seventeen Seconds
13. Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry
14. Wild Mood Swings
15. Bloodflowers
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Summary: The Cure is stuck in a rut, and I'm sad
Comment: So, I'm a big fan of the following, faith, head on the door, disintigration and, yes wild mood swings (I'll explain later).
Everything since wild mood swings has robert smith in a horrible rut, every song uses the same melodic structure and the inventiveness and creativity is (poof) gone. I'm seeing age set in.
Now, I like wild mood swings for the same reasons I liked head on the door, it was a dramatic break from "the cure sound" which people are far too enamored of.. it gave smith singing from a third person perspective, which has not happened before or since, so for the first time in his career he actually told some really unique stories. Musically, they experimented quite a bit more then they had since Kiss Me 3x. This cd was drubbed because it didn't have the 'cure sound'. People must get past this. All the cure's best work did not have that 'cure sound'.
RS has this repetitiveness that has lasted all of this decade. It is time for the cure to pack it in and call it a day. I like the cover art, though.
Too bad. I was really looking forward to this one. I've heard there were to be two versions, I'm skeptical.
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Summary: Disappointing return (again)
Comment: Let me state upfront that Robert Smith and I are roughly the same age (he is one year older than me) and that I essentially grew up with these guys from the late 70s on. So I have been on this ride for a long long time. After the utterly disappointing 2004 self-titled album, here again comes Robert Smith (the only remaining original band member of the Cure) with a new album, after another 4 year lay-off. I had heard/read encouraging things about the album, so I was eager to hear it when I finally had the chance.
Well then... "4:13 Dream" (13 tracks; 53 min.) is, I am sorry to say, yet another utter disappointment. I have hold off posting a review for a while, playing this album quite a bit in the last few weeks, to make sure I wasn't missing the mark, but here I am. To state it bluntly, there is only ONE track on here that bears repeated listening, and it is the opening track "Underneath the Stars", a beautiful, doomy track with a long instrumental intro, finally giving way to what is in essence a revisit to "Pictures Of You". Well done. After that, though, I hear the music, but absolutely none of the remaining tracks have any lasting impact, frankly. What a major disappointment, to say the least. Looking back, the last meaningful album of the Cure was 1996's "Wild Mood Swings", as uneven that album was, but at least it had a number of memorable songs on it. No such luck here (other than "Underneath the Stars").
I've had the good fortune of catching the Cure live in concert a number of times over the years, including in their early days in the 70s when I still lived in Belgium and they weren't the superstars yet that they would become. That said, if I have another chance to see them live, I will do so again, no questions asked. But "4:13 Dream" is simply not a great album, and I'm being mild.
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Summary: Okay but not as lacks the melody and melancholy of past albums
Comment: I consider The Cure one of the greatest modern rock bands in the last 2,3 decades. I love their post punk guitar riffs, haunting lyrics, and melancholy melodies. A lot of my favorite music comes from the band's albums from the '80s and mid '90s. I absolutely adore PORNOGRAPHY, DISINTEGRATION, and BLOODFLOWERS but the band has put out a couple of turkeys like WILD MOOD SWINGS and their 2004 self-titled album. I really didn't care for the band's previous album because of producer Ross Robinson who obviously tried to turn the band into another Korn and Limp Bizkit. I was greatly relieved when I read that the band's new album 4:13 DREAM was anything but like their last album.
I recently got a hold of a copy of the album. While the album may not sound like their last album which I consider an improvement, the music lacks the beauty of the band's older material. The first two songs "Underneath the Stars" and "The Only One" I liked a lot. I really liked the melodies on those songs. Unfortunately then there are songs like "Freakshow", "Siren Song" and "The Real Snow White" that rubs me the wrong way because of Robert Smith's vocals. The rest of the album is pretty forgettable. It isn't so much because I don't like the songs but there wasn't anything memorable about the songs. I had to listen to 4:13 DREAM several times before I could actually enjoy it. I really wanted to like the album more but I can't. It's okay but nothing special.
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Summary: Robert Smith, he's back and...
Comment: better than what I'd even hoped. With every listen, it grows. As always the lyrics and voice are more than marvelous. A couple reviews mentioned no single material here, I disagree. There's two tracks, with the right push, may have single potential. I love the opener, grand or epic to say the least. I'm anticipating this next darker disc but for now I'm more than happy with 4:13.
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Editorial Reviews:
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2008 release, the 13th studio longplayer from the legendary Goth rockers led by Robert Smith. Now down to a quartet (Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson and Jason Cooper), the band continue to musically evolve while dealing with subjects like relationships, the material world, politics and religion. The songs on 4:13 Dream are stripped down and 'in your face' while also sounding very much like The Cure. Includes the singles 'The Only One', 'Freakshow', 'Sleep When I'm Dead' and 'The Perfect Boy.'
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