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Clapton is (justly, some would say) suffering from lots of revisionist criticism, and while I recognize this album’s importance in establishing his solo career, I just don’t like it that much. It’s rarely an exciting listen, and the well-known tracks are the only important ones. There aren’t any hidden gems here.
Just about perfect. They haven’t sounded this good since Disintegration. Worth the wait.
It's not a bad debut, but so much of it sounds like anything you'd get in an American honky-tonk circa 1982. Better things were to come and Knopfler's guitar playing is amazing.
Hot take: this is the Cure's greatest album. Incredibly ambitious, fantastic singles and (for me, at least) zero skips. "The Kiss" is an incredible opener with amazing production (Robert's guitar just sounds evil). "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" prophecies the dense slow songs on the following album. "The Catch" is the 80s pop song every one tried to write but only Robert could. And then there's the mammoth, "Just Like Heaven," which ... read more
At some point in the mid 1980s, Robert Smith remembered that he enjoyed writing pop songs, and that he was very good at it as well. Welcome to the Cure's era of greater accessibility.
Favorites: "Push," "A Night Like This"
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