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RIP Patty Waters. Just read about this posted a few days ago on Bob Nedelkoff's timeline. Her official bio page reported on July 19 that she died June 29, 2024.

 
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Had the car radio on briefly this afternoon and this tune was playing. Now a few hours later looking back at the playlist I can see that it was in tribute to the sudden passing of Martin Phillipps. RIP genius.

 
BeinPurplenGreen said:
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I had thought about these fellows a few days before you posted this, hoping that I'd forgotten that song of theirs with the ridiculous chorus, but I had to add it to the list of all the crap things that I still have stored in my noggin.

Now I've just listened to it and I put it to you that "Weoh, Weoh, Weoh" is their classic song.
 
E Shed said:
Quite a sad story his life. I remember Dave Warner in his book about his band The Suburbs (who are touring again) talking about going to see Ochs play at UWA in the 70’s & hardly anyone turned up. At one point he was compared to Dylan & then his career just nosedived.
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I remember you mentioned this a fair while ago. I've been looking at Mr. Warner's YouTube Channel, at first because he links a few of his football opinions there from other social media sites, but I noticed he has a video/story/song about the time he and some of his band met Phil Ochs at the UWA gig mentioned above, so I thought I'd share.

My sister was at UWA around the same time. Seeing Dave Warner in a Zappa t-shirt, I remember my sister telling me she went to a free lunchtime gig at UWA Winthrop Hall where there was also only a handful of people turned up to see Frank Zappa.

 
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Not one for engaging in non-Freo, let alone non-football chat, but can't restrain myself from popping in here to say that the new Cure album is unexpectedly great (for all those who like the Cure).
 
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Not one for engaging in non-Freo, let alone non-football chat, but can't restrain myself from popping in here to say that the new Cure album is unexpectedly great (for all those who like the Cure).
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Yes I’ve had a couple of listens. First one I was like WTF is this shite, but the second listen was better. Couple of good tracks.

Bit of a feel of “Pornography ” with some of them, some “Disintegration”
 

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Lach72 said:
Yes I’ve had a couple of listens. First one I was like WTF is this shite, but the second listen was better. Couple of good tracks.

Bit of a feel of “Pornography ” with some of them, some “Disintegration”
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Was not really feeling it with the first two tracks, but third track (A Fragile Thing) could be straight off Wish. Then the whole album pivots on the fourth track (Warsong) and suddenly it becomes immense. It's too orchestrated/multi-instrumental to be compared with the early albums, I reckon, but yes, dashes of Disintegration (All I Ever Am) as well as Wish mashed up with the better moments of Bloodflowers (Endsong).
 
ignoramus said:
Was not really feeling it with the first two tracks, but third track (A Fragile Thing) could be straight off Wish. Then the whole album pivots on the fourth track (Warsong) and suddenly it becomes immense. It's too orchestrated/multi-instrumental to be compared with the early albums, I reckon, but yes, dashes of Disintegration (All I Ever Am) as well as Wish mashed up with the better moments of Bloodflowers (Endsong).
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I’ve actually put off listening to it because I couldn’t bear it being a third poor album of theirs in a row. Having ‘discovered’ them as a 16 year old in 1991 just before Wish was released they were the soundtrack of my transition from adolescence into adult - and alongside The Chameleons are the most cherished and important band in my life. I would have been happy for Bloodflowers to be their last album.

But, I finally bit the bullet today on a 50 minute car journey, I cranked the car stereo to its highest volume and listened from start to finish.

All I can say is - wow!! What an incredible achievement.

Totally agree with you about the first track, it’s the one that hasn’t grabbed me - but both tracks 2 and 3 could easily have been on Wish. Track 2 (And Nothing Is Forever) shares the DNA of Trust and To Wish Impossible Things - which is a good thing - but I’d argue it would be better served pushed back later on in the album because the opener needs a more immediate track like A Fragile Thing to follow it.

For me the last song (Endsong) actually brought me to tears - as someone who’s always loved the longer gothier tracks more than the throwaway pop songs (as good as many of them are) I could have happily had the last track go on for 15-20 minutes rather than just the 10 minutes. It’s simply their best song for 20 odd years.

I was sure my all time top five Cure tracks was set in stone: Disintigration, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Apart, A Forest and Burn (from the Crow soundtrack) but I actually think Endsong could sneak in.

I’m off to go and chuck on my Bose headphones and listen to it again.
 

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