Comments for Cure, The, Wild Mood Swings

Well, after all the waiting, Robert Smith has given us an album that makes me wonder what he has been up to all these years. The lyrics are too personal, too overt for him. It's almost like Smith is writing complete fairy tales and creating songs out of them. I like the lyrics, but i was not impressed with some of the songs until the second and third listen. The songs are short, for the most part, and the music sometimes seems as if it's just there for something to put behind the vocals. But, I must admit, I like the album as a whole. Not what I was expecting, but then again, this is the Cure..! I'd recommend this album to Cure fans (and maybe even a few Cure-virgins) *wink* Go out and get it!

This album is sure to dissapoint all the "disenchanted since Pornography" bunch, but Bob and company really needed to make this record. This is exactly what I figured would be next in the bands progression, finely crafted pop. Wild Mood Swings is by far the happiest sounding set of songs the band has ever assembled, but lyrically there is still pleanty of gloom and doom to be found but it is mostly pointed inward, and at times seems a bit too personal. A new found sence of "the hell with what is expected of us" brings a few new twists to the form. Club America features a warbling drunk-sounding vocal that is just as snide as it is charming. The jazz influences never seemed to flow nearly as well on any other album as they do here. The problem here is just that none of these songs are anywhere near the greatness of some of the bands earlier works. It's a solid album that won't dissappoint but neither will it thrill a long time fan. A good album to turn on a friend to. The Cure goes pop and makes a solid album.....after all the inconsistent albums the last 10 years, it's about time!

What a weird album! This has got to be the poppiest Cure album ever made. Songs like "Return", "Jupiter Crash", and "This Is A Lie" are true classics. "Return" is so bubbling over with excitement that it comepare to even the best poppy Cure songs, like "Why Can't I Be You?". This album does take getting used to and is not as good as the last few. Still a good album, very fun.

The track treasure is probaly one of my favourite Cure songs!!!!Bare is also cool!!!

Sometimes, people just don't get The Cure. They want it to be what it is not. They want it to be doom and gloom. Robert has different perspectives on life as many other songwriters. I will always respect him for that. But be it happy or dark, everything by The Cure is amongst the best modern, urban poetry where something is to be learnt. This album pulls out deep, disturbing and yet sometimes sunny emotions from me. Love it!

The first time I listened to it, I thought, "So what?" The second time, I thought, "One more time." The third time, I thought, "Just like heaven!" This album grows on you over time. Anyone expecting to instantly fall in love with it are going to be extremely disappointed. Also, everyone looking for more in the vein of Faith and Pornography will be disgusted by songs like Return, The 13th, and Gone!, which is really too bad. So far, my highlights have been Gone!, Jupiter Crash, Treasure, Want, and The 13th. I still don't like Round & Round & Round, though.

This is a great culmination to 4 years of work. I love almost all of the songs. My favorite would have to be "Strange Attraction". This is a much poppier sounding album than anything they've ever done, and that's all right with me!!!!

WILD MOOD SWINGS is not what I expected. It's an album largely made up of happy pop songs. On first listen, the songs "Want," "Mint Car," "Round And Round," and "The 13th" jump out. The rest sounds like filler, with unexiting music and stupid, 16 year-old poetry lyrics. But the more you listen to it, the more you like it. "Club America" is nicely reminiscent of "The Edge Of The Deep, Green Sea," from WISH, and "This Is A Lie," "Treasure," Jupiter Crash," and "Bare" all have a cinematic, melancholie feeling, which lodges itself into the listener's head. On Every Album, Robert Smith tries to write a jazzy, swinging number. In This case, it's "Gone," which, like all of the Cure's Jazzy songs (with the exception of 'The Lovecats'), really sucks. "Trap" is the cure's mandatory late-in-the-album "I hate you" song. Check for yourself. It's true. "Strange Attraction" and "Return" start off as the album's only real stinkers: silly, transparent pop (Not in a good way). After a while, they, too grow on you. Inspiring both joy and misery simultaneously. But, then again, that's what The Cure is supposed to do, right? SWINGS grows on the listener with time. It's not easy to get a handle on. It's a musically diverse album, remininscent of THE TOP, or KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME, and like those albums, SWINGS is also a take-it-or-leave-it affair. It's most likely to appeal to people who hated WISH. SWINGS' biggest flaw is in the lyrics. One would think that in the past four years, Robert Smith could have written something less straightfor- ward and overtly personal. The prozac must be working. Look on the bright side, folks, at least the Cure didn't break up after SHOW came out, like they said they would. I give it a 7.4.

No no no. "Return" is one of the best "poppy" songs they have ever done.

Those ppl that said "it grows on u" are right. It does. With the exception of "Strange Attraction" - i skip that track always, it sounds like something i would do , ie "Can i use some of yer lipstick". But I wouldnt reject po' ol Robert like Blossom did! *huff* - Anyway - Mint Car is poppy n nice n very addictive. 13th, ditto. Oh, and i still dont like "round & round & round". However, "bare" has stunning lyrics and "return" is like de ja vu for me, but thats another story. "Jupiter Crash" is really quite lovely. Oh, geesus, just go out and buy it, nibble n lick it a few times, youll love it. :)

I love the Cure. I hate the Cure. Every album it's the same thing. A few fantastic tracks, a few pretty good tracks, and a number of stupid tracks. Usually, it's the stupid tracks that end up as singles. Mint Car is no exception. Once again I'm left shaking my head.

Wild Mood Swings is a fantastic album, in my opinion. I admit that many of the songs had to grow on me. Jupiter Crash has to be one of the best songs the Cure have done. Disintegration is still my favorite album, but I,m not at all dissapointed in Wild Mood Swings.

some of the songs on "wild mood swings" made me do a double take. very ambitious. and guess what? it works real well. "mint car" is yet another pop confection, but i get the feeling that smith feels he has to put one of these on every album, and this time it doesn't sound as fresh, but rather forced. "jupiter crash" is a beautiful song, and very well written. "the 13th" is bizarre, and reminds of some of the stuff they did on "kiss me kiss me kiss me". although "round and round and round" is not a great song, i love the message smith is sending out to his fans. along with "gone", one of the better ones on the album, both are direct shots to the fans who can't let go of the past. he's saying this is how it's going to be, get up and get gone. do something with your life, stop moping damnit! "round" clearly states that smith doesn't know when he's going pack it up, (hopefully not for a long time) but enjoy what you have. and honest album and a fine bridge of the last few records. not landmark stuff, but mature and still capable of amazing results. a real treat. shrug.

I''m not sure which one is worse, The Top or WMS. The only track I think really stands out is "Bare"...a great song....

It`s growing on me - much more `poppy` than I wasexpecting but still an essential Cure album. I would guessthat it`s a cross between Kiss Me and Wish in style.So there we go - not as good as Pornography, Faith orDisentegration but who cares? It`s still The Cure and it`sstill excellent!