I wish I remembered more...
This is my first time seeing The Cure and I wore my prom dress. Why? Because I was a strange teenaged girl and seeing The Cure was an event worthy of a prom dress. Obviously.
I was always jealous of my brother and his friends, who were at one of the shows at the Palace that they used for Show. I was too young to tag along so, even though I listened to The Cure daily, I had to wait.
I'm trying to remember details, really specific ones, about this show so in an attempt to jog my memory I'm listening to the album they were touring on that year, Wild Mood Swings, right now (or I was when I started this yesterday. I'm now listening to Disintegration. It's still not helping me remember anything other than it's a far superior album to Wild Mood Swings. Anything Wish or earlier is, really). Some of the songs aren't my favorite, which might be giving them too much credit, but overall it's not a terrible Cure album. There are some gems on there.
I remember wishing they had have played more off of Disintegration and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, which were in heavy rotation in my tape player(!) at the time. Looking at the setlist that I found for the show makes me wonder what I was really expecting. I mean they must have played for around two hours and, although they played almost all of Wild Mood Swings, they did a pretty good job of playing stuff off most of their albums, except for Faith and Pornography which aren't represented at all. I would love to see this show again today.
I bought a bootleg t-shirt off a guy in the parking lot. It's about four sizes too large. I still have it somewhere in a drawer.
The setlist:
Want
Club America
A Night Like This
Push
Lullaby
Dressing Up
This Is A Lie
Mint Car
Just Like Heaven
Let's Go To Bed
Jupiter Crash
Round & Round & Round
Inbetween Days
Strange Attraction
Fascination Street
Return
Treasure
Trap
Prayers For Rain
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Bare
Disintegration
E1:
Lovesong
Friday I'm In Love
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You
E2:
Charlotte Sometimes
Play For Today
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
E3:
Boys Don't Cry
A Forest
This is my first time seeing The Cure and I wore my prom dress. Why? Because I was a strange teenaged girl and seeing The Cure was an event worthy of a prom dress. Obviously.
I was always jealous of my brother and his friends, who were at one of the shows at the Palace that they used for Show. I was too young to tag along so, even though I listened to The Cure daily, I had to wait.
I'm trying to remember details, really specific ones, about this show so in an attempt to jog my memory I'm listening to the album they were touring on that year, Wild Mood Swings, right now (or I was when I started this yesterday. I'm now listening to Disintegration. It's still not helping me remember anything other than it's a far superior album to Wild Mood Swings. Anything Wish or earlier is, really). Some of the songs aren't my favorite, which might be giving them too much credit, but overall it's not a terrible Cure album. There are some gems on there.
I remember wishing they had have played more off of Disintegration and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, which were in heavy rotation in my tape player(!) at the time. Looking at the setlist that I found for the show makes me wonder what I was really expecting. I mean they must have played for around two hours and, although they played almost all of Wild Mood Swings, they did a pretty good job of playing stuff off most of their albums, except for Faith and Pornography which aren't represented at all. I would love to see this show again today.
I bought a bootleg t-shirt off a guy in the parking lot. It's about four sizes too large. I still have it somewhere in a drawer.
The setlist:
Want
Club America
Push
Lullaby
Return
Treasure
Trap
Bare
Disintegration
E1:
Lovesong
Close To Me
E2:
E3:
Epic setlist. 3 encores?! I can't even say how many times I've wished I'd seen The Cure in the 90's. Damn Heidi, good work.
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