Wild Mood Swings [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese edition of their first studio album in four years features the B-side 'It Used To Be Me' as a bonus track, plus 'The 13th', 'Mint Car', 'Want', 'Club America', 'This Is A Lie', 'Strange Attraction', 'Jupiter Crash', 'Round & Round & Round', 'Gone!', 'Numb', 'Return', 'Trap', 'Treasure' and 'Bare'.

Wild Mood Swings
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Unique, diverse, rich
  • I tried
  • Much Better Than You're Being Led To Believe
  • Singificantly better than many diehards will tell you.
  • Unfocussed Slosh
 Wild Mood Swings
The Cure
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. Bloodflowers
  2. Wish
  3. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
  4. The Cure
  5. Disintegration

ASIN: B000002HH9
Release Date: 1996-05-07

Tracks:

  1. Want
  2. Club America
  3. This Is A Lie
  4. The 13th
  5. Strange Attraction
  6. Mint Car
  7. Jupiter Crash
  8. Round & Round & Round
  9. Gone!
  10. Numb
  11. Return
  12. Trap
  13. Treasure
  14. Bare

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Unique, diverse, rich.......2006-09-21

Man oh man oh man; I cannot fathom these 1 star reviews by people. There must be SOMETHING they just DON'T get about this album, because it's brilliant. I won't go into specifics, but let me just say that I own every single Cure album and song ever released, from Three Imaginary Boys in '79 to Self-Titled in '04, along with the Join the Dots (B-Sides and Rarities) release in '04. In any case, my point is that I know ALL Cure. Everything. Many fans will compare this to other Cure releases such as "Disintegration" or "Pornography" or "Faith" or "Wish" and diss the heck out of it...just seems bizarre and strange to me. This album has so many eclectic features and and an incredible range of diversity, yet it is still held together by all things Cure. The songs are downright beautiful. For people to call this slosh and self-indulgent is just plain ignorant. To attack the lyrical content is downright immature. So what if he's singing about cheating? Each song is unique with a wide array of themes. Pay no regard to the bad reviews. You can trust me as someone who has everything The Cure has released that this is a more-than-worthy addition to your collection. I actually prefer the second half of the disc more than the first, but still love the first half as well. Do it up and treat your ears to a real work of art.

1 out of 5 stars I tried.......2006-09-09

I was a huge Cure fan in the 90s. When this came out I really really wanted it to be great. I listened to it many times. I remember none of the songs and didn't like ONE song on the CD. If you want an underrated Cure CD, go get Wish. Don't even bother with this one. Completely forgetable.

5 out of 5 stars Much Better Than You're Being Led To Believe.......2006-09-06

Wild Mood Swings is not a bad cd. Many of the negative reviews come right out and admit to trying to pull the rating of this cd down. Why? It usually comes down to being stuck in the past. There are a lot of people who cannot accept Robert Smith doing anything outside of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me or Disintegration.

Wild Mood Swings is different. It's upbeat in some places and downbeat in others (ok, ok, I know that describes Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me but the instrumentation is different here); it's not your typical Cure release but I like it. It reminds me some of The Top, a much more psycho and, in many cases, just as maligned an effort.

WMS also reminds me of many of the silly music that made up the mid-80's. There are lots and lots of great keyboard sounds to go around and a ton of great guitar. What's not to like?

4 out of 5 stars Singificantly better than many diehards will tell you........2006-08-22

An album that is generally dispised by fans of the Cure, "Wild Mood Swings" is as different from everything else in the band's catalog as can be, and a the time of release it was a bit jarring. It's an album of acoustic guitars and bright production and of open space, and while it was significantly different from anything the band has done, a decade after its release, it's pretty clear that the album, taken out of the shock of its appearance, is a decent record in its own right.

Of course, from the opener, you wouldn't know it'd be full of bright songs-- "Want" is classic dark Cure stuff-- ringing bass, clean tone melodic electric guitars, and noisy leads supporting a vocal that turns as fierce and jarring as anything Smith has done. But there is a sense of space that's obvious in it that permeates the album, and the record's brightness is obvious throughout, whether in the form of explosive pop songs ("Mint Car", a positively ecstatic explosition of new love), bizarre blues/funk tinged horn driven pieces ('Gone!"), moody, acoustic Bowie-styled reflections ("jupiter Crash") or just downright bizarre (more of the record than you'd guess-- Latin-tinged "The 13th" defies explanatio and the lower register vocal of "Club America" is in direct opposition to the usual Cure). Admittedly, amidst all of this there's a couple bunts (propolsive rocker "Trap", somewhat dull pop song "Strange Attraction") and yeah, the bright production can get irritating in its lack of subtlety ("Round & Round & Round"), but there's a lot to be heard here, just put aside your preconceived notions of what the band should be at the door.

"Wild Mood Swings" found the Cure crippled-- longtime guitarist Porl Thompson and drummer Boris Williams, who had both been with the band for a decade, left, and leader Robert Smith seemed to have felt painted in a corner stylistically. This one is definitely quite a detour, and if you're not one to like your band's drifting from their core sound, this isn't one for you. For the rest of us, "Wild Mood Swings" is one of the more intriguing things the band has done.

1 out of 5 stars Unfocussed Slosh.......2006-05-17

No matter how often and how many times I've tried to listen to this album I cannot get more than half way without getting so bored with it that I'm compelled to change discs. The Cure has been my all-time favourite band since 1985, and still is to this day (2006), but this album is simply unlistenable drivel. It's not that objectively speaking, the album is the worst thing since Celine Dion, but, standing against the background of such groundbreaking classic Cure favourites as Faith, Pornography and Disintegration; Wild Mood Swings falls right out of the swing and hits itself badly on the head, concussing and haemmorrhaging to death on the hard earth of reality.
Some tracks are catchy enough, especially the openers Want, Club America and The 13th, but nonetheless come over as sounding so similar to tracks already done wonderfully before (respectively Open, Harold & Joe and The Lovecats) that they're less like original variations than pale caricatures of them. From there it's all down-swing as the album does a bland, unfocussed and uninspired take on jangly Brit-style pop and ballads. Songs like Mint Car sound so obviously like Smith is trying so incredibly hard to be happy and poppy and fluffy (when he's probably just really drunk) that you can't help cringing when you listen to them. Smith himself has said this is his least liked album The Cure has done of them all.
If you're interested in The Cure but new to them - avoid this one, and stick to one of the certified greats, such as the above mentioned titles.
Wild Mood Swings
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A long time (19 yrs) Cure fan explains how to enjoy Wildmoodswings
  • Did you know?
  • Unimpressive effort.
  • "jupiter crash" IS 1 THE REASONS TO BUY THIS!
  • Typical of The Cure, very good
 Wild Mood Swings
The Cure
Manufacturer: Polydor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000024TY4

Album Description

Japanese edition of their first studio album in four years features the B-side 'It Used To Be Me' as a bonus track, plus 'The 13th', 'Mint Car', 'Want', 'Club America', 'This Is A Lie', 'Strange Attraction', 'Jupiter Crash', 'Round & Round & Round', 'Gone!', 'Numb', 'Return', 'Trap', 'Treasure' and 'Bare'.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track: It Used to Be Me.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars A long time (19 yrs) Cure fan explains how to enjoy Wildmoodswings.......2005-10-30

While I really don't listen to the Cure that much anymore, from the ages of 15-20... I was pretty much consumed by the band. That being said, I was embarassed for not only the Cure, but for myself when I first heard this album; Wild Mood Swings contains songs that should have never been recorded...or heard...by anyone. Amazingly bad--some of them. There are, however, songs on the record that are actually kinda good. If one were inclined, they might make an edited version using itunes+a cd burner or whatever. That's what you should do ...but what songs are worth keeping? I'll tell you.

1) WANT. best song on the album. great energy. sounds like the cure should.
3) THIS IS A LIE. sounds like it could have been on Wish or TheTop maybe.
4) The 13th. "yeah but it feeeels GOOD!" sister song to Close to Me. better than you think.
7) JUPITER CRASH. nice one. the closest thing to Disentegration you'll hear on this album. backwards effect on his voice works well. (can you tell i'm listening as i'm doing this?)
9) GONE! this one grew on me. sister song to Lovecats. this song is almost sexy(?)
and is better than you think. great buildup to the horns. blah blah
13) Treasure. an honest song that sounds like Wish stuff. should have closed the album because...


14) BARE starts off sounding great, but plods along w/ some really bad changes. too bad. I was liking it for the first minute or two... but this could be included i guess...it's not that bad.
10) NUMB almost makes the list for the cool strings but is boring and lyrically lazy.
12)TRAP almost for sounding....like a bad Wish b-side; but bad b-sides don't belong on albums do they?

All the other songs are only appropriate for 12 year old girls or people with no taste. So there it is-- a six song album...Just throw on Birdmad Girl(the top) and a couple 'a songs from Head on the Door and you'll have an album that wont scare your friends into an unfortunate disinterest of The Cure.

In the future stick to Disentegration and the preceeding albums. That's what Robert wants anyway...honestly... I used to know him.

3 out of 5 stars Did you know?.......2000-09-13

if u get the single for the 13th, it has this extra track plus another one, called ocean. it just seems dumb to pay 33.99 for 1 cd. even one from the cure, i would, but i'm using common sense. Go buy the single! get away from here!

2 out of 5 stars Unimpressive effort........2000-06-23

The extra tracks DO NOT make up for the album's triteness and lack of quality. It is not on par with The Cure's Disintegration, which is a seamless work that contains lush layers of sound. The lyrics on Wild seem very haphazardly written and unenlightened. Don't waste your money.

5 out of 5 stars "jupiter crash" IS 1 THE REASONS TO BUY THIS!.......2000-01-16

"JUPITER CRASH" IS ONE OF THE REASONS TO BUY THIS CD BECAUSE IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM IT'S LYRICS TO IT'S MUSIC TO ROBERTS INCREADIBLE VOCAL I HAVEN'T BEEN A CURE FAN VERY LONG BUT THIS IS A GREAT CD SOME OTHER GREAT SONGS ARE "GONE" "MINTCAR" AND "WANT" I AIN'T A CRITIC BUT I AM A AVID MUSIC LISTENER AND THIS IS WONDERFUL!

5 out of 5 stars Typical of The Cure, very good.......1998-12-29

Whoever said this album is an MTV plastic chair whatever doesn't know this band as well as they think. This is a typical album(later) of The Cure, and is just as good as any of their 90's albums. It still has the same feeling as any of theirs, such as Wish, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, ect..Only a true Cure fan will know the difference between this album and their older stuff.
Wild Mood Swings
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A long time (19 yrs) Cure fan explains how to enjoy Wildmoodswings
  • Did you know?
  • Unimpressive effort.
  • "jupiter crash" IS 1 THE REASONS TO BUY THIS!
  • Typical of The Cure, very good
 Wild Mood Swings
The Cure
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006XXV
Release Date: 1999-08-03

Tracks:

  1. Want
  2. Club America
  3. This Is a Lie
  4. 13th
  5. Strange Attraction
  6. Mint Car
  7. Jupiter Crash
  8. Round & Round & Round
  9. Gone!
  10. Numb
  11. Return
  12. Trap
  13. Treasure
  14. Bare
  15. It Used to Be Me [*]

Album Description

Japanese edition of their first studio album in four years features the B-side 'It Used To Be Me' as a bonus track, plus 'The 13th', 'Mint Car', 'Want', 'Club America', 'This Is A Lie', 'Strange Attraction', 'Jupiter Crash', 'Round & Round & Round', 'Gone!', 'Numb', 'Return', 'Trap', 'Treasure' and 'Bare'.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track: It Used to Be Me.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars A long time (19 yrs) Cure fan explains how to enjoy Wildmoodswings.......2005-10-30

While I really don't listen to the Cure that much anymore, from the ages of 15-20... I was pretty much consumed by the band. That being said, I was embarassed for not only the Cure, but for myself when I first heard this album; Wild Mood Swings contains songs that should have never been recorded...or heard...by anyone. Amazingly bad--some of them. There are, however, songs on the record that are actually kinda good. If one were inclined, they might make an edited version using itunes+a cd burner or whatever. That's what you should do ...but what songs are worth keeping? I'll tell you.

1) WANT. best song on the album. great energy. sounds like the cure should.
3) THIS IS A LIE. sounds like it could have been on Wish or TheTop maybe.
4) The 13th. "yeah but it feeeels GOOD!" sister song to Close to Me. better than you think.
7) JUPITER CRASH. nice one. the closest thing to Disentegration you'll hear on this album. backwards effect on his voice works well. (can you tell i'm listening as i'm doing this?)
9) GONE! this one grew on me. sister song to Lovecats. this song is almost sexy(?)
and is better than you think. great buildup to the horns. blah blah
13) Treasure. an honest song that sounds like Wish stuff. should have closed the album because...


14) BARE starts off sounding great, but plods along w/ some really bad changes. too bad. I was liking it for the first minute or two... but this could be included i guess...it's not that bad.
10) NUMB almost makes the list for the cool strings but is boring and lyrically lazy.
12)TRAP almost for sounding....like a bad Wish b-side; but bad b-sides don't belong on albums do they?

All the other songs are only appropriate for 12 year old girls or people with no taste. So there it is-- a six song album...Just throw on Birdmad Girl(the top) and a couple 'a songs from Head on the Door and you'll have an album that wont scare your friends into an unfortunate disinterest of The Cure.

In the future stick to Disentegration and the preceeding albums. That's what Robert wants anyway...honestly... I used to know him.

3 out of 5 stars Did you know?.......2000-09-13

if u get the single for the 13th, it has this extra track plus another one, called ocean. it just seems dumb to pay 33.99 for 1 cd. even one from the cure, i would, but i'm using common sense. Go buy the single! get away from here!

2 out of 5 stars Unimpressive effort........2000-06-23

The extra tracks DO NOT make up for the album's triteness and lack of quality. It is not on par with The Cure's Disintegration, which is a seamless work that contains lush layers of sound. The lyrics on Wild seem very haphazardly written and unenlightened. Don't waste your money.

5 out of 5 stars "jupiter crash" IS 1 THE REASONS TO BUY THIS!.......2000-01-16

"JUPITER CRASH" IS ONE OF THE REASONS TO BUY THIS CD BECAUSE IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM IT'S LYRICS TO IT'S MUSIC TO ROBERTS INCREADIBLE VOCAL I HAVEN'T BEEN A CURE FAN VERY LONG BUT THIS IS A GREAT CD SOME OTHER GREAT SONGS ARE "GONE" "MINTCAR" AND "WANT" I AIN'T A CRITIC BUT I AM A AVID MUSIC LISTENER AND THIS IS WONDERFUL!

5 out of 5 stars Typical of The Cure, very good.......1998-12-29

Whoever said this album is an MTV plastic chair whatever doesn't know this band as well as they think. This is a typical album(later) of The Cure, and is just as good as any of their 90's albums. It still has the same feeling as any of theirs, such as Wish, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, ect..Only a true Cure fan will know the difference between this album and their older stuff.
Reggae Mood Swings
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Reggae Mood Swings
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Wild Life Muzik
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Dance HallDance Hall | Reggae | International | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B000024Y1S
    Release Date: 1997-09-08

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Feels So Good - Mikey Spice
    3. Everything I Own (Gunocosis)
    4. Platonic - Lukie D,
    5. Comedy - Lawrence Bennet
    6. Don't Front - Nardo Ranks
    7. Love Can Make You Happy - LaToya ?,
    8. Comedy
    9. Come See About Me - Jack Radics
    10. Testosterone - Clive Ross
    11. U Can Depend on Me - Sugar Minott
    12. Lioness
    13. Freedom
    14. Mind Is Willing - Major Damage
    15. United We Stand
    16. Long Way - Clive Ross
    17. I Like Your Flow - Shaka Man
    18. Comforter - Yami Bolo
    19. Defender of the Faith - Everton Blender
    20. Long Life - Dennis Brown
    21. 3 Nights, 2 Days - E.T. Webster
    22. Love & Peace - Triston Palmer
    23. Outro - Sample This!
    Wild Mood Swings #1
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Wild Mood Swings #1
      Cure
      Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD
      ASIN: B000BRAIHM
      Release Date: 1996-11-21
      Wild Mood Swings
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Wild Mood Swings
        The Cure
        Manufacturer: Fiction
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000LZX3CG

        Music:

        1. XTRMNTR
        2. 3 Wishes
        3. All My Life [CD-single]
        4. All the Pain Money Can Buy (+3 Bonus Tra
        5. Belleville
        6. Best of Bowie [Import]
        7. Best of Bowie [Import]
        8. Best of Bowie [Import] [Original recording remastered]
        9. Best of Bowie [Import] [Original recording remastered]
        10. Best of Bowie [Import] [Original recording remastered]

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        Tripping The Live Fantastic (Highlights) [Live]

        Best of Christmas

        Dvorák: Piano Quintet Op. 81 / String Quartet Op. 97

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        Bonafide [Import]

        Bizet: Carmen

        Bonsoir Amis [Enhanced] [Import] [Live]

        Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volumes 67-70: The Philadelphia Orchestra Recordings

        Break in the Storm

        Bird on 52nd Street [Live]

        Bury The Hatchet [Explicit Cover] [Explicit Lyrics]

        Bambino [Import]

        Brainwashed [CD-single] [Import]

        Fireworks for Orchestra

        New Horn in Town