Music: Faith by The Cure, Disease Factory’s Take.
December 17th, 2007 by Hexfix93
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Faith
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My favorite cure record. My favorite goth lp. There is just something about the tone of robert smith’s voice that draws me in. When I first saw the cure when I was a kid, I saw the video for hot hot hot, and dismissed this band when I was real young as silly fluff, I was so wrong. As I got older, I stole this LP on cassette from a record store on a whim when I was 16 and poor. This and the Sky’s gone out from Bauhaus. I saw this cool kid in school wearing a cure patch and a bauhaus patch on his jacket. I think that inspired me. The first time I listened to Faith, It blew me away. I was in tears, I did not expect this heavy sad thing at all. In the end, Faith got listened to the most, in fact I think I listen to this lp more than any in my entire collection. The video below is for Primary.
Back then, this LP fit on one side of a cassette tape. On the other side was this super long droning song called Carnage Visors, Which to this day is still my favorite song to drive to, especially in the mountains at night or in bad weather. I was pissed when I bought the CD to find no Carnage Visors. Phooey! I think buying the old tape was a better buy. Oh well, the cd is still amazing. The Video below is for Other Voices.
I have seriously annoyed people with how much I listen to this CD over the years. I think Faith and the b-sides of Staring at the sea are the cure songs that I listened to the most still. This lp has my favorite bass sounds. My favorite drum sounds. My favorite synth sounds. And my favorite vocal style. Another downer about this lp, The US version didn’t have charlotte sometimes on it. They dropped that for the US market. That sucks because that is another one of my favorite cure songs as well. Europeans don’t know how lucky they were. The live video below is for All Cats Are Grey.
Over the years of doing music, I have tried so hard to get mean bass, and punchy drums like the ones you hear on this record to no avail. A depressing pursuit I still have yet to master. I think the production on this lp is my absolute favorite. I love the droning verbed out wails, the urgency in his vocals. My favorite songs? ALL OF THEM. EVERY SONG IS AAA. If I had to pick a favorite, The drowning man. To this day this is one of the few songs can still jerk tears from me. One of the few songs that actually can make me cry. The Song doubt is truly a violent sounding song as well that really manipulates my emotions. I love the psychedelic sound of the bass flanging in Primary. The holy hour has one of the coolest bass lines ever. The end song faith can also make my eyes weep as well. This is a heavy lp with a lot of heavy emotions. The live video below is for The Drowning Man.
If it was not for the legacy of Edward Ka-spel, the cure would still be my favorite band. They are my 2nd favorite band now, used to be my first. Oh well, who cares it’s really hard to decide my favorites, some times this still is my favorite band. I guess it depends on my mood. This CD is short and sweet, but worth every penny. This is the ultimate shoe gaze lp. I hope you like the videos. If you like this. Buy it now! They released deluxe editions of all their old lps, and I own most of them now, they are amazing, demo tracks and extra pictures. double cds. Awesome. Pick it up! Click Here to buy Faith Deluxe Edition.
And a bonus video of Charlotte Sometimes, it’s not on faith. But from the same Era. Enjoy.
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December 17th, 2007 at 8:06 am
“Other voices” is the perfect “I’m so sad and lonely”-song in my opinion …
I just wonder wich european release you mean because my copy was made in france and doesnt have “Charlotte Sometimes” on it.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:46 am
I also think “Faith” is one of the best albums from The Cure ever, next to “Pornography”, “Disintegration” and “Kiss me…”.
I have the European version of “Faith”, and there is also no “Charlotte Sometimes”. Like “Wrong Number”, “Charlotte Sometimes” was without an album.
My favourite song is “All Cats Are Grey”, which is perfect to die for ;)
I think this album is the saddest output ever from The Cure. “Pornography” is much harder.
I´m gonna listen to “Faith” and “Pornography”.
Check out “Descent”, from “Join the Dots” box set. It was the b-side from “Primary”. It sounds like an early take, instrumental from “Primary”.
“Faith” was released 2 years ago as special edition with 2 CDs. It also includes “Carnage Visors” in remastered form. On the second CD there are demo versions of the well-known songs , scrapped demos and live versions.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I have all the us cure releases btw..
December 17th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Look on wikki, it says some european releases had charlotte sometimes on faith.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
i love this album too.. especially the song “the drowning man”.. Faith is a beautiful song too.. so much to tell about the cure.. a very great group.. i’m so impatient to see them in Paris on march 2008 ^^
December 17th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
@Disease Factory: You are right, but only on the re-release from 2005, the so-called “Deluxe edition”.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
hey.. nvr really bothered to listen to em .. i like it .. thx for getting me into the cure (”
December 17th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Not my favorite Goth lp, by any means, but hands down my favorite Cure album. Holy Hour being my favorite of course. Chock full of relentless emotion, gut wrenching, dark… I love it. My favorite vocals from Robert also. My favorite goth LP is probably Closer by Joy Division (when in a downbeat mood) or If I Die, I Die by Virgin Prunes (when in an upbeat mood). But as a musician, Robert Smith just knows how to hit all the right notes, and pull things together perfectly (the same way Puppy was with industrial).
December 17th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
I own a lot of The Cure’s albums, but I haven’t bought this one yet. I found the deluxe edition with Charlotte Sometimes at the Barnes and Noble here. I’ll be sure to buy this as soon as I can.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Aha! You fooled me. I thought you would choose “Pornography”. Anyway, you’ll get no arguments from me over “Faith”. It’s stamped throughout with the hallmark of genius and whilst other albums might contain individual tracks that you like more(“A Forest”? “Figurehead”?), none is so consistently listenable. It obsessed people when it first came out and it retains its power to obsess now. When you get to the last note, you want to start again. You can’t help yourself. You want it to manipulate your feelings and you know that it will. “Faith” is simply addictive.
Now, what about the best Cure video/DVD? I reckon that it’s still “The Cure in Orange” What do you think?
December 18th, 2007 at 11:10 am
What made me pick fate over the others, the production and the flow of the lp, from start to finish, i feel like pornography is amazing but so brutal and way heavier that i have to be in the mood for it, as to where this lp i can throw on at any time. Not to mention the production, this record is fat, warm and big. Pornography sounds pinched and cold and brittle. Yes pornography is more goth. But i don’t care, i prefer the sad melancholy of faith the most.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Faith is such a beautiful album… this is a great review. That album really changed my life - showed me a different way of looking at the world. It is strange that Charlotte Sometimes wasn’t on it - but then, the way it is, with the tracks that are on it, it’s a perfectly “concise” album. I really like how focused the old albums were - 8 tracks on Faith, 8 tracks on Pornography… so “concise” and focused… - making for a beautiful, almost perfectly “simple” listen.
You know, I think “Drowning Man” translates SO well into the live realm… some songs when played live don’t vibe as well, but Drowning Man almost sounds even better to me - the live atmospheres and rhythms just work perfectly in a live setting - such a beautiful song… that video is current, but still, the song sounds so powerful even though it was done so long ago - mixed up with current emotion, and it really still works.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I think “flow” is a good word to use in connection with it. The tracks do seem to flow into each other…….. until there “is nothing left but faith”. At which point you want to get back on and go round again….!
“Pornography” is The Cure what “Join Hands” is to Siouxsie and the Banshees. Agree?
December 18th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
This record is, for me, cold & distant poetry
December 19th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
I would always choose Pornography over Faith, Faith gives emptyness & sadness, Pornography gives despair & madness
I find each album very different & as i get older & look back at what i may have thought at any given time about a song or album & depending on where i was at that time my opinions can change, i disliked Wild Mood Swings so much at the time because it was catchy & happy, but now i see it very much tongue in cheek & it makes me feel really good to listen to it.
I cried so much reading the lyric sheet insert to Bloodflowers before i’d listened to the cd as at the time it was to be the end & the final concert at Wembley (London) just broke me completely, obviously they came back after that, & at this moment in time i really dislike ‘The Cure’ except possibly for the anger for Us & Them & I do wonder what they will come up with next