 "The Cure are a Guitar Band" | 2008-08-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2TNP68THOAUP8 |
| In 1992 I was reading Guitar Player and there was an article on the Cure. I always thought they were some weird goth band but I read the interview with an open mind and was surprised to find that not only did they favour writing with guitars but they (mostly Robert) had a huge vintage collection. Remember Porl went onto the Page/Plant tour? Well in the article it satates that at rehearsals and sound checks they would jam on Zep tunes before Robert would arrive. It was agreat interview and I was impressed with their wit and charm. I went out and bought both Wish and Mixed Up. Robert's writing, recording, and production techniques both won me over and inspired my own recording ventures. If you are a song writer or guitar player then you owe it to yourself to discover the Cure. They use a lot of small parts to paint a very large picture. Cheers. |
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| "Best Cure Album" | 2008-04-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: AEOG0XJT1NJ9D |
| Although many may argue that Disintergration is the best example of work by the Cure, Wish seems to convey an overall better display of what makes the Cure great. |
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 "Very good." | 2008-03-28 |
| - Reviewed By jim24164 |
| Replace open, wendy time, and doing the unstuck with this twilight garden, halo, and a foolish arrangement and you have a five star album. This is their last very good album. |
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 "the beginning of the end" | 2007-11-17 |
| - Reviewed By eightiesmania |
| I'm a diehard Cure fan. However, to me this cd represents the beginning of the Cure's demise as a great band. It is all right but definitely not of the calibre of their earlier albums. A little too happy, a little too radio friendly. But there are still some songs worth listening on "Wish". |
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| "4 star effort from Mr. Smith and the Backups Du Jour" | 2007-08-21 |
| - Reviewed By toolkien |
Firstly I like this album a slight bit more than Disintegration. They, of course, are somewhat different in tone, but I think it has more to do with nostalgia than anything else. Wish came out during my heady young twenties, just out of college, when I had that perfect combination of youth, whatever looks God gave me, and enough folding money to make the most of it. This disc rarely left my CD player in my Silver Nissan 240SX. Those were the days. Now it's all White Mini Vans, Diaper Bags, and Dora the Explorer DVD's. Great in it's own right, but one does have a habit of looking back to the primordial days of promise when the future was wide open. And the Soundtrack of that time can take you right back instantly.
Meanwhile Disintegration I got into sometime after its release so didn't seem to be quite as topical - my own fault of course, but there it is.
Wish seemed to be ideal for revving up for a date, bouncy and poppy in many places. Of course if the date didn't go well, there were the meloncholy songs for the drive home, alone. Disintegration was more for the slump periods of "woe is me, no will ever love me" days. Yet they both worked together seamlessly as one period transitioned into another and back again.
Friday I'm in Love, again, was perfect for those first or second dates. The song almost seemed to be written just for that purpose, work week was done and the drive for love (or lust) kicked in, then the return to the grey work week. Wendy Time and High were good tracks too. But if things didn't work out, Cut, End, or, for a particularly intriguing femme fatale, To Wish Impossible Things, were there.
In my book the last great Cure album. Wild Mood Swings in particular seemed to try too hard. Bloodflowers never caught on for me. Perhaps it was the fact that the days of leisure were over and the time to fully absorb an album were gone. I don't know. But Wish came along at just the right time and is one of those CD's that can take me back 15 years with a push of button.
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| "A wish for an impossible thing" | 2007-01-17 |
| - Reviewed By jennan26 |
I got this album shortly after its release when I was newly 17 and I played it to death. It's a fantastic record; more in the vein of the newer modern-rock Cure stuff than the older punky Cure stuff, and it showcases the band's talent better than any of their previous recordings, in my opinion.
From the thickly layered opening track, Open, to the closing track, End, each song is a masterpiece. Unlike the punky earlier Cure, these tracks have a distinct feeling of volume to them - volume as in capacity, not loudness. They are all multiple-layered, and the arrangement comes across as almost orchestral which is a contrast to the Cure of the early 80s when the songs were all three minutes long and sounded similar. Make no mistake, this is classic Cure; but classic evolved Cure. Each incarnation of the Cure has its place, of course, but I do prefer this stuff. It is a fine mix of faster and slower tracks, from light to fairly dark material and the overall production and mix suits Robert Smith and Co perfectly.
The album yielded a few singles, the most well-known of which is the hit Friday I'm in Love. However, the true gems of the album are those which were not big singles - in particular, the almost-title track To Wish Impossible Things, which is an allegory to something, although whether it is a love lost or a life wasted or both or neither, I cannot be sure. However, hands down, my favourite track has got to be Doing the Unstuck, which is vintage Cure. Nobody does the same kind of trippy, bubbly, dizzy, mesmerising champagne happiness as the Cure do, and the track is reminiscent of Just Like Heaven and Hot Hot Hot in its arrangement. Those who appreciate guitar work will marvel at former strings man Porl Thomson's work-rate on this track, in particular if you can hear the live version from the album/dvd Show (which yes, you should most definitely buy as well!) during which he is unleashed on an old Stratocaster.
I think this was an excellent follow-through to Disintegration, the seminal late-80s album by the band, and it is by far my favourite of theirs. The album also appears in my Top 5 of all time. |
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| "Stop wishing and go for it!" | 2006-10-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVUL2YZX6Q44U |
I enjoy The Cure, although, some of their records really bore me. The classics are always welcome, but some other tracks just don't do the job for me.
Well, I remember I first got in touch with The Cure because of this Wish album. Back then, I had it in Cassete tape. So after all these years, I heard Trust in a friend's house and I said " I just have to get this album on cd once again".
For me it's one of their best albums yet released and has a great ambience to it, really represents for me what The Cure stands for, that kind of ultra romantic goth punk sound...
So stop wishing impossible things and get this album in your collectios ASAP! |
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| "The logical successor to "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me"." | 2006-08-22 |
| - Reviewed By mikestack |
The album that thundered the Cure into the collective consciousness courtesy of pop charting single "Friday I'm in Love", "Wish" puts aside the brooding soundscapes of "Disintegration" to make a more logical successor to the diversity of "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me".
While "Wish" isn't as consistently satisfying as 'Kiss Me', it still proves to be a fine and startling diverse album, touching on frantic hard rock (the utterly superb "Cut", opener "Open"), early '70s Bowie ("A Letter to Elise"), atmospheric energy pieces (the frantic "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea", capped off with a fantastic guitar solo), patient meditations ("To Wish Impossible Things") and of course, the magnificent pop pieces, personified by jangly "Friday I'm in Love". In fact, there's precious little here NOT to like, the only real exception being the somewhat dull "Apart", but even that is quite listenable.
I'm of the opinion that the Cure have done better, but "Wish" is in its own right a powerful album, and is somewhat more accessible than a lot of the band's other catalog (having a well endeared pop song does that for you). Recommended. |
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| "Don't believe the naysayers" | 2006-03-01 |
| - Reviewed By columbusboy |
While this album is derided by many "real" Cure fans as being too "commercial", the truth is this album still mixes in plenty of moody sulkers amidst the flashier radio-friendly fare.
Are they happy? ("Friday I'm in Love","High") Are they sad? ("To Wish Impossible Things","Trust")Well, they're kinda both. This album swings to each extreme, but spends most of its time in the melancholy middle..hoping for better but expecting the same ("Apart","Cut","Open")
HIGHLIGHTS:
The giddy "Friday I'm in Love" is the most immediate track here and the one that continues to garner the most airplay. It's 3 1/2 minutes of perfect fizzy jangle pop. "A Letter to Elise" is the other radio hit that stands out amid the album. "Doing the Unstuck" is the unsung lost hit here. It's zippy pop much like "Friday I'm in Love" but with a darker edge as the "let's get happy" chorus gives way to Smith's REAL feelings at the coda: "it's a perfect day to throw back your head!..and kiss it all..good-bye". "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" finds Smith caught in a relationship that's killing him but he can't get free. ("And just as I'm breaking free/She hangs herself in front of me/Slips her dress like a flag to the floor/And hands in the sky surrenders it all..") "Apart" is a languid lament of love gone sour. ("He wants to hear her say 'forgive'/but she just drops her pearl-black eyes/and prays to hear him say 'I love you'/but he tells no more lies")
LOWS:
Of the 12 tracks here, "Open" is one of the worst ways they could choose to lead off. "Wendy Time" is also rather unmemorable.
BOTTOM LINE:
Don't make this the first CD you buy from the band (I'd go with GALORE 1st then DISINTEGRATION) but after getting those 2, this would be a good 3rd purchase.
3 1/2 stars |
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| "Solid Album" | 2006-02-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3RTRUR2SCS35L |
| Alright, I've heard alot of people say that they don't like this album, purely because of the song 'Friday I'm In Love'. Well, this is quite possibly one of my most favorite albums ever recorded. The song 'Cut' is a great song. The quiet tone of the album makes it a great album to fall asleep to. In my opinion, a must for any Cure fan. |
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