Personally I really like "God's Away On Business"… You've got to at least admit it's one of the greatest song titles of all time :-p

I've been throwing "Jockey Full of Bourbon" into my acoustic sets since the 90's. A really fun song to sing & play, and it always gets applause.

Just googled her to refresh my memory… She was Sabina in the film version of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'… Gorgeous.

Maybe not his best, but some personal favorites are on there… "Jack & Neal" is a hoot, ditto "Barber Shop"… And "Burma Shave" is killer.

Used to get airplay on WDRE back in the day… Ditto "How Beautiful You Are"… Actually Cure album cuts were fairly common… Hell, even the b-side "2 Late" was a "Shriek of the Week" (Good God I'm old).

Upvoted for the Pete Townshend reference… And incidentally swapping out some of the crappier songs on that album ("Did You Steal My Money" or "Daily Records" maybe) with "Face Dances Pt. 2" would have improved that album a fair bit.

OFITG squashes 'Mellow Gold' like a grape… "Sleeping Bag", "Asshole", "Girl Dreams" and the Calvin Johnson duet "I Get Lonesome" are all truly, um, mellow gold. Okay, I'll let myself out.

Wait, wait… He's maybe being sarcastic? Right? Right?!!

WMS should have been shorter in length, with some of the weaker cuts swapped out for some of the better b-sides ("A Pink Dream" for example)… Would have made a mediocre album a good, if not great one.

Anyone else heard Ivy's version from their all-covers album 'Guestroom'? Quite good.

'Wish' was their last truly great studio album in my opinion… The last of a 4-album run that began with HOTD.

Don't forget "Snow In Summer"… My friend and I had a blast hunting down Cure b-sides in various music stores in the village in the very early 90's… Bootleg cd's or import 12-inches would yield the occasional treasure like these… Good times, great tunes.

Upvoted for (correctly) identifying "Push" as the best deep cut on HOTD (though I've also always had a fondness for the propulsive, batshit-crazy "Screw")

Stephen Merritt's side project The Gothic Archies' "We Are The Gothic Archies":

"Sexual retardation and bad poetry"… And it is GLORIOUS!

Did he put Brian Johnson's vocals so low in the mix on that album because his vocal chords were already shot? After 'Back In Black' Johnson's vocal abilities took one of the biggest nose-dives in rock ever (good Lord is 'Fly On The Wall' a wall-to-wall train wreck).

I know, right? If by "dud" he meant "one of the band's catchiest, most universally recognized and best-loved anthems" then fine… And it was one of the band's few crossover U.S. top-40 hits… I don't think I know anyone who thinks this song sucks… Overplayed maybe, but that's not the same thing.

"…with a bullet in hiiiiiis back!"

"Given the Dog a Bone" is how it appeared on track list, which is hilarious.

I don't know… During the outro he's singing "it was long ago and it was far away and it was so much better than it is today" and she's still singing "it never felt so good, it never felt so right, we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" over and over… If she also wanted out they could just end it… I'm…