It's MTV's fault!

[cdybedahl]

Years and years ago I occasionally left MTV showing on my TV. This was way back in prehistory when MTV would often play several music videos in a row, and much less than half the time was taken by ads for their own programs.

Yes, there really was such a time. Really!

Anyway, one of the videos that they often showed back then was "Lullaby" by The Cure. Which I found to be somewhere inbetween "harmless" and "nice", musically speaking. Visually, it was pretty corny.

Ever since then, I've thought about "Lullaby" when someone's mentioned The Cure, and not been particularly interested. But last week or so a collection of their four earliest albums appeard on Suprnova. I donwloaded them, listened to them and... they're pretty good. I think I'll have to buy some of them, if I can find them for sale from someone non-evil.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Resurrection Records, in Camden. Entirely non-evil record shop.
Of course, you've got to come to north London for that.
They do online sales too (http://www.resurrectionmusic.com/acatalog/).

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I think about 90% of the CDs I've bought in the past few years came from them. I was rather more thinking about record companies and, particularly, those selling CD-like objects that aren't actually CDs.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I remember when they used to play *lots* of goth stuff on Greatest Hits when Paul King was still hosting it. Always The Cure and Sisters of Mercy. The video for "Lullaby" kinda freaked me out when I first saw it--all that gunky spiderweb, I guess...