Wednesday, May 16, 2012

NME's 100 Best Songs of the 1990s

'Friday I'm in Love' comes in at #58 on NME's 100 Best Songs of the 1990s - "After the blissful misery of 1989’s ‘Disintegration’, ‘Wish’ was a return to the more poppy Bob Smith of mid-80s glory – and ‘Friday I’m In Love’ was its dangerously upbeat signature track. Not that its genesis was all that happy. The paranoid Smith was sure he’d nabbed the chord progression and spent hours ringing people up and playing it to them to see if they knew." (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

12 comments:

  1. The NME really does come up with some dross... some poor work experience guy has probably been told to find the biggest hit by these bands and stick it in a list.

    Everyone knows FTEOTDGS is the finest Cure song of that era!

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  2. This song helped make me a Cure fan. One of the band's absolute greats. It hasn't written a better pop song since! The studio version trumps any messy live version because the interplay of all 3 guitars is very delicate and must be played perfectly -- but that's the case with all Cure pop songs.

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  4. Ok, each to their own... 'This Twilight Garden' is sensational.

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  5. Every one of the Wish b-sides are some of the best songs they've ever done

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  6. This Twilight Garden - nuff said!

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