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[RaphaelDLG]

I somehow just heard "Friday i'm love" by the Cure for the first time a few hours ago.  It's the kind of jangly power pop that's right up my thoroughly musically plebeian alley.

The song is a bordeline cutesy-happy ode to the joy of Friday/the weekend as a brief respite from the sh**ttiness of life exploiting the convenience of also simultaneously doing a love song (sung by a decidedly UN-CUTESY British man), but the thing that really gets me about the song is that despite the fact that the song is otherwise so happy, the winding new wave guitar riff adds what seems like a really bittersweet tinge to me, though I can't quite put my finger on how so.

[RaphaelDLG]

I somehow just heard "Friday i'm love" by the Cure for the first time a few hours ago.  It's the kind of jangly power pop that's right up my thoroughly musically plebeian alley.

The song is a bordeline cutesy-happy ode to the joy of Friday/the weekend as a brief respite from the sh**ttiness of life exploiting the convenience of also simultaneously doing a love song (sung by a decidedly UN-CUTESY British man), but the thing that really gets me about the song is that despite the fact that the song is otherwise so happy, the winding new wave guitar riff adds what seems like a really bittersweet tinge to me, though I can't quite put my finger on how so.

Have you listened to anything else by the Cure?

I haven't.  Any recommendations?