Bloodflowers | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Cure
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  260 reviews
Sales Rank: 9117
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 62236
UPC: 755962236218
EAN: 0075596223621
ASIN: B00004GOVO
Release Date: February 15, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Out of This World | | • | Watching Me Fall | | • | Where the Birds Always Sing | | • | Maybe Someday | | • | Last Day of Summer, The | | • | There Is No If... | | • | Loudest Sound, The | | • | 39 | | • | Bloodflowers |
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No one revels in the sumptuous pleasures of melancholy like Robert Smith, the Cure's leading mopemeister. In Smith's world, it is always raining, comfort and happiness are fleeting, love is epic and torturous. On Bloodflowers, the band's 11th studio album, his lyrical prowess continues to astound. Considering the subject matter, Smith's always managed to steer clear of the cliched, bad-high-school-poetry trap, and on Bloodflowers, the imagery is some of his most vivid and stabbing. On "The Loudest Sound," a story about a couple who are, of course, growing apart, he sings of their tension: "She dreams him as a boy / And he loves her as a girl / And side by side in the silence without a single word / It's the loudest sound I ever heard." The music grows out of the same dichromatic marriage of love's eternal hope and heartbreak's inevitable bleakness. Layers of the Cure's signature ethereal, buoyant guitar licks are paced at the momentum of a lava lamp, while melodies lurk only in an understated synth or distorted guitar. None of the songs scream "radio hit" like Wish's "Friday I'm in Love" anomaly; and although Bloodflowers is less abstract, comparisons to Disintegration are easily drawn. If this really threatens to be the last Cure album--no, really, the real end--it's a vision of loneliness and loveliness, a low note rarely surpassed in beauty and breadth. --Beth Massa
Album Description
Aussie reissue of 2000 album includes one bonus track 'Coming Up'. Polydor. 2004.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Edition of the Final Cure Album of the Trilogy which Joins "Pornography" and "Disintegration".
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| Customer Reviews:
 Essential November 22, 2008
Samuel Storm (USA)
If you enjoyed disintegration, Bloodflowers is a must. This is definitely one of The Cure's best albums.
Quite an emotional ride November 8, 2008
James Quinn (California)
This album is moody,pensive,shadowy in nature as Robert Smith sings about loneliness and the ability or inability to cope with it. His lyrics coupled with keyboard landscapes of sounds and echoes awash with overcast dirges brings one along on a ride with darkness and drops you off after a 60+ plus minute ride to a state of contemplation where the sun starts breaking through the clouds and the rays of hope start to brighten your weary train of thought. A masterpiece,highly recommended listening on a cold,cloudy rainy day.
Wonderful Album...Even Better Live September 30, 2008
Tyler B. (Portland, OR)
This album is the 21st Century equivalent of DISINTEGRATION. Watch it live on Trilogy...unbelievable. It's even better when drunk.
 beautiful music June 12, 2007
Amy Boettgeri (Germany)
This is a great CD. The melodies the Cure amasses here are amazing. The lyrics are profound, and unlike some of their earlier CD's--although good--they make sense! But 4 stars because they can get a little wallowing and blurry at times and stuck in the depression rut, but only a little. Definitely worth the purchase!
Melancholic masterpiece February 14, 2007
Alison Ross (Atlanta, Georgia USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'll admit that when I first heard "Bloodflowers," I wasn't blown away. I suppose that at the time of its release, I was more into the pop side of The Cure, having been a fan since 1985's "Head on the Door." However, after witnessing the album performed live on the "Trilogy" DVD, I've had a "change of head." I now believe that "Bloodflowers" is an amazingly understated piece of work. It's a guitar-drenched and somewhat psychedelic affair, and, like "Pornography," a little impenetrable upon first listen. And, like "Pornography," it gradually grows on you, indeed nearly attaches itself to you, immersing the listener in a world of brooding introspection. However, unlike "Pornography," "Bloodflowers" is never scary, only darkly ethereal.
"Bloodflowers" represents the classic and art rock facet of The Cure, and at times calls forth the influences of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The title track, the album's most haunting song, and certainly the band's darkest since "The Hanging Garden," even boasts a delicious Hendrix-style guitar solo.
Aside from the title track, highlights of this album include the lushly solemn "The Loudest Sound" (which provides an unsual flourish when Robert Smith croons the song's title and a chiming guitar riff competes with his lyric), the contemplative "The Last Day of Summer," the exquisitely existential "Where the Birds Always Sing," and "There is No If...," which showcases Smith's quirky romantic humor. For some, the album's weakest moment is the epic "Watching Me Fall," but for me, it's one of the best tracks, and it's enhanced by eerily erotic lyrics.
"Bloodflowers" has been maligned for its lyrical flatness, but honestly, I think these are some of Smith's best lyrics yet. Yes, they are less typically ambiguous and surreal (save for the chilling dialogue that embellishes the title song, and the words adorning the aforementioned "Watching Me Fall"). Their peculiar power lies in their taut simplicity, explicit introspection, and restrained pathos.
Some people have criticized "Bloodflowers" for not living up to the melancholic grandeur of "Disintegration," while others have lamented the lack of sinister edge so prevalent on "Pornography." But I think "Bloodflowers" was not intended to be a replication of either of those albums, but rather an amalgam of the best aspects of both, and I think it works masterfully well. The subtle potency of "Bloodflowers" will elude the masses, but patient listeners will reap many rewards from this CD.
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