Bloodflowers

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Bloodflowers
Studio album by The Cure

Publication
(s)

February 15, 2000

admission

1998-1999

Label (s) Fiction Records

Genre (s)

Rock , pop

Title (number)

9

running time

64:28

production

Robert Smith , Paul Corkett

chronology
Wild Mood Swings
(1996) 		Bloodflowers The Cure
(2004)

Bloodflowers is the eleventh studio album by the English band The Cure . It was released on Fiction Records in February 2000.

history

Blood Flowers can be described as a return to known musical paths after the previous album Wild Mood Swings struck stylistically new ways. It is also the third album in a trilogy that Robert Smith called indicative of the style of the band. The other two albums are Pornography and Disintegration . On November 11th and 12th, 2002 the band played these three albums completely live at the Tempodrom Berlin and released the recordings in 2003 on DVD under the title The Cure: Trilogy .

Bloodflowers was The Cure's last album to be released on Fiction Records. It is noteworthy that there are no single releases from the album.

The album was relatively successful. It debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200 and sold more than 300,000 copies. In Germany the album reached number 5 in the charts.

Bloodflowers was nominated for a 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

criticism

On the Allmusic website the album got 3 out of 5 stars. It was criticized that the album could have been "something great" if Robert Smith had broken away from his well-known pattern.

The Rolling Stone gave Blood Flowers 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, Robert Smith was not writing in a position five bad songs at a time. However, he is able to write four bad songs in a row. If you consider the total number of 9 songs on the album, this is "an unforgivable relationship".

Track list

All tracks except Out Of This World and Maybe Someday were written by Robert Smith. These were written to Perry Bamonte / Jason Cooper / Simon Gallup / Roger O'Donnell / Robert Smith.

  1. "Out of This World" - 6:44
  2. “Watching Me Fall” - 11:13 am
  3. "Where the Birds Always Sing" - 5:44
  4. "Maybe Someday" - 5:04
  5. "The Last Day of Summer" - 5:36
  6. "There Is No If ..." - 3:44
  7. "The Loudest Sound" - 5:09
  8. "39" - 7:20
  9. "Bloodflowers" - 7:31

Charts

album

year album DE AT CH UK US
2000 Bloodflowers 5 22nd 3 14th 16

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grammy Awards 2001 on rockonthenet.com (English)
  2. ↑ Album review on Allmusic.com (English)
  3. ↑ Album review at rollingstone.com (English)