Wild mood swings
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May 7, 1996 |
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1995-1996 |
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| Label (s) | Fiction Records | ||||||||
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LP, MC, CD |
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
61:34 |
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Steve Lyon, Robert Smith |
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Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by the English band The Cure . It was released on Fiction Records in May 1996.
history
Bored of commercial studios, The Cure decided to set up their own studio in an old, secluded country house to record their next album. Porl Thompson and Boris Williams had left the band, Simon Gallup had to take a longer health-related break. Recovered, Gallup convinced his former bandmate Roger O'Donnell, who left The Cure in 1990, to return.
A new drummer was found in Jason Cooper. He played on 9 of the 14 songs. Three other drummers can be heard on the remaining recordings, as The Cure tested different musicians during the recording to find a suitable replacement for the retired Boris Williams.
After the successful albums Disintegration and Wish , Wild Mood Swings was ultimately unable to meet the high expectations of fans and critics, nor the commercial expectations. The singles were only moderately placed in the charts, if at all. All of the songs on the album are among The Cure's seldom performed live pieces at concerts.
Robert Smith stated that the album's failure was due to the fact that the songs Gone and Round & Round & Round did not fit on the album. He still counts it among his five favorite The Cure albums.
The design idea for the album cover and the singles came about in the studio. Robert Smith ordered metal wind-up cars and a clown from a German toy catalog. During the recording sessions, the band distributed toys around the studio, such as: B. on your amps. Since the band perceived the toys as very bizarre, they decided to use them for the cover design.
Information about the songs
The rough draft for The 13th comes from Robert Smith. Since this song idea initially only comprised two chords, it was called The 2 Chords Corp in the development phase . According to Simon Gallup, The Cure tried to process impressions they collected during a TV show with a Latin American band. Gallup describes this attempt as unsuccessful.
criticism
On the Allmusic website the album got 3 out of 5 stars and was referred to as "... more than just another Cure album".
The Rolling Stone gave Wild Mood Swings 2 of 5 stars and wrote that it was "nothing particularly wild at Wild Mood Swings ".
Track list
All the pieces were written by Bamonte, Cooper, Gallup, O'Donnell and Smith.
- Want - 5:06
- Club America - 5:02
- This Is a Lie - 4:29
- The 13th - 4:08
- Strange Attraction - 4:19
- Mint Car - 3:32
- Jupiter Crash - 4:15
- Round & Round & Round - 2:39
- Gone! - 4:31
- Numb - 4:49
- Return - 3:28
- Trap - 3:37
- Treasure - 3:45
- Bare - 7:57
Charts
album
| year | album | DE | AT | CH | UK | US |
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| 1996 | Wild mood swings | 17th | 12 | 9 | 9 | 12 |
Singles
| year | single | DE | AT | CH | UK | US | B side | comment |
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| 1996 | The 13th | 55 | - | 29 | 15th | 44 | Ocean , Adonais , It Used to Be Me | |
| 1996 | Mint Car | - | - | - | 31 | 58 | Home , Waiting , A Pink Dream | |
| 1996 | Gone! | - | - | - | 60 | nv | The 13th (Mix), This Is a Lie , Strange Attraction | |
| 1996 | Strange attraction | nv | nv | nv | nv | - | A Pink Dream , This Is a Lie (Mix) | Release only in US & AUS |
Web links
- Recording Wild Mood Swings on soundonsound.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Robert Smith ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on imaginaryboys.altervista.org (engl.)
- ↑ Interview with Simon Gallup and Jason Cooper on musicfanclubs.org (Engl.)
- ↑ Interview with Simon Gallup and Jason Cooper on musicfanclubs.org (Engl.)
- ↑ Album review on Allmusic.com (engl.)
- ↑ Album review at rollingstone.com (engl.)
