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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Way back a few decades ago many of us aged hippies were spellbound by 'Seventeen Seconds' which launched The Cure into the hall of fame. I can never understand why 'Faith' (which followed 'Seventeen Seconds') was never raved about that much. Did anyone listen to the words, or submerge their souls into those rarely visited realms of ecstasy and oblivion?
A much quieter and more melancholy work than 'SS', it showed the spiritual depths of exceptional talent. The slow unveiling of 'All cats are grey', the plaintive reaching out of 'Other voices' and the relentless passion of 'Faith' serve to make us very aware of life's pains and sanctuaries.
To me, 'Faith' remains one of the most beautiful, haunting and spiritual messages of all time. And the Cure's untouchable masterpiece.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By SubgirL
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the best and most haunting albums I have ever listened to. The dark, almost hopeless lyrics blend with the fantastic melodies to provide an amazing collection of classic goth songs. Robert Smith's voice accompanied by the famous flanged guitar sound are unique. Neither before nor since have The Cure captured the magic and energy of this album.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Caz
Format:Audio CD
There are a finite number of similies for 'brilliant' and 'expresive', and I daresay they've all been used to describe this album by The Cure in some form or another. I'd almost forgotten how good they were until I heard this again; it's feel-good music. Perfect for falling asleep to, not because it's so dull it has a soporific effect, but because the music is so charmingly soothing it's difficult not to. It's layered and textured and achingly beautiful. And typically, I think it's much more about the music than the lyrics.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By G. Young
Format:Audio CD
I cannot recommend Faith too highly; exitstential obliqueness, stark emotional terrains of bleak lyricism and poetic sketchings on the absurdity of the human condition. Quietly disturbing and infused with a subtle melancholy, the album evokes a cool still calm that is both soothing and contemplative.
Haunting, desolate soundscapes that evoke images of walking through a mist filled forest at midnight, of monolithic buildings and wispy, stick like figures, floating in a swirling fog. Faith is an album that will take you in and out of yourself.
Strange, beautiful, otherworldy music that stirs the imagination and awakens the soul.
Sublime and profound.
Haunting, desolate soundscapes that evoke images of walking through a mist filled forest at midnight, of monolithic buildings and wispy, stick like figures, floating in a swirling fog. Faith is an album that will take you in and out of yourself.
Strange, beautiful, otherworldy music that stirs the imagination and awakens the soul.
Sublime and profound.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Let`s be clear from the start, "Faith" is not that accessible for the first time listener.
I`ts very,very, far from being at all "Jolly!" & could happily be played from start to finish,at any given wake!
Having said all that,It is still my favourite Cure album.
It has a more Orchestral feel than anything else they have done & truly flows, as each song blends the next.
Robert Smith is at his poetic best here,linking seemingly unrelated sentences into songs & offering subject matters that only he really understands, but we all can somehow relate to.
His lyrics paint pictures that are mostly tragic, but always beautiful.
This album was & is, perfect,"End of the party music"
No individual hit singles here,
But a beautiful offering as a whole.
I`ts very,very, far from being at all "Jolly!" & could happily be played from start to finish,at any given wake!
Having said all that,It is still my favourite Cure album.
It has a more Orchestral feel than anything else they have done & truly flows, as each song blends the next.
Robert Smith is at his poetic best here,linking seemingly unrelated sentences into songs & offering subject matters that only he really understands, but we all can somehow relate to.
His lyrics paint pictures that are mostly tragic, but always beautiful.
This album was & is, perfect,"End of the party music"
No individual hit singles here,
But a beautiful offering as a whole.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Vitamino
Format:Audio CD
This admittedly patchy album was and presumably still is held in almost religious regard by fans of the Cure. Like most really new creations it mixed less successful moments with others of astonishing revelation.
When this album works it works so well that all other music seems irrelevant. Its seductive draw is so compelling that it almost consumes the listener. Nowhere more so than on its title track.
In fact the core of this extraordinary release reveals itself in two songs: 'Faith' and 'All Cats Are Grey'. They are tonally and emotionally linked and indeed could be part of one work.
The remastered version features all sorts of stuff that may actually detract from the impact of the original although 'Carnage Visors' was on the original cassette release (on side B).
You can drown in this album. It's beautiful melancholy holds little clue to the punishing attack of the album that was to follow. Listen while the storm clouds gather.
When this album works it works so well that all other music seems irrelevant. Its seductive draw is so compelling that it almost consumes the listener. Nowhere more so than on its title track.
In fact the core of this extraordinary release reveals itself in two songs: 'Faith' and 'All Cats Are Grey'. They are tonally and emotionally linked and indeed could be part of one work.
The remastered version features all sorts of stuff that may actually detract from the impact of the original although 'Carnage Visors' was on the original cassette release (on side B).
You can drown in this album. It's beautiful melancholy holds little clue to the punishing attack of the album that was to follow. Listen while the storm clouds gather.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By M. Hunkin
Format:Audio CD
Described in a recent NME article as one of the most miserable albums of all time (in a good way), Faith makes for an extremely bleak and unsettling listening experience, something akin to slivers of razor sharp ice gently piercing the head and ears.
Less atmospherically playful as earlier material such as Boys Don't Cry, Faith saw The Cure further developing the blueprint for goth, and whilst the music retains much of the compressed rythms and brittle, serated guitar sound of Robert Smith and cos earlier efforts, the overall atmosphere is much icier, sombre and echoey, like trudging through an empty graveyard in a snowstorm.
Where earlier tracks like 10:15 Saturday Night and A Forest burst forwards with a kind of skipping, if subdued, relentlessness, tracks like Holy Hour, All Cats are Grey and the stately, doom-laden masterpiece, The Funeral Party, take the form of slow and ponderous dirges, whilst remaining musically and lyrically expressive enough not to become tuneless, sluggish trash. By keeping the disc focused at a short eight tracks the album never wears even the most cheerful listener down, even at its blackest and most despairing.
All in all Faith ranks amongst The Cure's finest albums, if not THE finest (Pornography is the one). For those who enjoyed the Cure's more famous singles and want to move on to something heavier, for any fans of the dark stuff, and for those sickened by the doleful whining masquerading as poetic melancholy served up by privileged fakers such as Thom Yorke and the rest, this is well worth buying.
Less atmospherically playful as earlier material such as Boys Don't Cry, Faith saw The Cure further developing the blueprint for goth, and whilst the music retains much of the compressed rythms and brittle, serated guitar sound of Robert Smith and cos earlier efforts, the overall atmosphere is much icier, sombre and echoey, like trudging through an empty graveyard in a snowstorm.
Where earlier tracks like 10:15 Saturday Night and A Forest burst forwards with a kind of skipping, if subdued, relentlessness, tracks like Holy Hour, All Cats are Grey and the stately, doom-laden masterpiece, The Funeral Party, take the form of slow and ponderous dirges, whilst remaining musically and lyrically expressive enough not to become tuneless, sluggish trash. By keeping the disc focused at a short eight tracks the album never wears even the most cheerful listener down, even at its blackest and most despairing.
All in all Faith ranks amongst The Cure's finest albums, if not THE finest (Pornography is the one). For those who enjoyed the Cure's more famous singles and want to move on to something heavier, for any fans of the dark stuff, and for those sickened by the doleful whining masquerading as poetic melancholy served up by privileged fakers such as Thom Yorke and the rest, this is well worth buying.
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The Cure - Faith (Deluxe Edition)
This is the third album of the band and is better than the previous two in my opinion. It is a more dark and leaves behind the punk style that appears a lot in the previous albums. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jose Henrique
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THE CURE FAITH DELUXE EDITION
I thought the deluxe edition was very good containing
previously unreleased tracks on the second disc as well as the oringinal album,many thanks .
previously unreleased tracks on the second disc as well as the oringinal album,many thanks .
Published 7 months ago by Gregory F. Downes
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Just buy it for the bass line
Remasters are sometimes a bit of a disappointment - typically the treble is boosted to increase "detail" but the result is hard to listen to. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Ian Wilson
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Dark masterpiece expanded to restore your Faith
The remastered sound makes the original Faith album sound better than ever. If you have not heard it before you are in for a treat - a dark masterpiece full of great songs like The... Read more
Published 13 months ago by J. Fennessy
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The Best Cure Album
I wont go on, put simply this is (in my opinion) the best album the Cure made. I love it and still listen to it at least once a month all these years later. Read more
Published 14 months ago by A Brook
4.0 out of 5 stars
glad to be grey
All credit to The Cure for making being glum into an art form. Of course no-one at the time called this 'Goth'. I doubt I even heard that term before 1983. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Vauxhall1964
5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm not a goth.
This album somes up all the cliches about music for sad people, if you like the Cure then you've already got this one and you'll know this music holds more then just feeling... Read more
Published on 22 July 2010 by Tom Quiet
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Condition
The item is in very good condition, not a scratch on the cd. The case was broken but I guess that was on the way over here, its ok.
Published on 13 Jun 2010 by Rafael Resende
5.0 out of 5 stars
Underestimated 'Cure' album!
Your 'Cure' C.D. collection needs this one..their Third offering and fully recommended..this really is what 'The Cure' is all about!
Published on 20 May 2010 by Mr. Anthony Cox
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow
I listened to this over & over again as a teenager, but hadn't heard it for many years. I'd forgotten how utterly fantastic it is. Even the song titles are deeply melancholic. Read more
Published on 4 May 2010 by Tom
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