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  • Audio CD (14 Feb 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B00004KDBH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,192 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. Out Of This World 6:46£0.69
Listen  2. Watching Me Fall11:12Album Only
Listen  3. Where The Birds Always Sing 5:45£0.69
Listen  4. Maybe Someday 5:06£0.69
Listen  5. The Last Day Of Summer 5:36£0.69
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Listen  8. 39 7:18£0.69
Listen  9. Bloodflowers 7:31£0.69

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Commerce being commerce, bands rarely have the luxury of writing their own epitaphs--after all, posthumous compilations can be tweezed from careers one-twentieth as long or as influential as the Cure's. But according to Robert Smith, the moving, strangely dignified Bloodflowers is, in every sense that matters, the Cure's full stop; a concept album about not making albums any more. And if you're the sort who never believes au revoir hype, one listen should put paid to your scepticism, and two should prove it's a keeper on musical grounds alone. Two years in the making, this companion to Pornography and Disintegration begins with the words "we'll look back at it all ... wide-eyed" and ends with the title track's Socratic dialogue between mutability and constancy; faith and loss. In between, there's a subdued tone but no weariness in its shape-shifting beats ("The Loudest Sound"), statements of intent ("Maybe Someday" insisting "Don't want what I did"), a true-hearted, sweetly ridiculous love song ("There Is No If") and a fearless eye-to-eye with age (the "How Soon Is Now"-ish "39"). And, everywhere, those yearning, depthless, ravishing flanged guitars. Simply put, it's that rarest of things: a goodbye that's deliberate, thoughtful, fond and gentle, and yet as tough-minded as most pop is wilfully craven. --Jennifer Nine

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4.0 out of 5 stars A hazily romantic return to form from The Cure:, 22 Feb 2000
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Bloodflowers is The Cure's 20th album in 22 years and is reputed to be the final part in a trilogy begun in 1982 with Pornography and centred around the band's creative highpoint, 1989's Disintegration. Most of what they've released before and after Disintegration inevitably fell under the shadow of its epic, swooning grace. Perhaps wisely, the band have never tried to recreate the elegant mystery contained therein and instead ploughed a lighter furrow throughout the nineties. Until now that is:

Arriving 11 years and seven albums (only two of which containing new material) later, Bloodflowers is a worthy sequel to Disintegration. Clocking in at almost an hour, with only nine tracks, there's little room here for throwaway pop. Every song has been carefully thought out and exceptionally rendered. That unmistakable yearning quality has returned to singer Robert Smith's voice as the music sweeps the listener along in endless innocence. Indeed the whole album feels like a luscious manifestation of childhood dreams and secrets.

Opening track Out of this World is simple yet effective. It builds on a gentle acoustic guitar, reminiscent of Disintegration's Untitled, as Smith wistfully reminisces "when we look back at it all as I know we will, you and me wide eyed. I wonder will we really remember how it feels to be this alive". Better still is The Last Day of Summer, where melodies fall from the sky as Smith laments the changes life forces upon you as you grow older in the most beautifully naïve way: "Nothing I am, nothing I dream, nothing is new, nothing I think or believe in or say, nothing is true. It used to be so easy, I never even tried".

Elsewhere 39 and, particularly, Watching Me Fall evoke memories of Disintegration's glorious title track. The bitterness and regret are now directed inwardly as Smith cries on 39 "I used to feed the fire, but the fire is almost out. Now there's nothing left to burn". It seems adversity and frustration bring the best out of this band, they've never sounded more alive.

Ultimately Bloodflowers has nothing new to say, and certainly won't win the band many new fans. It is however, a creation of longing beauty that should be treasured alongside Disintegration, Suede's Dog Man Star and Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. The Cure have returned to what they do best and long may they continue.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Is The Cure Over The Hill?, 21 Feb 2000
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Not since "Disintegration" has a cure album affected me in such a deep way. Just when you might doubt he still has it, Robert Smith releases "Bloodflowers;" which is a little irony in itself as the song "39" is about that very doubt. There is something ineffable about The Cure, something that touches our souls. This album is very dark, and ponderously melancholic. To answer the question that many of you have been dying to know, does this album harken back to "Disintegration?" I can answer yes and no. It's dark and very similar to "Disintegration" but different. Robert is philosophical in songs like "Where Birds Always Sing" and is expressive of his feelings, in songs like "The Loudest Sound" and "There is No If," both songs are about the tragic nature of love and life and reminiscent of "Faith" and "Disintegration," but closer to "Disintegration." There are songs that are tragic, angry and sad like "Watching Me Fall" (where we find out that Robert can still hold a note. It reminds me of "Prayers for Rain") and "39." The theme is that we get old, and that nothing lasts forever. It is neither fair nor unfair, most poignantly demonstrated in "Bloodflowers," " The Last Day Of Summer," and "39" which also happens to be Robert's age--hard to believe, yes? I never thought I would see the day when my favorite rock artist would see 40. So is The Cure over the hill? Not, if they keep this up! I know I will be spending many rainy nights with this album. Like "Disintegration" I can't say I have a favorite song. It depends on my mood; one day it might be "The Loudest Sound," another "39" or maybe "Watching Me Fall." This album is profoundly sad, but finds sanctuary in all the gloom offering some hope and solace. One thing for sure is, we can all find hope in that The Cure has recaptured what we liked best about "Disintegration," but has given us something new with "Bloodflowers."
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ghosts Of The Past - Ghosts Of The Future, 5 Mar 2005
By Steven T. Jarvis "Skarekrow" (Thanet, Kent) - See all my reviews
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Evrey time I listen to this album, and I am listening to it now, it changes and it changes me... it coalesces the various stlyes through which The Cure have migrated through - their past incarnations - to create a uniquelty disquieting, haunting album. It is so much Seventeen Seconds, so much Pornography and Faith, but it is also so very much more than all The Cure were... in 1989 There was Disintegration... which was though to be The Cure's Swan Song, but, 11 years later Bloodflowers bloomed and heralded The Cure's rebirth.

This is all The Cure were... and yet it is so much, so very much more; it is still, obviously the spirit and the esence of who The Cure are, but it is also a style that matured into a terrifying nightmare of love and loss and hope.

Musically and lyrically it is so delightfully hanunting... it lingers in the mind like a dream you just don't want to let go of. Soft, yearning keyboards and harsh, slicing guitars combine to create and dreadful anticipation... catching and killing and resurrecting every aspect of love and leaves you wanting more, always wanting more. Robert Smith's voice seems to have taken on a new and darker tone than ever before... a tone that, combined with those spitting, biting guitars, chews deeper and deeper into me!!! I repeat, this album is so much more than the sum of its parts - it is a haunted house of secrets just waiting, wanting to be found... And it is a rebith, a re-emergence of one of the most profoundly talented bands I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.

I have said this in previous reviews and will say it again... The Cure's ability to evolve, to metamorphosise is part of what makes them so consistently unique; they are not lead by the influences of others because they are the influence to so many others. There are no classic Cure albums: All Cure albums are Clasics in their own right!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Cure at their fearsome best
Robert Smith knew exactly what he wanted when he took the band into the studio to record Bloodflowers - and it shows. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Thomas A. Johnson

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, a strong Cure album
A melancholy set from Smith but one which invigorates rather than flat-out depresses. Each time I play this album I like it more and it is a strong album, possibly even better... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Adamski

5.0 out of 5 stars The end of The Cure= the beginning of The Cure...
Bloodflowers was pretty much buried in the UK, who were much happier to focus on anti-talents Oasis returning with their dire Standing on the Shoulder of Giants LP at the time... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2004 by Jason Parkes

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite possibly their very best
Don't let anyone dissuade you from trying this, the Cure are still going strong. Smith wasn't kidding when he said before its release that Bloodflowers was the most thoughful Cure... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2003 by Matthew Tilley

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful,beautiful, beautiful mr smith
when i first bought this album i found it slighty too mature (but hey i was 12!) i pushed it aside and forgot about the cure until i heard the fantastic... Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2003 by glampire23

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful
The Cure doing what The Cure do best. This is a collection of songs that are thoughtfully written and expertly performed. Read more
Published on 29 May 2003 by L. Houghton

5.0 out of 5 stars A combination of The Cure's best styles, without the "pop"!!
As the years go by, most bands start producing poorer and poorer albums. Quite the opposite is true of The Cure. Read more
Published on 1 Jul 2002 by crazeetaxi

2.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing return
Despite a great deal of press interest and the launch of the Bloodflowers 2000 tour, this album is a disappointing listen. Read more
Published on 8 April 2002 by Alex

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance
Supposedly the last album and Robert said he wanted to go out with a great last album and that he was very satisified with this and rightly so! Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars Only one track on this album!
The problem with this album is that it's only one track, divided into 9 sections. Being serious now, all the songs do sound the same, making the album so boring. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2001 by Daniel Thorlby

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