Wasn't my choice overall, but it gets my vote here. Bit sad/surprised Death & Romance couldn't box it's way past Endsong (which, based on that fact, makes me believe my vote will be the minority here).
Interesting final match up! The Cure are my favourite band and Disintegration is my favourite album, however I'm voting for Good Luck, Babe!
Because
Endsong isn't even the best song on that album.
The Cure shouldn't be winning song of the year in 2024, think of the optics people! We can't be that stuck in the past.
Good Luck, Babe! Is one of my picks and I'm a very proud pink ponymaster! :')
Big thank you to Cestuneblague for running this tournament!
Interesting final match up! The Cure are my favourite band and Disintegration is my favourite album, however I'm voting for Good Luck, Babe!
Because
Endsong isn't even the best song on that album.
The Cure shouldn't be winning song of the year in 2024, think of the optics people! We can't be that stuck in the past.
Good Luck, Babe! Is one of my picks and I'm a very proud pink ponymaster! :')
Big thank you to Cestuneblague for running this tournament!
Don't be such an ageist!
Endsong is epic. Good, Luck Babe is perhaps THE banger of 2024. Really tough call here. Will have to think long & hard about this one. Will be happy with either outcome! Both deserving.
ps. The Cure are my favorite band too! <Pornography is my fave, but Disintegration is right up there. Then Faith or 17 Seconds. >
Endsong for the win, best song of 2024 also manages to win this tournament hopefully. If I haven't already, I'll recite my review for this song here:
Endsong, like...wow. Endsong. I...., this is one of the best songs of the 2020s. Almost their longest song, if not slightly beaten by Watching Me Fall, it incorporates the hypnosis of Yo La Tengo with the psychedelic depth of The Doors, and then with the utter melancholia, the stunningly ethereal idiosyncratic soundscape of themselves. Has anybody said that the drum groove is perfect, I cannot help but bop my head as if it's an MJ song, despite it being so dreamy and moody simultaneously. Colossal. Everything you see fading away from your spiritual eyesight is captured by the lingering guitar riff. This time, it takes almost seven minutes of awe-inspiring musicianship before you hear Robert transporting in with the dear and heartbreaking statements about old age. "It's all gone" and "Left alone with nothing at the end of every song" not only are devastating, not only communicate his status of where he is late in life but also summarize his philosophy and sophisticated emotions he's had his entire life. Yet, if we take I Can Never Say Goodbye into account, it also illustrates the fact that he can never come to terms with it; he wants content in his life and that's part of why he feels alone. Even if we take the record's last seconds of fuzz, it's himself dusting away, being gone. Looking at the big picture, it's a potent description of Robert's inner feelings.
Good Luck Babe is an okay pop song, and Chappell is nice, but I'm getting tired of the recycling 80s sound that I wasn't really a fan of in the first place. Funnily enough, that song sounds more stuck in the past than the Cure. _________________ My Top 100 :
www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=4...amp;page=1
Good Luck Babe is an okay pop song, and Chappell is nice, but I'm getting tired of the recycling 80s sound that I wasn't really a fan of in the first place. Funnily enough, that song sounds more stuck in the past than the Cure.
lol
Ah yes of course, the cardinal sin of being a pop song. Truly cringe, as we all know they cannot be about anything.
But hey at least Chappell is "nice".
DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
Good Luck Babe is an okay pop song, and Chappell is nice, but I'm getting tired of the recycling 80s sound that I wasn't really a fan of in the first place. Funnily enough, that song sounds more stuck in the past than the Cure.
lol
Ah yes of course, the cardinal sin of being a pop song. Truly cringe, as we all know they cannot be about anything.
But hey at least Chappell is "nice".
I didn't say anything about the song not being about anything. I was criticizing how it sounds. I don't even think the song is cringe (wtf). And I love pop songs (when they're done right), but that 80s sound - specifically also that New Romantic thingy thing - that Good Luck Babe is borrowing from is not something I am fond of. That sound was time-typical whereas the Cure was futuristic and still sounds more modern. And above all, the Cure is pop too, masterful pop. Lyrically, GLB is cool, but so is many others, including the superior Endsong (imo). Maybe your comment was sarcastic and I mistook it, but if it's serious, I don't know how that was the conclusion you got from it. _________________ My Top 100 :
www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=4...amp;page=1
Endsong for the win, best song of 2024 also manages to win this tournament hopefully. If I haven't already, I'll recite my review for this song here:
Endsong, like...wow. Endsong. I...., this is one of the best songs of the 2020s. Almost their longest song, if not slightly beaten by Watching Me Fall, it incorporates the hypnosis of Yo La Tengo with the psychedelic depth of The Doors, and then with the utter melancholia, the stunningly ethereal idiosyncratic soundscape of themselves. Has anybody said that the drum groove is perfect, I cannot help but bop my head as if it's an MJ song, despite it being so dreamy and moody simultaneously. Colossal. Everything you see fading away from your spiritual eyesight is captured by the lingering guitar riff. This time, it takes almost seven minutes of awe-inspiring musicianship before you hear Robert transporting in with the dear and heartbreaking statements about old age. "It's all gone" and "Left alone with nothing at the end of every song" not only are devastating, not only communicate his status of where he is late in life but also summarize his philosophy and sophisticated emotions he's had his entire life. Yet, if we take I Can Never Say Goodbye into account, it also illustrates the fact that he can never come to terms with it; he wants content in his life and that's part of why he feels alone. Even if we take the record's last seconds of fuzz, it's himself dusting away, being gone. Looking at the big picture, it's a potent description of Robert's inner feelings.
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<Pornography is my fave, but Disintegration is right up there. Then Faith or 17 Seconds. >
, this became pretty easy. I flat out worship tHE Cure. so 
