Lol Tolhurst sa 26.septembra 2020, vo večerných hodinách, spojil online s Timom Burgessom (The Charlatans) a spoločne rozobrali druhý štúdiový album The Cure, „Seventeen Seconds“. Tu sú zhrnuté všetky Lolove príspevky …
Hi, welcome to seventeen seconds! The first album as a four-piece Cure with me and Robert and Simon and Matthieu . A pivotal moment for the Cure really as we started to define our sound and style with this album. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
A Reflection.
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
At the start of the recording, we swapped instruments. So we played each other’s instruments! A strange avant-garde experiment. Probably the only part of that that survived is the wailing on this ( a violin? ) that Robert “played”!#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Play for Today was a series from 1970 -1984 on the BBC. It featured such notable playwrights as John Osbourne and Dennis Potter. It was brilliant! The lyrics are not from anything related but it was a good starting point I feel for our own plays!#TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Anybody who has seen the Cure live knows that the audience always sings along with the keyboard line in Play for today! You should know it was a beautiful moment of spiritual connection for me every time I heard that!#TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Michael reminded me recently that we started an early version of Play for Today before he left The Cure#TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Secrets
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
The piano on this really sparkles and the middle picked guitar section is great. It’s a simple style that is simply the Cure. We felt free to be ourselves with this album and for the first time, we had a say in everything about the album.#TimsTwitterListeningParty
I had my birthday in the studio when we recorded seventeen seconds! Notice the party ballon on the mixing desk haha! pic.twitter.com/6jlW8CErIr
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
In Your House
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
I recorded the drums and then we made a large tape loop of the kick /snare and hi-hat so that’s what gives the song its hypnotic quality. I then overdubbed toms cymbals and that lovely synare whoosh! Electronic before it was fashionable.#TimsTwitterListeningParty
In Your, House has that other cure trademark the arpeggiated guitar riff. Hypnotically beautiful. I think on 17 seconds we truly became the Cure, it wasn’t goth, it wasn’t punk, it was the Cure .#TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
The lyrics always remind me of the house I used to go to a lot at that time ( My first serious girlfriend if you must know! “I drown at night in your house Pretending to swim.” I think its one of my favorite Cure lyrics. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Three
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
So we loved Bowie’s Low and you’ll recall one side of that album is instrumental. I was surprised to remember that there are 3 (Mostly) instrumental tracks on 17 seconds. A lot of backward stuff and experimentation#TimsTwitterListeningParty
The Final sound
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
we were not wealthy men when we made this album! The total Budget was the same as a laptop nowadays ! we had to use the last piece of tape which ran out at the end. No more money so this is how it ended 1haha!#TimsTwitterListeningParty
A Forest
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
As I’ve said before this is a Cure trademark the metronomic beat that is simultaneously rushing forwarded and standing still. Probably one of the most well-known cure tracks ever definitely one of my favorites to play either drums or keyboards#TimsTwitterListeningParty
How we were set up in the studio . We slept some nights where it says “Live Room” haha!#TimsTwitterListeningParty pic.twitter.com/tFioM6jNOg
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Mike hedges had some little c-ducer mics which helped create the drum sound. Mike’s a genius! we were trying to get towards that motorik ideal of Can’s Jaki Liebezeit “You must play monotonous“! I wanted the drums to be like a mantra. I still do ! #TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
M
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
We had done an early version of this with Michael. It has an obvious connotation! and a literary one as well . This is the album where we felt free to show our real influences which were as much literary as musical TBH .#TimsTwitterListeningParty
AT Night
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
I had a happy accident on this song whether consciously or unconsciously! Halfway through I reverse the beat for a bar or so and then turn it back again ( drummers will understand ) it sounds like I’m being really tricky haha!.#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Love the distorted bass here too .. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Seventeen Seconds
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
To me this track sums up the whole Cure ethos. Bass and drums with Roberts guitar and voice.simple and simply The Cure
A lot of touring in 1980! AT the end of the 17 seconds tour of Australia we had a few days off in Perth burying each other in the sand, like Simon here ( notice the only time I grew a mustache haha!)#TimsTwitterListeningParty pic.twitter.com/jnfhDzQ12R
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
1/3We stayed in a small hotel on the coast. Every day for that long wait to go home, we walked and ran along the seashore, jumping with glee into the pure white soft sand on the edge of the Indian ocean.#TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
2/3 Nobody was visible for miles in either direction on the shore. The water, lapping warm on our pale-skinned feet, we strolled along, sockless, talking and laughing about the previous three weeks‘ adventures. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
3/3 But mostly, we just stood on that soft white sand, staring at the sea and marveled at our incredible good luck at being twenty-one and here on the other side of the planet doing just what we had always dreamed about.#TimsTwitterListeningParty
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020
Thank you, Tim! Thank you everyone that came to the party! See you all again in two weeks for another!
— Lol Tolhurst (@LolTolhurst) September 26, 2020