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Halo

Artist:	The Cure
Genre:	Indie
Decade:	1990's
Title:	Halo
Author:	Mat Tomlinson

The Cure are massively important to me; Always changing, always different. Gritty and real, yet dream-like and fantastic, they have consistantly reflected my life, been a sigh of relief.

When growing up the T-shirt you wore was a statement of intent, the band you pinned your allegience to. I never felt like a rock fan, or a dance head, or anything. I was just a Cure fan and that was that. Finding the band at the arse end of the 80's when newer English bands, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, ( all bands that I love incidently ) were rising to prominence was a wonder. Every confused emotion I had ever felt was described to me in The Cure's songs. Robert Smith has a talent for putting words and music together that put a spring in your stride when the sun shines, but can spring out into your thoughts when you'r least expecting it.

It's easy to lay critically into feel good pop music, it can be an easy target. But I'm not sure life gets much better than drunkenly grinning at the sun as Love Cats or Inbetween Days belts through the speaker cones.

"Halo" is the pure undiluted happiness of blissful love, and for me is all about my blissful love, Cara, It's amazingly effervesent pop music, but years after it's release this B-side became one of many favourite Cure heartbursts. I tried forcefeeding The Cure to Cara a few times early on, the ever faithful fan, One early Sunday morning Halo kicked in randomly, the words and music feeling so right it almost took my breath away - by any other band it may have been throwaway, but Robert Smith meant it, and as we both listened that morning I think we both felt the same, a magic moment as the music mirrored how we felt, . -" I've never felt like this with anyone before "

You can hear Robert Smith grin as he holds his hands up, " I can't belleve all this! "

I don't think I could either that morning.

It's a song about a moment - " I want to keep this feeling deep inside of me" . But it worked for me, because whenever I hear those opening notes I'm back there again, that Sunday morning.

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Left by martin beattie on 15-09-2008 GMT(+0:00)

Hi Mat,

Welcome to musicbrick.com, thanks for taking the timeout to write your musicbrick, I hope you don't mind I've added a video, if you want you can change it in your Profile page... But got to be honest there's not many of videos of Halo around.

Superb musicbrick Mat, really captured everything that musicbrick is trying to achieve... Strangely enough a whole video was playing of all The Cure tracks in a shopping centre I went to on Saturday. Done the usual, split like a fork in the road, my wife went clothes shopping and I went and listened to how good the surround systems sound.

We're hoping to create an arena that showcases the depth and diversity of the music around us, but more importantly what it means on a personal level. Check out the Top 30 we've some superb musicbricks voted for by our members

Cheers again Mat and keep 'em coming.

Martin

Left by cara bennett on 15-09-2008 GMT(+0:00)

"JUST BEAUTIFUL" X

Left by Vivienne who on 15-09-2008 GMT(+0:00)

Great brick Mat, I can totally relate with the sentiment, 11yrs and counting with my partner, Fab xxx

Left by Craig Lockley on 17-09-2008 GMT(+0:00)

Great brick Mat! Welcome to the site!

Left by Raymond Gee....or is it Ghie. on 02-04-2009 GMT(+0:00)

yes, I love their songs, so atmospheric, Sinking, Charlotte Sometimes, Close to me, Figurehead, The Same Deep Water as You, really are superb.

For that sort of music I don't think there's anyone to touch them, have you heard Joanna Newsom, she plays a harp and sings, her lyrics are also rather haunting, particularly 'What We Have Known', sounds to me as though it has a hidden message about the futility of war in there...............I could be wrong.........but as a Scorpio I'd not really ever admit it.

Ray............in Batley.

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