What song are you listening to right now?

[jpbro]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, life and all that...

You know me too well JB. Am I that transparent?

LOL, not at all Just remembered a bit of a difference of opinion between you and sapator re: the cure and iron maiden (I think?). When I heard the new song, I was interested in your opinion.

I do love it when an old beloved band releases a new track.

Me too...unless it's crap of course. It almost inevitably is, but I've been pleasantly surprised with this one.

All Cure tracks have a lovely long intro and I do like that.

The intro to Alone is definitely long! Kinda surprised me for a first single after a long time, but I guess they were setting up the mood for the album with this one. Not a "radio-friendly unit shifter".

Some Cure songs you have to hear and hear again in order to like, especially some of their later stuff, many of theirs just reach out and grab you the first time you hear them. This, unfortunately for me, is one of the former. I'm still listening and I love Robert's voice as it pops in as it just takes me home. The song doesn't have that familiar strong underlying and catchy riff that the best of Cure tracks have...

I've given it a few listens and it has definitely grown on me...it feels like a late Side 2 track on an album you love, but you don't listen to much at first since you've been too busy repeating Side 1 over and over...but once you get bored of Side 1 and give Side 2 a deep dive it becomes a loved track... Those types of songs are hard to come by in today's streaming/singles world, and that adds to my surprise that they released it as a first single.

Anyway, album is out now, but I haven't had a chance to give it a listen yet. Based on the first single, I'd wager there's no "Friday, I'm in Love" on it

This one, for me, has the same tone but is musically superior.

I'll give it a listen as soon as I can...I might even know it already, but I'm terrible with song names!