On February 15 they turned 17 the official release of the album "Bloodflowers" of the British band The Cure. The album was the tenth of the band and the last published by the label Fiction Records, owned by Chris Parry, which brought together a series of published every four years and began with "Wish" in 1992, then "Wild Mood Swings" discs in 1996.
"Bloodflowers" is the only album the band have not officially promotional singles, although the songs "Out of the World" and "Maybe Someday" were popular on the radio.
The album was planned for it to be released in the spring of 1998 but Robert Smith was in a process of legal action with the label. The album featured a short budget, however, is listed as a return to his dark roots and enjoyed good response to criticism, having great success among his followers.
The disc has an important place in the history of the band that began in 1976, as part of the "Trilogy Robert Smith". The incident occurred in 2002 while the band played in Berlin decided to play from beginning to end the "Pornography", "Disintegration" and "Bloodflowers." Discs In 2003 the concert was released by Fiction Records and released a DVD entitled "The Cure: Trilogy".
With the album, the band was nominated for the Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album in 2001, but without being winner. Bloodflowers publication was accompanied by an extensive world tour under the title Dream tour. This tour was well recognized both media and public, with more than a million attendees.
During the preparation of the album, Robert Smith wanted to dissolve the band, he was tired and not wanting to compose new songs. "I proposed to the band a challenge: make an album with the best you can do The Cure before we left, and I think we succeeded," Smith said. Which meant a sound turns to his dark and gloomy and depressing autobiographical lyrics.
While the recording industry thought that was the end, Smith said that was not true and that the tour helped much to continue with the band. "It is true that separate. Before performing "Bloodflowers" I was not sure if the group could another disc. Then, while we were doing it, I realized it sounded like the perfect goodbye to The Cure. I discussed with the group, I told someone else, and now the company uses the slogan ".
Robert Smith wrote "Out of this World" in April 1998 and promised to deliver all songs in the fall of 1999. However, the recording began in the summer of 1998 in the English studies Parkgat. During that time, they worked with about twenty songs, leaving out: "Coming Up", "Spilt Milk", "Just Say Eyes", "You're So Happy", "Everything Forever", "Possesion" and "Heavy World "and leaving the following songs:
Out Of This World
Watching Me Fall
Where The Birds Always Sing
Maybe Someday
The Last Day of Summer
There Is No If ...
The Loudest Sound
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