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"A Forest" and its parent album Seventeen Seconds are representative of The Cure's gothic rock phase in the late 1970s and 1980s. [1] [4] The song has also been described as a post-punk track. [5] [6] Cure biographer Jeff Apter refers to "A Forest" as "the definitive early Cure mood piece" and argues the song is the centrepiece of the album ...
E-flat minor is a minor scale based on E ♭, consisting of the pitches E ♭, F, G ♭, A ♭, B ♭, C ♭, and D ♭. Its key signature consists of six flats . Its relative key is G-flat major (or enharmonically F-sharp major ) and its parallel key is E-flat major .
"Primary" was the first song by The Cure to be remixed as a separate extended mix for release on 12" single (and not co-released on other formats, in the way the 12" version of "A Forest" was also the album version appearing on Seventeen Seconds, for example). In fact, the original 12" extended mix is, to this day, still only available on the ...
In major keys, the chords iii and vi are often substituted for the I chord, to add interest. In the key of C major, the I major 7 chord is "C, E, G, B," the iii chord ("III–7" [11]) is E minor 7 ("E, G, B, D") and the vi minor 7 chord is A minor 7 ("A, C, E, G"). Both of the tonic substitute chords use notes from the tonic chord, which means ...
US ♭ ii – e.g. D ♭ minor over C 7, resulting in C 7 ♭ 9 ♭ 13 US ♭ iii – e.g. E ♭ minor over C 7 , resulting in C 7 ♯ 9 ♯ 11 The second item in the list above (C 7 ♭ 9 ♯ 11 ) has a related version called upper structure sharp four minor --with the written shorthand US ♯ iv --created with an F ♯ minor triad.
If I told you 40 years ago, when the Cure was in the midst of its new-wave wonder moment, that the band would craft an inventively elegiac epic like “Songs for a Lost World” — a singular ...
AllMusic writer Chris True said that while Seventeen Seconds had come to be largely overlooked in later years apart from its single "A Forest", it nonetheless represented an important development for the Cure, capturing them becoming "more rigid in sound, and more disciplined in attitude", and anticipating the bleak lyrical themes that would ...
On 7 July 2018, Cure performed a 40th anniversary concert at Hyde Park as part of the British Summer Time concert series. [124] For Record Store Day 2018, the Cure released a remastered, deluxe edition of Mixed Up , along with a sequel titled Torn Down featuring 16 new remixes all created by Robert Smith.