Amid an increasingly threatening pandemic, numerous of us are shuttered inside our homes rather of safeguarding under a large umbrella with the sonorous ocean waves as our sacred soundtrack.But while absolutely nothing beats the real thing, in lieu of a real journey to the ocean, we can vicariously journey there via our curated soundtrack of Remedy tunes that summon the sea. 2 Cure videos (” Close to Me” and “Simply Like Heaven”) take place at Beachy Head (either physically or practically), and the songs collection LP Standing on a Beach (also variously understood as Looking at the Sea) is what assisted catapult the Treatment into the mainstream back in1986 While lots of individuals choose the stock idea of the beach as a place where you bronze your body and dip into the ocean when the sun’s rays show too searing, Smith’s lyrical adventures frequently delve into the mercurial side of the sea.
” Below destiny”
” Beneath destiny” is the spectacular opener on The Cure’s 2008 (and latest) album, 4: 13 Dream. Here, the ocean’s ups and downs supply a wonderful sonic backdrop while 2 fans “float” under a dramatically stellar night sky. The song’s superb shoegaze sounds conjure the transcendence of star-gazing and infinity-musing with a romantic partner– “together as now, permanently as one”– while likewise eliciting the ancient inseparability of the sky and sea, with “13 billion years” of stars whirling “as the waves break.”
” Jupiter Crash”
For both fans and detractors of 1996’s Wild Mood Swings, “Jupiter Crash” is a standout tune for its lush balladry and smart poetry. Once again, we discover lyrics fusing the cosmic with the terrestrial, as the storyteller’s love interest “follows me down to the sound of the sea/ slips to the sand and gazes up at me.” We find out that the narrator serves as a guide for a comet “show”, where a falling star is set to crash into Jupiter. The issue is, the program was too abrupt and not very intriguing, so “she delegated the noise of the sea/ she just wandered away from me/ so much for gravity.” Love waxes and wanes like the ocean and is frequently as capricious as comets.
” Edge of the Deep Green Sea”
The legendary “Edge of the Deep Green Sea” on 1992’s seriously acclaimed Desire is a skyrocketing tune, once again about love and loss that takes place seaside. Clocking in at 7: 42, it’s a performance crowd-pleaser with its plea early in the tune to “put your hands in the sky”, eliciting just such a gesture from giddy spectators. The two lovers “see the sun come up from the edge of the deep green sea/ and she listens like her head’s on fire/ and she desires to think in me”.
” Much like Heaven”
” Similar to Heaven”, from 1987’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, is the Remedy’s most pop music. It’s not the band’s highest-charting tune in the United States– that honor goes to “Lovesong”– however it’s the one most precious by casual fans, and even hardcore fans who frequently favor the Treatment’s earlier, darker brochure. (Anybody needing evidence just needs to compare which live Treatment tune on YouTube truly brings the house down). “Simply Like Heaven” has e
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