The Cure "Seventeen Seconds" (2016 Reissue) 2023-04-07 Daniel Green and Rik Simpson

Daniel Green and Rik Simpson

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Diane Warren

The Cure "Seventeen Seconds" (2016 Reissue) 2023-04-07 Daniel Green and Rik SimpsonThe second cure album from 1980. 'seventeen seconds' was everything the title suggested. intense. dense. bleak. it is not an album for the faint at heart. the addition of perennial favourite simon gallup on bass and the short lived but effective mathleu hartley on keyboards expanded the cure's previously sparse sound, adding layers of texture that complemented smith's longer, less accessible songs. while 'play for today' hearkens back to the bands