Choice Is Yours Vol. 89: But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? vs. The Head on the Door
Death In June - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? (1992)
Vs.
The Cure – The Head on the Door (1985)
The Game is simple… if only one could exist which would it be? What’s more important… personal relevance, cultural significance, or simply being the better album all other things aside? Choice is yours…
- My Pal the Crook
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:54 pm
DEATH IN JUNE!!!!!
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
DEATH IN JUNE!!!!! (2)
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 pm
I think ‘pornography’ would have been a better contender!.
‘Disintegration’ would be pushing it by far!.
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Yeah “Pornography” is the Cure’s darkest and most depressing album but it’s also one most people aren’t all that familiar with.
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Kyoto Song is better than any song on Symbols Shatter, but album to album, DI6 takes this one
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Y’all are smoking goth crack, the Death In June record doesn’t even come close!
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:32 pm
“Goth Crack” sounds delicious!
i wouldn’t have maxed neither “But, What Ends When Symbols Shatter?” maybe highly praised but in my opinion his weakest!.
again ‘pornography’ would have been a better contender! regardless of it being unknown to the masses!.
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:32 pm
matched ^6
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:37 pm
“But, What Ends When Symbols Shatter?” is DIJ weakest album? O… K…
are you just on an “anything most people like I must not like” kick?
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I was on that kick about 6 years ago!
In response to your question:No!
it’s a variable album (imo) do you like music that is heavily praised? even even though slightly it doesn’t deserve half of it!.
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I mean their is hype only junkies out there lots of them who run on blogosphere fuel!.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:09 pm
no this album deserves every ounce of praise… unlike you who discovered it 6 years ago I was listening to since the mid 90s before the DIJ bandwagon. Symbols was a revelation when it came out and still is.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Yeah! but for what it’s worth I’m only 22!.
Mid 90s as a kid for me growing up was between fine young cannibals wu tang & sting little bone thug/snoop!.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 pm
that’s quite impressive especially being African/native American living in the inner city (of dc).
nothing to do but trace spot on images of real monsters directly from the television was my outlet! not shoot in the face by some stranger was second. and music obviously!.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:35 pm
getting ^
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Thanks to your blog I would always see the Death in June image so i checked them out. Pretty good but The CURE WINS. ALSO MORE DIGGING FOR FIRES.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:24 pm
On my 9th birthday, my older brother gave me the Head on the Door on vinyl.
I’d been talking about them because I had a crush on my friends’ 17 year older sister and she was all about the Cure and what not. I was all about hating the world.
So there I was, newly 9, rocking the Cure on my dad’s hi-fi and getting emo on that shit and fucking loving it.
It’s one of those moments where you know your hooked for life on something.
August 4th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Hey Dennis if you know where i can get some goth crack please hook your boy up!
August 4th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
hmmm thats a difficult one. I love head on the door but I also love symbals shatter.
This might be a tie.
although I will say I’ve put head on the door in many more rotations than cymbals shatter.
August 4th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
How would I know?
I have Ass-Burgers.
August 4th, 2010 at 6:50 pm