Proud To Fall

Robert Smith photographed by Richard Bellia.

Songs for every secret.  It’s been almost 20 years.

"And on and on as the night drew in Through broken streets that sucked me in My feet were bare and cut...with...stones With walking to the PROMMMMMissed laaaa-aa-aannd..."

You’ll never be Robert-Smith-holding-his-own-band’s-compilation cool.

It’s so hard to take the fact that a brilliant little guitar band like Venus Beads is relatively unknown when I see plenty of their contemporaries get lauded for music that doesn’t deserve it.  I was there when this stuff was going down.  I’m not coming to this from some hipster collector revisionist history.  This is the sort of music folks on the ground in the underground were gazing at their shoes and grooving to.  Hope someone out there is hearing this for the first time and having the light turned on for them.  Black Aspirin is a must-hear record if you are into these sorts of guitar bands & sounds.

Been listening to this one constantly.  If freshly remastered versions of his first two solo LPs weren't excuse enough, this song alone, on Disc 3, is worth getting his new Anthology from Cherry Red.

The House Of Love - Scratched Inside

The House Of Love - Skin 2 Phase 2

The House Of Love - Love 10

The Dentists - The Waiter

Telekinesis - Patterns

Diabolic tutor  -- Greg Staples