TETINE: One Hundred Years / Pornography / The Drowning Man / Faith

I've just had an urge to listen to One Hundred Years by The Cure.  ... i love this song & always loved Robert Smith guitar playing on this track .... don't you think he's an underrated guitarist? 

I remember music critics in the 80's always commenting on other stuff (his lyrics, his hair, seeing pink elephants, his private life, etc etc etc) whenever they wrote about The Cure ...   they rarely mentioned how his guitar playing was / is  excellent and adorable... odd, melancholic, melodic, experimental & pop all at once... I know it all changed after they became stadium rock stars and all.... but honestly these thin, dry micro-distorted guitar riffs, his chord progressions and those blue-chorused bass lines you find in old albums like Faith, Pornography, Seventy Seconds are still the best of dark-driven early 80's independent-commercial goth post punk. And somehow - in alliance with Joy Division - the backbone of goth singularity, dark wave and so much stuff that came later....

No wonder Massive Attack sampled 10:15 Saturday Night in the mid 90's for their version of Man Next Door.