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The Cure, New Order, & Other Brilliant Bands; Live Music Lover; Bad Gambler; Sports Nut; Runner; Dog Lover; Bean Counter

[CureGigStats @CureGig]

RIP to much loved Perry Bamonte of The Cure

498 gigs in 37 countries 90-04 &22-24
12572 performances of 144 different songs topped by IBDx473
Perry's 1st song/gig: SDS in Paris
His last: BDC in London
4 studio albums on record
"The time always comes to say goodbye"
Goodbye Perry

[Raoul Duke @batcountry1980]

What The World Was Waiting For:
A Tale of Music, Magic, and Manchester

-Part 1

🧵

Much like roses, music needs ideal conditions to grow. It starts with the people: that correct combination of the right bandmates, the perfect producer, a strong chemistry. Get one of those wrong and the music might still bloom, though not as brightly. But even if the key players are in position, there’s something else just as essential: the time and place. Musicians aren’t robots clocking in to perform on command; what they create reflects the lives they’re living and the world around them. Miss the moment, and the music dies on the vine.

But when all of this comes together, the people, the place, the moment, you occasionally get one of those rare albums that feels as if it’s grown from the very soil beneath the artists’ feet. Records that couldn’t have happened anywhere else, at any other time. The Stone Roses’ debut is one of them. For these Roses could only have bloomed in one climate: late-’80s Manchester.

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@Baseball_Jenn Fair point Jenn

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@ryangerritsen Well Ryan, Business 101 is you don’t rely on one client for 90% of your business. It’s basic fucking business. It’s about time.

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@DownToBlack That’s the stat

[Kevin Papetti @KPapetti]

Whoever brought the "6th worst bullpen in Dodgers history" sign, and sat in the first row behind said bullpen, is a legend

[Ed Bröwn @EdBrown19]

It's like americans going to Europe for the first time, lmao

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@YankeeWRLD Matt and RJ look like geniuses 😂

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

How it started How it’s going

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@leafguy403 Keep on losing man!!! 🙌

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

THEY DID IT, CANADA 🇨🇦

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1993, THE BLUE JAYS ARE HEADED TO THE WORLD SERIES 🏆

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

TORONTO HAS WAITED 32 YEARS FOR THIS!

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

CANADA'S TEAM IS GOING TO PLAY FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP! #WANTITALL

[Keegan Matheson @KeeganMatheson]

George Springer just hit one of the biggest home runs in #BlueJays history.

Rogers Centre is shaking.

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@knights1381 @octoberstanton Lololoo

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@TheExtremeMusi1 Depeche Mode - 101

[valere @valere47636201]

!! Update The Cure Bio !!

"In March 2025 the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record 13 more songs for a follow up album"

https://t.co/0ds3xwAg45

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#last4albums

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

The Cure
One Hundred Years
Glasgow, Scotland 1984