Wild Mood Swings
Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by the British band The Cure. It was released in May 1996 Fiction Records.
History
Bored of commercial studios The Cure decided to set up for the recording of their next album a studio in an old and secluded country house. Porl Thompson and Boris Williams left the band, Simon Gallup had to take a longer health-related break. Again assemblages convinced Gallup his former bandmates Roger O'Donnell, who had left The Cure in 1990, of a return.
In Jason Cooper to found a new drummer. He played on 9 of the 14 songs. In the rest of the shots are three other drummers to hear because The Cure during the recording various musicians tested to find a suitable replacement for the retiring Boris Williams.
After the successful albums Disintegration and Wish Wild Mood Swings could ultimately fulfill neither the high expectations of fans and critics, nor the commercial expectations. The singles were placed, if at all, only moderately on the charts. All songs on the album are some of the concerts of The Cure on most rarely played live pieces.
Robert Smith stated that the failure of the album was because the songs Gone and Round & Round & Round would not fit on the album. He counts it anyway to his five favorite albums The Cure.
Criticism
On the website of Allmusic the album got 3 of 5 stars and was " ... more than just another Cure album" called.
The Rolling Stone gave Wild Mood Swings 2 of 5 stars and wrote that it was " nothing particularly Wild at Wild Mood Swings ".
Title list
All pieces were written by Bamonte, Cooper, Gallup, O'Donnell and Smith.