"Plastic Passion" Hook covers The Cure for PeelFest

[Hook]

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Peel A-Z...had to be The Cure. LITLR, rainy afternoon, in the car with the 008. On to D..

Plastic Passion

written by Robert Smith performed by Hook

[Groundy]

What a sound Hook, so well performed and recorded,
That uke sound is to die for man......

Love it...........Alex

[AndyR]

Nice.

I always had a sneaking regard for The Cure, but I don't know too much about them apart from the obvious ones... (And I'm buggered if I can remember what those were at the moment ... I do remember the hair, though...)

[danieldesete]

Hey, I hadn't heard this for a while, nice cover Hook. I wonder why the uke makes the song more modern. Or maybe because the synths are gone. Really enjoyed the listen anyway
Daniel

[bruno]

Excellent cover Bro, they are still touring around the UK I believe - they are very popular with the young generation of goth's I believe. I don't this track, but enjoyed it lots.
B

[Flash Harry]

Magic cover!

[ODH]

This is Boys Don't Cry era Cure, before they really turned into the Cure proper.  I like that album a lot, very stripped and edgy.

You've done a good job of covering it, even more stripped out and no less edgy.

I've just dialled it up on my pie-pod.  Track 2, right after Boys Don't Cry.

 

[my avatar pic is from '86 when I was trying and failing to look like Robert Smith.  Happy days]

[Hook]

Thanks my friends.

You've done a good job of covering it, even more stripped out and no less edgy.

Thanks man, that edge was important to me when I decided to learn this one. It so easily could and often did veer into dippy & plinky sounding. I felt the vocal was how I could keep that Robert Smith vibe but I can't sing like him! The progression is quite easy for guitar but I found it pretty challenging on uke, not at all sure how to get that power chord (there all 5's) on the uke.
D is proving a challenge cause I don't really know any of the session acts but I think I'm leaning toward The Damned.
Rock On!

[Farrell Jackson]

Very cool version of this song Hook! Vocal and Uke sound great dripping in heavy humidty!

Farrell

[Greeny]

So good. The uke sounds wonderful, and this is a superb (but short!) cover.