What does Rob mean by this? Why did he say it?

becuz he bigged up their last record and it ended up sucking a big one - then he felt like a fool for bigging it up.

Do you ever feel like an ass for what you post? Just a question. But I always get defensive for Robert.

Hey Junno, Can you give us more of the quote, Like say the lines leading up to the quote so I can understand the context? I kind of "get" what the Ass/Annon (whatever) was talking about but I don't think I would have phrased it like that. He kind of did big up the Cure's last album and it really wasn't all that great. Good/ O.K. but not great.
Robert does stuff like this.

Robert was talking about NOT bigging up the album they are recording now. The BBC interviewer asked him what the songs were sounding like after the RAW show-he declined to describe the songs. He replied with that quote.

Here's the link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20060402_cure.shtml

Thanks Arc, was just gonna post that link.

yeah, i never recall robert saying anything like the album is going to be the heaviest thing we've ever done and i had so much fun making it, blah blah blah blah blah. every band in the world, when they come out with a new record say "this is the best thing we've ever done". robert says that with every album so he must hate the cure.

I truly trust Ross," Smith says. "I let him take control and guide me -- something I've not done since the early days. I think it's the best (album) we've ever done." (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/music_reporter_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000558832)

In some ways I was relieved because I couldn't see where else we could go with that lineup. I kind of knew what we were going to sound like, knew what we were playing like. With hindsight it was a good thing. I took a year away from the group anyway to think about whether I wanted to carry on doing it. It actually made me think about every single facet of what The Cure do. And so I stripped away a lot of the things that really used to bug me about the group. A lot of it was the methodology - who did what and why and the responsibilities that people did and didn't take.

Had the band continued as it was and pounded out another album as its record label wanted, it would have been disastrous he said. Now it's been four years. I've discarded 50 times the number of songs that are on the album. And now it's the best thing we've ever done.
(http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/press/I74.html)

I mean, I think Bloodflowers... is one of the best three albums The Cure has ever made

yeah, bigging up new records. so not roberts style.

the first thing that put me off about the last cd was robert's warning to fans that, if they didn't like this album, then they weren't cure fans.
that was the most ludicris thing i'd ever heard.

as a HUGE cure fan since 81', i didn't care for the last album. and this was the first of their albums that i didn't adore.
nothing i can put my finger on... the cure had its moments. but, overall, it had, and still has, a bad vibe about it.

whatever rs thinks about the producer (of that album), as an admirer of the cure, i think his work with them represented the lowest point of their recording career. if korn was successful, it had nothing to do with their producer.
but, hey! look what he did for vanilla ice! (w/ sarcasm).

the cure are, not only brilliant musicians- both, in the studio and onstage, but they are also an enigma. in the past, they have worked with some of the industry's top producers and the recordings reflected that.

with the return of porl, the upcoming album has an excellent vibe & promises to be epic!

I'm not really sure what it is about the last album that seems to rub people the wrong way, I really liked it, and in terms of overall quality I thought it quite good. I kind of lost touch with the Cure after Wish - which had it's moments but never grabbed me like the previous albums. The last album surprised me (in a good way) and I bought Bloodflowers after that (I hadn't heard anything off it before).

I still love the Cure of course, but I've been listening to them for 17 years so my appreciation is not quite the emotional frenzy it used to be:) Kind of like being married actually )

As far as Robert's comment about "bigging up" albums, I think he was referring to bands who say their next album is going to be a "revolution" that will "take the music world by storm" etc. etc. - which is very different that an artist talking about how he feels about an album he just made. Rob was happy with the way it turned out, so he said so. He didn't say it was gonna blow you away... (though I liked it:)

I think Nietzsche said something like "If you want to appreiciate art, it's best to overlook the artist." Haha. Words of wisdom? Judge the music not the man.

Long post, apologies.