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HOW TO BUY...THE CURE!
4:42 PM GMT 27/03/2009
They've been putting existential dread to a pop soundtrack since (gulp) the seventies, but while other bands faded away, Robert Smith and The Cure have maintained their creativity - and commercial clout - wondrously well. But to fully appreciate Smith's forever-adolescent psychic underworld of creepiness, mortality and submerged eroticism, which of the albums do you need to own? Is Pornography their finest hour? What about Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me or Disintegration? Which compilations do you need? And what's the pick of the recent stuff? Tell us, please.
As ever, the best comments and recommendations will appear in the magazine!
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:42 PM GMT 27/03/2009
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Kiss Me is a great starter. Wild Mood Swings shows off how eclectic The Cure can be.
Posted by Anonymous at 4:30 AM GMT 28/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Though each of their albums are major staemnents, The Cure were arguably one of the best singles outfits of the 80s. Standing On The Beach makes that case pretty definitively.
As far as albums go, I think Disintergration narrowly beats out Pornography, if only because it's longer!
Posted by Conor at 11:37 AM GMT 28/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Pornography has to be the high point of their early output, in the days before they became cheerful pop merchants and Top of the Pops regulars. Melodramatic and gothic, it's angst is so over the top it put's a smile on your face.
Posted by Dave at 2:03 PM GMT 28/03/2009 Report Abuse
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THERE ARE 5 ESSENTIAL CURE ALBUMS:1.PONOGRAPHY 2.DISINTEGRATION 3.KISS ME,KISS ME,KISS ME. 4.STANDING ON A BEACH & 5.HEAD ON THE DOOR.ARGUABLY THERE ARE OTHER ALBUMS WITH GREAT TRACKS BUT THE 5 LISTED ARE SEMINAL WITHIN THE CURES CATOLOG .THE CURE ARE THE 2ND BEST SINGLES BAND OF THE 80S ONLY BESTED BY THE SMITHS.VIVA THE CURE!
Posted by DANNY at 4:54 PM GMT 28/03/2009 Report Abuse
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My two favorite ones are the two simplest ones:
1-Faith
2-Three Imaginary Boys
It's really at the origin of who they are, before all the whole goth nonsense. Awesome bass sound too! The scream on subway sound terrified me when I was a young pubescent.
Posted by Alejandro Borrero at 3:44 AM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Faith - mysterious, minimal, passionate, spiritual and utterly beautiful...
Posted by David Berdych at 6:52 PM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Staring at the sea - Still,the perfect The Cure compilation.
Posted by gautxos at 8:25 PM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Staring at the sea - Still,the perfect The Cure compilation.
Posted by gautxos at 8:26 PM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Boys don't cry - One of the best debuts ever
Posted by Fulgen Guardamino at 8:33 PM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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The Head On The Door - The sound of the Cure inventing goth-dance and the first album of their eighties trio of supersleek pop albums.
Posted by Anonymous at 5:58 PM GMT 31/03/2009 Report Abuse
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YES! Pornography is their finest hour and you really don't need anything else!!
Posted by blackcoffeeduck at 2:58 PM GMT 01/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Faith was the first "great" Cure album, followed up closely by Pornography. However, the pinacle of their genius was Disintegration and they have never bettered this or even got close to it since.
Posted by Alvina at 9:11 PM GMT 01/04/2009 Report Abuse
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1. Pornography
2. Staring At The Sea
Posted by Anonymous at 9:13 PM GMT 01/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Roundly dismissed by fans and critics as an "odds & sods" compilation, "Japanese Whispers" shows the Cure at their mercurial best. From the post-Pornography dirges of "Just One Kiss" and "LaMent" to the sarcastic synth pop of "Lets Go To Bed" to the unhinged whimsy of "Speak my Language" and (of course) "the Lovecats," this establishes the stylistic breadth that they mined for the remainder of their catalog.
I once told RS that it was my favorite Cure album & he looked at me like I was crazy.
Posted by explodedboy at 10:42 PM GMT 01/04/2009 Report Abuse
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It's difficult to see Disintegration as anything other than their peak, they spent the previous 10 years working toward its combination of doom laden epics welded to killer tunes, and the following 20 years unsuccessfully trying to recreate it. The last great album of the 80s, it heralds the end of an era just as emphatically as Let It Bleed or London Calling did.
Posted by Warren at 10:29 AM GMT 02/04/2009 Report Abuse
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'Pornography' is their bleak, beat ridden masterpiece but the two preceding albums are arguably better, due to their subtly- 'Seventeen Seconds' is ambient gloom-pop. 'Faith' invents the slowcore sound of early Low and the title track sounds like Mogwai based the whole of 'Come on Die Young' on it. Otherwise, 'Boys Dont Cry' is a great compilation that trumps the first album and 'Disintegration' is the final beautiful epitaph for the early 80s 'raincoat-rock' sound
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Posted by rofescort at 6:55 AM GMT 04/04/2009 Report Abuse
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In no particular order...
Pornography.
Boys Don't Cry
The Top also warrants a special mention.
It's not their most consistent work, but 'Shake Dog Shake', 'Wailing Wall', 'The Caterpillar' and 'Bananafishbones' are pure Cure gems.
Posted by Brunowski at 11:45 AM GMT 09/04/2009 Report Abuse
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1. Faith - Classic Cure, a semi-religious doomy masterpiece. Contains my 2 favourite Cure tracks All Cats Are Grey and Faith.
2. Pornography - relentless drums and harrowing lyrics. I chose an eternity of THIS. & I would. I love it.
3. Disintegration - It just works as a proper LP (remember them?) from start to finish. The Cure at their glacial, symphonic and miserable best.
4. Bloodflowers. Underrated, sinister and sexy - revisits the bleakness of Disintegration/Pornography maybe because Mr Smith had just turned 40. He is 50 in a couple of weeks - hope we get something as grand.
5. Seventeen Seconds. Better than 3 Imaginary Boys, plenty of 'catchy' tunes and a proper "TOTP crash into the mainstream" moment with A Forest.
Posted by JimCraggs at 3:10 PM GMT 09/04/2009 Report Abuse
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1. Faith - Classic Cure, a semi-religious doomy masterpiece. Contains my 2 favourite Cure tracks All Cats Are Grey and Faith.
2. Pornography - relentless drums and harrowing lyrics. I chose an eternity of THIS. & I would. I love it.
3. Disintegration - It just works as a proper LP (remember them?) from start to finish. The Cure at their glacial, symphonic and miserable best.
4. Bloodflowers. Underrated, sinister and sexy - revisits the bleakness of Disintegration/Pornography maybe because Mr Smith had just turned 40. He is 50 in a couple of weeks - hope we get something as grand.
5. Seventeen Seconds. Better than 3 Imaginary Boys, plenty of 'catchy' tunes and a proper "TOTP crash into the mainstream" moment with A Forest.
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Four amazing Cure albums:
1. "The head on the door" was the first time The Cure fully realised their pop potential. Perfect moments: "In between days", of course, but also "Push" (anthemic !) and "A night like this" (one of the best love songs ever written ?), not to mention the unusual rhytmic patterns of both "Close to me" and "Six different ways".
2. "Kiss me kiss me kiss me" continued in this vein of writing perfect pop songs ("Catch", anyone ? Also "Just like heaven" and "The perfect girl"), together with more experimental songs (the amazing guitar work on "The kiss", or the amazingly sensual rhythm of "Like cockatoos").
3. With "Disintegration", The Cure hit new heights, again mixing seamlessly beautiful pop melodies (on the singles "Lullaby" and "Pictures of you") with a very dark undercurrent of pain and disillusion ("Prayers for rain", "The same deep water as you", and specially on the title track).
4. Finally, "Wish" continues where the previous 3 left off, alternating "Friday I'm in love" (irresistible !), "High" or "Doing the unstuck", with much darker songs of personal conflict ("Cut" or "End").
These 4 albums are just too good to be left out of any record collection !
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Posted by Therma at 2:41 PM GMT 16/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Begin with "Staring At The Sea - The Singles" and "Galore - The Singles 1997-1997" There you have covered the singles from the beginning until 1997, leaving out only the 1986 remake of "Boys Don't Cry". For strarters, the obvious would be to get these, and then follow the the albums that the tracks you liked come from. On Staring At The Sea you get Charlotte Sometimes (non-album single) and the great single mix of Close To Me with brass section. On Galore you get the Disintegration and Kiss Me Kiss Me singles.
Then I'd recommend a few albums: "17 Seconds", "Pornography", "The Head On The Door" and "Disintegration". There are many great Cure tracks that are not suitable for singles, but have become live favourites: M, A Strange Day, The Figurehead, Sinking, Push, Plainsong, Disintegration, etc. I'd add "4:13 Dream" In case you're going to a show and would like to hear a few songs beforehand...
On this category I'd add a fan favourite: "Entreat" a live album with only Disintegration tracks, planned as a giveaway. You can see no money was spent on the packaging, and there was little work done on the sound because there are no overdubs as can be heard on the audience version of the shows. On "Homesick", Simon Gallup's cable malfunctions, which leads to an extended intro by then-keyboardist Roger O'Donnell. Has acquired great esteem because not even among cure fans has an full soundboard recording leaked (just bits of shows) from "The Prayer Tour" (in suppport of the Disintegration album) which saw the band in their best line-up in top form.
On the next bunch I'd put the rest of the albums except for two, and the live albums, well, they're a cotegory in themselves...
Approach carefully: "Wild Mood Swings" and "The Top". Both are quite unfocused, WMS started as a group with string quartet thing and it scattered from there. About "The Top", well, if someone says it's great, you know you're speaking to a fan, its main virtue being that it doesn't sound like anything anyone else was doing around that time (except maybe Siouxsie) musically and regarding production and equipment usage, so it doen't sound "80's".
Posted by Purpleorchid at 6:46 PM GMT 16/04/2009 Report Abuse
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I would advise you not to buy any of their turgid goth nonsense.
Posted by doyoulikemylipstick at 5:02 PM GMT 24/04/2009 Report Abuse
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To really understand who they are I recommend: "Disintegration", "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me", "Staring at the Sea", "Head on the Door", "Wish", and "Pornography". Those are good starter albums as they meander through the morbidly dark to the effervescent pop. The latest release, "4:13 Dream", is a good one too. "Join the Dots" explores their collection of rare and b-side tracks which some are better than what actually made it on the albums. The Cure has a song for any type of emotion, which is probably why they have lasted so long. Robert Smith writes about universal themes which, as long as you are human, anyone can connect with. They tend to be on the cerebral side and those of lesser intelligence will concentrate negativity more on their look and dark "goth-like" songs rather than the deep insights this group has offered in their 30 years.
Posted by moontrip87 at 10:33 PM GMT 28/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography are all masterpieces! These three albums show the incredible musicianship of The Cure in their early days. The albums are at once minimal and compelling. Dark, bleak, yet hopeful... completely brilliant.
The Head on the Door is probably The Cure's most focused album, full of simple, catchy pop songs (Inbetween Days, Close to Me, A Night Like This) and dark songs (Kyoto Song, Sinking) A wonderful album that really shows The Cure hitting their stride.
Posted by ArsenicSea at 3:08 AM GMT 29/04/2009 Report Abuse
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1º Disintegration - The best album ever!
Dealing with loss and getting old.
2º Pornography - Anger, Dispair, rage at it's best.
3º Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - A mix of Head on The Door pop with Pornography demons. An excelent album.
4º Wish - Though people thought it was pop because of Fiday I'm In Love, it's not, it has some of their finest pearls. Their last genious work.
5º The Top - It's an extraordinary piece of work, unique, one of a Kind. It took me years to enjoy it, but now I consider it a masterpiece - Banafishbones, Birdmad girl, Piggy In The Mirror, Wailling Wall, The Top are fabulous songs.
Posted by Nunes at 4:04 PM GMT 29/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Personally my favorite 3 Cure albums are Wish, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers. However, when it comes to recommending the Cure I feel there are 2 albums that stand out best. Standing on a Beach and Galore. These allow a person to truely get to know the Cure and pin point what studio albums are best for them. Let's face it, there are 3 kinds of cure fans. The ones that like the dark stuff, the ones that like the pop stuff, and those of us that like it all!
Posted by Jess at 6:29 PM GMT 29/04/2009 Report Abuse
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Personally my favorite 3 Cure albums are Wish, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers. However, when it comes to recommending the Cure I feel there are 2 albums that stand out best. Standing on a Beach and Galore. These allow a person to truely get to know the Cure and pin point what studio albums are best for them. Let's face it, there are 3 kinds of cure fans. The ones that like the dark stuff, the ones that like the pop stuff, and those of us that like it all!
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