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Old 12-24-2005, 11:24 AM   #1
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The Cure

I didn't see a thread on here regarding the cure (forgive me if there already is though)

So, The Cure. Classic 80's music. I really enjoy there music. They released an album titled "Pornography" in 1980. It was considered one of the key goth-rock albums of the 80's, and by many hardcore cure fans, is considered there best album. I took a listen and I really on like 1 song off of it, but anyway

What do yall think of The Cure?
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Old 12-24-2005, 01:19 PM   #2
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I don't like them that much... that's all I can say.
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Old 12-24-2005, 01:45 PM   #3
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The Cure will always be on my playlist. My favorite song is-A Forest-any of their hits i can listen to all day,if I'm in the mood of course
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Old 12-24-2005, 11:15 PM   #4
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I was into them for about two years around the time that I was 15. I saw them in 1987 and wasn't impressed. Soon after I lost interest. They are something I grew out of.
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Old 12-25-2005, 10:43 AM   #5
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Guess Mael hasn't seen this thread, yet. Biggest Cure fan 'round here!

I believe they actually started in the '70s, though. I like their music and some songs specifically because they were recommended by other members on here. Although I really don't like that song they did about cats or something.

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Old 12-30-2005, 12:08 AM   #6
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pornography is a decent album...and i'll probably take a lot of flack for this...but i like their newer stuff better...head in the door is probably my favorite album...i don't listen to them all that much but theyre nice here and there.
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Old 12-30-2005, 12:29 AM   #7
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Gasp! There is actually such a thing as a gothling that does not absolutely adore The Cure's Pornography?! What is the world coming to. Their best album, I think, closely followed by Faith and Seventeen Seconds. Then there is Kiss Me x3, Head on the Door, Disintegration, Wish (didn't like it that much at first, but it grew on me) and of course Three Imaginary Boys / Boys Don't Cry.

I feel like I've said this half a hundred times, but I like their earlier stuff best. And yes dear WolfMoon, they started in the '70's. I think they released their first album in '78 actually. Also released some stuff under the name of Cult Hero during the Seventeen Seconds period, and later an album as The Glove, although that was mostly just Robert Smith, around the time of The Top, I think.
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Old 12-30-2005, 07:28 AM   #8
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I like the Cure okay.. the only album I have of theirs is Disintegration.
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Old 12-30-2005, 05:18 PM   #9
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Old 12-30-2005, 05:32 PM   #10
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I like the Cure okay.. the only album I have of theirs is Disintegration.
That's my favorite one... the only one I listen too really.

Love Lullaby!
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Old 12-30-2005, 07:00 PM   #11
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Crazy hair man.He is old and a little overweight now,boo hoo hoo.
He's still kind of attractive though!!
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Old 12-30-2005, 07:19 PM   #12
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Heh, that's why Souxsie started calling him 'Fat Bob', heh-heh.

I wonder if his wife's prettier than he is?
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Old 12-31-2005, 09:43 AM   #13
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I like Disintegration. Haven't heard much of Pornography.
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Old 12-31-2005, 08:17 PM   #14
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i love the cure, but do we really need a thread on them?
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Old 12-31-2005, 08:24 PM   #15
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Hmmm...Pornography is tied with Faith in my opinion.
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Old 01-01-2006, 06:12 AM   #16
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I love the Cure, though I have to be in the mood to listen to them, and I generally like most of their songs.
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Old 01-04-2006, 01:07 PM   #17
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Love the cure! Was mainly punk in 80's and some girl made me listen. I was hooked. By the late 80s I was collecting every bootleg I could get hold of. Ended up with about 300 shows by the time I quit in the late 90's. Still my fav band tho. Through all their phases I find music I enjoy. 77-79 punk, 80-85 (yes Jap whispers is not a pop album) goth, and 86-2006 "alternative" for lack of better word.
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Old 01-04-2006, 02:01 PM   #18
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I was reading an AIM interview that AOL had with Lindsay Lohan not too long ago. She was talking about some of her favorite musicians, and she mentioned The Cure.

LindsayLohanRaw: the cure. they are amazing as well.
MelissaInMusic: i would never have guessed you're a fan of the cure!
LindsayLohanRaw: omg of course!
LindsayLohanRaw: they are so introspective.


Here's the link if anyone is interested
http://music.aol.com/artists/aim_celebrity_interview/lindsay_lohan
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Old 01-04-2006, 02:03 PM   #19
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i love the cure, but do we really need a thread on them?
What's wrong with having a thread on The Cure? We have threads on a whole shitload of other bands and musicians.. I mean, isn't that what this forum is for?
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Old 01-05-2006, 04:26 PM   #20
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I love love love The Cure! I have nearly every album they've come out with, and I'm only missing like two...My favorite album by them is Wild Mood Swings.
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Old 01-06-2006, 03:53 PM   #21
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Their ok, I like some of their songs though, not really into the entirety of the full albums.....I think they should make an album consisting of all the songs I like from them, that'd be cool, like the songs: Cold, Burn, Lullaby *which i noticed you liked to rockandrose -_^*, The Kiss, The Hanging Garden, Halo, and only a few others that I can't seem to remember right now. But over all, I don't mind listening to some of their songs. I haven't heard any of their newer stuff though, is it decent or good?
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Old 01-07-2006, 07:28 AM   #22
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I have to be in the right mood for most of their music. I was a much bigger fan back in my high school days.

I was not too impressed with their newest, self-titled album, "The Cure." I think Robert is grasping at straws these days. Trying to rekindle the old flame of their hay-day, and failing at writing any substantially profound new lyrics. Some of the songs aren't so bad tho.

I haven't liked a whole lot of thier music since Wish. But "Maybe Someday" from Bloodflowers, is rather nice. Depressing and remaniscent.

I do like the fact that he's decided to re-release all of the old albums as double cd's tho. Of course I'm sure part of the motivation behind it is to try drumming up more cash from ancient tunes. This started, I think, with 2002/3's "Join The Dots" a 4 cd collection of b-sides and rarities and remixes - to include at least 4 versions of "A Forest". It comes in a hard-back book format and between the covers is a slimmed down version of the band's biography "10 Imaginary Years", with tons of pictures and crazy stories. When I discovered it in Tower Records it was $70, but I bought it online for about $30. It's the sort of thing that would really only appeal to the long-time Cure aficionado.

Sometime last year, Smith started compiling and releasing the double cd's. Each one comes with the original album on one cd and the 2nd contains all the b-sides, rares, and demo tracks of that album's time period. Which is cool, because before that, the only way you could get a lot of that material was in the form of a friend's friend's friend's bootleg collection. So far I only have Pornography, mainly because I had lost my original copy of it years ago. But at 25 bucks a pop, it might take you a while to collect all of them. Last I saw, they were up to Disintegration on the double cd sets - which comes with videos.

My all-time favorite cure track has to be "Fear of Ghosts" - which was a b-side from one of the Disintegration singles. Can't quite remember which one.
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I think they should make an album consisting of all the songs I like from them
Ever heard of this thing called a cd burner?
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I do like the fact that he's decided to re-release all of the old albums as double cd's tho ... Sometime last year, Smith started compiling and releasing the double cd's.
Actually, the release of those special edition double-CDs is the work of Warner Music, not the bands themselves. You'll notice a lot of "classic" albums have been given this treatment lately, from The Velvet Underground to Weezer.

Warner has a lot of sub-labels under their multi-million dollar umbrella, and Elektra, who owns The Cure's catalogue, is one of them. If Robert Smith had a hand in selecting the material to appear on the special editions, I do not know. Probably, but the decision to release them came from WMG.
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I adore The Cure.
The one song that I listen to the most is Just Like Heaven.
And I do believe that I have a remix of The Forest somewhere...
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