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- A Forest. (Fiction single, 1980) A ghost story from the brothers grim – one to envelope them all. “It’s always the same” is such an archetypal Cure sentiment that before it appeared in A Forest it featured in 10:15 Saturday Night.
- In Between Days. (The Head On The Door, 1985) Caterpillar become butterfly. In Between Days was The Cure’s fourth consecutive Top 20 hit in the UK, but if its predecessor, The Caterpillar, felt like hothouse exotics, all cats, bugs and eccentric embellishments, In Between Days felt less fretful about subverting the hit-writing process.
- Boys Don’t Cry. (Fiction single, 1979) Stiff-upper-lip England debunked. Featured on the demo that secured The Cure’s deal with Fiction, and later resonant enough to command its own episode of BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music, Boys Don’t Cry loosed the emotional repression of late ‘70s Crawley, and helped lads everywhere feel feelings.
- Just Like Heaven. (from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, 1987) So good that Dinosaur Jr got out of bed to cover it. Enough happens in the instrumental prelude to affirm Just Like Heaven’s greatness: the auspicious Gallup-Williams rhythm intro, yearning synth and giddy descendant lead guitar create an entire plotline in 49 seconds, whereupon Robert Smith’s vocal simply rides the euphoric wave to an eternal blue horizon: “Why are you so far away?”
Mar 28, 2024 · Soft Cell – ‘Tainted Love’. The Sugarcubes – ‘Birthday’. Suzanne Vega – ‘Small Blue Thing’. Tom Waits – ‘In the Neighborhood’. With the likes of Prince, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Kate Bush, The Pixies, Yoko Ono and more, The Cure's Robert Smith's 30 favourite songs from the 1980s.
Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, an alternative rock band formed in 1978. His unique guitar-playing style, distinctive singing voice, and fashion sense, often sporting a ...
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Feb 25, 2024 · Formed in 1978 by Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst, the Cure have endured as one of the most crucial alt-rock bands of all time—as they’ve become definitive torchbearers of...
- ‘Friday I’m in Love’
- ‘Let’s Go to Bed’
- ‘Killing An Arab’
- ‘Lovesong’
- ‘Boys Don’T Cry’
- ‘Pictures of You’
- ‘Close to Me’
- ‘In Between Days’
- ‘Just Like Heaven’
- ‘A Forest’
Once labelled a “dumb pop song” by The Cure’s frontman, Robert Smith, there’s no denying the charm of ‘Friday, I’m In Love’. Smith penned the track while he was on the hunt to capture the ‘Friday feeling’ we’ve all found ourselves enslaved to at some point in our lives. “People think we’re supposed to be leaders of some sort of gloom movement. I co...
Another of The Cure’s pop songs is the ginormous and gleaming ‘Let’s Go To Bed’. Smith later said of the song: “I thought it was stupid. It’s a joke. All pop songs are basically saying, ‘Please go to bed with me.’ So I’m going to make it as blatant as possible, set it to this cheesy synth riff.” The track is one of the band’s shinier moments, but a...
Now somewhat maligned for its incendiary title, when Smith penned the track, he wasn’t concerned with any political statement but a literary one. Inspired by Albert Camus’ The Stranger, The Cure uses the post-punk moodiness of their early sonic-sphere to make one of their most visceral pieces. It’s short, spiky and unafraid — the band’s first singl...
Taken from arguably the band’s finest album, 1989’s Disintegration, this track came straight from Smith’s heart. “I wrote ‘Lovesong’ for Mary, my wife, as a wedding present, and I put it on the album to be kind of romantic. I thought it was the weakest song on there, and suddenly it went to No.2 in America. It was kept off the top by, like, Janet J...
Many people would mark out The Cure’s rise to pop prominence as being a decidedly eighties moment. While, in fact, it was more likely that the nineties saw their most successful commercial moments, this song is often lumped in with ‘Love Cats’, ‘Friday I’m In Love’ and the rest of their pop canon. But ‘Boy’s Don’t Cry’ came out in 1979 and establis...
‘Pictures of You’ didn’t become a single until the following year, bringing The Cure into the new decade. Apparently inspired by a photograph of his partner Mary that he found following a fire, the true meaning behind the song has been left open-ended. Smith told Music Box TV in 1989: “It’s about the idea you hold about someone. It goes back a bit ...
Though often more remembered for its stunning Tim Pope-directed music video, which sees the band barreled off a cliff in a wardrobe — there’s an undeniable charm to The Cure’s Head on the Doorsingle ‘Close To Me’. A quintessential Cure rhythm allows the breath vocal of Smith to take the spotlight. “That’s just like days when you wake up, and you ju...
By 1985, The Cure songs started to evolve, and the lead single from their album Head on the Doorwas a shining example of their growth. The eighties are famous for bringing pop and disco into the mainstream and helping genres like grunge emerge from the mire of dirgey rock. It was a critical decade for the band as they seamlessly incorporated many o...
The Cure’s seventh studio album, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, saw a return to the band’s roots. Band members were mixing newer, alternative rock with older, gothic origins. ‘Just Like Heaven’ exemplifies this mix.The Cure paid homage to its early sounds with gothic and post-punk vibes while staying relevant. The method worked and saw this song about ...
When the Cure was first starting, it had a different sound from everyone else in the game — gothic rock. This single comes off the band’s second studio album, Seventeen Seconds, which packed a moody punch with each song. Sonically, this song was critical for The Cure’s beginnings. The band’s first album, Three Imaginary Boys, received more retrospe...
Apr 21, 2024 · With a penchant for emotive tunes – ranging from dark and brooding to bright and bubbly – Smith has led the Cure for the entirety of the band’s existence.
