i've got cure fever
 

okay, lately i've been listening to cure, the albums i have are pornography, kiss me kiss me kiss me and standing on the beach-singles.

which record next? i want the first one, but any other suggestions are welcome.

Disintegration.

Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Carnage Visors and Pornography are my favorites, with Pornography at the top of the heap.

disintegration

HEAD ON THE DOOR

the first one

why everyone's so heavily into the early CDs? I prefer Disintegration or Wish much more to the early phase.

I can really only take them up to The Head On The Door as an album band.
After that it's just some songs here and there.
Maybe it's my age, but their poppiness kind of gets to me in later years.
For some reason the pop style on The Walk/Japanese whispers doesn't bother me though, and I like The Top way more than most fans and critics seem to.

kiss me kiss me kiss me has song after wailing guitar song of freakouts

The only song I still like from that album is The Snakepit. That one is killer, though.

I've been listening to the deluxe editions of Pornography and 17 Seconds lately. those are both such good albums.

Disintegration really is beautiful in it's own right, but doesn't rock me like those two do.

beyond good music, who else but Robert SMITHRA can save the world from MechaStreisand?

I think "Head on the Door" is a better album then "Disintergration", both are good though.

i went through a massive cure faze when i was younger. i used to really like the remix album and watched the singles video a lot too.

so you've got cure fever, and the only cure is the cure????

You make me feel like I am young again...
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/s...cure-love-song

Faith, 17 Seconds and Disintegration.

Three Imaginary Boys is good, but the revised version called Boys Don't Cry adds singles and takes off a few of the lesser tracks is better overall to me.

But you already have the singles collection, so...

Pretty much any and all from the beginning to Kiss Me...are my favorites...I remember going to a midnite sale for my brother to buy Disintegration...never fully got into that one as much.

every album up to disintegration

I was listening to Boys Don't Cry today, so good.

Is Disintegration considered a part of the Dream Pop genre?

damn, i read it as Curve at first and got all excited.

i like them. but i like curve more.

Great video of Killing an Arab (no date but it seems to be from 1979 or 1980 - EDIT: it's Boston 1980 Club Underground):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y7lULaE6kv4

A forest - Amsterdam 1980:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=biFxSwvqwN8

Pornography Munich 1984:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ByT3_1_KGA

Secrets - Boston 1980 Club Underground:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LM-bJ1AZLZM

1980 TV interview Countdown:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDXAIerOQSk

Live 18th July 1980 Apeldoorn:
Part 1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xp6UJsCCilI

Part 2:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CmROooJA7cE

Part 3:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gNPO8Wk2oMY

Part 4 (may remind something to those who've seen the Staring at the sea video):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YpSWMzouCe8

The Figurehead - Pippbrook Mill Dec.1981 (awesome):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQjIXJv-HHY

Cold - Paris 1982:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ehf_t58uMrw

One hundred years - Oxford Road Show 1983:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qy22YrRCWww

1984 interview in Japan:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fL47LFprLuw

curve rules.

this band sucks.their only listenable albums are japanese whispers, disintegration, and 3 imaginary boys. but even those get boring very quickly.

All of their albums from '79-'92 are all worth listening to, sans the synthpop thing.

Go with The Head on the Door next.

I guess I don't have the same definitions of 'sucks' and 'boring' then :D

Dude The Cure is great I was the only kid in middle school listening to them. Pornography is my fav. then Disitegration, the Trilogy DVD is is Fentastic!!! listen to that shit loud!!! Boys don't cry is good as well & Mixed up contains some awesome remixes...

i don't hate the cure, i just think they suck. and i can even enjoy sucky bands every now and then (i enjoy morrissey, and i know he fucking sucks dick! -- no pun intended)... but man.. just listen to that song on 3 imaginary boys where robert tries his hardest to sound like a ranting mark e smith.. or every other song where he tries to be in gang of four, ranting away.. he sucks!

cure have been one of my favourite bands for a long, long time... Well before I was into SY or anything. Don't listen to anyone telling you to get Head On the Door - I have no idea why people like that album so much. It's kind of like if you like David Bowies Let's Dance if you can imagine that. If you're big into pornography too I wouldnt recomend that one next. Get 17 seconds I'd say.

the cure are my favourite band. get disintegration next. and look into the bsides. i've never known another band with bsides this good.
oh, and i met the cure a couple of weeks ago..hehe.
wish is good for new fans. i think head on the door is overated and the top is underrated.

disintegration, the last album i liked by them was bloodflowers, very underrated. the top is good too, not many singles but a good album.

still, i'm super sick of them; they are coming to mexico (three dates in some enormodome) i'm not going, i'm not into seeing wigged balloon bob smith sing the lovecats...i loathe that song so much.

seventeen seconds and pornography are my favorite but youve got pornography i see. so get seventeen seconds. a forest is killer.

edit: i just realised how old this thread is

I've never been big into them but I really like Standing on a Beach.

This guy knows what he's talking about.

they never play lovecats live...

this gal...

I love Lovecats (the song from that period I really hate is The walk). However I agree the way Robert is bloated now is a bit of a put-off, along with the Shecter endorsement (I want to see the Fenders back).

Let's make love.

thank goodness!!!


the walk, total new order rip off (that's something that irks me a bit, the cure were always ripping off other bands as they were becoming popular, only doing songs of their own in said style), but a fun song...remember the unplugged version? it always makes me laugh.

yeah, that shecter signature model is hideous.

The rumbling toms, simple bass lines, chorus drenched guitars, lyrics about death... isn't that the first few albums in a nutshell (minus the debut)? If I'm not in the right mood, those can really bum me out.

Johnny Marr (backintheday) made an interesting distinction between meloncholy and depression; meloncholy has a sweetness to it that depression doesn't. Smiths=meloncholy, early Cure=depression.

'how beautiful you are' off kiss me is a damn near perfect lyric.

So sue me, I love Disintegration. There's more going on that on, say, Porno. D can have, like, three or four guitar parts going on at the same time, whereas the minimal music on the early stuff means that you better like the first 30 seconds of the song because it ain't changing much.

The boxed set has a handfull of masterpieces.

What's up with their newer stuff? The Cure, Bloodflowers, etc. Anyone get into those? The acoustic versions on the Best of? How did they made that boring?

i like bloodflowers.