Posted February 27, 200916 yr 32. The Cure http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drP100/P118/P11807G7814.jpg Robert Smith's enduring band have been making gloriously edgy, textured, gloomy pop songs for 30 years. ALL MUSIC GUIDE BIOGRAPHY Key Studio Album: Disintegration (1989) http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drd600/d684/d68462a7451.jpg Key Compiliations: Staring At The Sea: The Singles (1985) & Galore (1997) http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drd600/d684/d68460e614k.jpghttp://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drd600/d672/d67289j7t36.jpg Career Defining Song: Friday I'm In Love (1991 UK#6 USA#18)
February 27, 200916 yr Author Some Other Key Songs: A Forest (1980 UK#31) The Lovecats (1983 UK#7) Close To Me (1985 UK#24; 1990 UK#13 & USA#97) Love Song (1989 UK#18 USA#2) Are any of you fans of Robert Smith's alternative rock output of the past 30 years or not?
February 27, 200916 yr Anyone here ever had an orgasm? seeing as this is the internet i guess not. ANYWAY... listening to The Cure feels like an orgasam to me THEY ARE THAT GOOD.
February 27, 200916 yr Wish is pretty impressive. My Most Favorite Tracks in the Album: - Open - Apart - Doing The Unstuck - Friday I'm In Love Edited February 27, 200916 yr by funmaker11
February 27, 200916 yr Brilliant! Favourites include 'In Between Days', 'Friday I'm In Love', 'High', 'More Than This' and 'Pictures Of You'. I still need to discover lots though.
February 27, 200916 yr Wish! If you think that is a good album then you seriously need to listen to some of their other albums. So many good songs. Just Like Heaven Caterpillar Everything from The Head on The Door (especially Screw) Catch Boy's Don't Cry (of course!) (Which is really their career defining song) The Walk and so many more...
February 28, 200916 yr I liked them too, not only their music, but love their quirky shakey videos. My faves are Friday I'm in love, Love cats, Boys don't cry and Close to me.
February 28, 200916 yr im alone here then cos i dont like them! apart from 'a forest' ive yet to hear anything else that tickes my tastebuds. i never took robert smith seriously with his 'mock siouxsie' clownlike appearance.... sorry guys! :lol:
February 28, 200916 yr i never took robert smith seriously with his 'mock siouxsie' clownlike appearance.... sorry guys! :lol: That's a tad harsh... Bob and Siouxsie were in the Banshees together at one stage, and, it was also heavily rumoured that they had an affair, so surely it was just kind of natural that Bob slightly took on her appearance.... The Cure have been making music since about 1977 (an absolutely WHOPPING amount of time), when Bob was about 16 years old (same age as Siouxsie coincidentally..), so I think we can pretty much take it as read that Bob was there in the beginning for so much of it, and that he is one of UK music's true originals, so to dismissively make that statement is very erroneous of you IMO.... They went a bit wrong in the 90s, but, by GOD they've produced some pretty damn good stuff recently, in the past eight years or so, their album last year seriously shows up a hell of a lot of the so-called "alternative" or "emo" brigade for being the utter charlatans that they are.... :rolleyes: One young lass in the Metal forum went so far as to say that she used to like bands like Fall Out Boy and MCR, but when she heard the Cure, to quote directly, "I just couldn't take them bands seriously anymore...." :lol: :lol:, oh that did my heart proud to see that... And good on Chris for his comments also, he's one of the coolest youngsters on this whole site (and you can quote me on that mate :P ).... Nice to see that all our efforts to get youngsters into the good sh!t isn't entirely falling on deaf ears.....
February 28, 200916 yr Author im alone here then cos i dont like them! apart from 'a forest' ive yet to hear anything else that tickes my tastebuds. i never took robert smith seriously with his 'mock siouxsie' clownlike appearance.... sorry guys! :lol: One of the things I like about you is that you are never afraid to swim against the musical tide of opinion on certain acts ........ even if I think you are completely wrong. :lol: Anyway my all time favourite The Cure song has to be this: joHcumCAkCM The Cure - A Night Like This (Live 1987 in Theatre Antique D'Orange)
March 1, 200916 yr That's a tad harsh... Bob and Siouxsie were in the Banshees together at one stage, and, it was also heavily rumoured that they had an affair, so surely it was just kind of natural that Bob slightly took on her appearance.... The Cure have been making music since about 1977 (an absolutely WHOPPING amount of time), when Bob was about 16 years old (same age as Siouxsie coincidentally..), so I think we can pretty much take it as read that Bob was there in the beginning for so much of it, and that he is one of UK music's true originals, so to dismissively make that statement is very erroneous of you IMO.... nah... susan is my age, making her 20 in 77, not 16. One of the things I like about you is that you are never afraid to swim against the musical tide of opinion on certain acts ........ even if I think you are completely wrong. :lol: i like what i like, my tastes arnt political (as many peoples are , fitting in with the crowd etc) and if i dont like, i dont like. back in the 70's people couldnt believe my varied record collection, couldnt understand how i could have the sex pistols next to kate bush... as if you werent allowed to like differing styles. bugger them! so being told an act is good doesnt make their music good. im not disputing the cures influence , originality nor quality of music, its just not my bag...
March 1, 200916 yr That's a tad harsh... Bob and Siouxsie were in the Banshees together at one stage, and, it was also heavily rumoured that they had an affair, so surely it was just kind of natural that Bob slightly took on her appearance.... The Cure have been making music since about 1977 (an absolutely WHOPPING amount of time), when Bob was about 16 years old (same age as Siouxsie coincidentally..), so I think we can pretty much take it as read that Bob was there in the beginning for so much of it, and that he is one of UK music's true originals, so to dismissively make that statement is very erroneous of you IMO.... They went a bit wrong in the 90s, but, by GOD they've produced some pretty damn good stuff recently, in the past eight years or so, their album last year seriously shows up a hell of a lot of the so-called "alternative" or "emo" brigade for being the utter charlatans that they are.... :rolleyes: One young lass in the Metal forum went so far as to say that she used to like bands like Fall Out Boy and MCR, but when she heard the Cure, to quote directly, "I just couldn't take them bands seriously anymore...." :lol: :lol:, oh that did my heart proud to see that... And good on Chris for his comments also, he's one of the coolest youngsters on this whole site (and you can quote me on that mate :P ).... Nice to see that all our efforts to get youngsters into the good sh!t isn't entirely falling on deaf ears..... well i am like the third coming of jesus tbh. not that im egotistic at all. oh and incase anyone didnt know, although NME are w*n**rs, they recently gave The Cure the 'Godlike Genius' award, which i feel is well deserved, and also gave away a CD of Cure covers, some of which are pretty good (but a lot of p*** poor ones too).
March 2, 200916 yr oh and incase anyone didnt know, although NME are w*n**rs, they recently gave The Cure the 'Godlike Genius' award, which i feel is well deserved, and also gave away a CD of Cure covers, some of which are pretty good (but a lot of p*** poor ones too). Well, The Cure are one of the bands that have helped shift enough copy for the NME over the years, so they really should be grateful to old Bob..... :rolleyes:
March 2, 200916 yr im not disputing the cures influence , originality nor quality of music, its just not my bag... Well, that's what you should've said in the first place instead of implying that The Cure were somehow a second rate Banshees copycat..... Bob and Susan are contemporaries, so they should get equal respect.... I grew up listening to this guy, The Cure's music really did mean a hell of a lot to me as a teenager, and I still think they're a damn good band who can certainly hold their own against contemporary acts today (and, by GOD, 4:13 Dream is a better album than anything that Coldplay, Fall out Boy or MCR can come up with....), live they are just fukkin' awesome, regularly playing 2.5 to 3 hour sets, and Smith really lets loose on his guitar playing, he's a lot BETTER a guitarist than he's given credit for..... He's actually 50 this year believe it or not..... :) I got my facts slightly wrong, Smithy was born in '59, The Cure formed in '76, so that would put him round about 16/17...... So that really puts him slap bang in the origins of the Punk revolution.....
March 2, 200916 yr Well, that's what you should've said in the first place instead of implying that The Cure were somehow a second rate Banshees copycat..... cant they be both?.... i thought HE was a siouxsie p*** take more then the music being derived from the banshees. im still unsure as to his point in putting on 'bad' make up , id probabally overlook it if i actually liked their material.
March 2, 200916 yr Author I don't know why, but I just remembered this gem & it is on the internet: pS__rSx4l-Y The Mary Whitehouse Experience - Robert Smith Parody Z5h2HaYraEY Robert Smith in a Newman and Baddiel TV Sketch
March 6, 200916 yr I don't know why, but I just remembered this gem & it is on the internet: pS__rSx4l-Y The Mary Whitehouse Experience - Robert Smith Parody Excellent.... :lol: :lol: Rob Newman, fukkin' genius, Russell Brand wishes he was HALF this good... :rolleyes: And, why DID Dave Baddeil just turn into utter sh!t.....?
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