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Cure
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.5824
Cure Album Rankings
1
The Cure sings for itself, or so it seems, with Robert Smith's lonesome lovelorn lyrics - sad stories of his forsaken luck with love, something that he cherishes as much as the sweet moments he would
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2
Falling somewhere between official release and compilation,Boys Don't Crywas released in February 1980 in hopes to get the band exposure outside of the U.K..
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3
Faith. An internal sense of belief insomething, ranging in scope from the confident to the utterly unassailable.
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4
Staring at the Sea: The Singlescollects all of the Cure's biggest U.K. hits and best-known songs from the late '70s and early '80s.
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5
After recording one of their darkest albums, 1983'sThe Top, the Cure regrouped and shuffled their lineup in 1984 and ended up changing their musical direction rather radically.
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6
'Wish' is structured in a similar fashion to the previous two albums in the most superficial sense, eg, it lasts for an hour plus.
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7
Maybe it was youthful exuberance or perhaps it was the fact that the band itself was not pulling all the strings,Three Imaginary Boysis not only a very strong debut, but a near oddity (it's an admitte
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8
This assignment seemed to be a backhanded blessing. A poisoned chalice waiting to be filled.
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9
After six albums, The Cureâs introspective mood had begun to barrel into depression (heralded bySeventeen Secondsâ andFaithâs lyrical downturn) and, in 1982, was brought to the cliff's
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10
For some reason, the Cure have never gotten the critical recognition that they deserve as one of the most unique bands of the rock era.
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11
Anyone who has been a fan of The Cure longer than fifteen years will tell you the extreme difficulty in trying to accurately describe their career in just a few sentences.
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12
If you've been reading these reviews in alphabetical order, you'll know that I admitted one review ago that I buy some albums on impulse.
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13
The latest in an ongoing series of The Cure remasters, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is truly an album of excess.
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14
Track listing: 1) Tape; 2) Open; 3) High; 4) Pictures Of You; 5) Lullaby; 6) Just Like Heaven; 7) Fascination Street; 8) A Night Like This; 9) Trust; 10) Doing The Unstuck; 11) The Walk; 12) Let's Go
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15
'The Top' was always going to have a difficult job to do, balancing a walk between Cure fans old and then new.
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16
Track listing: 1) Let's Go To Bed ; 2) The Dream; 3) Just One Kiss; 4) The Upstairs Room; 5) The Walk; 6) Speak My Language ; 7) Lament; 8) The Lovecats .
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17
Track listing: 1) Lullaby (Extended Mix); 2) Close To Me (Closer Mix); 3) Fascination Street (Extended Mix); 4) The Walk (Everything Mix) ; 5) Lovesong (Extended Mix); 6) A Forest (Tree Mix) ; 7) Pict
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18
Iâve been waiting for this one. Watching, as a faint trickle of rumours gradually meandered their way into a steady stream of information. Puzzling, as Ross Robinson was announced as co-producer.
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19
Track listing: 1) Want ; 2) Club America; 3) This Is A Lie; 4) The 13th; 5) Strange Attraction; 6) Mint Car ; 7) Jupiter Crash; 8) Round & Round & Round; 9) Gone! ; 10) Numb; 11) Return ; 12)
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20
It's a mark of an ultimately vintage band that even complete novices recognise the indelible mark left by that voice, those basslines, and that hair! For fans past and present the wound goes deeper th
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22
On this two-song single, the title track appears in a basic, straightforward "radio" mix. Given that the song itself is Cure-by-numbers, everything ends up sounding fairly bland all the way through.
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24
Quite why Elektra felt the need to follow the British example of two-part singles isn't exactly clear, but nonetheless that's what happened here: all the more frustrating given that only two songs ar
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26
Either the highlight of Smith's abilities to turn out a massively catchy pop single or an annoying sell-out, depending on who one talks to, "Friday I'm in Love" is a jaunty, upbeat track featuring th
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28
The lead single from Wish is a sparkling little number -- while not the strongest of the band's singles, it's still a nice love lyric and performance from the band all around.
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35
A slightly shorter but not noticeably different version of the Paul Oakenfold mix of "Close to Me" from Mixed Up leads off this particular Cure EP.
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37
Taken directly from the Mixed Up album, "Never Enough" in the long version included here is an absolute monster of a track.
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39
Breaking the trend of releasing remixes that were simply straightforward extensions of the core tracks, here Smith fully turned over the reins to semi-regular studio assitant Bryan 'Chuck' New.
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43
Disintegration's biggest pop hit, "Love Song" itself was written for Smith's wife Mary as a wedding gift; while the low-key arrangement may not seem immediately suited for a number about romance, its
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45
The lead single in America from Disintegration, "Fascination Street" is a compelling example of the Cure at its considerable best.
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50
You'd be forgiven for thinking this was a comeback single, seeing as The Cure have been lying low for as long as four years now.
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53
Compiling the various tracks from the UK singles for Gone!, Strange Attraction not only wisely returns to the one-single-only US format for Cure releases, but provides a nice adjunct to the likes of
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