Yeah , ha . Boys Dont Cry is a bad representation of what they are I think . OR maybe the best ? I cant stand that song . At all .
They're hit or miss with me . Some songs, like All I want , or even that song on The Crow soundtrack , really hit home with me . So much else is like an icepick to the temple .

I love that album.

Me likey:

Three Imaginary Boys
Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography
Bits of "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me"
Disintegration

Yes, at the heart of things, I am a goth...:o :o

i likes em. especially disintegration. and their hits are really good fun to dance to when in an indie fleapit.

These here are their best records.

I like Boys don't cry (the song).

Just curious, why don't you like The Head on the Door?

good clarification

The Head on the Door really only has two decent songs on it; "The Blood" and "Sinking." The rest are either boring, by-the-numbers Cure ("A Night Like This") or plain, flat-out stoopid and annoying ("Close To Me," "Six Different Ways," "Screw").
I liked it when it came out, but with each passing year it sounded worse to me.

i was listening to seventeen seconds today, good stuff.

You really think "A Night Like This" is by-the-numbers Cure? REALLY? Wow.
I like "Kyoto Song" off that album a lot.


I want to know what's up with Robert's recent obsession with blowjobs. I think he's referenced them on at least one song on the past three albums.

I haven't paid attention to the lyrics on the last three albums. They're all terrible.

I don't think The Cure could have possibly been "by-the-numbers" in 1985 since they were still expanding into new territory. Nothing on The Head on the Door sounds too much like anything they ever did before.

Bloodflowers, the self titled, and the new one all have references to it. (The new one's on one of the singles, I can't be arsed to figured out which one)

And hey, Bloodflowers was okay. Not GREAT, by any means, but not a total trainwreck, unlike the others.

singles band, one of the best pop songwriters ever, bit hit and miss w albums but who cares about that.

What, she's a Cure fan ? :D Wrong thread I guess ;)

I have the Cure's Festival 2005 DVD, but I haven't watched it in years. I mean, I really like a good many of their songs (mostly from the early dark stuff like Seventeen Seconds and Pornography), but by now I think even Robert Smith has grown a bit bored with it all.

Also, the Cure have in their catalog what I consider to be the most unlistenably depressing song of all time, "The Same Deep Water As You"...

the voice of robert smith is so warm. never a male singer sings so good imo. and the cure have extended intros or bridges that take you in the world of the song each time.
"wish" was one of the albums that took me the most time to dig it completly. there was also les thugs's "strike" and sonic youth's "washing machine".

I love it all. I have their entire discography on my Zune + rarities. They're in my top 5 for sure.

Pornography is probably my favorite. I definitely listen to it most.

The Top is really crazy, have you ever watched a live video of The Caterpillar? Oh man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfxb1dJeY4k

Three Imaginary Boys is one of my all-time favorite punk albums.

Faith is really cool, Doubt being my favorite track. THAT SONG IS PERFECT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBri3WY2Fs4

Seventeen Seconds is so damn moody and tense... and A Forest is incredible. Carpathian Forest did a really sweet cover of that track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVyBIzxRrvA

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is very fun, I love when Robert Smith gets funky. HEY HEY HEY!!!!

Disintegration and The Head on the Door are classics, of course.

The Ross Robinson produced self-titled is neat, I don't know why people rag on it. I like the album art a lot too.

I don't really listen to Bloodflowers or 4:13 Dream... but Freakshow is really catchy.

Anyone remember them and KoRn doing that acoustic set of Make Me Bad/In Between Days together for KoRn's Unplugged? I shot a load through my jeans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_SvtSQORsg

That is all.

Faith is my favourite album, Charlotte Sometimes is my favourite song. I don't like Pornography as much as the preceding ones, I just can't get it into it.

you cant beat this

I hate this band.

I also love the Cure. It´s almost as great as Joy Division. I think the best albums are the first four, but I like their all albums. Maybe Wild Mood Swings is their weakest, but that doesn´t mean it´s not good album. I´ve got all the other albums, but I don´t have the two live albums they made in the nineties (are the names Paris and Show). And I have Disintegration and Entreat only in c-cassette (I´m going to buy Disintegration-vinyl someday). I think 4:13 Dream is very great album, at least as great as Kiss me. I was very happy when I got it, because they still can make good records!

anything after *wish* kinda falls flat on me...
i've depleted *kiss me...* - can't listen to it anymore without spiralling into depression, but the entire body of work has an unmatched potency..

unbeatable & very, very personal...

Oh definitely. Either that or Bloodflowers.

I like Bloodflowers quite a lot. Maybe it´s not as great as Pornography and Disintegration (Smith said in some interview that these three belongs together), but I think it´s very near of them. I also like the Cure-album a lot. I was disappointed at first to Wild mood swing, I even thought that maybe Cure haven´t got anything to give me anymore, but after few years I learnt also to like that album. But I think still if I have to choose the weakest album, that it is Wild Mood.