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When Robert Smith and the boys make music - it's just like heaven
Formed during the punk era of the 1970s while still in secondary school in Crawley, West Sussex, England, The Cure has been one of the most enduring bands of the last thirty years, even if that has come at the price of multiple line-up changes, with only original frontman Robert Smith remaining in the band. Shunning the anarchistic tendencies of many punk bands after their formation in 1976, The Cure's first release was Killing an Arab, based on material from French writer Albert Camus' "L'Etranger" (translated into English as The Stranger or The Outsider). This track courted controversy because of its theme (misinterpreted as rascist, it was in fact, about the futility of killing any ethnicity), but it started to secure a small following, which grew following the release of debut album Three Imaginary Boys and non-LP single Boys Don't Cry in 1979, the latter of which would become one of The Cure's most famous songs.
Following this, The Cure moved from their punk leanings into the portentous post-punk territory, releasing three albums of doom-laden rock in three years, Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography, the latter of which charted inside the UK top 10, though the band were repeatedly dogged by the "Second-class Joy Division" tag. (read all)
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The Cure - Just Like Heaven
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1. Boys Don't Cry 2. A Forest 3. Let's Go To Bed 4. The Walk 5. The Lovecats 6. Inbetween Days 7. Close To Me 8. Why Can't I Be You? 9. Just Like Heaven 10. Lullaby 11. Lovesong 12. Never Enough 13. High 14. Friday I'm In Love 15. Mint Car 16. Wrong Number 17. Cut Here 18. Just Say Yes
Release Date: 11/13/2001
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The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 by Robert Smith, Lawrence Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to inject more of a pop sensibility into the band's music. The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums and over thirty singles during the course of their career.
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- The Album Project » Behind The Business: Chapter 1
- Nope, I'm not joking) for 9th grade and was in the marching band drum line. Jeff was one of the few people in Port Angeles that I bonded with. He would play the cure all the time, and I would try to get him to listen to ?Christian? ...
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- Name The Band (: 2 Responses | Created by BraydonISLovex | Send a Send a Gift BraydonISLovex to BraydonISLovex | Skip to Results. Well Y'all know how these work, rytt? x. Sorry It's crappy.. :( ... The Cure ...
- The 405 - Tapetheradio - Stay Inside
- Maybe it's the ennui of so many chirpy Britpop bands, or the thought of another band that sounds like The Cure, or the fact that Tapetheradio sounds like a bootlegger's band, but the songs presented are not just less than the sum of ...
- The Wire - The Elevator Drops rise again
- The band, with its glammy alternative rock sound echoing influences from The Cure to Radiohead, toured around the world, opening for such acts as Garbage, Blur and Nada Surf. Rounded out by guitarist Garvy J. and drummer Scott Fitts, ...
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- The Cure | Official Site
- The official Cure webpage. Includes news, show dates, photos, discography, video downloads, and a message board.
- The Cure - Wikipedia
- The Cure are an English rock band that formed in Crawley, Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, guitarist and main ...
- MySpace.com - The Cure
- MySpace music profile for The Cure with tour dates, songs, videos, pictures, blogs, band information, downloads and more.
- the cure: stiff as toys and tall as men
- Contains information about the band such as a discussion board, tour setlists, and bootleg reviews.
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- Lumpkins Lumpkins Oct 19, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
- Been a fan for a long time and making my own Cure lens. It still needs some work, but should be packed with info, albums and the like.
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