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Faith
Released: September 1981
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Released: September 1981
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Certainly not the "darkest" the Cure would eventually get, Faith is, as represented by the cover art, one of the most "gray" records out there. Melancholy and despondent (the feel of funerals and...
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...Happily Ever After
Released: 1981
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Released: 1981
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For American ears only, in the years before a new deal with Elektra finally granted the Cure the access to the airwaves that they'd all but given up dreaming of, ...Happily Ever After is nothing...
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The Head on the Door
Released: 1985
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Released: 1985
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After recording one of their darkest albums, 1983's The Top, the Cure regrouped and shuffled their lineup in 1984 and ended up changing their musical direction rather radically. While the band...
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Japanese Whispers
Released: 1984
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Released: 1984
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After the fallout both psychologically and physically of Pornography, it looked unlikely that anyone would hear from the Cure ever again. Surprisingly, from 1982-1983 Robert Smith and (now...
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Peel Sessions
Released: 1988
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Released: 1988
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Though it was by no means the greatest John Peel session that the Cure ever recorded (that honor belongs to their 1981 airing), the band's debut on the show, in late 1978, remains one of their...
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The Top
Released: 1984
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Released: 1984
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Recorded in the midst of Robert Smith's tenuous tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Top is arguably the most hedonistic record the Cure ever produced. Essentially Smith and Lol Tolhurst...
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The Walk
Released: 1983
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Released: 1983
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This 12" EP includes the Cure's unlikely dance hit "The Walk," along with the bouncy, whimsical "Upstairs Room" and "The Dream," plus the darker "La Ment" (which Robert Smith apparently wrote with...
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Pornography
Released: 1982
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Released: 1982
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Later hailed as one of the key goth rock albums of the '80s and considered by many hardcore Cure fans to be the band's best album, Pornography was largely dismissed upon its 1982 release,...
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Seventeen Seconds
Released: May 1980
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Released: May 1980
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It's hard to believe that the Cure could release an album even more sparse than Three Imaginary Boys, but here's the proof. The lineup change that saw funkstery bassist Michael Dempsey squeezed out...
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