so, i may as well say it here, the cure is my favourite band of all time. Sure, i've loved many others, but i'll always go back to the Cure...no matter what....they have been around since at least 1979 (maybe a bit before) and still making records...and good ones at that...it's true, there are some albums that i don't completely love, but i'd say the tract record is quite astounding...i'll always love all the eighties albums the best, beginning with this one:
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| the cure's first album (US release) 1979 |
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| First album (UK release) 1979 |
what all can be said? this album has some of my favourite cure tracks: boys don't cry, jumping someone else's train, fire in cairo, accuracy, three imaginary boys...of course, i'm mostly speaking of the US release, since that's the one i personally own...
my first exposure to the cure was 120 minutes on MTV back in the mid-eighties...i saw the videos for boys don't cry and just like heaven (1987?) i bought Staring at the Sea some time after...loved that tape (yes, i said tape) i think the tape started with Killing an Arab, Boys don't cry, jumping someone else's train, a forest, primary, a walk...so good...although i never understood killing an arab...i learned later it is loosely based off the stranger by albert camus
personally, i think my favorite cure albums are (not in order) boys don't cry, kiss me kiss me kiss me, disintegration, seventeen seconds, and faith, and recently i discovered blood flowers is also quite good.
