The Cure

[Yanders]

I think as tolhurst becames more and more removed from the band/drunk, smith was left without a reliable partner, and his work became more self indulgent.

I dont think tolhurst added anything as a musician, and their albums reached a bigger audience, but to my ears became less interesting.

At least when Morrissey and robert smith used to insult each other, they were funny.

[Jake]

That seems fair enough to me; the height of The Cure is definitely the distinct trio of albums; Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography, I like most of Kiss Me, at least half of Disintegration is a great album, anything that’s come since hasn’t really registered. I do maintain The Cure had a solid run of singles from “Killing an Arab” through to “Friday I’m in love”, many classic songs released as singles in that period that I could never tire of hearing.

I have a lot of time for The Cure's work from Seventeen Seconds up to The Head on the Door, but something changed after that, especially after they started playing stadiums. The albums starting with Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me became overlong, the intros got longer (it was the beginning of Cure songs having several minutes of intro before the song actually kicked in) and Robert Smith began his schtick of "every album we make is our last one... or is it?" ... Even now, I've noticed that one of the new songs being played is called "Endsong" ... I mean, for fucks sake, they've already got one called "End", and one called "It's Over", and Bloodflowers was pretty much The End of The Cure: The Album.

Disintegration is their most canonised and most popular work, but I honestly don't think it's anywhere near their best album.

I think Weller's comments towards Smith were incredibly uncalled for, and yeah I don't understand what he sees in Noel Gallagher either. However, if I had to choose to take The Cure's back catalogue or Weller's catalogue including The Jam and The Style Council (who did plenty of good stuff, thankyouverymuch) to take to the "desert island", it wouldn't be a contest for me.

[airflamesred]

I used to be in a Cure tribute band, we were called Prevention... It was said we were better

[jason]

I used to be in a Cure tribute band, we were called Prevention... It was said we were better

And I played in a band that used to support the Cure. They were called The Radiators. We was the warm up act for them!

[jason]

I also played in band called The Handles. We opened up for the Doors!