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What's everyone's favourite songs/albums of The Cure?

Apart from Seventeen Seconds I've never really listened to full albums of theirs, just random songs from different ones. Earlier though I listened to Three Imaginary Boys which was great. Really liked all of it. 10.15 Saturday Night is a great opening track.

Favourite song overall would probably be A Forest. Love the moody atmosphere of it.
 
If you like moody Cure then Disintegration is essential. Pornography is maybe the best of the early albums, Head On The Door is my favourite of the pop stuff.
 
Boys Don't Cry is my favourite song of theirs.

Like you, haven't really properly listened to their full albums, brief listen of 17 Seconds and Faith only. What I did hear was mostly stuff that would come on Greatest Hits album, and most of that is actually pretty good.

Have to give them an honest listen of discography one day.

Also, some others favourites...

Close to Me
Just Like Heaven
Lullaby
 
I like all their popular ones, other songs like their old stuff I've just discovered lately, Siamese Twins off Pornography album is a good song I listened to the other day. Never realised they had so many albums, need to give them all a good listen some day.
 
sullydnl said:
If you like moody Cure then Disintegration is essential. Pornography is maybe the best of the early albums, Head On The Door is my favourite of the pop stuff.
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Yep Disintegration is simply genius. Although it might leave you feeling a bit shit afterwards.
 
Six Different Ways is my all time favourite track by them, followed by In Between Days and Just Like Heaven
 
Olly said:
Just listened to Disintegration. It's really good and got the whole moody thing that I like, but it's a little too slow for me.
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Maybe try Pornography or Faith next, both have the same moody vibe but are closer to their more post-punk-y early sound.
 
Love the cure. Wish is probably my favourite album, considered average by most but it's got a nice balance of melancholy and upbeat tunes. Pornography is also brilliant if you are in the right mood. Objectively I'd say the best three are pornography, disintegration and maybe bloodflowers?
 
Olly said:
I keep listening to Three Imaginary Boys. It's great.
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Probably their most consistent album, solid all the way through but to be fair I loved all their stuff through to Kiss Me x3 with only the Top going a bit wobbly in places. Disintegration was still a fair album and I can't find much to fault with the later stuff but do think they were phoning it in a bit on some of the slower stuff they produced from Kiss Me onwards. Favourite single is probably still Killing An Arab, not least for the misunderstandings it caused even before the current political climate, probably followed by A Forest, Close To Me and Grinding Halt.
 
Bury Red said:
Probably their most consistent album, solid all the way through but to be fair I loved all their stuff through to Kiss Me x3 with only the Top going a bit wobbly in places. Disintegration was still a fair album and I can't find much to fault with the later stuff but do think they were phoning it in a bit on some of the slower stuff they produced from Kiss Me onwards. Favourite single is probably still Killing An Arab, not least for the misunderstandings it caused even before the current political climate, probably followed by A Forest, Close To Me and Grinding Halt.
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Yeah, The Top is a surprisingly weak album given what came before and after.
 
Bury Red said:
Probably their most consistent album, solid all the way through but to be fair I loved all their stuff through to Kiss Me x3 with only the Top going a bit wobbly in places. Disintegration was still a fair album and I can't find much to fault with the later stuff but do think they were phoning it in a bit on some of the slower stuff they produced from Kiss Me onwards. Favourite single is probably still Killing An Arab, not least for the misunderstandings it caused even before the current political climate, probably followed by A Forest, Close To Me and Grinding Halt.
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Yeah Killing An Arab is a great song, as is Grinding Halt. I can't get enough of that at the moment.

I listened to Pornography last night. I liked that one quite a bit. What's the best compilation for non-album songs, B-sides and all that kind of stuff?
 
Olly said:
Yeah Killing An Arab is a great song, as is Grinding Halt. I can't get enough of that at the moment.

I listened to Pornography last night. I liked that one quite a bit. What's the best compilation for non-album songs, B-sides and all that kind of stuff?
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Staring At The Sea was probably the best B side compilation but only on the cassette version (Standing On a Beach was the main compilation on cassette 1) which you'd struggle to find/play these days. I know in some markets the whole compilation on CD was called Staring at the Sea but don't think they all carried the full track listing of B-Sides.
 
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Bury Red said:
Staring At The Sea was probably the best B side compilation but only on the cassette version (Standing On a Beach was the main compilation on cassette 1) which you'd struggle to find/play these days. I know in some markets the whole compilation on CD was called Staring at the Sea but don't think they all carried the full track listing of B-Sides.
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I got the Staring at the Sea CD BTW, it's good :) I also listened to the cassette version online which was also good.
 
Olly said:
Just listened to Disintegration. It's really good and got the whole moody thing that I like, but it's a little too slow for me.
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I've changed my mind, it's great, I love it.





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Just picked up two tickets(Christmas present for the mother)to see them live in a couple of weeks in London.

Oh and Plainsong is a forgotten classic.
 
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Close to Me
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Spikey early post punk, to bizarre gothic, to electro synth pop, to epics about drowning in dust on weird concept albums.

Great band with a broad and brilliant back catalogue (The Kiss, Fire in Cairo, Accuracy and Just Like Heaven are some of my favourites).
 
My girlfriend and her daughter are going to see them live in Lisbon next Wednesday. Damn, I should go too.
 
Saw them last night at the SSE arena, they were insanely good. Although I had to leave before they finished as they came back out for an encore at played for at least another 30 minutes. Well worth seeing if you ever get the chance.
 
Not many albums I'd give a near perfect score.....but Disintegration is one of them.
 
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