Why we love Robert Smith . . . . . .

I love this clip . . . . . He’s not wrong mind!

The Cure 2019 Inductees to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame

OTHER VOICES - THE CURE

 Sunday meditations . . . . The Cure - Other Voices

psychedelicjungle

The Cure : “Live Lullabies and Other Bedtime Stories” 1996 | fight this sickness. . . . . find a cure!

The Cure - Live Lullabies - fight this sickness

unfortunately it is in two disc downloads and not chaptered but it is highly listenable!

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Maybe should offer ink to sites like fight this sickness find a cure more often! but this is a cracker

Peter posts :

The Cure : “Live Lullabies and Other Bedtime Stories"

Yellow Vin Records

YVR 4030

Made in Europe

2024

Recorded :

26.01.1996

Brasil, Rio de Janeiro - Praça da Apoteose 

"Hollywood Rock" 

Band :

Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, Perry Bamonte and Roger O'Donnell

tracklist :

side A :

01. fascination street

02. a night like this

03. pictures of you

04. lullaby

side B :

01. just like heaven

02. the walk

03. let's go to bed

04. Friday I'm in love

05. in between days

06. boys don't cry

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

As it’s Sunday 😉

Just Like Heaven

The Cure

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

• The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Music of The Day | The Cure - Never Enough | source: american primitives

 

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American Primitives

Performance of the Day | The Cure - Friday I'm in Love (Live on MTV Most Wanted) With Ray Cokes!

 I know it's not Friday but this came down the pike on Flikkbok and had to share it . . . . . such great fun and a happy Robert, great intro and fancy playing along with them!?

Top Hat Crew "Live Music Archivists"

TURN IT UP! Window Rattling Loud!

Song of the Day : THE CURE - Play For Today (1980)

Can’t remember where I found this [not my usual sources] but no matter it didn’t transfer anyway so here it is unadulterated and just because it is EARLY Cure!

1980!

Live performance of the day :: THE CURE / FIGUREHEAD : TRILOGY

 THE CURE : Figurehead / Trilogy . . . . . .someone posted this online and it struck me . . . . 

Track of the Day :: THE CURE : DISINTEGRATION - Live from Trilogy

 MORE CURE FOR SURE

Disintegration 

Sounds of The Day :: THE CURE - LIVE IN HELSINKI 2022

 Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure (2022)

found this one wondering about t’interweb!

Sound of the Day

 The Cure - Close To You

The Cure at The Hammersmith Odeon::Aquarium Drunkard

The Cure :: Charlotte Sometimes (Soundcheck, 1982)

Posted on July 18, 2022

"The bootleg live version of “Charlotte Sometimes” from The Cure’s soundcheck at The Hammersmith Odeon could be considered the definitive version of the song. It’s a perfect concoction of composition and environment, adding an additional ghostly layer to an already haunting song. The lo-fi recording quality and cavernous reverb from the empty venue perfectly plays into the song’s eerie nature. It’s as if The Cure are performing to an audience of phantoms beneath the dim lights of an abandoned theater – is there a better way to hear The Cure than that?"

Always worth a read and this is no exception likened to Bach, Mozart and others the sound check of Charlotte Sometimes is worth discussing but to be fair I think we have heard better versions and the low-fi plea is falling on deaf ears here but you make your own mind up

Robert Smith and Mary Poole . . . . . .

Mary Poole and Robert Smith, 1986, by Richard Young.

Robert and Mary became a couple when they were 14, and married two years after this photo, famously giving her “Love Song” for the occasion.

“I gave Mary a tape of it for a wedding present,” Robert told Select magazine in August 1991. “She went away to the other room to listen to it, then smothered me with kisses. It’s the most upfront, true, frank and honest thing I’ve ever sung. It’s about love, but also the inability to ever really know someone.”

“Love Song” also became The Cure’s biggest hit, reaching #2 in the US (and only #18 in the UK) in 1989.

from the glorious Sounds of '71

Reasons we love Robert . . . . . . . . I think the word is 'taciturn' . . . . I like it!

THE CURE AT GLASTONBURY 2019 + FRESH & ALIVE

 EVERYBODY'S AT IT

SEEKING A CURE  THAT IS . . . . . . . . . . . 

The Cure - Glastonbury 2019 - Fresh & Alive

look at that line up!

more cure here . . . . . . 

Track List:

Plainsong

Pictures Of You

High

A Night Like This

Lovesong

Last Dance

Burn

Fascination Street

Never Enough

Push

Inbetween Days

Just Like Heaven

From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea

Play For Today

A Forest

Shake Dog Shake

Disintegration

Lullaby

The Caterpillar

The Walk

Friday I'm In Love

Close To Me

Why Can't I Be You

Boys Don't Cry

The Cure - Leipzig 1990 - Pictures of You

cure it in Leipzig 1990 - Voodoo Wagon

The Cure - Disintegration 

The Cure - Rare Sessions - DISINTEGRATION 2014 - Floppy Boot Stomp

The Cure 1990 - 2019 at the Floppy Wagon . . . . the Voodoo Stomp? You know you'll want it!?

IN NEED OF A CURE?

The Cure - Disintegration - Rare Sessions 2014 Floppy Boot Stomp 

 This is what we want . . . . . . well some of us! 

 . . . . there's a lot of it about . . . . . 

Friday I'm In Love - The Cure Glastonbury 2019

The Cure - Live in Leipzig 1990 - Voodoo Wagon

oh you know you will want to . . . . . . . . 

BBC intro to THE CURE AT GLASTO! 2019

BURN

SONG OF THE DAY - Singles Bought When they Came [out an occasional series!] - The Cure - Caterpillar

 Mostly for Fight this Sickness and Find a Cure for posting the Nouvelle Vague yesterday and yes I bought this single when it came out . . . . . . I have no clear idea why except I loved it! Thank you FTSFAC!

The Cure - Live Cleveland, OH. 1985 - Floppy Boot Stomp

 If you missed it in 2015 or even 2012 Floppy Boot Stomp have posted links to this old favourite!!

The Cure Live in Cleveland 1985 - Floppy Boot Stomp

In Between Days - Tops Of The Pops 1985

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THE CURE - Unplugged 81-91 - Floppy Boot Stomp

 More super glistening gems from Folly Boot Stomp and Voodoo Wagon's Silent Way this evening

The Cure - Unplugged 81-91 - Floppy Boot Stomp

The Cure - Unlugged and More
Broadcast sources @160

Recorded At – MTV Studios London
Recorded At – Rock Werchter Festival

Notes
Tracks 1-7 Unplugged MTV Show 3/3/1991
Tracks 8-19 Werchter Rock Festival Belgium 5/7/1981
Total time 72:30

1-[drums and tuning up; soundcheck]
2-Cold [soundcheck]
3-Pornography [take 1; soundcheck]
4-The Holy Hour [soundcheck]
5-All Cats Are Grey [soundcheck]
6-Siamese Twins [instrumental; soundcheck]
7-Pornography [take 2; soundcheck]
8-The Figurehead
9-In Your House
10-M
11-The Drowning Man    
12-Cold
13-Siamese Twins
14-Primary
15-Three Imaginary Boys
16-At Night
17-Lament
18-One Hundred Years
19-Play For Today
20 A Forest
21-Faith
22-Pornography
23-10:15 Saturday Night
24-Killing an Arab
25-Forever

Check this . . . . . . .from the 1991 set superb!

The Cure at their very best!

01 -- Let's Go To Bed [0:00] 02 -- Just Like Heaven [4:02] 03 -- The Caterpillar [7:55] 04 -- The Blood [11:38]

Hanging Gardens of Pornography

On this day in music history: May 3, 1982 - “Pornography”, the fourth studio album by The Cure is released. Produced by Phil Thornalley and The Cure, it is recorded at RAK Studio One in London from January - February 1982. Part three in a trilogy of albums that includes “Seventeen Seconds” and “Faith”, much of the material is written and recorded while The Cure is in a state of flux. With leader Robert Smith battling depression, drug use and in-fighting threaten to tear the band apart. The situation becomes so intense that it drives bassist Simon Gallup to quit after the sessions conclude, reducing the band to a duo of just Smith and Laurence Tolhurst. At first, The Cure’s label Fiction Records is not enamored of the record and feels that it will not sell. The band’s manager Chris Parry has co-producer Phil Thornalley “polish up” the track “The Hanging Garden” (#34 UK) for single release, feeling it has the best chance of being a potential hit. In spite of the labels doubts, it becomes a career defining release for the band, and a high water mark for the goth music genre and subculture. Only The Cure’s second album to receive a release in the US, it is licensed to A&M Records, before being reissued by Elektra Records in 1988 who acquires the band’s back catalog after signing with them. The album is remastered and reissued on CD in 2005, as a two disc Deluxe Edition. The first disc features the original eight track album, with the second disc containing fourteen bonus tracks including demos and live performances from the time of its original release. “Pornography” peaks at number eight on the UK album chart.

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MORE CURE

"Lovesong"

Fascinating detail on this account of the success of 'Lovesong'  and Disintegration' and how a record label can really fail to read the zeitgeist and miss cue almost everything they think is going on. The account of what to do when turning thirty is moderately scary not to say a unique approach to depression but there are precedents!! The affect of people being sacked (Tolhurst) given the levels of self indulgence and drug use are sad and additionally depressing but I guess that they were just 'normal' or just like us, after all! . . . . . . . . . . 

On this day in music history: May 1, 1989 - “Disintegration”, the eighth studio album by The Cure released. Produced by David M. Allen and Robert Smith, it is recorded at Hookend Recording Studios in Checkendon, Oxfordshire, UK from November 1988 - February 1989. After the breakthrough success of The Cure’s 1987 album “Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me”, bandleader Robert Smith finds himself at odds, with the tidal wave of fame and mainstream exposure, that comes his way. Newly engaged to his childhood sweetheart Mary Poole, she and Smith move to the Maida Vale district of London, in semi seclusion to get away from the press and fans. Feeling pressured to follow up “Kiss Me”, and depressed at the prospect of turning thirty, Smith begins taking LSD to cope. The result is a return to the bands dark, gothic sound of years past. Upon hearing the finished album, The Cure’s US record label Elektra Records feel that Smith and the band have committed “commercial suicide”, by making a deliberately “gloomy” record. They even go as far as asking Smith, to push back the release date of the album, feeling that it is “willfully obscure”. To everyone’s surprise, it becomes The Cure’s most commercially successful album. “Disintegration” also is the final Cure album to credit founding member Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, who is fired during the recording sessions. Originally The Cure’s drummer and later keyboardist, his contributions to the band diminish throughout the 80’s, as his drinking and drug taking escalate. It’s later revealed that Tolhurst did not play on the album at all, but Robert Smith gives his old friend partial songwriting credit along with the other band members. It spins off four singles including “Fascination Street” (#1 Modern Rock, #46 Pop), “Lullaby” (#5 UK, #74 US Pop) and “Love Song” (#2 US Pop, #18 UK), the latter becomes The Cure’s biggest single in the US. The album is remastered and reissued on CD in 2010 as triple CD deluxe edition, featuring the original album on the first disc, the second disc featuring demos and tracks as works in progress. The third CD features an expanded version of the live album “Entreat” (titled “Entreat Plus”) including all twelve songs from “Disintegration” performed live. It is also reissued on vinyl as a 180 gram double vinyl LP, releasing the full album in that format in its entirety for the first time. Original LP pressings released on a single disc omitting “Homesick” and “Last Dance”. This is done to improve the vinyl LP’s sound quality. At nearly seventy two minutes, the full album is too long to fit on two LP sides comfortably.  "Disintegration" peaks at number three on the UK album chart, number twelve on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

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