Top 5 albums The Cure

Nah it's massively overrated. For me it was the start of Rob losing his muse. Some parts of Disintegration are a snoozefest. It's still a good album but nowhere near their best.

 

Few opinions actually hurt to read but this will always be one of them for me. But, I have to admit, I thought the same thing when I first discovered it, before I knew what to expect. Once I realized it's supposed to be a slow burner it all clicked right into focus.

 

I've been playing it on and off since release day and I still place it around no.6 in my list of favourite Cure studio albums. It's good, I'm just saying that it's overrated IMO. Head On Tbe Door is hugely overrated too whilst we're at it.

 

I think both HOTD and Kiss Me are overrated, especially the latter. Wish and especially Bloodflowers are criminally underrated. WMS is even underrated, it doesn't deserve to be treated like a laughing stock. Any album with Want, Jupiter Crash, Numb, Mint Car, Trap, Treasure, and Bare deserves praise.

Also, I've said for a long while that if they'd switched out Wish b-sides for a few of the lesser tracks, it'd be not only my favorite Cure album, but my #1 of all time.

 

I like them, but it's tough for me to make it thru any Cure album. I was recently working from home and put on Seventeen Seconds. Man that is a bleak record, but it does have my favorite song of theirs, In Your House.

Then there's Pornography -- pretty much can't get thru that one either.

Faith -- saddest song I've ever heard is All Cats Are Grey. Wow that is ....just wow.

 

Disintegration
The Top
The Head on the Door
(Blue Sunshine)
Seventeen Seconds
Faith

 

...and yet Kiss Me is by far and away my favourite Cure album.
I love every single song which is no mean feat for a double album...

I agree that Wish could be very good with some editing/inclusion of B-sides. Out of the post-Wish stuff I suppose Bloodflowers is the best but there's a huge drop off in quality and it does contain some duffers.

 

my favorite albums:
1 the walk EP
2 disintegration
3 head on the door
4 wish
5 seventeen seconds

later
-1

 

Nearly impossible for me to pick 5 but my Top 3 remain

Disintegration
Faith
Pornography

Seventeen Seconds next or Head,Kiss or Wish and there's also the underrated The Top...can't decide. I also like Bloodflowers,parts of WMS and the S/T album. 4:13 Dream never worked for me (and I really tried).

 

1. Faith
2. Seventeen seconds
3. Pornography
4. Head on the Door
5. kiss me (x3)

 

Smith soliciting demos from band members around the time of KMKMKM was the beginning of the end.

1. The Top (triumph of left-field songwriting. Where does stuff like Caterpillar and Birdmad Girl come from?)
2. Japanese Whispers (see above -- not a real album but just a real sick run of pop records)
3. Pornography
4. Seventeen Seconds (great understated guitar record)
5. Faith

The rankings on the last three are pretty fluid and mood-dependent. This month I very much admire the single-mindedness of Pornography.

 

Because no other musician involved is capable of creating music? I’m afraid I have to disagree there.

Lots of drugs, including and particularly psychedelics.

 

Kiss
Wish
17
Head
Disintegration

 

Most everybody can create music, just not as good or interesting as prime Robert Smith; the process seems to have tended towards sameish epic widescreen soundscapes -- a versatile group turns into a moodier U2.

In the band's defense, Smith may have just run out of steam by the mid-80s and it was the most graceful move they could make. He certainly seems to have been creatively burned out for a long time.

 

Again, I have to disagree. There have been some great Cure songs that started out as non-Bob demos.

 

I'd say a few Very Good songs and undeniably commercially successful albums, but: the band starts coasting on production and absolutely crash when they try to go outside their lane again (WMS). Disheartening to see in a band that seemed to switch lanes so easily early on.

 

Faith
17 Seconds
The Head on the Door
Japanese Whispers
Disintegration

Disintegration suffers somewhat from 'cd era bloat'. I'd rank it much higher if it had been edited down to the 40 something minute mark.

 

Ha! Yeah Kiss Me's second side really loses me. I like Like Cockatoos but otherwise... meh.

 

I genuinely like every song. Some took a while longer to sink in than others but I think it's a double album with no filler.

 

Disintegration
Bloodflowers
Wish
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Head on the Door

 

It should have had it’s own cd release.
Love it, but EP’s don’t count.

My 5:

BDC
17S
Faith
Porno
JW

Bubbling under:
XXX and THOTD.

I consider BDC to be their true debut album and JW with all the 82/83 singles is very much of a piece in itself.

 

Only five? sigh..

Disintegration
The Top
Faith
Pornography
Wish

 

Wish
The Top
Boys Don't Cry (US version was all I had as a teen)
The Head On The Door
Disc one of the Join The Dots box set.

 

Faith
The Top
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Head on the Door
Disintegration

 

I should add here that sometimes I think the HOTD era was absolute peak-Smith but he deliberately chose to leave off several outstanding tracks to buff up the singles. I respect that decision, but the album would have been an all-conquering world eater with "The Exploding Boy" and "A Few Hours After This..." on it. (I think "The Exploding Boy" was almost the title track to the album.)