Top 5 albums The Cure

Except Three Imaginary Boys is their debut and Boys Don’t Cry is a Beatles-style US hack job release with singles and other stuff thrown in. World War is a truly awful track.

Also, listen to their first two singles followed by 3IB. When you then hear the Boys Don’t Cry single after those (including its excellent b-side) it really stands out as an anomaly. It doesn’t sound like anything on the first or second albums. True sign of a classic single-only release imo.

 

The Boys Don't Cry US album is good though, I had it on vinyl aged 16 and loved it. It is actually a nicer listen than Three Imaginary Boys even if that's the 'proper' release.....and I like World War too! It's better than that dire Foxy Lady cover.

 

Boys Don't Cry is so much better than 3IB. I couldn't care less which one is official.

 

Agree that Foxy Lady is pretty bad, although that really gives the album a UK punk “I don’t care” feel. As long as the album has Accuracy, I’m good.

 

1. Pornography ~ A Strange Day.
2. Wish ~ From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea.
3. Seventeen Seconds ~ A Forest.
4. Three Imaginary Boys ~ Three Imaginary Boys.
5. The Head on the Door ~ In Between Days.

 

1. Disintegration
2. Faith
3. Pornography
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Wish

 

Woah, my order exactly. Great taste.

 

Disintegration
The Head On the Door (their only two TRULY GREAT albums)
Kiss Me ^3
Wild Mood Swings (elevated because of the sublime "Mint Car")
Wish (not solid but with several very strong songs)

 

Disintegration
Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Bloodflowers
S/t

 

Right now??...

Pornography
Seventeen Seconds
Kiss Me
The Top
Faith.

 

1 Disintegration
2 Wish
3 Kiss Me x 3
4 The Head On The Door
5 Pornography

 

The Head on the Door
Faith
Boys Don’t Cry
Pornography
Seventeen Seconds

 

1. Wish
2. Kiss Me
3. The Head on the Door
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Pornography

 

The Head On The Door
Disintegration
Faith
Boys Don’t Cry
Wish

 

01 Disintegration
02 Head On The Door
03 Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
04 Bloodflowers
05 Faith

 

Three Imaginary Boys
Seventeen Seconds
The Top
Standing On A Beach

That's all I got, so I'll say Disintegration for number five, 'cos I haven't heard it, but have heard about how great it is since it's release. It's my favourite unknown Cure album.

 

Can name one

 

1. Disintegration
2. The Head On The Door
3. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
4. Pornography
5. Seventeen Seconds

 

Which one’s that?

 

The Head On the Door
Pornography
Bloodflowers
Japanese Whispers.. or, as I'm finding out from this thread, The Walk EP
Disintegration

 

Right now
1. Kiss me 3
2. Japanese Whispers
3. Faith
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Torn Down (very underrated remixes-time will tell) Robert remixing my all time fave from each album. A fan dream came true

 

Disintegration
Head On The Door
Pornography
Wish
Kiss Me

Join The Dots and some of the deluxe reissues show The Cure are close to Dylan for leaving better material off the proper albums - but at least they put them on B-sides and don't bury them in the vaults for 40 years. Then again, maybe there is a Cure vault filled with even better material, although somehow I doubt it. Either way, with this forum's love of experimenting with editing and rearranging albums, one can build a great Cure album from the material of virtually every era.

Very strong, interesting, diverse catalog from a band that, superficially, appears to have an almost myopic, parodiable POV, but is, really, in fact, stylistically all over the map. Very interested in hearing their new album.

 

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Disintegration
Head On The Door
Bloodflowers
Wish

 

My top five:

Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography

 

Disintegration
Bloodflowers
Wish
Kiss Me x 3
The Head On The Door
Yes I do like the early albums but not as much.