Choose your top 5 albums by The Cure

[bono_212]

I'm still not sure if I'm going to do a full-on Cure survivor, or if I'll do something along the lines of what I did with the less popular Springsteen albums and have a one day poll where you vote for your favorite songs on each album to speed the process up.

Regardless, the purpose of this thread is to determine how many songs per album will make the final countdown.

I need something to cheer me up right now. Had some bad news today, and there's nothing like The Cure to cheer someone up, right?

Plus, it's apparently the season for Survivors on Interference, so why not join in?

Also, I have opted to NOT include Boys Don't Cry as an actual album, but it was a hard decision to make.

 

[gvox]

I love me some Cure

 

[bono_212]

Oh, and just ftr:

1) Disintegration
2) The Head on the Door
3) The Top
4) Pornography
5) Bloodflowers

 

[LemonMelon]

You should have merged Three Imaginary Boys and Boys Don't Cry, using every song released from those sessions in the poll instead of leaving off some of the all-time best Cure tracks entirely (you could of course do a b-sides/misc round that includes all of the BDC stuff, though you would have to include like 10 of those tracks in the final round because the BDC stuff will take up at least three spots, as will The Walk, Charlotte Sometimes, etc). I would have placed Boys Don't Cry 4th and Three Imaginary Boys 8th. There are maybe two songs on TIB that deserve to make the final round, whereas BDC has at least five.

So now I've got to choose the far worse Bloodflowers as my 5th pick, because the drop off from 5 to 6 on my list is pretty huge for whatever reason.

1. The Head On The Door
2. Disintegration
3. Faith
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Bloodflowers

 

[Axver]

Faith is one of my top fifteen albums ever. Probably top ten actually. Fucking love every second of that album. If I posted my top ten Cure songs, chances are it would include every Faith track and Charlotte Sometimes - or only sacrifice a couple of them to fit in Cold, A Strange Day, and Untitled.

In general I consider myself mainly a fan of early Cure. My vote was for the four albums up to Pornography, and Disintegration.

 

[Padj]

1)Disintegration
2)Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
3)The Head On The Door
4)Faith
5)Pornography

Why so little love for Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me? I know it's a bit uneven, but has some of their best songs IMO. The Kiss is a terrific intro. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep and Like Cockatoos are mesmerizing masterpieces. Yes, there are some silly songs, but overall they're fun and enjoyable (well, except for The Perfect Girl... never could stand that one).

 

[cobl04]

I tried getting into this band but I just didn't like 4:13 Dream when I listened to it

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Holy shit, if you did a full-on Cure survivor, the participation would probably be the worst in the history of Interference band survivors.

Just keep it to a poll of people's favorite Cure album. Or something along those lines. There's no god damn chance in hell that a full every album every song Cure survivor will be anything close to a success on these boards right now.
People get bored and restless over in EYKIW voting on the album by album, song by song basis of the band they signed up here to discuss.



But I realize that there are a handful of regular posters around here who love the Cure and who am I to stop your Internet fun, so go for it. It's totally your prerogative to start a voting contest about their music.

Good luck.

 

[cobl04]

Tell us what you really think, geez

 

[nielsgov]

I tried getting into this band but I just didn't like 4:13 Dream when I listened to it

Is this a joke?

 

[cobl04]

Yes.

 

[iron yuppie]

My choices:

1. Seventeen Seconds
2. The Head on the Door
3. Disintegration
4. Pornography
5. Faith

 

[bono_212]

I am definitely in agreement with Travis that I would very likely have placed Boys Don't Cry in my top 5,had I used it. When it comes to the album round, I'm not sure what I'll do.

GaF, thank you for your input.

 

[djerdap]

Disintegration
Pornography
Wish
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Faith

Show is such a fantastic live album. Paris is also a really good complementary to that record. They were at the top of their game in 1992 as far as live shows were concerned. That's my favourite Cure line-up.

 

[the tourist]

I really like Bloodflowers a lot. It's probably the album by The Cure that I get the most enjoyment out of. Probably because it was the first album of theirs I'd heard and I bought it and listened to the hell out of it on a family vacation that was across the country, the summer of my 16th year. Nostalgia.

 

[djerdap]

Bloodflowers is for sure their best post-Wish album. Which isn't saying much, but I really enjoy that album. The Trilogy live performance of it is great, especially Watching Me Fall.

The Cure - Watching Me Fall (Trilogy) Live - Berlin 2002 - HD - YouTube

 

[iron yuppie]

Paris is also a really good complementary to that record.

I love Paris, mainly on account of the SS-Faith-Pornography-heavy tracklisting. The versions of The Figurehead and In Your House on there are sublime.

 

[djerdap]

The crowd participation on Play For Today is another highlight.

And One Hundred Years sounds so much better with Boris Williams. I'm not a big fan of Jason Cooper's drumming. Lol was simple and primitive in the best way possible, Cooper is just dull and boring.

 

[Axver]

I must admit I took Three Imaginary Boys to mean basically TIB/BDC. You could say I voted for the "era" it represents rather than the specific tracklist.

 

[LemonMelon]

I'm amazed that Wish has more votes than KMKMKM, Seventeen Seconds and Faith.

 

[djerdap]

Doing the Unstuck, A Letter to Elise, To Wish Impossible Things, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Apart...

Great album. It has that Friday atrocity, but nothing is perfect.

Oh, and some of the b-sides are awesome and better than a lot of tracks from the album. This Twilight Garden and Scared as You are excellent.

 

[iron yuppie]

Wish beating out Seventeen Seconds is a completely illogical proposition that cannot in any way be rationalized.

/Nick

 

[bono_212]

No votes for 4:13 dream?

 

[u2popmofo]

I voted for Disintegration, 17 Secs, Pornography, Kiss Me x 3, and Head on the Door.

Reminds me I need to listen to 17 Secs and Pornography before Halloween.

 

[bono_212]

Ok, so I'm going to Texas tomorrow and will be back Tuesday night. I'll get this started on Wednesday!

 

[Axver]

I'm very disappointed about the polling for Faith.

 

[LemonMelon]

It's WAY better than Bloodflowers and Wish. I'd put it ahead of Seventeen Seconds too, by a hair. I realize it isn't loaded with hits, but do they have more consistent records? It's 40 minutes of noir beauty.

 

[iron yuppie]

It's WAY better than Bloodflowers and Wish. I'd put it ahead of Seventeen Seconds too, by a hair. I realize it isn't loaded with hits, but do they have more consistent records? It's 40 minutes of noir beauty.

Faith is indeed far superior to Wish and Bloodflowers, in my opinion. And I suppose that I have already made my feelings known about Seventeen Seconds, but I'll just say again that I think it is their finest work and arguably the apex of post-punk as a genre.

 

[LemonMelon]

There's too much studio fuckery on Seventeen Seconds for it to take off; it seems like it loses momentum as often as it sustains it. I will say that, song for song, it has more highlights than any Cure album except for Disintegration and Head On The Door, which are both greatest hits packages basically. Play For Today, A Forest, At Night, M

 

[djerdap]

I wouldn't call The Head on the Door - a pretty average album by Cure standards in my book - a greatest hits package. Lost of it is 80s Cure cheese at its worst and sounds pretty forgettable. And for an "unpopular opinion", I never cared for Inbetween Days.

Like many Cure tracks, even the highlights are so much better live. A Night Like This gets rid of that cheesy 80s saxophone and becomes one of my favourite Cure tracks in a live setting.