The Cure Discography
Happiness is a sickness. This is The Cure.
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[Review] The Cure: Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
It wasn’t Damned, Damned, Damned, but The Cure’s first is still a pretty damned good punk rock record.
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The Cure: “A Forest” (1980)
The first single from the second album takes a turn for the gothic.
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[Review] The Cure: Seventeen Seconds (1980)
This is the first Cure album that really feels like a Cure album: dark, gothic and drearily wonderful.
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The Cure: Boys Don’t Cry (1980)
A compilation of The Cure’s early singles and cuts from their first album released for the always-late-to-the-party Americans.
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The Cure: “Primary” (1981)
The Bunnymen had their drum machine and The Cure have their flanger pedal on this opening salvo from Faith.
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[Review] The Cure: Faith (1981)
The second in the band’s dark trilogy, including songs inspired by the death of Ian Curtis.
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[Review] The Cure: …Happily Ever After (1981)
A double-elpee compilation that brought American audiences up to speed with Seventeen Seconds and Faith.
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The Cure: “Charlotte Sometimes” (1981)
A song inspired by a children’s novel introduces a romantic side to the band’s gothic gloom and doom.
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The Cure: Pornography (1982)
[Kronomyth 4.0] Sex and Death.
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The Cure: Japanese Whispers (1983)
[Kronomyth 6.0] The Happily Ever After After …Happily Ever After.
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The Cure: The Top (1984)
Some people will tell you this is The Cure’s worst album. Apparently, the same people who think Siouxsie and the Banshees suck.
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[Review] Concert: The Cure Live (1984)
A remarkably clean-sounding, career-spanning live album recorded during The Top tour.
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The Cure: The Head On The Door (1985)
Kronomyth 9.0: CLOSE TO PERFECT. Somewhere outside of London (?), The Smiths and Siouxsie And The Banshees were being hurled one at the other in the eye-on collider of Robert Smith’s imagination. Everyone’s favorite gothic moptop had already come a-courting on songs like “The Lovecats” and “The Caterpillar,” but even they didn’t prepare you for…
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The Cure: Standing On A Beach – The Singles (1986)
Kronomyth 10.0: LIFE’S A BEACH, AND THEN YOU DIE. Standing On A Beach collects the first 13 singles from The Cure in chronological order, which might seem a kindness but, in fact, plays out more like a gloomy history lesson. I bought this because I was in love with “The Lovecats.” I ended up playing…
