The Cure Discography
Happiness is a sickness. This is The Cure. The band started out as punks with the promising Three Imaginary Boys, but really found…
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The Cure: Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
Hard to imagine, but The Cure, XTC and Adam & The Ants all started out as snotty English punks. This album confirms it.
The Cure: Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Kronomyth 2.0: A HEAVENLY SEVENTEEN. The opening argument for The Cure’s new, dark manifesto is two minutes of instrumental music that creeps like…
The Cure: Boys Don’t Cry (1980)
Kronomyth 2.5: THE CRUSH. The most important musical revolution in my lifetime was happening 3,000 miles away and all I could do was…
The Cure: Faith (1981)
“Faith was the sound of extreme desolation because that’s how we felt at the time.” – Robert Smith, in a 2011 interview. Faith…
The Cure: …Happily Ever After (1981)
Kronomyth 3.5: A DOUBLE DOSE OF THE CURE. Happily Ever After brought American audiences up to speed with The Cure by fusing Seventeen…
The Cure: Pornography (1982)
Kronomyth 5.0: SEX AND DEATH. The Cure continues to perfect their PoePopGothRock on Pornography, provided your definition of perfection includes gloomy, glommy ruminations…
[Review] The Cure: Japanese Whispers (1983)
Kronomyth 6.0: THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER AFTER …HAPPILY EVER AFTER. Japanese Whispers collects the trio of post-Pornography singles (“Let’s Go To Bed,” “The…
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.
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…
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…
The Cure: “Fascination Street (Remix)” (1989)
Kronomyth 12.02: FASCIST TREE NATION. You Cure fans are a double lucky lot because Cure singles are so much fun to collect. Take…
The Cure: Mixed Up (1990)
Kronomyth 13.0: A MIXED SUCCESS. A kindness to kure kollectors, who number not a few, Mixed Up kompiles a handful of hard-to-find 12-inch…
Rubaiyat: Elektra’s 40th Anniversary (1990)
This is an interesting idea: 38 songs from Elektra’s back catalog performed in the idiom of 38 artists from their current roster, some…
The Cure: “High” (1992)
Kronomyth 14.01: THE MYTHING LINK. Kronomyth, or The Adventures of Mebyl Spaetzmann, chapter the first. This is the advance satellite from KM.14, indicating…