just got the remastered version of 'three imaginary boys' and it's great! makes me happy and melancholy and so forth... such good stuff. not crap specifically for this album.

Sorry, fellas, I hope this doesn't make your eyeliner run: CRAP.

Mr. Chimp wrote: solid example of a band finding and then expanding their sound over 25+ years - never completely pulling a 180, but evolving nicely.

they went straight from Pornography to the Japanese Whispers stuff...i would in fact call that a 180...

hated three imaginary boys. but faith, pornography and disintergration are great. Though I think there weaker albums are not only crap musically but sonically, Disintergration sounds amazing, Seventeen Seconds sounds too sparse, the exception is Wish, which apart from the last track is bollocks, but the whole thing sounds great.

hello again everyone.

Ever noticed that girls who were cute and smart ALWAYS dug the Cure back in the day? I dated more than one girl who was just wiggy for Robert Smith, which was easier to deal with than enjoying, say, REO Speedwagon. (Hey, I was in the Midwest ...)

Also, Cure girls were easier to deal with than Smiths girls, whose Morrissey feitishes could get troubling.

The Cure also wrote some good tunes with nice hooks. All in all, not crap.

hated them for years growing up, but after hearing enough of them i had to admit their music was (or could be) great. atmospheric eighties rock at its best. some really fucking good RIFFS too. and for a while there, they were cranking out great hits like it was nobody's business.

plus, Mike Leigh's Career Girls is a really amazing popular film, and it just wouldn't have been the same without the Cure's music to anchor it to that specific era.

btw, the so-so Wire tune "King of Err, and Queen of Umm" is basically about blank-faced Cure fans; sorta like a revision of "Mannequin".

NOT CRAP.

Disintegration is one of my top 50 albums.

Crap. No Waffles.

Interesting.
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/42208587

Some great albums (Boys Don't Cry, Pornography, Head On The Door and Disintegration) and a lot of lame filler full of the same song played literally hundreds of times.

And for fuck's sake...try playing in a different tempo for once!

NOT CRAP. Disintegration and Pornography are genius.