The Cure

The Cure is a in 1976 in Crawley (United Kingdom) formed new wave band. Originally the band was called The Easy Cure. The band is also placed in the genres Besides new wave gothic rock and post punk, although the band itself is not very happy with these labels.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == The band debuted in 1979 with the album Three Imaginary boys. The first single, " Killing an Arab, immediately made for controversy because of the alleged racistcharacter of the number. In fact, it was based on the novel the stranger by Albert Camus. But it was the single ' Boys don t cry ' recommended that in June 1979 for the group opened the way to a modest cult status.
 * 2 Occupation
 * 3 discography
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 3.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3.4 Dvds
 * 3.5 videography
 * 4 external link

In 1980 broke The Cure Seventeen Secondsby a large scale with the lp, of which the single was an international hit A Forest . Seventeen Seconds was the style of gothicor by some post punk called; a style that heavily resembles the music of Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees which also repented. After Pornography , Robert Smithput singer/guitarist and driving force of The Cure, the Group on hold and he dedicated himself almost entirely to Siouxsie and the Banshees, where he came on as a guitarist. He also made then together with the bassist of the Banshees, Steven Severin, the plate "Blue Sunshine" which was released under the group name "The Glove".

At the beginning of the 1980s brought Smith some own songs under the name The Cure. With successful songs like Let's go to bed, The Walk and The Lovecats he broke completely with the doom music of the previous albums: Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. During this time (be) plays Robert Smith also the media with vague statements and he often alludes in the end of the band. In the course of the 1980s continued to the sound of The Cure to move between the lightness of their debut album and the doom sound of A Forest. The band thus grew out to become one of the most popular newwavebands. On the albums ' "The Top, '" The head on the door and Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me are still to find heavy numbers. According to many the depressive and suicidal Robert Smith was at that time a teen idol.

The albums Bloodflowers and The Cure are laced with heavy sound of the time of Pornography and Faith. In this time is also the dvd Trilogy included in Berlin with only numbers of Bloodflowers, Pornography and Disintegration. As an extra, there are two songs on the album Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me : The Kiss and If only tonight we could sleep.

The Cure also made Dredd Song in 1995 for the film Judge Dreddwith Sylvester Stallone in the lead role. It was released on cd only in 2004 in Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years).

During the 1990s and into the new millennium, the band is less in the foreground, to a new generation of successful groups, including The Departure, The Go-Betweens, Interpol and Editors quote The Cure as a source of inspiration. In 2004, this results in a number of new projects and a new cd, called, which according to The Cure Robert Smith the essence of the Group barrel.

In May 2008, The Cure via MySpace know they would bring a thirteenth album. The band also announced that they are up to the release of the album on every thirteenth day of the month (may, June, July and August) would bring out a single. On May 13, was therefore The Only One out, followed by Freak show in June.

The music flow which grew out of the punk new wave is called: the new wave. In French: Nouvelle Vague. A flow in the music that serves as the more stylish, more detailed successor of punk. The most striking to New Wave is that besides the use of more poetic lyrics especially very much (and sometimes only) use of synthesizers to create the music. Guitars and drums are sometimes completely supplanted by synthesizers and drum machines, but usually when clearly present addition used. In New Wave are different currents, ranging from a heavy melancholy flow, including The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division,Bauhaus, The Sound and flow through more optimistic with bands such as U2, Simple Minds, The Human League and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark to the New romantics flow, especially in terms of clothing and clothing styles and fashions from text harks back to earlier times-such as the romance, pirates time and tribal influences, combined with new wave music: Adam and The Ants, Ultravox, Spandau Ballet and ABC,Maxwells Griff, which initially also synthesizer genius Hans Zimmer in his band had, which is nowadays the most famous and successful composer of film music.

Singer Robert SmithIn may 2012, gave the band a gig at Pinkpop, where it appeared that the band, still remarkably well from the feet came and also the younger Pink poppubliek managed to speak. Singer Robert Smith gave in an interview to that age in music in fact is not important and that he wants to continue as long as he manages to leave the pressures in lyrics and music the way he wants to and thus the public can appeal to. He gave to the "takes a bit longer to break free from his normal life and prepare for a performance like that on Pinkpop." ==Occupation<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Videography<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Robert Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboards)
 * Michael Dempsey (bass guitar, until 1979)
 * Lol Tolhurst (percussion, keyboards; until 1989)
 * Porl Thompson (guitar; 1977-1978, 1984-1992 and back from 2005)
 * Simon Gallup (bass guitar; 1979-1982, since 1985)
 * Matthieu Hartley (keyboards; 1979-1980)
 * Phil Thornalley (bass; 1983-1984)
 * Andy Anderson (percussion; 1983-1984)
 * Boris Williams (percussion; 1984-1994)
 * Roger O'Donnell (keyboards; 1987-1990, 1995-2005)
 * Perry Bamonte (keyboards, guitar; 1990-2005)
 * Jason Cooper (percussion; since 1995)
 * 1985: Live in Japan-Only in Japan
 * 1985: Tea party-Only in Japan
 * 1986: Staring at the sea-The images
 * 1987: The Cure in orange
 * 1991: Picture show
 * 1991: Play out
 * 1993: Show
 * 1997: Galore
 * 2001: Greatest hits
 * 2003: Trilogy
 * 2006: The Cure: Festival 2005