Is this the most overrated band in the history of music?
>start as decent post-punk
>hop on the goth rock trend and release a couple of breddy gud albums
>churn out nothing but utter crap and top-40 baits for the next 20 years
>people remember and appreciate you from the old stuff and are completely oblivious to anything you released since like 1992
no that would be the smiths
Out of their 13 albums there are only 3 or so that are arguably bad.
i loved their last album. That shit had some great songs. underneath the stars is straight up beautiful through a pair of headphones and a joint.
That just reminded me of being a kid and the early 2000's and when mtv still played music videos although rarely and i remember the new cure song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLECmUQvxU
Listing to it now it sort of sounds like something the killers would have made
>>62989429
What a shit taste my friend, gotta agree on their last album being bad but that's because even Robert Smith didn't like the final cut, it was supposed to be a double album.
this song is pretty good too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VYINLS4ZGg
I think ti bother me more that smith wont shave that fucking rat nest on his head.
All he has to do is get a hair cut, lose weight, he can still wear make up but not so much, and wear suits or something.
Does Robert still have that beef with Morrissey? That was a pretty entertaining meme.
>>62989846
>and a joint
Well that doesn't mean anything then, smoking weed makes a lot of things far more enjoyable than they would otherwise be.
How do you go form this to
TO THIS
>>62989938
Still works sober bbe grl
Not the biggest Cure fan, had one of their CDs once, like a few songs.
OP is clearly a new fag. "Hopped on goth rock trend" ?
They clearly predated goth rock trend. And actually helped define it.
>>62989959
>>62989968
You wait 30 years. That does the trick usually.
How is that different from the trajectory of most great bands?
Most underrated cure song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_9WSnnBmS0
most if you made it today you would piss off a bunch of sjws cure song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjsBDKhtjk
>>62990022
>most if you made it today you would piss off a bunch of sjws cure song
It's clearly about the Albert Camus novel, has nothing at all to do with politics or whatever.
>>62990030
>implying sjws listen to logic and reason
>>62990022
>>62990060
anon pls, something tells me you haven't read The Stranger and/or just wanted to shoehorn in the SJW boogeyman into a Cure thread
here's what Smith said about the song
>One of the themes of the song is that everyone's existence is pretty much the same. Everyone lives, everyone dies, our existences are the same. It's as far from a racist song as you can write. It seems though that no one can get past the title and that's incredibly frustrating.
>The fact is it's based on a book that's set in France and deals with the problems of the Algerians, so it was only geographical reasons why it was an Arab and not anyone else.
>>62990106
...and yes, they've faced problems over the title, because people are idiots
but anyone can google the novel and basically gather from the summary what the message of it is
>>62990131
>they've faced problems over the title,
Seriously?
>implying goth rock was a bandwagon before The Cure did it
>implying "Boys Don't Cry" or whateverthefuck is anywhere near as good as anything on Disintegration or Pornography
>>62989429
Has only good album anyway
>>62990139
nothing serious afaik, but people interpreted it as racist over the title, as Smith says above
>It seems though that no one can get past the title and that's incredibly frustrating.
but it's not a case of "if you made it today..." because people who make kneejerk offence reactions like this have always existed
>>62990144
The goth thing became a bandwagon shortly after the term was coined in like 1980, long before Disintegration.
>>62990193
Seventeen Seconds was a goth album back in 1980, so if they jumped the bandwagon they sure did it quickly
>>62990201
Well, yes, that's the idea of bandwagoning.
>>62989879
That's such a bad album cover
Wow
>>62989968
He honestly looks scary
Like a fat clown who scares small children
>>62989429
stop OP please stop, you are just being ridicolous by saying all that shit
Meme band desu
they have a better good/bad ratio than Bowie and nobody is denying his importance
That would be Sex Pistols since they had literally one good album.
>God Tier
Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography
Disintegration
>Great Tier
The Head on the Door
Wish
>Good Tier
Three Imaginary Boys
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Bloodflowers
>Bad Tier
The Top
The Cure
4:13 Dream
>Shit Tier
Wild Mood Swings
>>62990645
They didn't stick around for another 30 years though.
>>62990675
Damn - i actually dig 4:13 Dream. The atmosphere on that shit is my shit.
>>62990675
Kiss Me x3 is GOAT tier, the fuck are you on?
>>62990139
iirc copies of standing on a beach (singles collection) that were reissued in the wake of the cure's success overseas bore stickers clarifying that the song's intent was not to incite hatred or violence against arab people. this was around the time of the first iraq war which had americans in full jingo mode
