![]() ![]() ‘Burn’ features on an all-star soundtrack of gothic rock for 1994 film The Crow. Here we have it: The Cure at their most goth. It’s not a happy song, brimming with the same welcoming cold feeling throughout The Cure’s darkest albums, but that’s exactly what makes it so great. But any followers of The Cure’s sprawling, career-spanning live setlists will know that ‘Last Dance’ is still an important part of the band’s discography. Just try and listen without smiling – I dare you.Ĭompeting against massive songs like ‘Pictures of You’, ‘Lullaby’ and ‘Lovesong’, ‘Last Dance’ often goes unnoticed on Disintegration when you think of the best tracks on the album. Just as the song’s protagonist falls head over heels for the wrong girl, the listener will too fall in love with such divine songwriting. It was released as an album single but has no music video. This song tells the story of a whirlwind romance that burns bright but doesn’t last a year and contains some of Robert’s finest lyrics. ![]() And it’s about time they released that album they’ve been working on…Īnother cut from Wild Mood Swings, we have ‘Strange Attraction’. The one line that stands out the most is the beautiful “Inescapable fate/ It’s out of my hands/ Falling into your arms”. On their most recent record, you find ‘The Perfect Boy’, just one of many reminders of why you fell in love with The Cure’s lyrics. But these aren’t albums you can write off completely just because they weren’t the same cultural reset as Disintegration. ![]() It deals with grief and guilt in such a direct and striking way, showing that The Cure can always stun.Īs we so often do with classic artists, people say that their most recent albums don’t live up to their legacy. While they usually deal in metaphors and veiled expressions, ‘Cut Here’ is a direct retelling of the last meeting they had with Mackenzie before his death. It was dedicated to friend of the band and Associates frontman Billy Mackenzie, who died by suicide in 1997. ‘Cut Here’ is a new release compared to others on the list, arriving in 2001 as part of The Cure’s Greatest Hits compilation. It was described most eloquently by Robert Smith himself who said it was about “me hating myself…but a fab open guitar tuning”. It opens with “Wake up in the dark/ The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth/ Spit it on the wall/ And cough some more and scrape my skin with razor blades”. It takes a lot to be labelled as “The Cure’s most depressing song” but ‘Shake Dog Shake’ wins hands down. While all of Three Imaginary Boys is a great testament to the early days of the band, ‘Fire In Cairo’ stands out as the band find their footing. Influences can be felt from the later days of The Clash when they started to get more experimental with their sound. It has all of the experimental, unpolished sound of those early days of post-punk before the genre came into its own. Smith has said that ‘Fire In Cairo' is all about the “shamelessness” of pop music, and what lies behind it. Let’s throw it back to the very start of their career with debut album Three Imaginary Boys. Just don’t play it in front of the hardcore fans. But with time, a few brave souls have come forward to say they actually love it. Choosing such an experimental single teeming with Latin-inspired rhythms and an entire horn section was a bold move that might have scared off some fans. Following on from Wish, the album which brought us their most famous song, was never going to be an easy feat. Perhaps it evokes such a love/hate reaction because it was the first single from Wild Mood Swings. While it is a big change to their typical gloomy sound, it’s surprisingly intoxicating. For some unknowable reason, ‘The 13 th’ is frequently voted as The Cure's worst song in fan groups. Launching straight in with ‘The 13 th’ from 1996’s Wild Mood Swings, and perhaps the most unpopular opinion on this list. Watch one of the best ever performances by The Cure ![]()
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