An epic record of wild abandon. One of the greatest of all time.

Album Rating: 4.5

Becoming my second favourite yeah, once you move beyond the difficulties of it following 'Disintegration' then you're all good to appreciate it

Album Rating: 4.0

some great tracks but this thing is a mess. It tries to do everything and it's just too much

Album Rating: 4.5

far from a mess

Album Rating: 3.5

Triple Kiss Me is probs the better silly over the top cute Cure album tbh

they r both very nice and cool

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah I can get behind that. The highs on this are higher though probably

Album Rating: 4.0

will always be absolutely baffled by the inclusion of wendy time here while tracks like twilight garden and big hand are just chilling on join the dots

Album Rating: 3.9

and Halo which is the best pop song they made in these sessions lol. great album though



there's an absolutely blistering version of Deep Green Sea on the livestream they just put out, might be my favourite version of that song now

Album Rating: 4.0

dude yes halo is amazing. big favorite of mine too

Twilight Garden is incredible. Not sure why Wendy Time is here over that. I have that Join the Dots boxset. This is still a really great album. I love Apart. I figure they were just hoping dem or the record execs thought it could be another airy pop song? Ehh :/ ...... *LIVE EDIT* Ok I just played Wendy Time, it has some get up and go. I like it. Better than for a moment thought. I feel like "The END' is a bit dull. Can't get rid of that, but in this Twilight Garden is magical.

Album Rating: 4.0

its not even that its like a terrible song but its like two minutes long and doesnt really have anything i particularly like about it

I made this complaint about 'Screw' on Head on the Door. Also Wendy Time is 5 minutes, 13 seconds. it is kinda dumb, and has it's do do do dodoodooooo. I like it's funkiness and vibe more.

Album Rating: 4.0

they also did themselves no favors putting it after deep green sea



granted end rules. never had a problem w that

Please stop loving me, I am none of those things.

I am not really a fan of Friday I'm in Love, but it's fine. I can never decide if I like it more than Just Like it Heaven. I like Cure pop songs singles it's just sometimes maybe I hear them too much and I prefer the more openly darker ones. High and Doing the Unstuck are very cheery :D I know Just Like Heaven is actually a dark song masquerading as a upbeat song.

I think I would have just taken damn maybe Cut, that song is really good, so no but it does feel like there are some just obvious b-sides that make no sense not being on a album. I know in the 80s especially in Europe they would do this to try and sell the single on its own or artistic credibility.

Album Rating: 4.0

Friday I'm In Love rules

Which is funny cause it was also the very song keeping me from checking The Cure for years. When I worked at McDonalds as a twee teen it would play on a nigh 24/7 loop and my meat headed metal brain thought it was absolutely pansy garbage lmao

Album is a classic.
My introduction to the band was in the mid 80s where I just thought, ‘who the hell is that’ and me mum pointed out the dangers of drugs.

The band flitted in and out of my conscious until my brother bought Mixed Up and I loved it but again still too young to ‘get it’

This album was the one that when it came out there was an understanding. My best mates mum had it on all the time but it wasn’t ’old persons’ music despite knowing the band had been knocking around for years. It was exciting and ‘cool’ and different.

Loved it then, love it now.

Album Rating: 4.0

I used to think it hard to imagine a love for a band the expands literal decades but it has to be a good feeling, growing alongside a band. Insanely unrelated but that's sort of my vibe with Counterparts, the love may fluctuate some bit but no matter how many listens it never dies. Music RULES

Album Rating: 2.5

I love Wendy time so much haha

Album Rating: 4.5

I first heard Show, which is essentially Wish + greatest hits. Songs like Open, Unstuck & Deep Green Sea immediately stood out, and I quickly fell in love with the rest. The guy who owned the CD told me they already broke up (this was aroud 1995), and that it was recorded in Switzerland, with Smith saying "the cure" at the very end instead of "thank you", emphasizing that he was done with it. Years later I realized that it was actually recorded in America, and that "End" was not even the last song at the gig, it was A Forest instead, available on VHS only. And 29 years later the band is still around. Good that the night in Switzerland didn't happen.