Album Rating: 5.0

Absolute stunner innit

"new one is fantastic in its bookends and consistently decent in the middle "

Actually enjoying the middle more myself.

Album Rating: 5.0

Warsong and Drone:Nodrone is one hell of a middle

Album Rating: 4.0

so did I do the right thing by (unintentionally) ignoring everything between this and the new one? Perhaps I'll fill in some gaps for context or whatever but this course of action is working quite well for me thus far

Album Rating: 5.0

id say regardless of their front to back shape that wish and bloodflowers are still very much worth listening to

Album Rating: 5.0

Wish is one of the greatest of all time, so is this, so is Songs of a Lost World.

conventional wisdom holds that the abridged discog finishes on Wish (and enough people will whine about Bloodflowers akshually being peak Cure that you might as well hit that to tell them they're wrong)

Album Rating: 5.0

Wild Mood Swings

eww no

Album Rating: 5.0

I was taking the piss.

It all massively derailed at that point, band was tired, found itself in a completely different era that just wasn’t interested and they never bounced back until now.

Album Rating: 5.0

bloodflowers is like 9th for me nowadays yeah and i havent even hit the new new yet but its got enough strong highs to be worth at least a spin



maybe im just inclined to still rec it bc again that opener is soo good. maybe you could scrape by just jamming that one track

Inject Endsong straight into my veins, so good.

Album Rating: 5.0

Listen to the new one bubs. Life changer.

Album Rating: 5.0

> so did I do the right thing by (unintentionally) ignoring everything between this and the new one?



You definitely need to include Wish BUT you need to skip Friday I'm In Love and Wendy Time on it or you'll fuck up the whole vibe.

Disintegration
Pornography
The Head on the Door
Faith
Kiss Me
Wish
Seventeen Seconds
Three Imaginary Boys
Bloodflowers

[-- grotesquely large gap in quality --]

The Cure (2004)
Wild Mood Swings
4:13 Dream

~ have not heard the new album yhet.

Album Rating: 4.5

S/T (2004) is kind of cringe but it's honestly not that bad. The Promise...

Album Rating: 5.0

drop three imaginary boys down a tier, make the top the very bottom of the list, and slot pornog around where wish is and i can maybe see that. would prob have seventeen seconds a lil higher too

yep, dump the Top and tbh straight up swap Porno and Seventeen Secs and we can abide

Album Rating: 4.0

"You definitely need to include Wish BUT you need to skip Friday I'm In Love and Wendy Time on it or you'll fuck up the whole vibe."

ah so that's where Friday I'm In Love is, lol...

I've heard that song enough times, so that should be easily doable

Album Rating: 5.0

faith is my favorite of the "dark trilogy" but seventeen seconds does majorly rule and has only gotten better by the day vs pornog