![]() “Grinding Halt” ( Three Imaginary Boys, 1979) Below, we’ve selected the 15 most essential songs from their first and greatest decade. In chronologically listening to the Cure’s best work from 1979 to 1989, we come to see pop and rock music as Robert Smith’s means of evolution and exorcism. But instead of writing it off as a failure and going back to the gothy success of the preceding Pornography, the Cure synthesized its trippy eclecticism into the unprecedented pop triumphs of their next act. There were moments when the stress, substance abuse, and pain of it all got to be too much, as on the transitional ugly duckling The Top. Instead, their music granted us a window into the painstaking inner-workings of each metamorphosis. were never a band that emerged unrecognizable with a new vibe for each ensuing album. Slowly, and sometimes awkwardly, mutating from post-punk to goth to alt-rock to some psychedelic combination of all three, Robert Smith and Co. Nowadays, any band releasing eight albums over a 10-year period is an impressive enough feat, but The Cure aren’t just any run-of-the-mill band, and their first eight LPs aren’t just any run-of-the-mill albums. The fact that the Cure’s prolific early run neatly coincided with the start and finish of the 1980s illustrates just how defining they were to the music of that decade. And May 2nd marked the 30th anniversary of their eighth, Disintegration. The Cure marked the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, on May 8.
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