History Music / TheCureBand

An influential English GothRock band formed in 1976 and one of the earliest successful AlternativeRock bands (alongside {{REM}} and TheSmiths), TheCure was formed as a response to PostPunk and Music/NewWave music coming on the scene. They've had a ton of members over the years, but the one you most likely know is the FaceOfTheBand, mastermind, guitarist and nasal singer Robert Smith. For what it's worth, Lol Tolhurst was the band's original drummer until he was sacked in 1989 and is known for his now-funny nickname, and bassist Simon Gallup is the second longest serving member.

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The band followed the dark, depressing masterpiece ''Pornography'' with a string of three poppy non-album singles: "Let's Go to Bed", "The Walk" and "The Lovecats". At the time of their release, these songs were also the band's biggest chart hits, with "The Lovecats" making the top 10 in the United Kingdom.

** Also, "The Kiss" for "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me"

** Also, to a lesser extent, "Pornography", ends with a high-pitched noise which sounds like wind increasing in volume until the track abruptly ends. Same thing with "End"

* InspiredBy: "Charlotte Sometimes" and "The Empty World" are both inspired by Penelope Farmer's book ''Charlotte Sometimes''; "Killing An Arab" derives from Albert Camus's ''The Stranger'' and "A Letter to Elise" is about Jean Cocteau's ''Les Enfants Terribles''. "All Cats Are Grey" and "The Drowning Man" are both based on Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" novels, the latter even addressing Fuchsia directly.

* InspiredBy: "Charlotte Sometimes" and "The Empty World" are both inspired by Penelope Farmer's book ''Charlotte Sometimes''; "Killing An Arab" derives from Albert Camus's ''The Stranger'' and "A Letter to Elise" is about Jean Cocteau's ''Les Enfants Terribles''.

Many bands like Music/JanesAddiction and Music/{{Deftones}} cite them as an inspiration.

** Also, to a lesser extent, "Pornography", ends with a high-pitched noise which sounds like wind increasing in volume until the track abruptly ends.

* MoodWhiplash: "The Kiss" and dark and angstey tune, to "Catch", with a poppy, upbeat tune to it on "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me"

* LastNoteNightmare: "Subway Song"

* MoodWhiplash: "The Kiss" and dark and angstey tune, to "Catch", with a poppy, upbeat tune to it on "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"

Many bands like [=~Jane's Addiction~=] and {{Deftones}} cite them as an inspiration.

* CoverVersion: A weird version of "Foxy Lady" by JimiHendrix shows up on their debut, and they covered "Purple Haze" on the Hendrix Tribute album ''Stone Free'', TheDoors' "Hello, I Love You" for the Elektra compilation ''Rubáiyát'', and DavidBowie's "Young Americans" for a BSide. They've also been covered a few times, [[Music/ThreeEleven 311's]] "Love Song" and Dinosaur Jr.'s "Just Like Heaven" covers being the most high-profile.

* CoverVersion: A weird version of "Foxy Lady" by JimiHendrix shows up on their debut, and they covered "Purple Haze" on the Hendrix Tribute album ''Stone Free''. They've also been covered a few times, [[Music/ThreeEleven 311's]] "Love Song" and Dinosaur Jr.'s "Just Like Heaven" covers being the most high-profile.

* FirstAndForemost: "Lovesong" has been covered over and over, but their version still stands.

* MagnumOpus: The 1989 album ''Disintegration'' bridges the gap between their GothRock work and their pop work, and its large number of classic songs has made it so.

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The ''Three Imaginary Boys'' cover of "Foxy Lady" was sung by bassist Michael Dempsey, because Robert Smith hated it. Thus, Dempsey's the only person not named Robert Smith to sing lead vocals on a Cure album (technically not counting Simon Gallup, since he did so on the unreleased demo for "Violin Song").

** "Siamese Twins" is a DarkerAndEdgier take on an IntercourseWithYou song, which is a song about wretched loathing while detailing a lost of virginity in the most poetically horrific terms.

An influential English GothRock band formed in 1976 and one of the earliest successful AlternativeRock bands (alongside {{REM}} and TheSmiths), TheCure was formed as a response to PostPunk and NewWave music coming on the scene. They've had a ton of members over the years, but the one you most likely know is the FaceOfTheBand, mastermind, guitarist and nasal singer Robert Smith. For what it's worth, Lol Tolhurst was the band's original drummer until he was sacked in 1989 and is known for his now-funny nickname, and bassist Simon Gallup is the second longest serving member.

* ''Happily Ever After'' (1981) (the band's second album in the US, which combined ''Seventeen'' and ''Faith'' onto one 2-LP set. Now long out of print)

** The track Killing An Arab has not appeared as part of the band's remaster program probably due to its controversy . However the CD versions of Boys Don't Cry and Standing On A Beach both have it.

* CreatorBacklash: Smith hated the "Foxy Lady" cover, "Object" and "World War" from the debut, claiming that they were "diabolical" and were only recorded at producer Chris Parry's insistence.

* TheTropeSong: "Lovesong".

** The track Killing An Arab has not appeared as part of the band's remaster program probably due to its controversy (see CompletelyMissingThePoint below). However the CD versions of Boys Don't Cry and Standing On A Beach both have it.