How did you discover The cure and what was the first cure song you heard?
My story goes.... I was 13 (I think) and my big-sister (2 1/2 years older) toke me down to her room in the basement. She had just heard about this band from a new friend and trying to tune in on the genre wanted my opinion. She played lullaby for me. I kind of liked it and started to hear some of her new-bought Cure cd´s, Especially Show. Around 2 years later I suddenly felt hopelessly, helplessly, head over heels in love with them. They have been my absolutely, with no competition, favorite band ever since!
The world is neither fair nor unfair - It's just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
Showing my age here, but it would have been whenever 'Lovecats' was released in South Africa. 1984?
We lived in a British ex-pat community, so we kids avidly devoured anything from The Home Country. The Cure, Depeche Mode and Siouxsie and the Banshees were just the MOST cool bands to be into.
So - as I've mentioned beforehand on CCC - 'Head on the Door' is a special album for me because it was the last album I bought before we came back to the UK and 'Pornography' was the first album I bought when I got back. Those two albums still bring up a whole heap of very bittersweet emotions whenever I listen to them.
The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Post by violetsometimes on May 16, 2013 3:40:36 GMT 1
During my childhood I had heard quite a few of The Cure's singles but it wasn't until when I was 13 that I got into The Cure I used to listen to a lot of alterenative rock at the time (especially The Smashing Pumpkins) and would always see The Cure mentioned as an inspiration and the most successful alternative rock band in articles/websites. So I started exploring The Cure's singles and had a bit of a Cure phase.
Then in 2010 whilst in Radio Class, I was cataloguing the huge cd collection when I found the greatest hits cd and asked if I could borrow it. I then started to get back into The Cure. My Mum had a taped casette of Three Imaginary Boys at home, so I would listen to that aswell. With each song I heard and album that I owned my love for The Cure grew and grew. I used to take my walkman and discman to school so I could listen to The Cure's music, normally the b-sides of Staring At The Sea, and I began collecting their records and tour shirts. I was extremely lucky as the next year The Cure came to Australia for Reflections, which has still been the best night of my life.
I have met some extraordinary and wonderful people from being a fan of The Cure including my partner and I couldn't be more grateful to The Cure for everything they've done for me Disintegration, Charlotte Sometimes and Friday I'm In Love will always be very special to me as Disintegration was my first record and has been my favourite ever since, I have a lot of memories surrounding that album, Charlotte Sometimes was one of the first Cure songs I had back when I was thirteen and has been my favourite since, and Friday I'm In Love is the song that introduced me to my dearest and it is our song
good question, how i discovered The Cure. there is a lot to say, when i was young(12 years maybe) a friend of my sister gave me The Cult-Love to give it a listen because he was mad for them, it was the 85 and Love just came out. i fell in love with the dark atmosphere of that album and beeing me shy and pessimist i recognized myself in that kind of music. it was just the first step then i started to get informed of bands and albums, so after i tried The Sisters of Mercy (first & last & always), Joy Division(closer) and Christian Death(catastrophe ballet) i stumped on the most loved goth band in Italy, The Cure at my desk-mate's home, 'cause his brother and sister listened to various kinds of music and owned The Top, The head on the door and if i remember correctly Standing on a beach. year 1986
Post by iwannashagsimon on May 18, 2013 4:22:50 GMT 1
I was watching an evil entity called MTV back in the summer of 1987. The video for Why Can't I Be You was on and back then I HATED them! So much so, I would change the channel everytime a Cure video came on! That one fateful day, there was nothing else on (I out right refused to watch Bruce Springsteen!) so I ended up turing The Cure back on. My reasoning was watching a 5 minute video wouldn't hurt me. HA! That was, what, 26 years ago and now look at me!
I used to listen to John Peel late at night & record interesting stuff from time to time, so that was the first time I was exposed to The Cure (along with a lot of other bands). Around the same time, my folks separated & I moved from Bromley to Worthing & purchased Pronography. It was angsty & snarly & suited that period of my life perfectly.
Early of 1986, an old friend come to my house, we were talking, drinking beers and he said I have a new songs, he had a pirate tape with 3 songs on Side A, it played in sequence "Killing an Arab", "Boys Don't Cry" and "Jumping Someome else's Train". I thought what really nice songs and he said me it's The Cure a english band. In the next day I was running to downtown to buy something them, in the store had just one vinyl "The Head On The Door" and a magazine with pictures/interview...I was 17. More later I got trade a tape of "Concert" and I needed listen everyday, unfortunately the long plays didn't come to here in these years, two years more later I was doing my college and I don't have money to buy cure stuff...I hate this time, five years passed and I finished it then I decided now to discovered them, I went a nice record store and the seller presented me "wish" the last album, I bought and loved it in the same week I come back there and bought the first four albuns and after listen "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith" and "Pornography" returned those feelings and love inside me with full force...and then I knew that will be forever!
Cure Forever Edu.
At night...I hear the darkness breathe...I sense the quiet despair...Listen to the silence...At night...Someone has to be there...
It still amazes me that even with the difficulty in getting the records (in the earlier days) The Cure are so massive in places like Argentina & South America generally. The fanbase there is incredible.
I'm afraid, it was thanks to FIIL in my case...I know...don't judge me too harshly! I was just a 12year old and FIIL was on heavy rotation on MTV. I also liked High. Then I heard Lullaby. So I went to buy Wish from my birthday or Christmas money. Then I stocked up on the other albums one by one.
when lullaby came out the video was played everywhere and when you urned the radio on it was like an obsession....maybe it's the reason why i almost hate Disintegration
when lullaby came out the video was played everywhere and when you urned the radio on it was like an obsession....maybe it's the reason why i almost hate Disintegration
I agree with your sentiments when it comes to Lullaby, i grew and am still a little tired of it even now. But Disintegration as a whole I never grow tired of.