Friends & The Cure

Hahahahha, that work friend should get together with my old bf! Can't blame you for trying, right? 

Nice playlist! It's always a labor of love to put together something like that. 

I have a lots of friends in my online life that like The Cure.
In physical life there are a few.
My best friend came to see them twice in Budapest. He's not too keen on some stuff but there are a few tracks he really likes & he enjoyed the shows which was good.
My local pub lets me whip together playlists on the PC there & occasionally I drop a The Cure track in but I won't ram anything down anyone's throat just because i like it. If I think a friend will like it then I'll let them make their own mind up. The Cure, having a broad palette will usually catch one of them's attention & knowing my friends like I do, it's not so hard to spot one or two tunes they might feel falls into their ballpark.
There has been the odd occasion when someone's asked me to make a mix/ playlist which I'll happily do. If they listen to it then great. If not then also great.
The last friend I met here in Balatonfured who liked The Cure also liked many of the other bands I like. She saw me in one of my Pronography t shirts in a pub one day & came & started talking to me about the best The Cure concert she'd ever seen & I made a copy of it for her. She never knew there was a recording of it & was dead chuffed to have a souvenir of her favourite The Cure show.
I'm not really bothered if my friends don't like The Cure. That's totally okay. We like what we like. I don't like some of the music they listen to either & it's nice to be able to poke fun at each other's tastes & we can do that because neither party tries to force something on the other.
In all honesty, I think it'd be quite boring if all my friends liked the same thing & I'm pretty grateful that I have developed an interest in other bands that I've maybe not paid much attention to before through my friends.

The sad fact is I know no one IRL who likes/knows of The Cure. I told my co-worker I'm going on vacation to see them. She just gave me a huge blank stare. So, I have to explain who they are by saying "they went after Ticketmaster. It was on the news." Or if a Cure song plays at work I tell her about it. At that point, I get the "oh yeah. I've heard of them" response.

My other half likes The Cure. He really likes Reeves (we both met him twice and his lovely wife Susan. Truly nice people) and likes Simon's bass playing. Reeves guitar work reminds him of bands he had always loved yet he says "Reeves adds a psychadelic flare to it which is amazing" The cure are all around his age , he's 64 same as Robert so he grew up with the same music they did more or less. He can hear that in their playing. His only criticism when I told him hairqween and I were going to see them in June was "how many times can you see one band?" As he does not do that. Only band he went saw twice was Paul McCartney. But otherwise he is supportive as music is a huge part of our lives. Even if it wasn't, if someone truly loved you for you they will support what you love.