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The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart. [5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively. [5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. [5]
The keyboardist later claimed that Smith would be reducing the Cure back to a three-piece, with Bamonte and himself the two members culled from the lineup. [18] The remaining trio recorded a cover of John Lennon's "Love" for the Amnesty International album Make Some Noise, [19] before Porl Thompson returned for summer tour dates starting in ...
[147] [148] Songs of a Lost World reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and was the Cure's first chart-topping album since Wish in 1992. [149] In the United States, Songs of a Lost World debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, and was the band's first top ten album there since The Cure in 2004. [150]
The album placed at number 14 in Entertainment Weekly's "New Classics: The 100 Best Albums from 1983 to 2008." [51] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at number 15 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". [52] In a 2001 article in Rolling Stone, readers selected Disintegration as number 9 in the "10 Best Albums of the Eighties". [53]
The Top is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 4 May 1984 by Fiction Records. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number ten on 12 May. [2] Shortly after its release, the Cure embarked on a major tour of the United Kingdom, culminating in a three-night residency at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
The second song on the album, the 11-minute epic “Watching Me Fall,” is the longest studio track in the Cure discography, but most of what follows feels minor and anticlimactic by comparison.
Wish is the ninth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 21 April 1992 [4] by Fiction Records in the United Kingdom and Elektra Records in the United States. [5] Wish was the most commercially successful album in the band's career, debuting at number one in the UK and number two in the US.
Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 18 April 1980 by Fiction Records. The album marked the first time frontman Robert Smith co-produced with Mike Hedges. After the departure of original bassist Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup became an official member along with keyboardist Matthieu Hartley.