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In 1984, the Cure released The Top, a generally psychedelic album on which Smith played most of the instruments except drums (played by Andy Anderson) and saxophone (played by early Malice member Porl Thompson, who then officially joined the Cure). The album was a Top 10 hit in the UK, and was their first studio album to crack the Billboard 200 ...
It was first performed as part of sets performed by Easy Cure at gigs around the band's local area of Crawley. "10:15 Saturday Night" is widely regarded as one of the Cure's best songs. In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number ten on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [ 4 ] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number five on their list of ...
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 first words sang by Robert Smith at the Cure’s Hollywood Bowl show in L.A. on Tuesday night — “This is the end/ Of every song that we sing” — set a reflective tone for the rest of ...
Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by English rock band the Cure. It was first released in Japan on 7 November 2001, [ 6 ] before being released in the UK and Europe on 12 November and then in the US the day after.
In the UK, it was the band's ninth chart single and their fourth consecutive Top 20 hit; [4] while in the US it was their first single to reach the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 99. [5] It was a Top 20 hit in Australia and New Zealand [6] and also charted in several European countries, [7] [8] increasing the popularity of the band.
The music video, during which Smith plays both the cannibalistic "spiderman" mentioned in the lyrics and his intended victim, concludes with Smith being swallowed by what appears to be a giant spider. [12] The music video, directed by Tim Pope and edited by Peter Goddard, [13] won British Video of the Year at the 1990 Brit Awards. [2]
The music video is written and directed by the band's frequent music video director Tim Pope. It consists of the band all inside a wardrobe on the edge of a cliff at Beachy Head. [5] Following the musical scheme of the song, which builds up instrumentally, all the band members are inside the wardrobe, but not playing instruments.