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The Cure would eventually outlast and outsell all of their early contemporaries, but Three Imaginary Boys did not stand out as the best album in a remarkable crop of 1979 post-punk debuts by Joy ...
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]
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] In October 2024, Smith said the Cure would release a follow-up album to Songs of a Lost World and tour in 2025, and would release a documentary in 2028. [151]
Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars, saying, "Robert Smith reaches into the depths of his cobwebbed heart; it's the best Cure album since Disintegration", [38] describing the album as a "vividly propulsive space-rock goth elegy, eight songs in fifty minutes, kicking with a full-blooded band attack". [39]
The goth gods — who had been left for dead after not releasing a new studio LP since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — have come back after 16 long years with the best rock album of 2024: “Songs ...
THE COUNTDOWN: As the rock pioneers release their first album in 16 years, Mark Beaumont forgoes all singles and picks the best songs spanning a four-decade career The Cure’s nine essential ...
The album helped bring the Cure into the American mainstream, becoming the band's first album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart and achieving platinum certification. Like its predecessor, The Head on the Door , it was also a great international success, reaching the top 10 in numerous countries.
Pornography is the last Cure album to feature Tolhurst as the band's drummer (he then became the band's keyboardist), and also marked the first time he played keyboards on a Cure release. [9] The album was recorded at RAK Studios from January to April 1982. [13] On the album's recording sessions, Smith noted "there was a lot of drugs involved". [9]