Your Favorite Songs Are Finding New Life, Just at Warp Speed Frank Ocean Is Human-and So Was His Disastrous Coachella Setįrom there, the Cure set out to prove that it could do whatever it felt like: absolute pop bangers, wedding dance staples, guitar epics, or That Real Goth Shit. But something quite unexpected happened, as the Cure followed that run of albums up with the absolutely frothy pop single trilogy (lotta trilogies with this band) of “Let’s Go to Bed,” “The Walk,” and “The Lovecats.” These songs proved that Smith was willing to push back against his image and that he wouldn’t let anyone define the Cure except himself. If the band had quit then, it would have been an underground legend. He also decided that the name Easy Cure was a bit too hippieish for his tastes.Īfter helping to set the template for New Wave and post-punk (spiky guitars, moaning bass, lots of free-floating anxiety) on its 1979 debut, Three Imaginary Boys, the Cure went on to record the trilogy of Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography between 19, firmly establishing, alongside its peers in Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees, the sound, look, and subculture of goth. (Thompson would leave and rejoin more than once, and he’s not the only member to have taken such a route.) Eventually, a few singers left, and Smith decided he could do as good a job as anyone in the frontman department. With Smith as the guitarist, that band eventually morphed into the Easy Cure by 1977 and included Mick Dempsey, Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, and Pearl Thompson, all of whom would fall out with Smith at one point or another. Robert Smith, a precious lad who once wore a dress to his Crawley, West Sussex, school, formed Malice with a few mates in 1976, the Year Punk Broke, and began gigging around town. they’ve all become fundamental parts of the universe, an entire color. There’s just no point in debating the Cure versus Fleetwood Mac or A Tribe Called Quest or R.E.M. I am merely saying there is a rarefied place where the Beatles hover that few groups get to, where their achievements are so singular and monumental, and their influence is so vast, that they can’t be measured against anyone in any real way. (Though, pointedly, I am not not saying that.) I’m not saying the Cure is the second-best band to ever exist. The singer has said that he didn’t want listeners “to get caught up in the sadness of it,” telling BBC’s Newsbeat: “The song should be hopeful.The only band that can be said to be better than the Cure is the Beatles. Tomlinson ends the chorus on a (slightly) more upbeat note as he vows to make his mother proud. I know you’ll be looking down, swear I’m gonna make you proud. Louis Tomlinson answers awkward questions about Zayn on Jonathan Ross.Louis Tomlinson donates $10,000 to help fund young fan's medical care.Louis Tomlinson teases comeback single 'dedicated to late mother'.Music has proved therapeutic for Tomlinson, and it seems that listening to his mum’s favourite songs helps him to keep her memory alive. Tattooed on my heart are the words of your favourite song. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĮven when I’m on my own I know I won’t be alone.
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