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2533721, RE: The Cure are possibly the most misleading singles band. . .
Posted by howisya, Sun Apr-03-11 07:37 AM
>Three Imaginary Boys: no singles, really
>I guess the singles affiliated with this album are 'Boys Don't
>Cry' and 'Killing An Arab'

i have 'staring at the sea,' so i'm very familiar with these 2 songs, singles or not (i also have 'galore')


>Faith: Primary, Charlotte Sometimes
>If all someone knows of this era are these two songs, they are
>in for a very slow, very melancholy shock when they actually
>listen to the album.

the title track is one of the nonsingles i've checked out over the years, and it's pretty dark, slow, and gloomy... this is on my list to get, as is

>Pornography


>—in the interim: The Walk, The Lovecats, Let's Go to Bed—
>Bob goes pop.

some of the songs that made me interested in the cure in the first place, especially "the lovecats," which my station played all the time


>Disintegration: Lovesong, Fascination Street, Lullaby,
>Pictures of You
>In the case of three of the singles from this album, they were
>the shortest songs on the album. Literally —besides
>'Lovesong' 'Fascination' and 'Lullaby'— everything else on the
>album was six minutes or longer. So, yeah.

this same station also used to run "fascination street," and i thought it was one of the most amazing songs ever and seemed so unlike anything else, at least in structure, on that already eclectic station. i used to love how there was 3 minutes *before singing*!


>Bloodflowers
>The Cure
>4.13 Dream

the first 3 studio albums i heard