Cure albums by decades

Gian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:20 +0000

Have you ever actually thought about listing down – just for the sake of dumb statistics – the band’s studio albums… by decade?

Well, don’t know why, but for some unknown reasons, I just did.

Not that the list has striked me with awe, but I find the result of such an exercise somehow interesting.

I didn’t put the live albums and compilations in the list, with the exception of Japanese Whispers, because I consider it more of an album than a compilation, actually (even if, yeah, technically…).

And yes, I put Three Imaginary Boys in the 70s, since it was released in 1979, but omitted Boys Don’t Cry, since it’s nothing else than a re-arranged version of Three Imaginary Boys, isn’t it?

So, to cut it down to the point, here’s what the list looks like…

The 70’s

1 album

Three Imaginary Boys

The 80’s

8 albums

Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography
Japanese Whispers
The Top
The Head On The Door
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Disintegration

The 90’s

2 albums

Wish
Wild Mood Swings

The 2010’s

3 albums (’til now…)

Bloodflowers
The Cure
4:13 Dream

Now, by scanning the list, you can really notice the huge difference of activity between decades, and it’s not a big surprise that the 80s is the most prolific decade in terms of studio activity (and not only, I reckon), but what happened to the 90s?

Even the 2010s – which are still running – beats already the previous decade up (and luckly for us, I should add…).

Still, the strange thing to me, is that I feel the 90s are the years in which my love for The Cure built up and grew without ever stopping.

Well, as I said, the 2010s are not over yet, and I really hope that by the end of it the band will release at least another album, which by the way is already ready… Right?

4Tour report: unplayed songs

Gian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:15:00 +0000

This might have been covered somewhere, but for what it’s worth, here are the left-out songs according to the famous picture of the 4Tour songlist (North American Leg):

Club America
Siamese Twins
Watching Me Fall
The Same Deep Water As You

And by the way, I really would have liked to hear/see a version of Watching Me Fall and Club America with Porl on guitar (even if nothing I got to say about Perry’s performances on those songs, who did more than a great job).