In 1976 Robert Smith, along with some of his schoolmates Micheal Dempsey, Lol Tolhurst and local guitar hero Porl Thompsom formed what at the time was referred to as, “Easy Cure,” the group began writing and demoing songs immediately; playing throughout 1977 in Southern England to an ever growing fandom. About a year later in 1978, the “Easy” was dropped as well as along with Porl, making the trio, “The Cure.” Their debut album, “Three Imaginary Boys,” was released to great acclaim, the band extensively touring around the UK, singles, “Boys Don’t Cry,” and, “Jumping Someone Else’s Train,” were released. Micheal soon after left the band making way for Simon Gallup and Matthieu Hartley to join. The Cure, quartet embarked on an exploration of the darker side to Robert Smith’s song writing in early 1980, from this exploration emerged their “Seventeen Seconds,” album, along with their single, “A Forest.”
On October 28th 1997 The Galore album was released, the album having only one original song on the track list. The Cure album is a collection of the bands singles only one original son on the album and that song being, “Wrong Number,”
“Why Can’t I Be You?” is one of The Cures first songs to hit Bill Board top 40, originally from the album, “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me,” the music video was a conservation topic for the song for how they spelled out Can’t, adorning costumes, Robert Smith in a bear as well as schoolgirl in a pinafore dress, Gallup was a crow and a Morris dancer, Thompson as a scotsman as well and cross-dressed, Williams was a schoolgirl and a vampire, and last but not least, Tolhurst in black face and a bee. Pope referred to this video as, “The video I’ve always wanted to make.” One of my favorite interpretations of the meaning of this song is while it may seem like a love song as the album its from is full of this theme, the lines from the song such as, “I’ll kiss you from your feet to where your head begins,” makes me feel the song’s not about love but lust, not seeing them for their character but their body but the interpretation of the song can be left up to the listener or you can try to go on the journey.
Originally released August 21st 1989 on their album, “Disintegration,” “LoveSong,” one of my personal favorites not just from the album but The Cure in general. The song is a tribute to The Cure’s front man Robert Smith’s longtime partner Mary, a song where Robert is the most vulnerable, no tactic implications to the lyrics, just Smith declaration of love to his longtime partner. The pair met in school at just fourteen, Robert has been steadfast explaining how she saved him on many occasions by pulling him out of some of his darkest chapters, he wrote the tribute as a wedding gift for Mary.
“Wrong Number,” is the album’s only original price so I thought it was necessary to add to my overview of some of the songs. “Wrong Number,” the band was breaking into new territory with only Robert Smith and Jason Cooper contributing to the song, while longtime David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels lent his guitar to the song, later joining the band. The band was experimenting with dance beats that at the time were popular.
I only went through three of the eighteen songs on this album because then this would be the size of a short novel, but I really recommend this album to anyone who’s into the grudges type beat, even if you aren’t i’m sure there is a song on here you’ll find good so give it a listen it’s worth a listen.
