The Cure

Songs Of A Live World: Troxy London MMXXIV

Songs Of A Lost World + Songs Of A Live World: Troxy London MMXXIV

A Fragile Thing

Songs Of A Lost World

Alone

London Lullaby (live)

Paris (Live At Le Zenith 1992 / 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

Shake Dog Shake

THE CURE - Live in Belgium 1980

The Cure - Live at Glastonbury Festival 1986

A Forest (Live)

Interview (Live)

Live in Amsterdam 1983

Never Enough (Live)

Live in Amsterdam

The Live Interview

The Robert Smith Interview (Live)

Curaetion-25: From There To Here | From Here To There

Anniversary: 1978 - 2018 Live In Hyde Park London

Disintegration

Friday I'm In Love

Just Like Heaven

Want

Lullaby

James McCartney

Hello Goodbye

The Cure's Robert Smith Interviewed by Johnny Black

Bestival Live 2011

The Top

Disintegration (Remastered)

Hypnagogic States

The Only One (Mix 13)

4:13 Dream

Taking Off

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Galore - The Singles 1987-1997

The Head On The Door

Seventeen Seconds

Faith

Pornography

  The Cure 在1989年推出一張大熱門專輯 Disintegration 。Disintegration同時也是 Robert Smith　“悲情三部曲”的第二部，顯得黑暗誘人，帶着神秘和憂鬱，整張專輯有着催眠曲一樣的感覺，沒有了樂隊以前的黑暗絕望的作風，儘管專輯的基調比以前更爲憂鬱。The Cure 的音樂罕見的變得迷人了起來。好像在無垠的大海里，仰望夜空閃亮的星光，慢慢下沉，痛苦浸透，安詳地窒息。鋪天蓋地的深藍色鍵盤，孤寂而燦爛的吉他，黑暗中幻化出彩色光芒的貝司，沉穩壓抑而華麗眩目的鼓，還有 Robert Smith 悽美冷豔的歌聲。 
   專輯取得了英國榜第3和美國榜第14的佳績，並誕生了兩首大熱門單曲 “Lullaby” 和 “Lovesong” 。還有 Prayers for Rain 和長達九分多鐘 The Same Deep Water as You 等優美歌曲， Disintegration 是The Cure在商業上的重大突破，成爲The Cure在70～80年代最暢銷的專輯。因爲專輯出色的商業成績，在之後的世界巡迴演出中，The Cure第一次在能容納數萬觀衆的室外大型體育場上爲樂迷表演。



4:13 Dream may open with the doomed romanticism of "Underneath the Stars," but that slow-crawling mini-epic is a feint, momentarily disguising how this is the Cure's poppiest album since 1992's Wish. Poppy doesn't necessarily mean that 4:13 Dream spills over with fully formed pop songs along the lines of "High" and "Friday I'm in Love," as the 13 songs here lack the tight construction of those two minor classics, along with their beguiling light touch. Despite the preponderance of sprightly tempos and singsong hooks, nothing about 4:13 Dream feels especially light, perhaps because Robert Smith chooses to pair these purported pop songs with a heavy dose of affected angst. On the "The Reasons Why," the catchiest tune here, Smith sings about suicide with no trace of irony, or even that much interest, either; it's hard to escape the notion that he sings about darkness because that is what is expected from the king of goth. The pristine production emphasizes Smith's stylized mannerisms ? nowhere more so than on "The Only One," where his caterwauls feel too clearly articulated ? which in turn highlights that for all the purported pop of 4:13 Dream, only "The Perfect Boy" and "This. Here and Now. With You" have hooks that dig underneath the skin. These two songs are buried in the back of 4:13 Dream, surrounded by too many half-baked tunes and formless, colorless sound surges on either side, music that perfectly fits the definition of the pop side of the Cure without ever truly embodying the spirit. 


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