The Cure
Entry posted by 'Walt' E. Kurtz
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I think I have to blame my brother for curing me it was him who introduced me to one of my all time favourite bands The Cure I think i was about 11 - 12 years when i started to listen to them, isn´t it funny how you can love a band so much to the point it´s almost like you´ve lost your marbles ;-). One of my favourite cure albums is their album Pornography form 1982
it is perhaps one of their darkest albums, listening to it is like sinking and slipping into the darkes place you can imagine, yet its spellbinding in its craziness. I´ve read that Robert did perhaps become a little crazy during during the making of the album. Cure's Pornography album was borne out of frontman Robert Smith's depression combined with the band's heavy drug use.
He explained in Jeff Apter's Never Enough: The Story of the Cure: "I had two choices at the time, which were either completely giving in [committing suicide] or making a record of it and getting it out of me." The resulting dark album was dubbed by NME as "Phil Spector in Hell," and solidified the band's place in music history.
the drug-fueled sessions obliterated most of Smith's memories of crafting the album. He told Creem in 1986: "I don't remember writing a lot of it, particularly 'Pornography.' I don't remember writing much of it at all. I understand it, I know most of the references that are in the songs, but they're so disjointed, it took me a long time to figure out. A lot of it was written when I wasn't really, I wasn't sitting down and writing, I just remember going to the studio and having this big sheaf of words. I was so possessive around that time, of the record. I was very difficult to work with. Simon and Laurence didn't enjoy it at all." The album opens with the bleak lyric "It doesn't matter if we all die," but as it reaches its conclusion with the title track, it's clear Smith isn't giving up the struggle against his personal demons:
The Cure - Pornography - Live youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAe5waeCcao
I'll watch you drown in the shower
Pushing my life through your open eyes
I must fight this sickness
Find a cure
I must fight this sickness
the album peaked at #8 on the UK albums chart.
It makes me wonder if he did take any damage from his drug abuse? I cant understand how some of the artist can still be alive, some legends are not like bowie, they once asked bowie if he remembered any thing from the 70´s and he replied no it was all in a blur or something like that. Ozzy was asked one and replied "drugs what is drugs" thankfully Robert has been clean since the 1990s.
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