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amok:

--- Quote from: Spinless on 19 Jan 2008, 04:26 ---and a lot of albums that are exactly the same.

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This cannot be emphasised enough. Like tommy said, get a best-of then maybe look into the albums with your favourite tracks on. If you try and take on the whole discog or even the 'best' few albums, you're in for a lot of the same damn song.

Buttfranklin:
My favourite album by them is Disintegration, followed by Pornography. 

I would reccomend starting with Disintegration, it's one of those rare albums where every song is good, or at least above average (best tracks: Plainsong, Pictures of You, Lovesong, Lullaby, Fascination Street).  After Disintegration, I would recommend downloading Staring at the Sea, because it's a good overview of what came before Disintegration.  The only reason I don't recommend downloading it first, is because it came out before Disintegration.

I uploaded Three Imaginary Boys in the mediafire thread, although that album sounds almost nothing like anything else they ever did.

Calaveth:
I like them, but I think they're quite uneven. I think of them more as a source of good singles really than albums.

Uber Ritter:
Do all their albums sound the same?  I mean, they all have Robert Smith sounding mopey, but I hardly think that Pornography and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me sound identical (not to mention the stuff they recorded pre-"Boys Don't Cry."  Come to think of it, some songs on all their albums might sound the same to some, but the standout tracks are often a bit more varied.
Staring at the Sea is a really good singles collection, and a good intro.  Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is a nice kinda spacey pop album--the big hit off of it ("Just Like Heaven," man I like the Dinosaur Jr. cover a lot) is similar to the rest of it in poppiness, but is considerably less spacey.
I can honestly see why some hate the Cure, but I'm a fan.  They're a nice kinda mopey pop band, most of the time, if you ask me.

Alex C:
I really, really love the Cure, but I have to agree with Tommydski about the singles collections being a good choice. The Cure has some songs that are very different from eachother, but Smith really only sounds inventive when you distill some of the finest moments from his long career and compress them down to a disk or two. Eras and themes are the best way to look at it, I think; Smith's got a couple of wonderfully realized moods and musical themes to draw upon in his repertoire, but once you get to know the handful of styles he typically employs he doesn't really surprise you anymore, which can be kind of tiresome when you realize how many albums he's put out. I hate to denigrate any of the albums with the term filler, but there's a reason everyone's immediately pointing to Pornography and Disintegration.

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