In anticipation of The Cure's upcoming album Songs of a lost world due out November 1st 2024. I've made a spotify playlist of some of my personal favourite songs from The Cure which you can dig into here as you have a read if you like!
What's ironic about writing this article after my previous Coldplay article is that I actually discovered The Cure's music through Coldplay.
How you ask? Well..... back in the days of Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the head era Circa 2002 or so ... Coldplay had a very awesome band website at the time.
I don't remember all the details of the layout, but what stands out in my memory is the presence of a flash music player on the website known as the "Coldplayer". This Coldplayer showcased the band's favorite music, which I found to be a brilliant way of introducing fans to their influences, both past and present.
I can't remember all the songs on the Coldplayer playlist, but two tracks that stand out in my memory are The Cure's "A Forest" and The Streets' "It's too late" from the now iconic Original Pirate Material album, which instantly turned me into a fan of both bands.
I had seen and heard some of The Cure's music on the periphery growing up through seeing their music videos on Much Music (Canada's MTV) but "A Forest" was the first song by the band that truly connected with me and made me a fan ever since.
Since that time, I have acquired extensive knowledge of their music and formed numerous close friendships based on our shared appreciation of their music and discography.
As is typical with exceptional bands, the most enjoyable aspect of our discussions is that each of us has distinct favorite albums and songs for various reasons, yet ultimately we simply love it all!
As far as complete albums go, my personal favourites in chronological order are:
Disintegration (seems to be one that we all seem to agree on) 1989
2. Seventeen seconds (featuring "A forest" of course) 1980
Dream 4:13 2008
Songs from a Lost World ? (if the first two singles "Alone" and "A fragile thing" are any indication, this album is certainly going to be worth the 16 year wait for new material from Robert Smith and the band.
What's your favourite album by The Cure?
Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Faith (1981)
Pornography (1982)
To celebrate the release of The Cure's Songs of a lost world they have JUST (literally as I am writing this) released a deep dive interview about S.O.A.L.W with Robert Smith filmed at Abbey Road Studios.
To my delight, there is a question asked specifically about the same shady ticketmaster practices that us fans are all aware of but also Robert Smith's side of things on how he has gone up against them in his career . Watch this fascinating section from the interview.
Later in the interview, the interviewer asked Robert Smith what his favourite songs were by The Cure. Robert Smith instead proposed to instead state his favorite songs from each album that he though could fit on the newest album (So much more fun!)
I have turned that into a playlist for your listening pleasure as well. *Disclaimer, one song is not on here which was "Treasure" from Wild Mood Swings, not available on spotify unfortunately.
If you have the time and you are a true fan of The Cure's music, check out the full interview where he also goes into more detail of each song on the album and an eerie story regarding the album artwork.
Now, if you had the opportunity to read my previous article about my frustrating experience with sale and resale of tickets for the upcoming Coldplay concert through ticketmaster ... you know that I have been calling for some sort of justice on the sale and resale of tickets. Suggesting that there should caps on the prices of sale and verified resale tickets. At the moment tickets can be resold for basically any price you can imagine which is uniquivickley taking advantage of music fans.
In comes The Cure, to my delight, swooping in with the exact sort of solution I was hoping to see from a major artist.
To commemorate the release of their brand new 8 song album, the Cure will be playing a live show November 1st Live in London, UK at the Troxy which will also include a free Live Stream over youtube for fans around the world as well.
Tickets for the show were not through ticketmaster but instead through dice.fm. Knowing full well the day in age we are living in, of course tickets for that special show had already hit the resale market. Nuh-Uh says The Cure.
Stay tuned for more leading up to the highly anticipated release of Songs of a lost world, and not 1 but 2 live streams. The band will be doing a live stream on BBC Radio 2 on October 30th but it appears that only UK residents can apply for tickets. The band will then play the show at the Troxy on November 1st which is release day and the live stream of the show at the Troxy will be streaming on youtube for free for fans.
In the meantime, I simply would like to say thank you to Robert Smith and The Cure for getting it right in regards to their ticket sales and the sale of their merchandise. If you haven't already, you can pre order the new record in various formats here
And to Coldplay, thank you too, I still love your music and I may not have got into the Cure's music if it weren't for you guys. Now please follow these business practices for your ticket sales of the Music of Spheres Tour :D
P.S This picture was from The Cure's amazing concert last time they were in Toronto, previewing some of the new material. June 14th 2023.
Set list from that concert here
written by Brad Gardner
Sunday, October 20th 2024.
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