[125], The Cure are often identified with the gothic rock genre, and are viewed as one of the form's definitive bands. [104], In NME's cover article for March 2012, the Cure announced that they would be headlining a series of summer music festivals across Europe, including the Leeds/Reading Festival. [148][149], The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by The Recording Academy of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. Here are 16 gems by one of the most influential bands in modern rock- In Between Days; Why Can't I Be You; Boys Don't Cry; Let's Go to Bed; Close to Me; Just Like Heaven; Love Song; Friday I'm in Love; Mint Car; High , and more-plus two new songs! The band's relationship with longtime label Fiction Records came to a close, and The Cure were obliged to release one final album for the label. "[131], The Cure's primary musical traits have been listed as "dominant, melodic bass lines; whiny, strangulated vocals; and a lyric obsession with existential, almost literary despair. [126][127][128] However, the band has routinely rejected classification, particularly as a gothic rock band. As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of "Lovecats"--reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; they offered a goth-free playtime divergence from some of the weightier studiousness of those early albums. This greatest hits album provides a great overview of their career. The Cure's original line-up consisted of Robert Smith (vocals, guitars), Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst (drums) and Michael Dempsey (bass guitar). [66], During the Disintegration sessions, the band gave Smith an ultimatum that either Tolhurst would have to leave the band or they would. [22] The Cure released their debut single "Killing an Arab" in December 1978 on the Small Wonder label as a stopgap until Fiction finalised distribution arrangements with Polydor. "[15], On 22 April 1978, Easy Cure played their last gig at the Montefiore Institute Hall (in the Three Bridges neighbourhood of Crawley)[18] before guitarist Porl Thompson was dropped from the lineup because his lead guitar style was at odds with Smith's growing preference for minimalist songwriting. Or, as smudged frontman Robert Smith says of this 18-track collection, "Songs that are sung with a smile." Frontman Billy Corgan has named the Cure as a primary influence,'[141] and drummer Mike Byrne described himself as a "huge Cure fan. The flagship for Great Britain's post-punk gloom-rock trend of the late '70s, with a ghoulish image that masked the diversity of their music. 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