The Cure Head on The Door

The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]

The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 653 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 233 MB | Covers - 148 MB
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave, Gothic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rhino (R2 74063)

After recording one of their darkest albums, 1984's The Top, the Cure regrouped and shuffled their lineup, which changed their musical direction rather radically. While the band always had a pop element in their sound and even recorded one of the lightest songs of the '80s, "The Lovecats," The Head on the Door is where they become a hitmaking machine. The shiny, sleek production and laser-sharp melodies of "Inbetween Days" and "Close to Me" helped them become modern rock radio staples and the inspired videos had them in heavy rotation on MTV. The rest of the record didn't suffer for hooks and inventive arrangements either, making even the gloomiest songs like "Screw" and "Kyoto Song" sound radio-ready, and the inventive arrangements…

Best Of The Cure (2009)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 1, 2021
Best Of The Cure (2009)

Best Of The Cure (2009)
Rock | EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log | MP3 CBR 320Kbps | 22 Tracks
Universal Music lebanon | 0149-2 | ~596 + 206 Mb
Booklet and Covers(300dpi, jpg) Included | Art(png, 600dpi) -> 154 Mb

The Cure - Discography Part 2. Live Albums (1984-1993)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 20, 2021
The Cure - Discography Part 2. Live Albums (1984-1993)

The Cure - Discography Part 2. Live Albums (1984-1993)
Rock/Alternative/Goth/Post-Punk/New Wave | EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log | MP3 CBR320
Scans(600dpi, jpg) | ~2647 + 1034 Mb | 3% recovery

4 Live Albums, 7 Releases, 8 CDs

The Cure - The Top (1984) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 15, 2022
The Cure - The Top (1984) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]

The Cure - The Top (1984) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 695 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 249 MB | Covers - 139 MB
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave, Gothic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor (9840012)

Recorded in the midst of Robert Smith's tenuous tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Top is arguably the most hedonistic record the Cure ever produced. Essentially Smith and Lol Tolhurst working with studio musicians (this being the period when the Cure's lineup was never assured), it's an album obviously recorded under stress, drink, and drugs. More wildly experimental musically than anything before it, it laid the foundations for the Cure's pattern of unpigeonholable albums that were to erase their reputation built by Pornography and eventually culminating in Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. That said, it's still very much a Cure record. Heavy on the percussion and quaint keyboard effects that were so big in the '80s, the melodies ("The Caterpillar," "Shake Dog Shake") are unmistakably Robert Smith…

The Cure - Hypnagogic States EP (2008)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 24, 2022
The Cure - Hypnagogic States EP (2008)

The Cure - Hypnagogic States EP (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 254 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 87 MB | Covers - 20 MB
Genre: New Wave, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Geffen Records (0602517826885)

Priming the pump for their new 2008 studio album, the Cure invite five of their modern-day disciples to remix the first round of singles from their forthcoming 4:13 Dream - all released during the summer of 2008 - for theHypnagogic States EP. All the acts here - Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Jade Puget of AFI and Cure opener 65 Days of Static - do demonstrate some clear debt to the Cure, which manifests not in a doomy, sultry fashion but oddly, in mixes that are somewhat reminiscent of early-'90s Cure B-sides - an appropriate enough sound given the ages of the musicians, but not quite the classic Cure that provides their inspiration (although to be honest, apart from parts of MCR and AFI, none of these bands really sounds that much like the Cure, they just like Robert Smith's makeup)…

The Cure - Galore: The Singles 1987-1997 (1997)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 19, 2022
The Cure - Galore: The Singles 1987-1997 (1997)

The Cure - Galore: The Singles 1987-1997 (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 538 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 171 MB | Covers - 112 MB
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Elektra (62117-2)

It's ironic that the Cure, a band whose albums have always seemed like definitive artistic statements, were at their best as a singles band. On the group's singles, Robert Smith's ideas reached their full potential, since they captured not only the group's off-kilter pop sense, but also the haunting melancholy and wacky humor that interlaced Smith's songs. Galore rounds up the singles from the second part of the Cure's career, beginning with "Why Can't I Be You?" from 1987's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and ending with "Gone!" from 1996's Wild Mood Swings. Between those two are 15 more songs, nearly every one of which is a gem. The Cure were never a repetitive singles band, and there's a dizzying array of styles here, from infectious jangle pop ("Friday I'm in Love," "Mint Car") and monolithic, chilly goth rock ("Fascination Street," "Pictures of You," "Just Like Heaven")…

The Cure - Mixed Up (1990)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 20, 2022
The Cure - Mixed Up (1990)

The Cure - Mixed Up (1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 447 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 172 MB | Covers - 47 MB
Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Fiction Records (FIXCD 18, 847 099-2)

An assortment of remixes, re-recordings, old singles, and one new song ("Never Enough"). Most of the remixes are quite radical, leaving only the bare bones of the original song. There are enough oddities and rare tracks on Mixed Up to make it necessary for Cure fans, but it's too specialized for casual listeners.

The Glove - Blue Sunshine (1983) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 28, 2022
The Glove - Blue Sunshine (1983) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]

The Glove - Blue Sunshine (1983) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 774 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 292 MB | Covers - 223 MB
Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rhino (R2 70803)

This one-off collaboration between the Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie & the Banshees' Steven Severin resulted in an eccentric, and at times incompatible, mix of psychedelic sounds wrapped around alternative '80s pop. Writers Smith and Severin's more eccentric tendencies are as likely to evoke pictures of a carnival as a funereal march, but the backbone rests largely on tightly constructed tunes with occasional forays into the experimental. Jeanette Landray sings the majority of the tracks, while Smith takes the lead twice amongst a smattering of instrumentals. Standout tracks include the Middle Eastern-twinged "Orgy" and the more conventional "Mouth to Mouth." Smith's distinctive warbling on the first-class "Perfect Murder" takes the album directly into Cure territory, as do the instrumentals which could equally find a home on Seventeen Seconds…

The Cure - Pornography (1982) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2005]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 10, 2022
The Cure - Pornography (1982) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2005]

The Cure - Pornography (1982) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 765 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 269 MB | Covers - 187 MB
Genre: Post-Punk, New Wave, Gothic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor (982 183-7)

Later hailed as one of the key goth rock albums of the '80s and considered by many hardcore Cure fans to be the band's best album, Pornography was largely dismissed upon its 1982 release, witheringly reviewed as a leaden slab of whining and moping. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between: Pornography is much better than most mainstream critics of the time thought, but in retrospect, it's not the masterpiece some fans have claimed it to be. The overall sound is thick and murky, but too muddy to be effectively atmospheric in the way that the more dynamic Disintegration managed a few years later. For every powerful track like the doomy opener "One Hundred Years" and the clattering, desolate single "The Hanging Garden," there's a sound-over-substance piece of filler like "The Figurehead," which sounds suitably bleak but doesn't have the musical or emotional heft this sort of music requires…

The Cure - The Top (1984)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Aug. 11, 2020
The Cure - The Top (1984)

The Cure - The Top (1984)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Fiction, 821 136-2 | ~ 249 or 97 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 20 Mb
New Wave, Post Punk

Recorded in the midst of Robert Smith's tenuous tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Top is arguably the most hedonistic record the Cure ever produced. Essentially Smith and Lol Tolhurst working with studio musicians (this being the period when the Cure's lineup was never assured), it's an album obviously recorded under stress, drink, and drugs…