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[Music] The Cure









Bodian

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May 3, 2012
11,596
Cumbria
The Forest - a track I can listen to repeatedly, and never get tired of. But on the more poppy side of the Cure, my vinyl version of Japanese Whispers was almost worn out from being overplayed.

The only downside of the Cure was that the most interesting girls in my sixth form all had a crush on Robert Smith, which didn't help us mere schoolboy mortals very much.
 


Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
63,389
Withdean area
The Forest - a track I can listen to repeatedly, and never get tired of. But on the more poppy side of the Cure, my vinyl version of Japanese Whispers was almost worn out from being overplayed.

The only downside of the Cure was that the most interesting girls in my sixth form all had a crush on Robert Smith, which didn't help us mere schoolboy mortals very much.

With The Forest, I also love Play For Today from the same album.
 
















Crispy Ambulance

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May 27, 2010
2,402
Burgess Hill
Robert Smith was born in Blackpool

Crikey, never knew that.

I read Lol's book a while back and I think he first met RS when they both lived in Horley, before the latter moved with his parents to Crawley. They got a fair few twattings when they were younger on account of looking 'a bit different!'
 




El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
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Jul 5, 2003
39,689
Pattknull med Haksprut
Crikey, never knew that.

I read Lol's book a while back and I think he first met RS when they both lived in Horley, before the latter moved with his parents to Crawley. They got a fair few twattings when they were younger on account of looking 'a bit different!'

Read the book too, what came across quite surprisingly was that RS was quite useful in a scrap.
 


pearl

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May 3, 2016
12,712
Behind My Eyes
Crikey, never knew that.

I read Lol's book a while back and I think he first met RS when they both lived in Horley, before the latter moved with his parents to Crawley. They got a fair few twattings when they were younger on account of looking 'a bit different!'

there were a lot of nasty skinheads in Crawley then so I can imagine the dyed hair, earrings and make-up not going down too well :)
 






BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
17,013
The Forest - a track I can listen to repeatedly, and never get tired of. But on the more poppy side of the Cure, my vinyl version of Japanese Whispers was almost worn out from being overplayed.

The only downside of the Cure was that the most interesting girls in my sixth form all had a crush on Robert Smith, which didn't help us mere schoolboy mortals very much.

My best mate's dad used to do photography for them and was an old friend of Porl Thomson. When we were in sixth form they announced a Wembley gig and my best friend and i discussed the likely hood of getting back stage passes. I was a huge Cure fan at the time and was beside myself with excitement at getting the chance to see them and maybe even meet them.

He took one of the most interesting girls in the sixth form instead of me.

I learned a life lesson :)

MY Cure records were borrowed and never returned from said friend and i was always told that they were given to him direct from the band. Although i have no way of verifying this but Boys Don't Cry, The Top and Kiss Me hold a special place in my record collection just in case this was true.
 




KZNSeagull

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Nov 26, 2007
19,692
Wolsingham, County Durham
I loved The Cure but felt that they went off once RS decided to do his pop song trilogy (Lets Go to Bed etc). What a pile of tripe they were. 17 seconds, Faith and Pornography are magnificent albums. After that I felt they were rather hit and miss - lots of good songs, lots of crappy ones too. Porl Thompson was/is a fantastic guitarist though. So judging by how many bad songs a band did, I feel that The Smiths were far superior as they hardly had a bad one at all.

And for goodness sakes chaps, it is A Forest, not The Forest. A Forest. A. Sake.
 


Deano's Right Foot

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Jul 5, 2003
3,911
Barcombe
I used to see (Easy) Cure at the Rocket in Crawley regularly and was friends with Paul (pre "Porl") Thompson's sister who now lives in Brighton. Paul went to Thomas Bennett but the others went to St Wilfred's. Great band.
 




El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
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Jul 5, 2003
39,689
Pattknull med Haksprut
I used to see (Easy) Cure at the Rocket in Crawley regularly and was friends with Paul (pre "Porl") Thompson's sister who now lives in Brighton. Paul went to Thomas Bennett but the others went to St Wilfred's. Great band.

Porl Thompson is now known as Pearl Thompson and lives as a crossdresser on a houseboat.

 





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