[Friday On The Turntable] Ranking The Cure - From 'Three Imaginary Boys' to ' 

Their dark triology Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography is amazing

The B-sides from Wish (on the 3rd disc in the Join The Dots box) are some of my absolute favorite cure songs. I just can't wrap my head around how the hell they didn't make the cut for the album.

Great video! I personally love Bloodflowers so it kinda surprised me to see it on the bottom of the list, lol. Anyway, here's my ranking: 14. Wild Mood Swings 13. The Cure 12. Three Imaginary Boys 11. 4:13 Dream 10. The Top 9. Japanese Whispers 8. Seventeen Seconds 7. The Head On The Door 6. Faith 5. Bloodflowers 4. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 3. Wish 2. Pornography 1. Disintegration

Hey Bret, how's itgoing? Just starting to watch this episode of FOTT, you're probably not going to believe this but I not only don't have one Cure record in my collection but I can't stand them! I'm actually really interested to hear this post as it may help me get into them a bit. They just seemd to pass me by, I also think that when they were making it big over here in the UK I was listening to other bands. What would you recommend as a good starting point for a complete novice? Cheers James

Wow! All the way back to the Going To The Theatre era. :) Very cool. Happy that you are enjoying my videos. Three Imaginary Boys is the sound of The Cure in its infancy - they took a drastic turn for the next album - so when you listen to them, it almost sounds like 2 different bands! Thanks again for watching and commenting. :) - Bret

Roger O'Donnell's not on Wish, so not really the classic lineup, which is one of the reasons Wish doesn't click for me, (same with 4:13 Dream) the wall of Keyboard sound isn't there and it sounds kinda hollow. My top 5, 1. Disintegration (Perfection, 75 minutes goes by like 5. Sequencing is fantastic, it's absolutely perfect.) 2. Pornography (you're right, you gotta be in the right frame of mind, but if you are, wow) 3. Kiss Me... (Just Like Heaven remains the perfect song.) 4. Faith (the atmospherics are brilliant) 5. Bloodflowers (I know you had it pretty low but I think the stronger songs are just epic. Last day of Summer is stirring, and the Loudest sound is just crushing.) Kudos my friend, you're a true Cure fan like myself.

the title track from The Top is my favorite Cure song by a ways

Hi Bret Interesting as always and your enthusiasm for the subject matter is very catching. Pretty much agree with your wise and knowledgeable view but a couple of differences; 1. Pornography; not an ounce of waste on here and it's a relentless and brilliant ride from start to finish. 2. Disintegration; I think it's slightly overlong and, unlike my No1 doe have a soft middle. Agree that the opening 4 songs are majestic and wonderful, as are the last two. 3. Faith; not quite at the level of Pornography but every song a total classic and the bands first classic release. Artwork, writing and playing all a step up from earlier material. 4. Head On The Door 5. The Top 6. Wish 7. Kiss Me x3 8. Bloodflowers -,got a bootleg performance of this with Pornography and Disintegration played live. It's the weaker material by far but still pretty damn fine. 9. 17 seconds 10. 3 Imaginary Boys 11. Wild Mood Swings ... the others I'm less familiar with although will listen to WMS again to see if my feelings about it have improved at all. Being slightly older than your good self, I go further back with the Cure and that probably shapes my favourable view of the mid 80s material. Join The Dots is splendid collection and definitely worth owning. The Orange film I used to have on VHS and it barfly needs a Blu-Ray makeover and to be released with enhanced sound. Great to see these reviews and fun to hear someone else's take on rankings. Entertaining comments section too and keep these coming. Cool post

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I love how disintegration is just so good that no matter in which order the rest are ranked in, Disintegration always comes in at number one, or at least in top three

Seventeen Seconds is my all time favorite Cure album. It's the album that got me into them.

Bloodflowers can easily be in top 5.. its a great album

Great take on an unbelievable body of work. My list goes: 1. Disintegration 2. Faith 3. Pornography 4. Head On The Door 5. Wish 6. The Top 7. Seventeen Seconds 8. Kiss Me 9. Japanese Whispers 10. Wild Mood Swings 11. The Cure 12. Bloodflowers 13. Three Imaginary Boys 14. 4:13 Dream

Awesome review - here is my take on the best of Cure Albums, plus my favorite two tracks on each of them: Love all of the following 13 albums: 1. Faith (1981) a. The Drowning Man b. Primary 2. The Top (1984) a. Piggy in the Mirror b. Dressing Up 3. Seventeen Seconds (1980) a. A Forest b. In Your House 4. KMKMKM (1987) a. Why Can´t I Be You b. Fight 5. Standing on the Beach (& B-Sides) (1986) a. Charlotte Sometimes b. The Exploding Boy 6. Head on the Door (1985) a. A Night Like This b. The Baby Screams 7. Pornography (1982) a. A Short Term Effect b. A Strange Day 8. Concert & Curiosity (1984) a. Shake Dog Shake b. All Mine 9. Disintegration (1989) a. Pictures of You b. Untitled 10. Wish (1992) a. To Wish Impossible Things b. End 11. Three Imaginary Boys & Boys don´t Cry (1979) a. Fire in Cairo b. Jumping Someone Else´s Train 12. Japanese Whispers (1983) a. The Upstairs Room b. Lament 13. Wild Mood Swings (1996) a. Jupiter Crash b. Club America Never really got into these 3 albums 14. Bloodflowers (2000) a. There is no if 15. 4:13 Dream (2008) a. Sirensong 16. The Cure (2004) a. Going Nowhere

1.Pornography 2.Disintegration 3.Seventeen Seconds 4.Faith 5.The Head On The Door 6.Kiss Me 7.Japanese Whispers 8.Wish 9.Three Imaginary Boys 10.Bloodflowers 11.The Top 12.The Cure 13.4:13 Dream 14.Wild Mood Swings

13.4:13 Dream 12.The Cure 11.Wild Mood Swings 10.The Top 9.Three Imaginary Boys 8.Bloodflowers 7.Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 6.Wish 5.The Head On The Door 4.Faith 3.Seventeen Seconds 2.Pornography 1.Disintegration

1. Pornography 2. Disintegration 3. Wish 4. Head on the Door 5. Seventeen Seconds 6. The Top 7. Faith 8. Kiss Me 9. Bloodflowers 10. 3 Imaginary Boys 11. 4:13 Dream 12. Wild Mood Swings 13. The Cure

Hi Bret, Would you not include the 'Boys Don't Cry'' album for this list? It was the first album released by The Cure in the States. It had some great tracks like 'Jumping Someone Else's Train' and 'Plastic Passion' that were not on 'Three Imaginary Boys'. I think that 'Foxy Lady', 'Meathook', 'It's Not You' and 'The Untitled Track' were not on 'Boys Don't Cry' I just thought I would mention this to stir up the Cure discussion a little bit. Much love and have a great weekend~ Rob

I see a KUKQ sticker in the background. I had the same sticker on my bright red Walkman in school.

I like Pornography best! My mother gave it to me. She told me that the record store clerk told her she was so cool to give her son the gift of pornography for Christmas.

Favorite Cure album is Faith. Favorite Cure song is If Only Tonight We Could Sleep.

Good choices! My ranking: 1) Wish and Disintegration, joint 3) Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 4) Wild Mood Swings 5) 4:13 Dream 6) The Head on the Door 7) Pornography 8) The Top 9) Three Imaginary Boys 10) Seventeen Seconds 11) The Cure 12) Faith 13) Bloodflowers It's not that I don't like the lower ones, I just find others to be better... Anyway, I subscribed for this great ranking!

I was at there 40th anniversary concert and the first song they played was plainsong and you are spot on it did bring tears to my eyes.

albums top 3 songs 1. Disintegration - songs Plainsong, Pictures of You and Untilted 2. Faith - All Cats Are Grey, The Funeral Party, Primary 3. The Head on the door - Push, In Between Days, Sinking 4. Pornograthy - Cold, A Short Term Effect, The Figurehead 5. Kiss me 3x - Just Like Heaven, One More Time, Like Cockatoos 6. Wish - To Wish impossible things, Doing the unstruck, High 7. Seventeen Seconds - A Forrest, At Night, Seventeen Seconds 8. Japanese Whispers - Lament, Just one Kiss. The Walk 9. Boys Dont Cry US / Three Imagninary Boys UK. I prefer the US version. - Grinding Halt, Boys dont cry, Fire in Cairo 10. The Top - The Caterpillar, Shake dog shake, The Top 11. Bloodflowers - Maybe Someday, The Loudest Sound, 39 12. 4:13 Dream - Underneath the stars, the sirensong, Its over 13. Wild Mood Swings - Bare, Want, Treasure 14. The Cure , Taking Off , Anniversary, Before Three

Wish was the last decent album for me. Disintegration is the best album in my opinion.

Bloodflowers was the last album i connected with they lost me after that.

loved the cure when i was at boarding school in the mid 80s

Wow another ranking of another amazing, talented band! Always thought of Japanese Whispers as a studio album, but to be fair it's actually a compilation of very good singles and b-sides. Don't think it should be on a list of ranking studio albums.

1. Pornography 2. Faith 3. The Top (American fans who like their later more commercial albums tend to overlook this fascinating, experimental album. Really hear the Banshees influence here!). 4. Seventeen Seconds 5. The Head On The Door 6. Disintegration (Saw this fantastic tour three times in different states). 7. Three Imaginary Boys (Don't overlook this interesting debut that reminds a bit of The Buzzcocks). 8. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 9.. Wish (In my humble opinion, last really good album). 10. Wild Mood Swings (Contains some great tracks and too harshly criticized by some fans). 11. The Cure 12. Blood Flowers (Some of the actual music on this is excellent, but Robert made a mistake to compare BF to the classics Pornography and Disintegration. Feel it's nowhere as good as some fans believe, but respect everybody's opinions). 13. 4:13 Dream (To be fair only listened to it a couple of times). Also love the compilations Boys Don't Cry, Japanese Whispers, SOTB, and of course many of the overlooked, excellent b-sides from the eighties.

1. Faith 2. Disintegration 3. The Head On The Door 4. Pornography 5. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 6. Seventeen Seconds 7. Wish 8. The Top 9. Bloodflowers 10. Wild Mood Swings 11. 4:13 Dream 12: Three Imaginary Boys 13. The Cure

Agree about bloodflowers. It is repetitive and predictable.

Shannon! Did we go to the same school, because my English teacher played it when we read The Stranger too!!! :) Happy to hear that you love The Cure - listened to Wish in the car, driving around late the other night... 'From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea' came on - wow, just breathtaking. Thank you so much for watching - always appreciate hearing from you. - Bret

Hi Bret, Thank you for your terrific album reviews, I thoroughly enjoy watching them. As promised when I did my list of The Church's albums, here is my list of The Cure's. The Cure is my all time favourite band, followed by The Church and U2. Their songs are so close to my heart and it is such a tough task to rank them but here goes, in order of lowest to highest ranked: 14. Japanese Whispers (Lament, The Lovecats, The Walk) 13. Three Imaginary Boys (Three Imaginary Boys, 10:15 Saturday Night, Another Day) 12. 4:13 Dream (Underneath the Stars, This. Here and Now. With You., Sirensong) 11. The Cure (Truth, Goodness and Beauty, Going Nowhere, Lost) 10. The Top (The Empty World, The Wailing Wall, The Caterpillar) 9. The Head on the Door (Push, Sinking, A Night Like This) 8. Seventeen Seconds (A Forest, At Night, In Your House) 7. Faith (The Funeral Party, The Drowning Man, All Cats Are Grey) 6. Wild Mood Swings (Want, Treasure, Bare) 5. Bloodflowers (Out of This World, The Loudest Sound, Bloodflowers) 4. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (One More Time, A Thousand Hours, The Kiss) 3. Pornography (Cold, Pornography, One Hundred Years) 2. Wish (Open, Trust, To Wish Impossible Things) 1. Disintegration (Pictures of You, Plainsong, Closedown) So many great songs to go through to come up with the list. Even their lowest ranked tracks would be the best for most other bands. Disintegration clinches the number 1 spot for me. It is a flawless masterpiece of an album, from start to finish. I really believe it has to be one of the greatest albums ever made. Closely followed by the brilliant Wish album of 1992. I know I've ranked The Head on the Door a little lower than most, despite the fact it contains one of my all time favourite Cure tracks in Push. The reason being is that I think it contains several relatively weaker tracks on it, such as Screw, The Baby Screams and The Blood. I also realise that this is a common criticism of Wild Mood Swings, but I think the strength of its numerous great tracks outweight the few weaker ones on it. I still remember the excitement and anticipation for this album when it was released in 1996 and it didn't disappoint :) In terms of my top ten Cure tracks of all, I would go for: 1. Pictures of You 2. A Forest 3. Push 4. The Drowning Man 5. The Loudest Sound 6. Out of This World 7. One More Time 8. Want 9. Open 10. Plainsong Interested in your thoughts on these as always. Now onto compiling my list of U2's albums :) Cheers, Nigel

I realized 15 years ago that trying to say these are my favorite "insert band name" albums in order makes no sense. What I figured out is there is no reason to. On any given day I might want to hear one more than the other and just love the music... However, I do enjoy hearing what other people think of albums I adore regardless. Cheers :-)

I agree, WMS would've benefitted greatly from a trim, although I love "Gone!" and would've trimmed others.

!.- Disintegration tape 1989, 2.- Disintegration vinyl 1989, 3.- Disintegration deluxe 3 cd´s 2010.

The first three lowest ones (12-15) we are really on the same page... so I´m interesting what´s coming... I´m live ( :-))

1992 did not had the classic lineup, Lol was by out then...... great video

Thanks for including Japanese Whispers.

13: 2004 12: Three Imaginary Boys 11: Bloodflowers 10: Faith 9: 4:13 Dream 8: Seventeen Seconds 7: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 6: Wild Mood Swings 5: The Top 4: Head On The Door 3: Pornography 2: Wish 1: Disintegration

Oooh, your ranking comes pretty close to what mine would've been! Wish is my all time favorite, and it's not just because of the music, but because of the time and place in my life when I first listened to and got into it - though EVERY album absolutely transmports me to some time and place. :) Everything after Wild Mood Swings I just can't with. WMS had some very cute pop songs on it, but after that...I don't know what happened. It just feels like Robert Smith trying to catch lightning in a bottle, and it just didn't do it for me, and I TRIED with all of them! I wanted to like them so badly and just couldn't. Thankfully, they've had so many years of amazing creativity and experimentation for us to dive into and enjoy already, there's no need to feel too bad about anything we don't care for too much. I really appreciate all the commentary you put into your list on the songs and albums. I think it's about time I go back and listen again!....I really wish that WISH remaster would surface. I think I may have read somewhere that, as was the trend in that day, they recorded the album so LOUDly, that they can't really do too much refining on the master recording. It would just be garbage in/garbage out at this point (not calling Wish garbage by any means - just that the master recording may not be too hot to begin with, and there might not be much they can do about it now). I still have my original CD pressing and man does it sound tinny and crunchy now. I don't know if that has to do with the age of the CD or the loudness levels, but it would be nice to hear the tracks refreshed to some extent. "To Wish Impossible Things" is one of my favorite Cure songs ever. The aching, longing, crushing sincerity of it nearly brings a tear to my eye whenever I really sit and listen to it. I miss this about the Cure.

Here is my own ranking: Absolutely no.1 is Pronography and then 2. Head on the door 3. Boys don´t cry/3 imaginary boys 4. The top 5. Japanese whispers 6. Faith 7. Seventeen seo´conds 8. Disintegration 9. Kiss me 10. Wish. But love The cure with all of my heart. And there is so much outstanding, fascinating, splendid, fantastic..... songs that is the very very hard to say which one is the best song and album. The Cure and Joy Division are the best forever in this world.

Travis, thanks man. I cannot recommend the 4CD Box Set - Join The Dots - enough. You already have some of them on the Standing On The Beach cassette (the best way to own that album). But definitely get that - the liner notes, and all of the non-album tracks are absolutely essential to your Cure collection. As for vinyl, definitely keep your eye out for Boys Don't Cry - it was the first US Cure release, collecting the early singles, mixed with tracks from Three Imaginary Boys. 1/2

I always ranked kiss me, kiss me, kiss me higher than disintegration just because I like ecletic mix of genres, agressive guitars and that album neatly showcases the band's many sides. And it has Just Like Heaven and a thousand hours. Disintegration, pornography, and bloodflowers are ok if you are in that particular mood which was great when I was a pissed off teenager that thought: "it doesnt matter if we all die"

Love your rankings!! What a difficult job!! I try to rank my favorite Cure songs all the time...... impossible!!!!! I hear you with Bloodflowers, I never really connected either ..but I enjoy most of it none the less!! They don't have a bad album!

Thanks for watching! Yeah, Robinson's production is quite harsh on the ears - not sure I dig how upfront and aggressive the vocals sound. Cheers! - Bret

Hi Bret! Loving your reviews, keep up the good work. My list is not massively different from yours, the main difference being Bloodflowers which I love and have it at No.4. The album I probably listen to most is Wish but it doesn't beat the sheer perfection of Disintegration in my ranking, when I'm in the mood for that album nothing else will suffice :) 1 - Disintegration 2 - Wish 3 - Pornography 4 - Bloodflowers 5 - Faith 6 - Head on the Door 7 - Kiss Me x3 8 - Seventeen Seconds 9 - Three Imaginary Boys 10 - The Top 11 - Japanese Whispers 12 - Wild Mood Swings 13 - The Cure 14 - 4:13 Dream

I listened to Japanese Whispers twice this morning. Audra has actually recorded a cover of 'Let's Go To Bed' - which was to be submitted for a compilation several years ago, but managed to say unreleased. I love that track 'Lament' very much. I think 'Kiss Me' suffers from being a little bit too long as well, but the range of emotion in that record is pretty large. Thank you so much for all of your discourse, Rob, Always a pleasure - enjoy your weekend! - Bret

The Cure was my first favourite band. Here's my list: 1. Disintegration 2. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 3. The Head on the Door 4. Pornography 5. Faith 6. Wish 7. Seventeen Seconds 8. Three Imaginary Boys 9. Bloodflowers 10. The Top 11. Wild Mood Swings 12. The Cure 13. 4:13 Dream Honorable mention: Staring at the Sea instead of Japanese Whispers

For WMS, I really loved "Round and Round and Round." Perry's six string bass playing almost makes it sound like a Wish era track

On the money Bret we see Eye to Eye on top 2. My Ranking #14. The Cure 13. 4:13 Dream 12. Japanese Whispers 11. Wild Mood Swings 10. Seventeen Seconds 9. BloodFlowers 8.Three Imaginary Boys 7.Pornography 6. Faith 5.The Top 4. Head On The Door 3. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Mee 2. Wish #1 DISINTERGRATION. Kiler explaination each album in detail and the stand out tracks. You know you stuff. Killer Video Its about time someone broke down the Cure's Catalog.

I never saw those shelves behind you until now. Was I not paying attention or did you move your taping spot? That is all I hope is that you put 'The Head At The Door' in the number one spot. I never liked Bloodflowers either so we are heading in the right direction. The first time I saw The Cure live was in a club in Boston in 1980. I saw them with a local band you may know called Mission Of Burma. I saw them a few times after but I think the last time was around 1987,. One of Two: Rob

1. Disintegration. 2. Pornography. 3. Seventeen Seconds. 4. Three Imaginary Boys. 5. Faith. 6. Wish. 7. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. 8. Japanese Whispers. 9. The Head on the Door. 10. The Top. 11. Wild Mood Swings. 12. Bloodflowers. 13. 4:13 Dream. 14. The Cure.

Oh, how tastes can differ.. Bloodflowers are top 3 for me with Pornography being second and then Disintegration on top. Love the others as well of couse. Thanks for the review!!

gone on wild mood swings rocks...look for the critter mix of that;)

1) Pornography 2) Faith 3) Seventeen Seconds 4) Bloodflowers 5) The Top 6) The Head on the Door 7) Boys Don't Cry 8) Disintegration 9) Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 10) Three Imaginary Boys 11) The Cure 12) Japanese Whispers 13) Wish 14) Wild Mood swings 15) 4:13 Dream

1. Disintegration 2. Faith 3. Wish 4. Pornography 5. Kiss Me 6. The Head On The Door 7. 17 Seconds 8. The Cure 9. Wild Mood Swings 10. The Top 11. Bloodflowers 12. Three Imaginary Boys 13. 4:13 Dream

All I can give right now is my top 6. 01. Seventeen Seconds 02. Faith 03. Three Imaginary Boys 04. The Top 05. The Head On The Door 06. Kiss Me x3 I love their other albums I just adore early Cure. Were I including Japanese Whispers it would show before The Top. I felt I needed to quit listening to Pornography due to anxiety/depression issues but it would have been #03. If that troubles anyone else it troubles me too. :(

The closing song on Bloodflowers which is the title track is absolutely Incredible. Probably a Top 10 Cure song for me. Wild Mood Swings has Want, Jupiter Crash and Mint Car. Three Great songs right there alone. I like quite a bit more on the album too though.

disintegration kiss me, kiss me, kiss me (standing on a beach) (mixed up) pornography wish (japanese whispers) faith three imaginary boys the top seventeen seconds head on the door wild mood swings the cure 4:13 dream bloodflowers

4:13 Dream was just God Awful minus Underneath the Stars. I agree with you on Bloodflowers. Way overrated. The Last Day of Summer is perfection. Watching Me Fall is cool. But a weak album for the most

I just found you this evening by happy accident and I've been very entertained so far! My tastes have been pretty spot on with yours so I had to laugh out loud when you said Wild Mood Swings could have done without Strange Attraction..... it's my favorite song on that album! I feel the same as you about Bloodflowers, though.... I play it to see if I've missed something, but I can't get into it. I'm looking forward to hours of entertainment watching all your videos. Cheers!

I remember the 1st time I heard the Cure was 1980 . a Forest on Top of the Pops , i couldnt know my son who is now 20 would be telling me about the Cure 30+ yrs later! I just said to my wife Julia , Just Like Heaven is one of your favourite songs of all time LOL me too!! Katie Melua does a great cover version , I also like the Cure's acoustic version have you heard this?? BTW I totally agree with Jesse , 17 Seconds should be Nmbr 1 , with Faith and Pornography in the top 3! great video Bret

And I agree. Bloodflowers just didn't do it for me. The last day of summer is amazing though. Watching me fall was cool. The rest is just bland to me.

The loudest sound is soo great (on bloodflowers) listen to it ;)

Disintegration is definitely my fav and Wish is 2nd. Though Faith and Pornography are right there... But at the end of the day.... From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea wins out and seals the deal.

Agree with most esp bloodflowers last but Seventeen Seconds wud have been much higher!

Hi Bret..I use to be an obsessive collector of The Cure..so as for the ranking,,it's a difficult one,some of the albums I'm more familiar with than others.Id rank 17 Seconds higher and my favourite being Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me,and I couldn't get one of the RSD reissues

Great video! I love your little stories and reminiscing of albums, can tell they mean a lot to you :)

For me it's 14) Bloodflowers 13) Wild Mood Swings 12) Three Imaginary Boys (I thought the Boys Don't Cry comp was better though) 11) 4:13 Dream 10) The Cure 9) Japanese Whispers 8) Pornography 7) The Top 6) Seventeen Seconds 5) Faith 4) The Head On The Door 3) Disintegration 2) Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 1) Wish

Although I knew of songs like "Let's Go To Bed" & "Lovecats" I rarely thought of The Cure as more than 'one of those' Golden Age of MTV bands until later. My entry point came with "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" which I bought as a joke. I was like 'these guys put out a double album? I've got to hear this!' The joke was on me, because I played that set everyday for a year straight, and it remains my personal favorite to this very day. Imagine my surprise when I bought all their other stuff and found out most of it didn't sound anything like this. Luckily enough, I did find I liked the earlier stuff more when I dropped my expectations. Enter my Goth period.

I love your review :) I love the cure

surprised to see so many votes for disintegration - by far my least favorite of all they have done..... well, maybe kiss me kiss me kiss me.

13 The Cure 12 Bloodflowers 11 Wild Mood Swings 10 4:13 Dream 9 Seventeen Seconds 8 Three Imaginary Boys 7 The Top 6 Wish 5 The Head on The Door 4 Kiss Me Kiss Me Miss Me 3 Faith 2 Pornography 1 Disintegration As you can see, very close. The top three are simply perfect.

My surprise was to see WISH on your number 2 position, before THE TOP and. KISS ME 3

loved it... thanks

Thanks Chad! Cool to see that we agree on the Top 5. Man, what a band! Have a great weekend. - Bret

Love to see all the love for Faith

Yeah, I agree with you. I didn't like Robinson's production on the selftitled either. I would tend to agree with you on most of the rankings (though I would rank Bloodflowers over Wild Mood Swings, and their recent output)

heh I am a lifelong Cure fan myself and the Bloodflowers album is one of my favorites. To me it is a return to their earlier moody selves.

Thank you for making this video. I watched this when I was younger and then went and bought the Staring at the sea album and then began my love affair with the band. Thank you for helping me start my journey in music.

The Cure are in my Top 5 bands of all time. They are at #5. However, their records have becoming increasingly spotty. The last Cure record I truly loved was 'Bloodflowers'. However, it took me awhile to come around to it because I was still in love with 'Wild Mood Swings'. I wasn't ready for a follow-up to 'Wild Mood Swings' at the time when 'Bloodflowers' came out. I have since fell in love with 'Bloodflowers'. However, I do think it's their last full, creative, strong record. I do not like 'The Cure' beyond for maybe one or two songs, and I really do not like '4:13 Dream' at all belong 'The Perfect Boy' and maybe 'The Only One'. 'Pornography' and 'Wish' are sheer, pure, complete perfection for me. I do agree that 'Wild Mood Wings' is simply waaaaay too long.

4:13 Dream is pretty awful. Underneath the Stars was amazing but the rest.... Ugh

Sensational video mate. Beautifully done.

Disintegration is so boring except a couple songs..same with bloodflowers

I do need to get more of their albums, but of what I know I would put you number 3 in the first place and your number 1 as number 2.....

my top three 3 pornography 2 Disintegration 1 faith

Gotta move Three Imaginary Boys and Seventeen Seconds much higher up...perhaps 2-3 after Head on the Door. Then Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss me.

Totally agree about Bloodflowers. I love Watching Me Fall, The Last Day of Summer, and the title track, but overall, it just feels like it's missing something. It's almost like they're bored, or maybe they needed David M. Allen to bring more variety to the mixing (or Porl Thompson's guitar.) Even WMS has Mint Car. The rest of the albums are very near and dear to my heart

I don't know.... You seemed to like that Faith album a bit more than #5. ;) all great albums by a great band, I couldn't rank em if I tried. Lol. thanks for the video!

Three Imaginary Boys is such a cult classic now, Seventeen Sounds too, Boys Don't Cry is probably my favorite, all though it is technically a compilation album

My favorite albums are phonagraphy and disenergration thank you for doing these reviews keep on doing it

It is hard to disagree with any list. Check out this one! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xpc8DLl96ro.html

Very hard to disagree with a list like that since it's a very personal thing. BUT. The only thing that i think was crazy was to put Japanese Whispers ahead of Wild Mood Swings haha. Let me explain. JW had the most simplistic line up, the songs were great I love that album and i agree with you on Lament as the best track. But WMS had so much more quality in terms of the line up, sound quality, song quality... The opening track Want is amazing, i loved Club America to jump up and down in my room. Mint Car and Return were very catchy songs along with R&R&R. Bare, the closing track has unbelievable emotion, I love it. Numb is also very atmospheric and old school. Can't imagine the budget for this as well with the experimental songs Gone and The 13th... I wouldn't rank this album anywhere near the Boris Williams era albums but ahead of Japanese Whispers for sure :)

excelent man! I'm a huge cure fan too. I would probably put "Bloodflowers" as my second favorite cure album, just next to "Disintegration". I also think 4:13 dream is very underrated. I hope they realease their planned follow up "4:14 scream" very soon but it doesn't seem likely.

My Favorite Cure Records ranked: 1.The Head on The Door 2.Disintergration 3.Pornography 4.Wish 5.Kiss Me Kiss Kiss Me 6.Three Imaginary Boys 7.Seventeen Seconds 8.Faith 9.The Top 10.Join The Dots:B-sides and Rarities(Don't know why you didn't include this on your list,I know because it is an odds and sods compilation but this is pretty good cause for a time The Cure had great B-sides) 11.4:13 Dream 12.Wild Mood Swings 13.Bloodflowers 14.Self-titled 2004(an absolute musical abortion of a record That is my list and great video Sir!!!

I always loved WMS because it was my introduction to the band. Any ranking list without WMS as their worst deserves my time and appreciation.

my top five albums would be 1.Pornography, 2. Kiss Mex3, 3.Disintegration, 4.Three Imaginary Boys, 5.Seventeen Seconds. because of your video i'll give Wish another listen though. on vinyl i'm missing Kiss M3 (i really should have gotten it on RSD, but i was stupidly economizing (also, i bought it when it came out and stupidly sold it for like $3 later when i had the cd)) and 3IB (although i have the Boys Don't Cry record which is almost the same as 3IB). also, i love the Standing on a Beach compilation, especially the tape which has the b-sides compilation on the reverse side (the videos collection Staring at the Sea is great also).

Bret, I know this is a few years late but just massively into the cure so enjoying this vid: again

Great ranking here. I have to agree, the newer albums are great and enjoyable but some of those older albums are just legendary.