Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Since the song's release, "Killing an Arab" has been controversial and viewed as promoting violence against Arabs. [8] A 1978 NME article described the song's title as "at first glance irresponsibly racist," with Robert Smith responding, "It’s not really racist, if you know what the song is about. It’s not a call to kill Arabs."
"Alone" is a song by English rock band the Cure. Released on 26 September 2024, it was the first new studio recording of original material from the band in 16 years and their first new studio recording of any kind in a decade, since their appearance on 2014's The Art of McCartney.
"Lullaby" is a song by English rock band the Cure from their eighth studio album, Disintegration (1989). Released as a single on 10 April 1989, the song is the band's highest-charting single in their home country, reaching number five on the UK Singles Chart. It additionally reached number three in West Germany and Ireland while becoming a top ...
In 2011, the song was voted number 283 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. [6] In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number nine on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [7] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number 11 on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs. [8]
In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number three on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [11] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number two on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs. [ 12 ] John Leland at Spin said, "It has the bittersweet feel of a New Order record, with a hyperstrummed acoustic guitar for depth.
"A Letter to Elise" is a song by English rock band the Cure, released as the third and final single from the album Wish on 5 October 1992. In 2010, Pitchfork Media ranked it at number 184 in their list of "The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s". [1]
"A Forest" and its parent album Seventeen Seconds are representative of The Cure's gothic rock phase in the late 1970s and 1980s. [1] [4] The song has also been described as a post-punk track. [5] [6] Cure biographer Jeff Apter refers to "A Forest" as "the definitive early Cure mood piece" and argues the song is the centrepiece of the album ...
"High" is a song by English rock band the Cure, released as the lead single from their ninth album, Wish (1992), on 16 March 1992. The track received mostly positive reviews and was commercially successful, reaching number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, number six on the Irish Singles Chart, and number eight on the UK Singles Chart.