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Pornography is the last Cure album to feature Tolhurst as the band's drummer (he then became the band's keyboardist), and also marked the first time he played keyboards on a Cure release. [9] The album was recorded at RAK Studios from January to April 1982. [13] On the album's recording sessions, Smith noted "there was a lot of drugs involved". [9]
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart. [5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively. [5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. [5]
[147] [148] Songs of a Lost World reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and was the Cure's first chart-topping album since Wish in 1992. [149] In the United States, Songs of a Lost World debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, and was the band's first top ten album there since The Cure in 2004. [150]
The Cure isn’t “heavy” in a conventional sense, but Robinson captures a noisy, discordant sound that doesn’t suit every song on the album, but works best on “Lost” and “Us Or Them.”
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The British legends' first album in 16 years unfurls like a brooding, gorgeous sequel to their gothic magnum opus, Disintegration. Decades on, frontman Robert Smith's vocals are still commanding ...
The album saw the band continuing in the gloomy vein of their previous effort Seventeen Seconds (1980). This stylistic theme would conclude with their next album Pornography (1982). Preceded by the single " Primary ", the album was well-received by critics and was a commercial success in the UK, peaking at number fourteen on the UK Albums Chart ...
After that day, Smith was going through the remains and came across his wallet which had pictures of his wife, Mary. The cover of the single is one of the pictures. The same picture was used as the cover of the "Charlotte Sometimes" single, but that image was heavily warped and distorted. The song is composed in the key of A major. [9]