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Standing on a Beach (titled Staring at the Sea in CD format in some countries) is a greatest hits album by English rock band the Cure, released in the United States on 15 May 1986 by Elektra Records and in the United Kingdom on 19 May 1986 by Fiction Records, [5] [6] marking a decade since the band's founding in 1976.
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]
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.”
In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number ten on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [5] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number five on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs. [ 6 ] The song was sampled by Massive Attack on their cover of " Man Next Door " from their 1998 album Mezzanine . [ 7 ]
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The Cure is the first record by the band released by producer Ross Robinson's I Am label, with whom the Cure signed a three-album deal. To promote the album, the band appeared at several festivals in Europe and the United States in spring [ambiguous] 2004. They also premièred the song "The End of the World" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.