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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]
[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.”
And near the end of it all, on November 1st, The Cure delivered Songs of a Lost World, released 16 years after 2008’s 4:13 Dream, and 45 years […] Album of the Year: The Cure’s ‘Songs of a ...
In 1986, the singles' lead tracks were included on the Standing on a Beach compilation album, while all of the B-sides were included on the 2004 B-sides and rarities box set Join the Dots. [citation needed] Japanese Whispers was the first Cure album to enter the Billboard 200 in the US, in early 1984.
Pearl Thompson (born Paul Stephen Thompson; [1] 8 November 1957) is an English musician and artist.Thompson is best known as a member of the English alternative rock band The Cure from 1983 to 1993 and from 2005 to 2011, during which he was credited as Porl Thompson and played mainly guitar with occasional keyboards and saxophone.
The keyboardist later claimed that Smith would be reducing the Cure back to a three-piece, with Bamonte and himself the two members culled from the lineup. [18] The remaining trio recorded a cover of John Lennon's "Love" for the Amnesty International album Make Some Noise, [19] before Porl Thompson returned for summer tour dates starting in ...