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Cure frontman Robert Smith wrote the song in memory of his friend Billy Mackenzie, the lead singer of the new wave band Associates, who committed suicide in 1997. [2] The title of the song does not relate directly to the lyrical content; it is an anagram of "The Cure".
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.
4:13 Dream is the thirteenth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 27 October 2008 by Suretone and Geffen Records.The album was preceded by four singles, all of which were released on 13th of each month, starting in May with "The Only One" and ending in August with "The Perfect Boy".The band also released a remix EP in September, also on the 13th, titled Hypnagogic States ...
The second song on the album, the 11-minute epic “Watching Me Fall,” is the longest studio track in the Cure discography, but most of what follows feels minor and anticlimactic by comparison.
If I told you 40 years ago, when the Cure was in the midst of its new-wave wonder moment, that the band would craft an inventively elegiac epic like “Songs for a Lost World” — a singular ...
The goth gods — who had been left for dead after not releasing a new studio LP since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — have come back after 16 long years with the best rock album of 2024: “Songs ...
The band also wears masks, which is similar to the concept of the Pornography album. Robert Smith recalled: "For the 'Hanging Garden' video we got two people who did Madness videos but it was a really awful video. They wanted to make us look serious and we wanted them to make us look like Madness". [4] The video was directed by Chris Gabrin. [5 ...
The band performed the song as "Killing an Ahab" with lyrics inspired by Herman Melville on 2011's Reflections Tour. [13] During the band's 40th anniversary tour, the lyrics and title were changed back to "Killing an Arab". [14] The band performed the song as "Killing Another" to close out the final show on their tour in December 2022. [15]