The Cure FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2021
400 pages
978-1-4930-5398-8 (ISBN)
Description
Led by the iconic frontman Robert Smith, the Cure remain one of the most beloved and influential bands in the history of alternative rock. Thanks in part to classic singles like "Just Like Heaven," "Boys Don't Cry," "Lovesong," "In Between Days," and many others, the Cure have sold millions of records worldwide and have performed in front of countless fans in every corner of the globe. Albums like Disintegration, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and The Head on the Door are universally hailed as landmarks of the genre.
For the first time, The Cure FAQ covers the band's forty-plus year career while offering fresh insight into each song in the Cure's vast canon. Each album is dissected and reviewed with candid commentary and extensive research. With their March 2019 entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame firmly establishing the Cure's place in the musical stratosphere, the timing for a career overview is perfect and The Cure FAQ delivers.
For the first time, The Cure FAQ covers the band's forty-plus year career while offering fresh insight into each song in the Cure's vast canon. Each album is dissected and reviewed with candid commentary and extensive research. With their March 2019 entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame firmly establishing the Cure's place in the musical stratosphere, the timing for a career overview is perfect and The Cure FAQ delivers.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
64 b/w photos
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-5398-8 (9781493053988)
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Christian Gerard
The Cure FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known
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10/2021
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Music writer Christian Gerard has been listening to the Cure for over thirty years. Originally from Morgantown, West Virginia, Gerard spent many years in the Washington, DC, area before moving to Minneapolis in 2018. A diehard music geek, he has written for publications and sites like NBC Washington, The Washington Blade, Metro Weekly, and PopMatters, among others.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword: Wind on My Face, Sound in My Ears
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: O Death . . . Rock Me
- 1 Sordid Details Following: Robert Smith
- 2 So Close to Something Better Left Unknown: The Formative Years
- 3 Radio-Friendly Unit Shifters: Chris Parry and Fiction Records
- 4 Degenerate the Faithful: "Killing an Arab"
- 5 You Would Cry Too: Three Imaginary Boys
- 6 Ticking Away the Moments: Seventeen Seconds
- 7 Thunder in Our Hearts: Simon Gallup
- 8 The Ghosts of My Life: Faith
- 9 Bereft in Deathly Bloom: The Cure in Goth
- 10 Sex Is Violent: Pornography
- 11 Once Upon a Time in a Land Called Fantasy: The Pop Singles
- 12 Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: The Cure in Video
- 13 Twisted Under Sideways Down: The Glove's Blue Sunshine
- 14 A Siren Singing You to Shipwreck: Robert Smith as a Banshee
- 15 Feed Your Head: The Top
- 16 Lost in Motion, Locked Together: The Extended Cure
- 17 Never Quite as It Seems: The Head on the Door
- 18 Hold on to These Moments as They Pass: The Cure Compiled
- 19 Started Out Down a Dirty Road: The Cure in Concert, Part 1 (1976-1986)
- 20 There's Fever in the Funk House, Now: Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
- 21 What You Had and What You Lost: Disintegration
- 22 Playing That Organ Must Count for Something: Laurence Tolhurst
- 23 Feel Like Swirling and Dancin': Mixed Up, Torn Down, and the Remixes
- 24 I Will Rise . . . and You'll See Me Return: Wish
- 25 Reach Out and Touch the Flame: The Cure's Live Albums and DVDs
- 26 The Rhythm Has Control: The Drummers
- 27 Believe Me, I'm Going to Be Big: The Cure in Popular Culture
- 28 We've All Gone Crazy Lately: Wild Mood Swings
- 29 The Good Old Days May Not Return: The Cure in Concert, Part 2 (1987-1999)
- 30 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Bloodflowers
- 31 This and That, These and Those: The Cure's Hidden Gems
- 32 Just When You Think You've Got It Down: The Cure
- 33 Seemed So Very Real: 4:13 Dream
- 34 I Guess I'll Know When I Get There: The Cure in Concert, Part 3 (2000-2019)
- 35 They Shine for You, They Burn for All to See: The Cure's Legacy
- Selected Bibliography
- Selected Index
