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Home Tag Archives: The Cure

Tag Archives: The Cure

The Cure: Mixed Up (Deluxe Edition)

By Stacey Pavlick
August 2, 2018
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended Music

This deluxe edition is less pickle cake, more delectable treat.

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Interview: Lol Tolhurst of the Cure

By Cedric Justice
October 18, 2016
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Interviews

"I don’t have precognition, I swear..."

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Cured: by Lol Tolhurst

By Cedric Justice
September 29, 2016
in :  Books, Recommended Books, Reviews

A personal tale of how one man happened to navigate life despite his personal demons.

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Holy Hell! Wild Mood Swings Turns 20

By Jedd Beaudoin
September 7, 2016
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

Wild Mood Swings is much better than you remember and much better than some would have you believe.

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Concert Review: The Cure

By Cedric Justice
June 2, 2016
in :  Concert Reviews, Music, Music Features

The Cure exceeded expectations.

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The Greatest Alternative Love Songs of the ’80s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
February 12, 2015
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

top 20 alternative love songs of the 1980s

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List Inconsequential: The Greatest Greatest Hits Collections (Pt. 3)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
September 5, 2013
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

20. Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites “This ain’t no Mudd Club/ Or CBGB,” though Sand in the Vaseline is virtually as authentic as any performance Talking Heads ever put on at their old Manhattan haunts. In fact, that lyric is even delivered in a live cut of “Life During Wartime,” one of two live tracks that …

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PLAYLIST: The Cure

By Spectrum Culture Staff
October 14, 2012
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist, Recommended

“Fire in Cairo” from Three Imaginary Boys (1979) No, “Fire in Cairo” is not a political song, though its explosive refrain of “F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O” is received like the rallying cry of an enraptured true believer, shouted from the platform of a falling statue. Instead, this track, featured on the Cure’s 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys and again on the 1980 U.S. …

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List Inconsequential: Runt of the Litter: Weak Albums By Strong Artists

By Spectrum Culture Staff
May 3, 2012
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists, Recommended

Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004), two of the most experimental, sophisticated albums of the decade. Then after he cleaned up, they produced Sky …

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