Even the Cure 's biggest fans will tell you that their best songs aren't the deep tracks buried on one of the half-dozen albums they recorded before they got super huge. The very best Cure songs are the ones you probably know. Like so many groups from the beginning of time until now, the eyeliner-lovin' British quintet stuffs its albums with quite a bit of filler to go along with a handful of killer songs.

'Why Can't I Be You?'


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As the '80s were drawing to a close The Cure found themselves as perhaps unlikely pop stars, having scored hits with several accessible singles. The band reverted to a more typical introspective and gothic form for the album 'Disintegration'. Issued as a single almost one full year after the album's release, 'Pictures Of You' was inspired by images of his wife which Robert Smith saved following a house fire. The song's wonderful extended version is a welcome invitation to wallow in its melancholy for even longer.
15. Lovesong
And if you don't buy any of that, you can be quite sure of this: Niche bands with entirely subterranean fanbases don't get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's hard enough to get the institution to acknowledge even the most massive and obvious alt-rock success stories -- from U. Of course, this should've been most obvious from the music itself. More importantly, the majority of their best songs mixed those primary colors into new shades that were totally their own, recognizing that happiness and sadness are far from discrete, independent emotions, nor is anything in between. But the pull quotes could be deceiving.
No band mixes intense post-punk with euphoric pop quite like the Cure. However, it's his astonishing songwriting prowess, spread out across decades worth of material, that has meant so much to so many since the group first formed in Crawley more than 40 years ago. However, the fact they are never influenced by passing musical trends or fads is testament to their creative integrity. From crushingly severe post-punk to glossy pop favourites, these are the Cure's 15 greatest tracks. Ten years after the heartbreak of Just Like Heaven, Smith finally wrote a straightforward, nakedly happy love song.