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Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Ahead of the release of Songs of a Lost World – their first album in 16 years – we rate the best of a band who combine light and dark like no other
The moment when Tim Pope’s hugely inventive videos for the Cure reached their peak – the sight of the band crammed into a wardrobe that falls off a cliff, still performing as they drown, is the perfect accompaniment to a song that is somehow claustrophobic and appealingly light and poppy. An early adopter of MDMA, Marc Almond once declared All Cats Are Grey “the perfect ecstasy record”: presumably he had homed in on its understated tune, slowly drifting mood and blanket of synths, the latter a rare moment of warmth on the chilly Faith album. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images The song that plunges the listener head-first into the claustrophobic, pitch-black, disturbing sound-world of Pornography, via sea-sick guitars, a punishing rhythm track and an opening line that functions as the album’s self-loathing, nihilistic mission statement: “It doesn’t matter if we all die.” Harrowing and cathartic in equal measure, it still sounds astonishing.
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