Kevin also spent a lot of time teaching me to play the bass, and if I remember correctly, the bassline for “A Forest” was the very first one I learned. We actually spent most of our Sunday afternoon “practice sessions” listening to The Cure and watching Cure videos (and reading comic books). However, I think we only wrote one song so I use the term “band” very loosely. My friend Kevin and I started a band back in high school. “A Forest” ( Seventeen Seconds, 1980) Seventeen Seconds It’s a wonderful example of songwriting efficiency from a band that has become primarily known for their more grandiose exercises in mopery.Ģ. Penned by Robert Smith when he was only sixteen, it’s a wonderfully morose piece of songwriting, and hints at what was to come.Īn incredibly young yet very angst-ridden Smith intones “10:15 on a Saturday night/And the tap drips under the strip light/And I’m sitting in the kitchen sink/And the tap drips, drip, drip, drip…” while his guitar simmers in the background, erupts in a ragged, angular solo, and quickly settles back down as if nothing happened.
“10:15 Saturday Night” ( Three Imaginary Boys, 1979) Three Imaginary BoysĪccording to Cure lore, “10:15 Saturday Night” was the song that got the band signed to Fiction, their label home for over twenty years. So, to celebrate this rather momentous occasion, I’ve compiled a list of 12 of my favorite Cure songs - one for each track on Disintegration - and ordered them by release date.ġ.
On June 8, the Cure will be releasing a three-disc “deluxe edition” of Disintegration, an album considered by many - myself included - to be their finest work as well as one of the greatest albums, “alternative” or otherwise, of all time.
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