Melody Maker praised the album as "psychedelia that can't be dated", while pondering, "I've yet to meet anyone who can tell me why the Cure are having hits now of all times.

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Parry was concerned that the album did not have a hit song for radio play and instructed Smith and producer Phil Thornalley to polish the track " The Hanging Garden" for release as a single. The band's notably greater popularity in the United States—virtually every concert in the leg was sold out—caused Smith to break down, and threatened the band's future: "It's reached a stage where I personally can't cope with it," he said, "so I've decided this is the last time we're gonna tour.Released in late 1984, the Cure's first live album, Concert, consisted of performances from this tour. That same year Three Imaginary Boys was repackaged for the American market as Boys Don't Cry, with new artwork and a modified track list. The release of Pornography was followed by the Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, in which the band finally dropped the anti-image angle and first adopted their signature look of big, towering hair, and smeared lipstick on their faces.

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We didn’t really like it that much, and it went on to the be the most successful single in the band’s history. Porl Thompson left the band to tour with Page and Plant and was not replaced, [83] [84] while Boris Williams quit and was replaced by new drummer Jason Cooper (formerly of My Life Story). Maaaaaaaybe the 1989 Allied plant pressing, also using the Masterdisk metalwork, might sound ever-slightly different to a dog’s ears, but generally all 3 ought to sound similar to each other.Their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), along with several early singles, placed the band at the forefront of the emerging post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, a spin-off band comprising Smith, Tolhurst, Dempsey, Gallup, Hartley, and Thompson, with backing vocals from assorted family and friends and lead vocals provided by their local postman Frankie Bell, released a 7-inch single in December under the name Cult Hero. He sought to abandon the mood present on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and the pop singles they had released, and rather recreate the atmosphere of the band's fourth album Pornography (1982). This, however, didn't happen, as the tour got underway with no new album being released, although new material was performed.

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But these were the years during which they coalesced into this whole iconic thing, the Cure—a sound, a look, and a sensibility that a few kids in every other high school could build whole identities around. The founding members of the Cure were school friends at Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley, West Sussex.Robert Smith is wallowing in gothic sadness or he's licking sticky-sweet cotton-candy pop off his lipstick-stained fingers. By ticking the SMS opt in box and submitting this form, I agree to receive text messages from and about The Cure (including prerecorded and/or by autodialer).