Your first time with The Cure

[Poe]

I'm pretty sure I saw The Cure play there a couple of times, maybe twice in '79, or maybe the first time was in '78. My memory is a little hazy!  :roll:
Anyway, I loved the band straight away, and have been a big fan ever since. 

Oh my, someone who has been there since the start, that's amazing...I bow down and worship!

The Stranglers, The Clash, The Jam, The Police, The Sex Pistols.

...Mmmm, jam...All good bands. Golden Brown, first song I heard by The Stranglers, yay! Never gets old.

And I see you're Norwegian. At last we meet.

[feebee42]

...Oh my, someone who has been there since the start, that's amazing...I bow down and worship!

Hah - now I feel REALLY old! 

...And I see you're Norwegian. At last we meet.

Well, only a Norwegian by residency - I'm British really. But Hei to you, over the border in Sverige. 

[Poe]

Hej hej! 

Hah - now I feel REALLY old! 

Nothing to be ashamed of around these parts... 

Well, only a Norwegian by residency - I'm British really.

Oh, I see. But why did you leave? I'd love to live in the UK, or, well, I could try it, for a while...see if I can handle those fitted carpets you seem to be so fond of, hrm, hrm...I might be heading off to Brighton next year to study, and be closer to Robert of course. I had no idea he lived nearby when I made the plans. Or perhaps he's moved?

Oh well, better leave room for posts that are more on topic. Still haven't found anything new about the mysterious live recording I saw...

[jbud1980]

I discovered The Cure via the radio around 93 when I heard Friday I'm in Love. Yes, I know, overplayed, blah blah blah, but at 13, I was more into bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, TOOL, NIN, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, etc. I always enjoyed what I heard on the radio by The Cure, but being a teenager in the mid 90's that was also somewhat of a jock, it was not "cool" to like anything other than what was popular in the weight room or at beach/pool parties.  A few years later, Galore came out, and I built up the courage to purchase it at the local Tower Records (R.I.P.).  From Galore, I got a taste of many songs I had never heard, and soon thereafter, I purchased every album up to Galore.  Though I will always like the aforementioned bands, mainly because I grew up with them, The Cure quickly became one of my favorites, and to this day, still is.   

[revolt]

The first time I listened to the Cure was around 1985, I think. At school, in my classroom. All of us students were supposed to do a sort of presentation of a song by a group of our choice, we would sort of describe the song or whatever and then play a tape of it for the whole class... So a guy happened to choose The Cure and the song was probably "Close to me", although I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, I thought it was kind of cool but paid no more attention to it.
It was only about 1 year later, by the time the "Standing on a Beach" compilation was issued, that I by chance managed to catch "A Forest" on the radio and I was completely stunned. I had never in my life listened to anything quite like it. I supposed right then I became a Cure fan, although I didn´t immediately like all the songs on the "Standing on a Beach" LP (which was my first Cure record, of course).

[TheOneWhoSetFireInCairo]

It was preety funny I think...Couple of years ago I was going thru hard time. And what is best for depression? Yeeeaah - sad songs! Somewhere on the internet I found some text about The Cure and their style so I tried to find some music to "test" it. And what songs did I find for my depression? "Friday I'm in love" and "Boys don't cry" . I was like "WTF?! Great joke...". For few months I didn't even hear one note of The Cure music until my friend lended me Disintegration. It was it!!

[zyxibule]

I saw The Cure on the Paris stream of the Live 8 concert. I was watching it to see Placebo. They played 'Just Like Heaven' and 'Boy's Don't Cry'. I liked the songs but somehow never ended up listening to more of their stuff. (I have no idea why!)

A year later, a band I liked did a cover of 'Charlotte Sometimes', then I checked out The Cure again and fell in love.

[hharkey]

just barely saw them for the first time this month in west valley. great show

[Eve_23]

I saw the video of "The end of the world" a year ago on a1.. N i thought it was the best music i ever heard.. I began to search for the other their songs since then..) n now i cant listen to the good music of other bands that i was listenin to earlier cause i found the best..))

[Cold Colours]

Ahh...the first time.  Remember it still quite vividly.  Before I was introduced to The Cure, my musical tastes as an early teen were quite tame and undeveloped.  Up until I was Cure-ed, I simply listened to whatever was on the local top pop radio stations, or whom or whatever was making a big splash on MTV at the time (back in the mid-1980s when MTV was actually a legitimate music video outlet).  Duran Duran had been mine and my friends' pre-teen introduction to the world of fan devotion to a pop band.  The Duranies were the first real band that I became attached to and who I followed with great interest.  What can I say, I was only about 12 or 13 years old or so when they were hitting big.  Rio was the first true pop/rock album I ever owned.  I really wasn't interested in popular, mainstream music, or at least collecting things relating to a specific band, until my friends and I fell in with Duran Duran.  That was towards the end of my first epoch of musical evolution.

The next major seismic shift in the direction my musical evolution would take occurred around 1986, when a good friend of mine that I had gotten to know in junior high school (the 7th to 8th grade here in the States) wanted to play me a cassette of a band that he had become quite enamored with.  I had no understanding of the "alternative" or "underground" music scene by this point.  If it wasn't on MTV or pop radio, I probably knew nothing about it.  He showed me the cassette case and on the cover was a picture of a wizened, gnarled old man's face staring at me, with a patch of a desolate, spartan landscape just peaking out over his right shoulder.  The title of the album read, in unadorned type face, THE CURE: STANDING ON A BEACH - THE SINGLES (AND UNAVAILABLE B--SIDES)  (DOUBLE PLAY CASSETTE).  I had no idea who The Cure were or why my friend was so worked up about them.  I listened to the first few songs and thought it sounded a bit strange, but not bad.  There was no instant connection.  I had no reference point for punk rock, except for bands whose name had become synonymous with that form of rebellious rock like The Clash or The Sex Pistols.  This stuff didn't sound much like anything I had heard before.  Slightly arty, slightly snotty but sort of empty, or unfinished in places.  I did think that "Boys Don't Cry" was pretty good though, even on that initial listen.

I wasn't immediately taken with The Cure sound enough to go out and grab any of their albums.  After months of listening to my friend talking enthusiastically about them and wearing his Cure t-shirts (I believe he had either an Inbetween Days colored faces one or the famous Boys Don't Cry w/Robert's back turned to the camera or maybe both).  Other friends and acquaintances around that time, going from junior high school to senior high (aged 14-18), were also wearing the shirts and talking about The Cure.  I decided to just give in and see what the big buzz was about this band.  Eventually, I picked up a cassette of the Head On The Door album and my musical future with the band was writ large from that moment onwards.  HOTD was the Cure album that really shook the musical fruit from the tree for me at that impressionable age.  I gorged greedily upon whatever I could gather up after that.  Along with The Cure, my friend slowly began introducing me to more of his favorite music, like Toy Dolls, Depeche Mode, Echo And The Bunnymen and so on.  By then though I was hooked and began branching out and investigating bands on my own.  Whether it was called "Alternative Rock", "Modern rock", "Death Rock" whatever, I was all in.  I started dressing up all in black, blow-drying the hair up and out, and wearing the pointy-toed shoes.  I also began wearing some Cure shirts of my own by that point .  My first live Cure concert was quite the event, too, as it turned out to be the Dodger Stadium show on the US 1989 Prayer Tour.

The memories of certain people and places are intrinsically linked with the music of my teenage years, none more so than The Cure albums from The Top to Disintegration.  The Cure will always remind me of that formative period of my life.  Seeing the current lineup down in California recently, where the whole journey had begun for this humble Curefan several decades prior, was immeasurably satisfying.  I felt 15 years old again, excited and giddy.  The memories came rushing back.  If only my friend Jeremy were there with me to experience it all over again.  Wherever you are these days, thanks, dude, for turning me onto this band.

[scaredPrincess]

Good Lord, it was so long ago now so it seems.  First Cure song I was not played by the Cure.  This cute boy I was crushing on all through middle and high school played a few songs at a middle school talent show.  They played a Floyd tune, a Cars song and another one I didn't know, so I thought it was an original.  It wasn't, it was a Cure song.    Can't remember which it was, but it certainly sparked my CURE-iosity.  I found Concert at the local movie rental place and it really got inside me.  From there I slowly started building my collection and devotion to the boys. 

There was so much about these guys that really got to me, and help on tight - Roberts words, his playing style, Simons bass lines (and his gorgeousness if I can be fangirlish for a moment) but - just everything spoke to me at the time. 

[MintCarSpiderMan]

I can't remember...   

I remember Close to Me, Friday I'm in Love, Lovesong, etc from the radio in the 80's but I never really got into them until my friend gave me the Galore CD for my birthday.  I  really enjoyed that disc a lot.  Then when I purchased the Trilogy DVD a few years ago, it blew me away!  I didn't know how good of a musician Robert was until I saw that (The Kiss solo blows me away) show.

[Soxguy]

My love for the Cure started back in my HS freshman year of 1982.  it was was funny because i was at that time a Jock who hung with the heads.  i was the QB for the school football team, partied like a rock star and listened to More Heavy Metal than anything.  One saturday night i went to a party where someone had just bought the Pornography album and i was hooked on the first track.  "One hundred years" is brilliant.  "...Ambition in the back of a black car"...words like that are epic.  i kind of got away from them when i joined the military in '88 to focus on my career.  i got back into them when i went to Saudia Arabia during Desert Storm and haven't taken a break from them ever since.  i finally went to see them for the first time in Chicago on May 17th and even though Robert thought his voice was awful, God himself could not have done any better. 

[GreenGhost]

Hi!  New here.

About ten years ago, when I was in high school.  I heard "A Night Like This" while hanging out with some "theater kids" and seemed to be consistently hearing about The Cure from the older people I was hanging out with at the time, though I also had vague memories of them from childhood.  Then one day I finally went into a used record shop where you can listen to cds before you buy them.  I found a used copy of Wish.  Within the first minute of "Open" I was completely hooked.  I bought Wish and later Disintegration and the singles from both of those albums and became completely immersed in The Cure from that period.  Then, a couple months later the whirlwind of collecting every album, single, and video in all formats began.

[valentin]

for me. a friend gave me a cd with a whole bunch of artist, but i never even listened to it, until like a couple of months ago! and i played this song, it was amazing. i told my friend , eh dude whos is this? and what is the song called?

the cure 'boys dont cry", i was like maaannn they have been around forever! and i cant beleive ive never heard of them, but now.... they are my favorite band ever.. EVER..... i got all the albums, and man.. let me tell you.. the cure literally changed a lot of things for me

better late than never!