The Most Underrated Cure Album Ever

[MeltingMan]

The record company selected the songs and cover artwork for TIB.
(see pp.61,"Lol Tolhurst",Knutr Benoit) In other words:It is not Robert's "baby",
strictly speaking and that's why this album is possibly underrated.I still don't like this word regarding classic cure albums.
You're right.

[Ulrich]

I'd have to give the most under-rated award to 'Three Imaginary Boys'.  None of the rest of them is under-rated, really.  They all seem to slot in pretty much where they deserve to be.  Is 'Bloodflowers' under-rated?  It won a Grammy award.

Once again, "under-rated" is a description which needs more details or a definition we all can live with.

Personally, I'd say e.g. "Wild Mood Swings" was/is under-rated in terms of commercial sales and the status it has among fans. "The Top" was once described as the Cure's "scrappiest disc" in a music paper article back in the 90's, thus it might've been underrated (compared to the albums most people seem to think of as "classic Cure").

TIB wasn't a bad debut album, but RS himself thinks that the band was more in control and found "their own sound" on "17 Seconds".

[sadchild]

Bloodflowers.

Here is my order of fav to least fav (my opinion of each album EXCLUDES b-sides and rarities from the era... just ranking the album itself proper)

Disintegration
Wish
Bloodflowers
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Head On The Door
4:13 Dream
Wild Mood Swings
Three Imaginary Boys / Boys Don't Cry
The Cure
The Top
Seventeen Seconds
Pornography
Faith