More than a Short Term Effect

So I was 13 when I first heard The Cure, and I knew I was onto something after the first drum fill of the classic "Just Like Heaven". I searched for a few months for a Cure CD of any kind, and I couldn't find any (I don't live near any malls). Eventually I found 1 Cure Greatest Hits cd at Walmart, so of course I bought it. I listened to it all the way through, and I really loved it, especially songs like A Forest. I did a bit more research on The Cure, and I figured that with so many albums, I might as well start from their first. So I went out on iTunes (ugg) and downloaded Boys Don't Cry. Then I got Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and so on.

Some of the "big" albums that are really important to me are, well really all of them, but more specifically Pornography, Faith, and Disintegration. Robert Smith is the best lyricist ever IMO, and the words that are seemingly random and scattered at a first glance end up making perfect sense in some subconcious way. He says what I feel better than I ever could. There is something unexplainable that happens when you get engulfed in a song and you just want to float away forever, soaking up every second of it. This may sound odd, but if I had to chose between dying happy, or dying absolutely miserable but being engulfed in a Cure song, I would chose the latter. The Cure has made a pretty big impact on me, they resparked my love of music, and gave me something to hold onto when everything else is falling apart. I can't stand mainstream crap that gets regurgitated every couple weeks by a different artist, and the Cure is something that has already stood the test of time. Simon Gallup actually inspired me to play the bass guitar (I had already been playing regular guitar). They have been so involved in my life, I honestly don't know where I would be without them.

I've been working on getting all of their albums, but my lack-of-money restricts my cd buying, especially since I had been saving for a new guitar (which I bought). As of right now, I have:

• Boys Don't Cry (I downloaded tracks from Three Imaginary Boys that weren't on BDC)
• Seventeen Seconds
• Faith
• Pornography
  
• The Top
• The Head on the Door
• Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
• Disintegration
• Wish
• Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities

I just picked up the Join The Dots box set, since I was in need of some "rare" gems like Lament, The Exploding Boy, and everything else. It was definitely worth the 50 some dollars. I recently found a genious way that doesn't require any downloading in order to get songs you can play online, so I've been getting some tracks from Bloodflowers until I go out and buy the album soon.

I also have the Festival 2005 DVD, Trilogy DVD, The Cure in Orange VHS, and the Staring at the Sea: The Images VHS.

The Cure to me is more than just a Short Term Effect, which is pretty much what the mainstream music world is to the rest of the people who have to let corporations think for them and what they like.