(ahem)
thank you.
For a long time I couldn’t listen to them because I associated them powerfully with high school, but a friend has had “Standing on a Beach” playing in the car lately and I forgot how much I loved “Primary” and “Charlotte Sometimes.”
I like Seventeen Seconds best, I think. That and Head on the Door. And Japanese Whispers. And the b-sides from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. Never liked Pornography, or Boys Don’t Cry. Or the Top! Heh. The more I think about them the more songs I remember!
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I always hated “Love Song”. It’s got the lamest most vacuous Hallmark card lyrics ever. Blech.
My favorite Cure album is probably Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
As to “Love Song’s” lyrics, I have to agree, although something about it is still very appealing. Maybe that it’s such a simple song.
I sometimes wonder how a band that can write “How Beautiful You Are” can also put out “Friday I’m in Love.” How does that happen? And how is it that the second one was a big hit and the first wasn’t?
Horray! [size=1]I knw there had to be SOME Cure fans out there…[/small]
I was always pretty medium about Love Song - it’s pretty smarmy.
I always thought Why Can’t I be You was terribly appealing, in a stalkeresque sort of way. 
I read an interview with Robert in Teen Beat or something like that in '86 I think - it was a tad dissapointing because he just talked about being a vampire the whole time - personally, I blame both the reporter and the magazine - you can only answer what your asked - however; I have to admit to being kinda dissapointed.
Well… they didn’t really write “How Beautiful You Are,” they lifted it from a short story by Baudelaire.
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I agree pretty much, but at the same time I think the lyrically-similar (well, kinda) Halo, a B-side of Friday…, is easily one of the best songs they’ve made. The lyrical schmaltz somehow becomes much more palatable when it is given a shot of exuberance, whereas with Love Song it’s kind of dreary and almost creepy.