The Cure chords |
Songs in Mine:
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No of Chords:
| 42 |
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| Most popular chords: | A, Bm, D, E, G |
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Chord Types used:
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| Most popular chord types: | Maj, m, 5, m7, maj7 |
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Sub-Styles:
Alternative Pop-Rock, College Rock, Goth Rock, New Wave, Pop-Rock | Links:
Learn to play rock guitar, Artist Info | 
Artwork courtesy of http://www.music-atlas.com | | Biography: | | Through more than 20 extravagant years and 20 extraordinary albums The Cure have done it all in their own unmistakable way. Free, independent, wilful, unconfined, the band have spent most of their career creating and exploring in the strange places where the worlds of mainstream and alternative collide. They have developed a range of uniquely distinctive sounds and styles, and in the process created as great a body of contemporary music as you could wish to hear.
With over 27 million albums sold, The Cure's achievements on every level have been incredible. Yet whereas even the most creative of bands both past and present have invariably completed their best work during 'the early years', The Cure have continued to flourish and grow with every release, continually adding new, unusual and essential chapters to their improbable story.
As the band move into their 3rd decade, they present what is undoubtedly their most powerful work to date, their 13th studio album 'Bloodflowers'. Exhibiting a coherency, intensity and emotional depth that is at times breathtaking, 'Bloodflowers' embodies all that The Cure do best. It is the band at the height of it's powers, and the now 5 year-old line up has developed into what is unquestionably the strongest ever; Cure mastermind Robert Smith (voice, guitar), Simon Gallup (bass), Perry Bamonte (guitar), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards) and Jason Cooper (drums).
The album has been co-produced by Robert and Paul Corkett, and is intended as the final part of a trilogy that began with the release in 1982 of the album 'Pornography', and that continued on with the release in 1989 of the album 'Disintegration'. Moving from wistful nostalgia through unguarded introspection, to impotent rage through helpless despair, 'Bloodflowers' is in essence an attempt at resolution. Performed with a musical sensibility that is truly moving, the emotional and lyrical clarity combine to make the listener uncomfortably aware that this could indeed be the oft threatened 'last ever' Cure album...
...It all started in 1976 when Robert, a 17 year old attending St Wilfrid's Comprehensive in Crawley, Sussex, formed The Easy Cure with schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass), Lol Tolhurst (drums) and local guitar hero Porl Thompson. The 4-piece began writing and demoing their own songs almost immediately, and quickly amassed an impressive repertoire of original material that included such seminal classics as 'Killing an Arab' and '10:15 Saturday Night'.
By early 1977 the fledgling group had won a nationwide 'Battle of the Bands' style competition held by German-owned major label Ariola-Hansa that would have led to the release of a debut single and album but for the doomed nature of the relationship -Hansa saw The Easy Cure as a 'fresh faced' and malleable pop group - but even at this relatively young age, a headstrong Robert had other ideas... Within one unsatisfactory year the two parties had parted company with nothing having been released.
Frustrated but undeterred, in 1978 the 'Easy' was dropped, along with Porl, and an eager trio now known simply as The Cure sent out a demo tape of 4 songs to a number of record labels. A keen response from Polydor A&R man Chris Parry was quickly followed up, and The Cure signed with his new …
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