The Cure: Blue Sunshine, the Banshees & The Top

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Shallow Rewards

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Town decrier 1975-2025. Celebrating the days of advertised oversampling ratios.

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Town decrier 1975-2025. Celebrating the days of advertised oversampling ratios.

Music Commentary

Music

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The Cure: Blue Sunshine, the Banshees & The Top

Shallow Rewards

37 minutes 52 seconds

4 years ago

The Cure: Blue Sunshine, the Banshees & The Top

On Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ brief, turbulent marriage; the side projects that outshone their combined efforts; and how from fall 1982 to fall 1984, Robert Smith lost the plot in order to find it again.

Pursuant to this era are a few essays I contributed to a tumblr called One Week One Band eight years ago:

MINUTIAE & MADNESS: THE CURE IN 1982 LIKE AN ANIMAL: ROBERT SMITH IN WONDERLAND THE LOOKING GLASS GIRL

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