The Albums of The Cure Ranked from Worst to Best

[@alexstrathearn2699]

been a cure fan since i was 14, i'm now 57, nothing beats Pornography.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I got into them when I was 14 too. I'm sure my younger, angstier self would rank Pornography top!

[@seantewillis]

I see what you did

[@pliegosuelto]

Glad you have included Japanese Whispers. An album standing by itself. Thanks for the review!

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Thanks for watching. I love Japanese Whispers, and none of that material appeared on any studio album. I couldn't rank The Cure without including the source of "Just One Kiss", "Lament", "The Walk" etc.

[@pliegosuelto]

@@everylastoneeverylastone I love de dark (first) trilogy but Japanese Whispers is a special one to me. All the best!

[@ChristopherCreek-dr4ts]

Love the T shirt bud. Swans are one of my favourite bands. The most recent album is amazing . Respect👍

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Thank you! Always try to bring some decent T shirt game.

[@angel2of7death]

Nice ranking. Good stuff

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Thanks!

[@prosperoeaton8201]

This is a hard band to rank. I love so many of their albums. 1. Disintegration 2. Seventeen Seconds 3. The Head on the Door 4. Pornography 5. Kiss Me Kiss Me 6. Songs of a Lost World 7. Wish 8. Bloodflowers 9. Boys Don't Cry (the superior version) 10. Faith 11. Wild Mood Swings 12. The Top 13. Japanese Whispers 14. The Cure 15. 4:13

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Great ranking, glad you got BDC in there. Surprised you got Faith so low if you love Seventeen Seconds and Pornography.

[@boyzzboy]

Highly disagree with Bloodflowers being so low. This is a great album. And I know it’s not a popular choice but I really like Wild Mood Swings. No one agrees with me on this. I think it’s underrated. And OMG Song of a Lost World is amazing and deserves a higher ranking. Thanks for sharing your ranking.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Thanks for watching and commenting. Believe me, I WANT to like Bloodflowers more. I love two of the tracks, others feel forced. It will be interesting to see how SOALW lands for people as time goes on. Might move higher!

[@boyzzboy]

@@everylastoneeverylastone I will admit I like Bloodflowers more when I saw the tour supporting it. Live, the songs took on a different form for me. Enjoy.

[@100woodywu]

Very good ranking. I’ve been into The Cure since the dinosaurs roamed the Earth lol , I’m in my late 50’s. The latest album ‘Songs Of A Lost World ‘ is a pleasant surprise in comparison to their last and very disappointing’ 413 Dream’ which I agree with you it is their worst. For me their latest album is up there with’ Disintegration’, ‘ Seventeen Seconds’ , ‘ Faith’ & ‘ Pornography’. Thank you.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Thanks for watching and commenting. I'm very much enjoying SOALW too. I think Endsong is going to remain as one of those classics that are in the set every tour. Hope Robert's next batch of songs come out soon and they keep this vibe going.

[@rydogglessauldoggles7856]

Ross did a great job with the self titled album and getting good performances out of the band - he fought with Robert to put on the best songs including The Boy I Never Knew which is the best of the session. Robert messed that album up himself - i would rank it under 4:13. I also would rank Booodflowers fairly low - i love Out Of This World and Last Day of Summer but isn’t part of some magic trilogy. Imagine how much better Wish would be if they pulled off Wendy Time, End, and Cut and added This Twilight Garden, Play, and The Big Hand or Halo? The Top is a top 5 album for me. I love Kiss Me and love how high you have it ranked. Disintegration is the best for sure but I listen to Head On The Door the most now.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I think it's interesting to see how albums move around in everyone's list at different points in their lives. I agree about This Twilight Garden being on Wish. Stay tuned for my Cure Non Album Tracks ranking video dropping tomorrow!

[@rydogglessauldoggles7856]

@@everylastoneeverylastonei’ll definitely check it out. 2 late and Twilight Garden are my favorites. The b- sides from Kiss Me Through Wish are top tier. i also find it interesting how their albums will jump out at me too - i am definitely able to delineate between favorite and best at this point in my life

[@seantewillis]

The Top is in the top 5

[@AtALoss24]

5 or 6, agreed. Forgot where he put it, but it seemed low.

[@reucat24]

I love The Top, it is in my top 5 too.

[@ellisivy4303]

I also became a fan because of the Standing On A Beach cassette and WMS was also the first album I actually witnessed being released. I guess we’re about the same age, lol. I still remember buying the The 13th single on a school trip in Liège - Belgium. Not digging the a-side but loving the b-sides. My top five of Cure albums would be 1 Disintegration 2 Faith 3 Wish 4 Pornography 5 Mixed Up (ok, I’m cheating here, but I adore that album) My favorite live album by any band ever is Entreat which in a way I love even more than the studio recordings on Disintegration. I would love to see more of your collection! Regards from a new subscriber from The Netherlands!

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I have a soft spot for Mixed Up too, it was the first CD I ever bought. I really enjoy the re-recordings of A Forest, The Walk and the 12 Inch versions of Lullaby and Fascination Street are incredible. Planning a Song of a Lost World update video once my mail arrives (we have a postal strike here in Canada) and will good to live (official and unofficial) soon as well!

[@ellisivy4303]

@everylastoneeverylastone Have you already ordered the @ The Troxy live album? I only went for the one disk black vinyl this time. And yes, the extended mixes on Mixed Up are incredible. My favorites are Fascination Street, Lullaby and Lovesong which are to me the ultimate versions of those tracks. I also love their Torn Down remixes release. For some reason it didn't get a lot of attention at all but that The Drowning Man (bright birds mix) song alone is utterly beautiful.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

@@ellisivy4303 I ordered the 1 LP Troxy but it turns out it's only coming out in mid February, so my 2xLP half speed master and blood red SOALW vinyls are pending shipment until then. Hoping I can get them to ship them separate so I can do my SOALW follow up before then.

[@hypoluxa]

Jupiter Crash is my fav track on the 96 album. At first listen I was surprised by what i was hearing as it was almost like jazzy-pop with some tracks. It grew on me though after more listens. Their 2004 self titled album, "Labyrinth" was a great track I thought... I have yet to listen to a few of their earlier albums (shame on me, I know), so I can't form an opinion on their entire catalog.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I like the guitar melody in Jupiter Crash, its very acoustic like a lot of WMS. Labyrinth sounds a bit like Burn to me (which I covered in my Non Album tracks video).

[@hypoluxa]

@@everylastoneeverylastone I would agree, Burn and Lab are quite similar.

[@scmkar]

Great video! Interesting that everyone has Disintegration at No1. Great album but a little bit too long and samey for me. lets go with this Top5 albums: 1. Pornography 2. Faith 3. Head on the Door 4. 3 Imaginary Boys 5. Disintegration and Top5 tracks: 1. Just like Heaven 2. The Figurehead 3. Pictures of You 4. All Cats Are Grey 5. A Short Term Effect

[@lesserson2311]

I'd like a Siouxsie / the Creatures vid. Thanks!

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Added to the list!

[@matsfrommusic]

I just don't understand why Taking off isn't hailed by legions of fans. It's the first track on my best off cure playlist on Spotify and it's one of their best songs they ever did IMO.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I think it's a good track off the self titled (had to cut out what I said about it, video went too long). I think many fans see it as a retread of Just Like Heaven, especially with the similar guitar riff. I even saw this get implied in the recent Trash Theory video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip7NqXSalMl2pMk To me it's better than Alt.End which Robert insisted on playing live for years, and my third favourite off the self titled after Going Nowhere and Before Three. I wouldn't mind if he pulled it out again on an upcoming tour.

[@matsfrommusic]

@@everylastoneeverylastone Clearly I'm in the minority but I'm just a little surprised. I'm not really a fan either, they have certain songs that I like Pictures of you, Prayers for rain, Lullaby, The forrest, In between days, Just like heaven, Charlotte sometimes, you know the usual suspects.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Prayers for Rain is certainly a deep cut for someone who doesn't consider themselves a fan, love that one. They have many standouts that also didn't appear on proper albums, like Charlotte Sometimes. Might do a follow up on non album tracks.

[@Joelster-og4pf]

I like Taking Off. I wouldn’t consider it a really great single, but I go back to it sometimes.

[@spiffy8576]

Wild Mood Swings is a top three Cure album for me. Want, Jupiter Crash and Mint Car are excellent Cure songs. It’s definitely underrated.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Certainly a divisive one, I know some people love it. I love the b-sides Adonais, Home and A Pink Dream, wish they made the album.

[@AtALoss24]

This post gives me wild mood swings. Top 3?? Whew...

[@ellisivy4303]

@@everylastoneeverylastoneHell yes, if the b-sides would have been on the actual album instead of most of the ones that where chosen it would have been so much better. The b-sides of that era where all amazing.

[@tomek453]

hello :D 1 Bloodflowers 🌟🌟🌟🌟 2 Disintgr⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3 Wish⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 Wild Mood Swings⭐⭐⭐ 5 The Top⭐⭐⭐ 6 The Head On the Door⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7 Faith ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8 Porngrh⭐⭐⭐⭐ 9 Kiss ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 10 The Cure⭐⭐⭐ 11 Seventeen Sec⭐⭐⭐ 12 4:13 Dream⭐⭐⭐ 13 Three Imaginary B.⭐⭐⭐ 😃👋

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Great list, I strongly recommend including Japanese Whispers. Yes, it's a singles and b-sides compilation, but: 1)None of the material was duplicated on any other release (save for the singles on Standing on a Beach, but so were all singles) 2) It's organized to flow like an album rather than left in chronological order. 3) They left off the quirky Mr Pink Eyes, clearly because it didn't fit the flow. 4) It's awesome. Just One Kiss and Lament are classic deeper cuts!

[@marcmoosethedjmoder1434]

The bottom half of your ranking is pretty sweet, pretty spot on. But you lost me at Wish. To me that’s their strongest album, even more than disintegration. But I could argue that it would be number two behind disintegration. Kiss me with my first cure record I ever got and I worshiped at the time but I think it should’ve ran ranked much lower. It’s not a great album, it’s an interesting collection of individual concepts.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Thanks for your thoughts. If you had asked me as a teen to rank these, I too used to enjoy Wish slightly higher than Disintegration. I'm kind of surprised I had it so low, but these do tend to move around at different points in life and I feel the margins between them are razor thin. To me Wish is the last of their imperial period and I'd often tell people it's under rated. When re-listening, amidst all the great moments, a few of the tracks felt a little long, a little forced. However any other band should be lucky to have an album like Wish in their catalog.

[@AtALoss24]

I didn't agree with every ranking but generally so. Because Disintegration was #1, I can continue to subscribe 😆👍👍👍 Absolutely no question about it. Not just their best, but THE best.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Kyle Broflovski: [yelling to Robert Smith as he disappears into the distance] "Disintegration" is the best album EVER!

[@llweb1601]

Yeah, Kiss me is the best world all time album, glad to see it so high !

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

If you could tweak it, would you take anything off? And if so, would you add any b-sides?

[@curly_wyn]

I actually greatly prefer the pop Cure. That’s the Cure that I first fell in love with. I got off the train with them after Wish, and I don’t care about anything else they’ve done afterwards, and I think I was right to.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Check out my Cure Non Album tracks ranked video (if you haven't yet) - lots of great lesser known Pop Cure moments in there! :)

[@marcosmadeiros9553]

Wish at #7? Oh hell no…

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

When I was a teen it was my number 1 for a few years. It's interesting to see how albums shift around over the years for different people. I think Wish for many bands would be a monumental achievement, but The Cure have too many classics.

[@Skorrigan]

"413 Dream" and "The Cure" are shit indeed. I would rank "Wish higher" and "Faith" and "Seventeen Seconds" lower but I agree with the rest of the albums.

[@memorythree]

Cabaret Voltaire

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I have so many 70's and 80's starter kits planned, so they'll be coming up!

[@JohnSmith-ts8bn]

For me : Seventeen seconds Pornography Faith Wish Desintegration Songs of a lost world 3 imaginary boys The head on the door Kiss me kiss me kiss me

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I was listening to Seventeen Seconds the other day and recently realized the song "Three" is that old jam "Forever" they would end sets with after "A Forest".

[@abrahamresendiz7103]

2008 not 2018th for 413 dream

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Verbal goof, meant to say 2008 so put the subtle up with the correction. Imagine if the planned 4:14 Scream had actually been released, might have been in 2018.

[@tomprice4016]

Of course Disintegration is #1. But Kiss Me, #2? Even the band hated that album.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

What would you pick for #2?

[@ChristopherCreek-dr4ts]

Sorry sent wrong emoji!!!!

[@seantewillis]

You know your shit! Waiting for you to skip over Love Song / 2 Late. I'll keep watching. Test your metal...

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

I'll do a Cure Top Non Album Tracks soon where I'll talk about 2 Late :)

[@seantewillis]

@@everylastoneeverylastone I'm not gunna call that a cope. ;) Beautiful vinyl. Thanks for showing it. Glad you gave Faith the respect it deserves. Lots of 'fans' seem to overlook that one.

[@ellisivy4303]

@@everylastoneeverylastone2 Late is def one of my all time favorite Cure tracks.

[@seantewillis]

Kiss me kiss me kiss me is number 1. Disintegration is a little tired.

[@AtALoss24]

Kiss me is like #4 or #5.

[@seantewillis]

@ onus is on you to name the 3-4 before it. You brought this on yourself.

[@AtALoss24]

@@seantewillis Disintegration; Seventeen Seconds; Faith; The Head on the Door; Japanese Whispers

[@seantewillis]

@ I forgot about Seventeen seconds. I remember listening to that on a diskman camping. I disagree with your rankings, but well done!

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

@@seantewillis Where would you lank these albums?

[@bnhli7190]

Good thing we don’t rank YOUR videos, that’d be embarrassing.

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Everyone's a bit crap when they start - that is IF they start. Didn't notice any of your content.

[@bnhli7190]

@ Do I need to have content to criticise shitty content ? Come on…

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Sorry you feel that way, please check back in 6 months and see if there's an improvement. How would you have ranked these albums?

[@bnhli7190]

@ i don’t rank Cure albums. I appreciate them individually. Ranking is cheap.

[@ChristopherCreek-dr4ts]

Could you do a swans albums review. If you do email me. Would be pretty cool😂

[@everylastoneeverylastone]

Great idea, i'm sure I'll talk about them soon as I'm planning a bunch of genre essentials lists!