http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/ ... e-cure.htm
Despite the Cure being my favorite and most important band growing up. I’m going to answer these categories truthfully, hope you join me with your opinions:
Better Debut Album
This one is super easy because of one brilliant song called “10:15 Saturday Night.”
Winner: Cure
Better Music Videos
Though this one is really close, I have to go with Tim Pope vision on this one. The video he did for “Love Song” where Robert is singing because he seems to have lost his love over the edge of the cliff is brilliant. That captured that songs despair like few video seem to do, IMO.
Winner: Cure
Better Covers of the Band By Other Bands
Quote:
Depeche Mode has Lacuna Coil’s “Enjoy the Silence,” Johnny Cash’s (and Marilyn Manson’s) “Personal Jesus,” In Flames’ “Everything Counts,” A Perfect Circle’s “People Are People,” Tricky’s “Judas,” Placebo’s “I Feel You,” and the entirety of the For the Masses tribute album. The Cure has Dinosaur Jr’s “Just Like Heaven,” 311’s “Lovesong,” Smashing Pumpkins’ “A Night Like This,” the Dismemberment Plan’s “Close to Me,” The Living End’s “10:15 Saturday Night” and the entirety of the 100 Years tribute album.
I haven’t heard most of these songs but Placebo do both a Cure and Depeche Mode song. The Depeche Mode song is better mainly because it’s not live (but has Robert as guest vocals) and is really good.
Winner: Depeche Mode
Better Classic, Universally-Beloved SingleQuote:
Both the Cure and Depeche Mode are among the great singles bands of our time, the Cure having released one of the most canonical singles comps of all-time with 1986’s Staring at the Sea (or yes, Standing on a Beach if you still own a cassette player), and I feel if they cut it at “The 13th,” Galore would be held in similar esteem. Still, both bands have one single that stands out from the pack—“Just Like Heaven” for the Cure and “Enjoy the Silence” for Depeche Mode—the songs that always functions as the bands’ representatives on “Greatest ___ Songs of the Last ____” lists, and the songs that most people are likely to principally associate with the bands.
Though I agree with it being “Just Like Heaven” vs. “Enjoy the Silence” a song called “Love Song” actually reached number two in America.
Winner: Cure
Better Classic, Universally-Beloved Album
Disintegration vs.
Violator, obviously.
Winner: Cure
Less Embarrassing Songs
Do I have to answer? Even though I don’t know everything by Depeche Mode this one will go to them because I can’t stand a few songs by the Cure.
Winner: Depeche Mode
Better Album Covers
Though
Songs of Faith and Devotion is hideous, the Cure really don’t put that much into their album covers, IMO.
Winner: Depeche Mode
More Influential Outside of the Goth-Rock Genre
I hear the Cure named checked like crazy these days but Depeche Mode have done very well for themselves.
Winner: Cure
Better Follow-Up to a Classic, Universally-Beloved Album
Wish vs.
Songs of Faith and Devotion. This is easy for me because of one song that happens to be my favorite song that the Cure has ever done. I didn’t think I could like “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” any more but live this song can take your breath away. Robert said that he tries to play that song every night that they play live.
Winner: Cure
Six for the Cure and two for Depeche Mode, I guess it wasn’t that close after all.
*edit: to add: More Influential Outside of the Goth-Rock Genre
