"Swimming the same deep water as you is hard," Smith sings. It wasn't just the weird, sullen kids either, though many of them probably played "Pictures of You" and "Lovesong" over and over and skipped "The Same Deep Water as You." It's a nine-minute song about an intense love affair that seems hopelessly doomed. ![]() Robert Smith posters went up on teenagers walls all over Middle America. This was no longer the cool cult group beloved by your older brother, but the band you heard all over the radio and blaring out of kids cars in the parking lot of the mall. The Cure reached the peak of their popularity with the release of 1989's Disintegration. "You and me alone, a secret kiss/And don't go home, don't go away/Don't let this end, please stay." "And all I want is to keep it like this ," Smith sings. The lyrics were likely inspired by Smith's wife Mary, who he's been with since he was fourteen. "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" wasn't a single, but it's become a fan favorite over the years. Their 1992 LP Wish was a massive success thanks to their huge hit "Friday I'm in Love" and they continued playing stadiums. While most 1980s bands struggled to find their place in the 1990s, the Cure transitioned into the age of grunge with tremendous ease. Calling Disintegration was kind of tempting fate, and fate retaliated." Single "Fascination Street" – which was inspired by a boozy night in New Orleans – shot to Number One on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains a live favorite. "Most of the relationships within the band and outside of the band fell apart. "I realized at this time that, despite my best efforts, we had actually become everything that I didn't want us to become: a stadium rock band," Robert Smith told Rolling Stone in 2004. ![]() Smith's performed it over 850 times, though that number grows every night they do a concert.Ībout a decade into their career, the Cure found themselves playing huge arena concerts and hearing their music all over pop radio. "But considering the age I was and the fact that I had done nothing apart from go to school – no real life experience, everything was taken from books – some of them are pretty good." "Boys Don't Cry" became their second single in 1979 and got a tiny bit of traction on the charts, pretty much jumpstarting their entire career. "The pop songs like 'Boys Don't Cry' are naive to the point of insanity," he told Rolling Stone in 2004. ![]() Robert Smith was just 18 years old when the Cure recorded their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys.
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