Top 5 The Cure Songs

5. High
4. Boys Don’t Cry
3. Just Like Heaven
2. In Between Days
1. Pictures of You

I was introduced to the band by a girl I met on an app in college who soon became my girlfriend who will marry me next summer. I’m used to foisting my favorite music onto people, so it has been refreshing to be gradually introduced to a band this major. The Cure are an abandoned terrarium, they conjure the smell of damp sheets and used tissues in barely-tuned guitars and drums you can actually dance to, they’re a glittering abscess, and still to me all their best songs are love songs. Robert Smith’s songs are vulnerable and true and it’s really something to sing them in an arena with thousands of others and a Mary that you too love very much. When my friends and I play “Just Like Heaven,” and the piano melody gives way to the guitar riff over that bassline, it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve been a part of. Simon Gallup should be knighted.

Originally published in Welcome To Hell World.