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June 18, 2004

The Cure: Album by Album

Robert Smith recounts his band's many wild mood swings

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4:13 Dream

"You've got what I want," Robert Smith sings through fat, strangling-vine guitars in "The Real Snow White," his wan chirp finally collapsing in a long, falling yowl. It is classic, inconsolable Smith — with a twist. On the verge of 50 and leading a double-guitar gnarly-glam version of the Cure...

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Dubbed the "masters of mope rock," the Cure rose from Britain's late-'70s punk scene to become one of the biggest-selling "underground" acts of the 1980s. Frontman Robert Smith, who has been described as the "messiah of melancholy" and the "guru of gloom," is known for wearing death-white facial makeup, crimson lipstick, and teased black hair; he is rivaled only by Morrissey as a heartthrob for th...

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