The Rebellious Jukebox

Fascination Street

Well heres a great tune from The Cure in the same vein as The Kiss as seen here on rebeljukebox last week…anyone tell me what album and what year?

Apart from looking like a cross between Beetlejuice and that bitch off  “Through the Cakehole” this dude has serious stlye and charisma. Robert Smith and The Cure for those few of you who don’t know defined a generation and transformed the English music scene into what it is today influencing some of the greatest bands then and now.

I was hooked  at 14 (that was 1986 if you’d like to know my age) having robed my my older brothers tapes (and its not just for those art school airheads). They took us from punk and early electronica and the new romantic scene into one of the very first few English indie bands and later then going on to conquer the mainstream with their mix of synths, drum machines and whirling tube screaming guitars over laid with the voice of a tortured misfit with a highly expressive voice and creative lyrics with immaculately timed one liners to blow you away.

Now there part of musical history and bound to release only rehashed compilation albums to sell their new stuff to the iTunes crowd who accept  The Cure as part of the mainstream establishment sad that is as I so miss that raw edge and the underground is always much more fun.

Check this track out: The Kiss taken from the 1987 Album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.