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Originally Posted by Severian
Oh hell yeah Cure > Stones.
Wild Mood Swings was huge when it first came out. You guys remember. Maybe not huge sales wise (though it did pretty well), but huge as in "holy shit New Cure!!" I got swept up in that, and didn't even notice that the album half sucked until years later.
But it's still a good record. Thing about the Cure is that so many of their records are so good in such different ways. Boys Don't Cry/Three Imaginary Boys is excellent in a way that was never repeated. Seventeen Seconds is perfect. Pornography is post-punk executed with Joy Division-like precision and intensity. But somehow Disintigration and Head on the Door hit me hardest.
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No! Cure has never been greater than Stones. But itīs great anyway. And Wild Mood is not a bad album, it has some great moments. Also really liked Smithīs trilogy, Pornography, Disintegration & Bloodflowers.
Hereīs my top10 of the sixties bands, in order (nothing to do with the importance of the pop music, just how important they been to me):
1. Pink Floyd
2. the Who
3. Stones
4. the Jimi Hendrix Experience
5. Velvet
6. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
7. the Beatles
8. the Doors
9. Traffic
10. the Mothers of Invention
Uuh, as always, have to leave so many great bands out! But most of these have been into my life almost my whole life.