tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5142363297731020252024-03-12T17:17:16.135-07:00hagleycureEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07876355259363977853noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-65086417055626626202008-07-28T01:29:00.000-07:002008-07-28T01:57:33.264-07:00Last April we called for all Cure fans, old and new, to get in touch with us. We wanted to know how they first got into The Cure and the beginning of their music love affair. Were they at school? Was it through a relationship? Did they her them on the radio? Or were they flicking through a magazine and liked the look of Robert Smith (or Simon Gallup)?The response we got was phenomenal. Hundreds Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-76765600208801695162008-07-28T01:28:00.000-07:002008-07-28T01:56:26.372-07:00"The Cure of my life"My story begins in 1996, Madrid. I was 14 years old and my older brother had lots of CDs, most of them scattered around his room, full of scratches and without any kind of case. I was looking for something to listen to, tired of Gun's and Roses, Nirvana and other bands that teenagers used to listen to back then. I had started to listen to bands like The Pixies and The Smiths but my music tastes Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-78137220794878595902008-07-26T04:38:00.000-07:002008-07-26T06:37:55.460-07:00"I'm marked for Life"...My first encounter with The Cure was in 1980, when my father brought 17 Seconds at home, I was very young (5 years old), but my parents have always listened to music, and my father had some very strange tastes. Other albums too found their way home, but I was too young to appreciate them. I heard them from my parents...One week-end, Sunday lunch time, we watched TV (a programm called "L'echo des Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-70278952364954594622008-07-26T04:37:00.000-07:002008-07-26T04:45:11.859-07:00Out of this worldI spent my life trying to fit in. I crumbled to peer group pressure and was your typical top 10 music fan. I never really tried to find the music that "I" truly liked - I just went with what was popular. I have memories of hearing The Cure in my teens, but not being brave enough to stand up and say "that is something I really like".At 19, having split from my boyfriend of over two years I startedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-56773221865797084012008-07-23T03:56:00.000-07:002008-07-23T04:02:07.954-07:00"My safety blanket"I can't remember exactly how old I was when I got into The Cure, I guess I must have been about 8 years old. I had The Head On The Door album on record and tape and listened to it religiously. That album was my saftey blanket through some very tough times as a child and to this day, no matter what may be happening in the world, if I put it on nothing matters anymore. I adore them. I haven't heardStan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-84967493921397471702008-07-23T03:44:00.000-07:002008-07-25T06:51:23.243-07:00A question of tatsThe first song I heard was In Between Days when i was 8. I liked it, but I had no idea that the group was The Cure.The years went by and, when I was 11, a friend gave me a tape. It was Standing On A Beach,I really didn’t know what to expect. When I put on my walkman, the first song I listened to was Charlotte Sometimes, then Boys Don’t Cry, then recognized the song I'd heard years before, In Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-77904872428778787762008-07-23T03:38:00.000-07:002008-07-23T03:56:11.804-07:00"A beautiful chaos"When I was 8 years old ( now I'm 30), my older brothers were all the way into the punk style... It's 1986, Standing On The Beach is on , A Forest is the next song, suddenly something happens to me, that voice calls me, make me feel different, but i was too young to know what i know now... That beat invade my head and stay there for years, over and over... The years go by, and my musical Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-40198122511549129832008-07-23T03:19:00.000-07:002008-07-23T03:22:48.460-07:00"The Roxy"I got into The Cure aged 14 when Catch was in the charts, and they appeared on a UK TV show called The Roxy which I was videoing for footage of A-ha or someone. I then bought Staring at the Sea and watched it obsessively every day for months, got Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me for my birthday in the November (couldn't afford to buy albums myself in those days) and the rest is history. Within a very Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-74561394257679284252008-07-23T03:11:00.000-07:002009-02-13T14:14:32.716-08:00A Strange DayI was given the LP Pornography in 1984 and couldn't take it off the turntable for months...This is a bit personal and naive, but there was this girl I really liked and when she broke up with me i was really distraught for months (I was 17 years old), and I used to listen to A Strange Day for hours on end, feeling really down...At this time i didn't know any other Cure songs...only months later Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-59876627230889173422008-07-22T14:11:00.000-07:002008-07-22T14:45:13.979-07:00BerlinI grew up in East Berlin. Rias broadcasted Lullaby and Lovesong in 1989. Time was very exciting, because the "revolution" was taking place, I was 13 and was very into music, especially the soundtrack of Dirty Dancing. I loved those two songs. when the wall came down and I attended school in West Berlin, my new friend Rebecca posessed tapes of the cure, because her uncle had been a big fan. We Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-4986687271583580102008-07-22T13:19:00.000-07:002008-07-22T14:11:11.141-07:00ClosedownThe year was 1991, I was watching an episode of Ed McMahon's "Star Search" tv show. They did a segment called the spokesmodel competition, male and female. During the male model segment, there came from my Cathode Ray Tube TV a sound like I had never heard before. The rolling drums, almost like distant thunder, coupled with a synthesized sound of human voices, ever so faint, but chorus-like, Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-43447863591388378072008-07-22T13:06:00.000-07:002008-07-22T13:15:57.214-07:00"...the music has a prominent place in my personal spiritual practice"I was 17 years old and had just begun my first semester away at college. previously I knew of the Cure, had seen pictures of Robert Smith in music magazines and read some interviews, but had never heard any of the music- I lived in a rural area outside a small town in the bible belt of the American South East, and there were no Cure records to be found and no radio stations that would play them Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-71206902706195749342008-07-22T12:56:00.000-07:002008-07-22T13:04:28.154-07:00"Nothing sounded familiar"I got into The Cure when I was 18 years old. The year was 1991 and I was invited to a going away party. When I arrived at the party my taste in music was nothing even close to The Cure. I was mainly into hair bands and things like that. However as the party was going I noticed this sound coming from the stereo and really liked it. Then another song came on and that was even more catchy. I asked Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-9984350186087493832008-07-22T09:42:00.000-07:002008-07-22T09:45:01.013-07:00Dreams and nightmaresIn the rainy months of the year where I grew up, the skies would go grey. I grew up outside the city where there were an abundance of farms and washed out riverbeds. I had a babysitter who consistently wore her headphones and trance herself when she came over.One day she had left her cassette player out after she had left, apparently forgotten. I took the cassette player and went for a ride down Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-75236012925601733772008-07-22T09:21:00.000-07:002008-07-22T09:31:42.095-07:00Cure vs SmithsI first got into The Cure due to my mother and step-father, both lifelong fans of The Cure. (My mum's liked them since she was about thirteen, and my step-sister is named after Charlotte Sometimes). I was always picking up CDs that were lying around the house and listening to them, and when I was fourteen I found my mum's copy of Staring at the Sea. And the rest, as they say, is history.... I Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-29985393494902037922008-07-22T09:05:00.000-07:002008-07-22T14:52:56.051-07:00"On meeting The Cure"I first heard of The Cure from my older sister. I don't remember exactly how she heard of them. This was probably back in the late 80's. I wasn't quite into music yet, but I would play card games with my sister in her room and The Cure would always be in the background. I remember that I didn't like the band, because of the way my sister started acting. She shaved the back of her head and startedStan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-30033795088201076762008-07-22T08:56:00.000-07:002008-07-22T09:03:01.134-07:00"Forever"I recall when my brother (6 years older than myself) brought home with him in the summer of 1987 the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me vinyl a friend hand lent him to tape... (that's how you did it back then) - immediately the songs grew on me but not all of them. Especially the poppy ones.A few weeks later he brought The Head On The Door album and I kept listening to it through the tape recordings. In Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-71603462076574475612008-07-21T13:41:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:44:19.300-07:00JFK MomentIt was May, 1987. I was playing piano in high school practice room in Wisconsin. A good friend of mine loaned me a cassette with Killing an Arab on it. He said, “Check this out”.They say certain memories we never forget…they call it “flashbulb memory”…the day Elvis died, the day JFK was shot, the day I first heard The Cure.The next month, my dad gave me my first Cure album, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-41349590389206048212008-07-21T13:38:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:41:17.491-07:00"...so different from everything that was going on..."I first got into The Cure in 6th Grade, around age 11 or 12, which was 19 years ago around 1989. My older sister had the first few records and I borrowed Boys Don't Cry from her because I was looking for something to do. I remember thinking that this music sounded so different from everything that was going on back then. I just got sucked in. Seeing as I didn't even have a job yet it took a whileStan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-52298904569192102282008-07-21T13:37:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:38:21.397-07:00"This band changed my life forever"I've been a fan since '93. I was converted to a die hard fan, literally, overnight. I went from listening to old-school rap and hip hop to The Cure and the rest from there, as they say, is history. This band changed my life forever. (From: Matthew C. Thome - whereabouts: unknown)Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-40347081609801164012008-07-21T13:35:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:41:51.058-07:00"A 25-year-old love story"37 and still listening to The Cure everyday... That might be a 25 year old love story, with its ups and downs.(From: Stephane B. Bazan, Luxembourg)Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-23862086261058931952008-07-21T13:28:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:35:00.107-07:00"Religion"My first really experience with Cure music was during Summer 1989. I was 16. A friend of mine lent me three Cure albums: The Head on the Door, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration. I was especially fond of Kiss me Km Km.Unfortunately I became "a fan" in 1990, so I missed the Prayer Tour :-(Since 1990, The Cure are the band I've liked the most. I saw them in Paris (Wish 92 / Wild Mood Swings 96Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-74387423084385103052008-07-21T13:21:00.000-07:002008-07-22T15:05:11.760-07:00"A lullaby to my 2 daughters..."I was 15 and lost lost musically – no clue what genre I liked. I visited my cousin at Villanova on the way to summer break and a roommate loved the cure and we listened to them that weekend.I knew from that moment on this was the music for me and they have been my favorite band to this day.This music eventually allowed me to find the love of my life the next summer and we are now married w/ two Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-26913057238753235722008-07-21T13:16:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:19:27.577-07:00"So much more"I got into The Cure about 4 years ago, and I'm only 15 now! I heard the usual single stuff on the radio and thought I'd find out a bit more so the good ole internet served me well and I found they are much more than the poppy stuff we hear on the radio, so much more...What else should I say? :P(From: Aaron - whereabouts: unknown)Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514236329773102025.post-49256287963982385712008-07-21T13:07:00.000-07:002008-07-21T13:15:57.534-07:00"I don't think I will ever let the Cure go away from my life"I'm a 35 yr old Male living in Harrisburg, PA (USA). I grew up in England from the age of 3 till I was 18. The first Cure song I heard was All I Want from the Kiss Me album. It grabbed my senses instantly and ever since I started buying a few of the albums. As I went through the different stages in my life I started listening to more and more of The Cure and was attracted mostly to the deeper Stan Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.com0