robert smith

Tagged Discussions

Favorite Side Projects #8 - The Glove

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43567) • Denver, Colorado 21 Nov 17

Many musicians, at some point in the course of their career, start a second band, usually as a means of releasing music that doesn't fit what they do in their real band. Hence, this series of my favorite side projects. We are at...

5 responses •

6 people

Favorite Male Lyricists #10 - Robert Smith

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43567) • Denver, Colorado 13 Mar 17

This particular series was inspired by a great Steely Dan lyric that @FourWalls included in a comment earlier tonight, that got me thinking about my favorite lyricists, hence this Favorite Male Lyricists countdown. I'm only doing...

favorite lyricists

4 responses •

5 people

Top 10 Songs by The Cure #6 - "Let's Go to Bed"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43567) • Denver, Colorado 13 Apr 16

Not too long ago, @JohnRoberts did a Top 10 series of his favorite Linda Ronstadt songs. @FourWalls joined the fun with an Elton John series, and is now honoring Warren Zevon as well as doing a Top 20 tribute to the late Merle...

80s alternative rock

3 responses •

4 people

Top 10 Songs by The Cure #8 - "Fascination Street"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43567) • Denver, Colorado 13 Apr 16

Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, and Bad Brains have all gotten the Top 10 Songs treatment. Meanwhile, Warren Zevon and The Cure are works in progress, and the legendary Merle Haggard is being honored with a Top 20! This was all...

3 responses •

6 people

Are The Cure "Goth" music?

emmalee @emmalee (24) 4 May 07

A lot of lazy music writers and ill-informed people tend to label the Cure as a "goth" band. I'm not expert, neither am I goth, but I have friends who are who will argue until they're blue in the face that "No! The Cure are NOT...

7 responses •

1 person

Did you ever do your hair like Robert Smith?

gwendovere @gwendovere (1279) • United States 2 Apr 07

We had a couple of guys at my high school (late '80s) who did their hair like his. My lord! It must've taken a whole can of hair spray!!!

6 responses •

2 people

The Famous Robert Smith

3Dlace @3Dlace (339) • United States 19 Dec 06

I started listening to The Cure when I was about seven or eight. It had been on my brothers boom box as he was putting on eye liner and ratting his freshly black dyed hair up. I loved it, my once high school brother getting...

6 responses

Robert Smith of The Cure, struggling with writer's block

wyrdsister @wyrdsister (584) • Canada 12 Dec 06

Our beloved Robert Smith! Say it ain't so! Here's a link to the December 6, 2006 article in The Scotsman: Smith seeks cure for writer's block http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1809492006 Brief excerpt: "Thirty...