"Wish" is my favourite...I reckon go for that one next.

Bloodflowers is alright, I mean sure not every song is great and some of them drag on a bit but I think Out Of This World, There Is No If and the title track rank as some of their best.

Did you know?

A little Cure trivia. Robert Smith was all set to disband the Cure and (re-)join Siouxsie & the Banshees when Let's Go To Bed came out. This despite, what?, four brilliant records to date. At least this was the rumor, and since the Banshees were looking for a guitarist at the time and Robert was 'sitting-in' it was believed to be true.

Boys Don't Cry (US version of 3 Imaginary Boys with additional tracks, or better tracks I should say), 17 Seconds, Faith, Pornography are all brilliant. In fact, they're all good till Head On The Door (including The Top, which is quirky, but in a good way). Disintegration, for me, marks the beginning of their descent. Wish and Wild Mood Swings were garbage. Bloodflowers is the so-called third album of the Pornography, Disintegration trilogy and marks a return to form. The recently released Cure record was good too, but still somehow not quite their early masterpieces. Cure live shows are notoriously boring (IMO, obviously). But go see them anyway if you've the chance just cos they're the Cure. Duh! Easily one of the best bands coming out of the post-punk period.

Also, Standing on the Beach is your best place to start probably cos there's but just a weak track or two and you'll easily see which period of their recording history you like best. Plus it entirely skips the garbage stuff afterwards. I think it ends with A Night Like This, a song so good it'll make ya shiver!

Seventeen Seconds is excellent. I've recently got the expanded reissue of Three Imaginary Boys and it's fucking excellent. Very punky...awesome stuff. you should also get the 'Trilogy' dvd. It's got Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers all played in their entirity at a big gig in Berlin, for the primary reason to make the dvd. It's beautifully shot and the sound is excellent. Robert Smith is such an underrated guitarist he really is excellent. Also like the way he plays a 6-string bass as a guitar to get that patented Cure sound....lush.