Bands like The Cure and Queen have used such models as the Korg M1.

" In its review of Seventeen Seconds the NME said, " For a group as young as The Cure, it seems amazing that they have covered so much territory in such a brief time.

" While typically viewed as producers of dark and gloomy music, The Cure have also yielded a number of upbeat songs.

Spin has said " The Cure have always been an either / or sort of band: either [...] Robert Smith is wallowing in gothic sadness or he's licking sticky-sweet cotton-candy pop off his lipstick-stained fingers.

The Cure were one of the first alternative bands to have chart and commercial success in an era before alternative rock had broken into the mainstream.

Several references to The Cure and their music have been made in popular culture.

A number of films have used the title of a Cure song as the film's title, including Boys Don't Cry ( 1999 ) and Just Like Heaven ( 2005 ).

" However, while The Crawley Goat Band may have been Smith's first regular group, he would have been just thirteen when he and his Notre Dame schoolmates gave their first one-off performance together as The Obelisk ; an early incarnation of what would eventually become The Cure.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

The Cure has changed from their initial trio formation to a quartet or quintet in their career, although they have returned to that format in some occasions.

In a similar vein, there have also been many string quartet tributes to popular rock and metal bands, most notably Tool, Black Sabbath, Breaking Benjamin, New Order / Joy Division, the Cure, Muse, the Beatles, and even Slayer.

Other artists that have been identified as influences on shoegazing include The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Spacemen 3, The Chameleons, The Cure, Bauhaus, Galaxie 500, and The Smiths.

They have since been referred to as the " founding fathers of goth ", though perhaps mistakenly since several of goth's most influential bands predate them, such as Joy Division, The Cure, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees ; see also gothic rock.

A number of charities have their administrative offices at St Clement's including the Cure Parkinson's Trust.

Notable early gothic rock bands include Bauhaus ( whose " Bela Lugosi's Dead " is often cited as the first goth record ), Siouxsie and the Banshees ( who may have coined the term ), The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, and Fields of the Nephilim.

Concerned about the waning popularity and literary flaws of Handel's works, he launched a campaign through his own oratorio The Cure of Saul, performed at Covent Garden Theatre, and the publication of A Dissertation on Poetry and Music, and he almost certainly produced the first monograph of oratorio criticism, An Examination of the Oratorios which have been performed this Season, at Covent-Garden Theatre ( 1763 ).

Many international acts who would otherwise have gone largely unheard on Australian commercial radio, gained important exposure in Australia on Countdown through their music videos ; the list includes many UK " New Wave " acts, such as XTC, The Beat, Elvis Costello, The Specials, Lene Lovich, Joe Jackson, and The Cure, and US acts such as The Ramones and The Cars.

Because the copyrights have expired, the original version of Perfect Sight Without Glasses ( or The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses ) is now in the public domain.

In 3rd and 3. 5 editions, clerics have the ability to lose a prepared spell in order to spontaneously cast either a Cure Wounds spell or Inflict Wounds spell of the same level based on their alignment.

Notable early gothic rock bands include Bauhaus ( whose " Bela Lugosi's Dead " is often cited as the first goth record ), Siouxsie and the Banshees ( who may have coined the term ), The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, and Fields of the Nephilim.

It is the only Pretty Cure series to date to have received an English language version, which aired in Canada from March 2009.

Later on he starts to have emotions and feelings for Honoka while trying to understand human emotions, resulting with him unable to fight the Pretty Cure duo.

In the movie, the creatures Round, Square, Marquis, Oval, Heart, Pear and Triliant who reside in the Garden of Hope ( 希望の園 Kibou no Sono ) have called in Pretty Cure to save their world from a witch from the Dark Zone who wants to take the Garden of Hope's Diamond Line, which consists of several pieces of jewelry worn by the Queen of Hope on her birthday.

He released two records of his stand-up comedy: No Cure for Cancer ( 1993 ) and Lock ' n Load ( 1997 ).

The Cure released their debut single " Killing an Arab " in December 1978 on the Small Wonder label as a stopgap until Fiction finalised distribution arrangements with Polydor.

The Cure released their debut album Three Imaginary Boys in May 1979.

In late 1981, The Cure released the non-album single " Charlotte Sometimes ".

In 1982, The Cure recorded and released Pornography, the third and final album of an " oppressively dispirited " trio that cemented the Cure's stature as purveyors of the emerging gothic rock genre.

Smith in 1985In 1984, The Cure released The Top, a generally psychedelic album on which Smith played all the instruments except the drums — played by Andy Anderson — and the saxophone — played by returnee Porl Thompson.

The Cure toured to support the compilation and released a live concert VHS of the show, filmed in the south of France called The Cure in Orange.

In 1987, The Cure released the double LP Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, which reached number six in the UK, the Top 10 in several countries and was the band's first entry into the U. S. Top 40 at number 35 ( where it was certified platinum ), due to the combination of the band's rising popularity and the success of lead single, " Why Can't I Be You ?".

In 1989, The Cure released the album Disintegration, which saw a return to the gothic atmospheres of earlier releases like Faith and Pornography.

That November, The Cure released a collection of remixes called Mixed Up.

The Cure also embarked on the " Wish Tour " with Cranes, and released the live albums Show ( September 1993 ) and Paris ( October 1993 ).

The Cure performed " Burn " in the movie The Crow and " Dredd Song ", the theme song of the 1995 movie Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone ( The former song despite never being released as a single nor ever played live, is regarded a fan favourite of Cure fans and fans of ' The Crow ').

It was not released on a Cure album until 2004 on Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978 – 2001 ( The Fiction Years ).

In 2001, The Cure left Fiction and released their Greatest Hits album and DVD, which featured the music videos for a number of classic Cure songs.

The Berlin performances were released on DVD as The Cure: Trilogy in 2003.

The band released their twelfth album The Cure on Geffen in 2004, which was produced by Ross Robinson.

In December a live DVD, entitled The Cure: Festival 2005 including 30 songs of their 2005 Festival tour was released.

" The Melody Makers Ian Birch recognised the Banshees ' influence on Smith's band early on, comparing The Cure ’ s 1978 debut single Killing An Arab favourably to Siouxsie's Hong Kong Garden ( released a few short months earlier ).

In 1986, Smith altered his image by appearing on-stage and in press photos sporting short spiky hair and polo shirts ( this can be seen in The Cure in Orange, a concert in the south of France released on video in 1987 ).

Nocturne is a live double-album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in 1983 and remastered in 2009, which features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall on September 30 and October 1, 1983, featuring Robert Smith ( of The Cure ) on guitar.

Pierce assembled a band consisting of former members of The Cure and Roxy Music and released Wildweed in 1985.