Rate the Musician/Band - Week 1 - The Cure

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Since cuzziebrofullysickchoice seems to have abandoned the idea, someone needs to pick up the ball, and since the Guess Who? Thread in the TV/Movies forum has ended, I need something to fill the void. Everybody wins, yippee skip.

Now, it's not a secret that music tends to be a more subjective area than Wrestlers and/or Tag Teams, and with everyone on this board having pretty diverse tastes, I won't be surprised to find some fairly mediocre scores in later weeks. Nonetheless, try and remain as impartial as possible, and don't let things like genre-mud slinging take over.

Furthermore, I will make the competition as diverse as possible. Don't think that all the artists will be indie or emo or whatever. Give me some credit.

The rating system is pretty much identical to the one used in Spilchuk's RTTT threads. Rate the artist(s) on a scale of 1 (worst) to 10 (best). Simple enough.

Anyway, without further ado, I present to you our first artists up for rate-age: Britain's very own alt-rock pioneers, The Cure.



With album sales around the 30 million mark, four number one hits in the US (no love from the motherland, poor guys), and a whole lot of sexuality speculation coupled with crazy hair and gloomy lyrics, The Cure have inarguably left a permanent mark on the global alternative rockscape in a career spanning 30 years. They might not be the most proficient musicians in the land, and their singer might have a delightful tendency to sing just-off-key, but does their influence and legacy counteract this? You be the judge as you rate our very first candidates in... Rate the Musician/Band.

We need a catchier title.