Velvet Underground was formed in Crawley 1976. Vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter Robert Smith has been the only constant member.
In 1978 they released their debut single "Killing an Arab" and debut the album "Three Imaginary Boys" came out in 1979. They were from the beginning an important act in the post-punk and new wave movements in the United Kingdom.
Following the release of the album Pornography in 1982, the band's future was uncertain. Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired, introducing a greater pop sensibility into the band's music. Songs such as "Let's Go to Bed" (1982), "Just Like Heaven" (1987), "Lovesong" (1989), and "Friday I'm in Love" (1992) aided the band in receiving commercial popularity. The band is estimated to have sold roughly 27 million records as of 2004 and have released thirteen studio albums, ten EPs, and over thirty singles to date.
source: Wikipedia
Key Band Members:
Robert Smith: Born 1959, guitar, vocals and songwriter. Smith has been the key member of the group, and the front figure of their performances throughout their career
Michael Dempsey: Born 1958, guitar and bassist 1977-79
Laurence Tolhurst: Born 1959, drums and keyboard. Member from the beginning until 1989
Paul Thompson: Born 1957; guitars 1977-78
Simon Gallup: Born 1960 bass 1979-82. Rejoined in 1984
Roger O'Donnell : Born 1955, keyboards. Joined in 1989
Jason Cooper: Born 1967, drums. Joined the Cure in 1995
Reeves Gabrels: Born 1956, guitar. Joined in 2012
Lyrics & Chords for "Friday I'm in Love"
Discography:
1. Three Imaginary Boys - Fiction 1979 Tracks:
1. 10:15 Saturday Night / 2. Accuracy / 3. Grinding Halt / 4. Another Day / 5. Object / 6. Subway Song / 7. Foxy Lady / 8. Meathook / 9. So What / 10. Fire in Cairo / 11. It’s Not You / 12. Three Imaginary Boys / 13. The Weedy Burton
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2. Boys Don't Cry - Fiction 1980 Tracks:
1. Boys Don't Cry / 2. Plastic Passion / 3. 10:15 Saturday Night / 4. Accuracy / 5. Object / 6. Jumping Someone Else's Train / 7. Subway Song / 8. Killing an Arab / 9. Fire in Cairo / 10. Another Day / 11. Grinding Halt / 12. World War / 13. Three Imaginary Boys / 14. So What*
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3. Seventeen Seconds - Fiction 1980 Tracks:
1. A Reflection / 2. Play for Today / 3. Secrets / 4. In Your House / 5. Three / 6. The Final Sound / 7. A Forest / 8. M / 9. At Night / 10. Seventeen Seconds
Rating : 7
4. Faith - Fiction 1981
Tracks:
1. The Holy Hour / 2. Primary / 3. Other Voices / 4. All Cats Are Grey / 5. The Funeral Party / 6. Doubt / 7. The Drowning Man / 8. Faith / 9. Carnage Visors*
Rating : 6
5. Pornography - Fiction 1982 Tracks:
1. One Hundred Years / 2. A Short Term Effect / 3. The Hanging Garden / 4. Siamese Twins / 5. The Figurehead / 6. A Strange Day / 7. Cold / 8. Pornography
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6. Japanese Whispers - Fiction 1983 Tracks:
1. Let's Go to Bed / 2. The Dream / 3. Just One Kiss / 4. The Upstairs Room / 5. The Walk / 6. Speak My Language / 7. Lament / 8. The Love Cats
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7. The Top - Fiction 1984 Tracks:
1. Shake Dog Shake / 2. Bird Mad Girl / 3. Wailing Wall / 4. Give Me It / 5. "Dressing Up / 6. The Caterpillar / 7. Piggy in the Mirror / 8. The Empty World / 9. Bananafishbones / 10. The Top
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8. The Head on the Door - Fiction 1985 Tracks:
1. In Between Days / 2. Kyoto Song / 3. The Blood / 4. Six Different Ways / 5. Push / 6. The Baby Screams / 7. Close to Me / 8. A Night Like This / 9. Screw /10. Sinking
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9. Standing on a Beach (comp.) - Fiction 1986 Tracks:
1. Killing an Arab / 2. 10:15 Saturday Night / 3. Boys Don't Cry / 4. Jumping Someone Else's Train / 5. A Forest / 6. Play for Today / 7. Primary / 8. Other Voices / 9. Charlotte Sometimes / 10. The Hanging Garden / 11. Let's Go to Bed / 12. The Walk / 13. The Love Cats / 14. The Caterpillar / 15. In Between Days / 16. Close to Me / 17. A Night Like This
Rating : 8
10. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - Fiction 1987 Tracks:
1. The Kiss / 2. Catch / 3. Torture / 4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep / 5. Why Can't I Be You? / 6. How Beautiful You Are / 7. The Snakepit / 8. Hey You!!! / 9. Just Like Heaven / 10. All I Want / 11. Hot Hot Hot!!! / 12. One More Time / 13. Like Cockatoos / 14. Icing Sugar / 15. The Perfect Girl / 16. A Thousand Hours / 17. Shiver and Shake / 18. Fight
Rating : 6
11. Disintegration - Fiction 1989 Tracks:
1. Plainsong / 2. Pictures of You / 3. Closedown / 4. Lovesong / 5. Last Dance / 6. Lullaby / 7. Fascination Street / 8. Prayers for Rain / 9. The Same Deep Water as You / 10. Disintegration / 11. Homesick / 12. Untitled
Rating : 6
12. Mixed Up - Fiction 1990 Tracks:
1. Lullaby / 2. Close to Me / 3. Fascination Street / 4. The Walk / 5. Lovesong / 6. A Forest / 7. Pictures of You / 8. Hot Hot Hot!!! / 9. Why Can't I Be You? / 10. The Caterpillar / 11. In Between Days / 12. Never Enough
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13. Wish - Fiction 1992 Tracks:
1. Open / 2. High / 3. Apart / 4. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea / 5. Wendy Time / 6. Doing the Unstuck / 7. Friday I'm in Love / 8. Trust / 9. A Letter to Elise / 10. Cut / 11. To Wish Impossible Things / 12. End
Rating : 6
14. Wild Mood Swings - Fiction 1996 Tracks:
1. Want / 2. Club America / 3. This Is a Lie / 4. The 13th / 5. Strange Attraction / 6. Mint Car / 7. Jupiter Crash / 8. Round & Round & Round / 9. Gone! / 10. Numb / 11. Return / 12. Trap / 13. Treasure / 14. Bare / 15. It Used to Be Me*
Rating :
15. Galore (comp.) - Fiction 1997 Tracks:
1. Why Can't I Be You? / 2. Catch / 3. Just Like Heaven / 4. Hot Hot Hot!!! / 5. Lullaby / 6. Fascination Street / 7. Lovesong / 8. Pictures of You / 9. Never Enough / 10. Close to Me / 11. High / 12. Friday I'm in Love / 13. A Letter to Elise / 14. The 13th / 15. Mint Car / 16. Strange Attraction / 17. Gone! / 18. Wrong Number
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16. Bloodflowers - Fiction 2000 Tracks:
1. Out of This World / 2. Watching Me Fall / 3. Where the Birds Always Sing / 4. Maybe Someday / 5. Coming Up / 6. The Last Day of Summer / 7. There Is No If.. / 8. Untitled / 9. 39 / 10. Bloodflowers
Rating : 4
17. Join the Dots ( comp. ) - Fiction 2004 Tracks:
1. 10:15 Saturday Night / 2. Plastic Passion / 3. Pillbox Tales / 4. Do the Hansa / 5. I'm Cold / 6. Another Journey by Train / 7. Descent / 8. Splintered in Her Head / 9. Lament / 10. Just One Kiss / 11. The Dream / 12. The Upstairs Room / 13. Lament / 14. Speak My Language / 14. Mr Pink Eyes / 15. Happy the Man / 16. Throw Your Foot / 17. New Day / 18. The Exploding Boy / 19. A Few Hours After This... / 20. A Man Inside My Mouth / 21. Stop Dead // 22. A Japanese Dream / 23. Breathe / 24. A Chain of Flowers / 25. Snow in Summer / 26. Sugar Girl / 27. Icing Sugar / 28. Hey You!!! / 29. How Beautiful You Are..." / 30. To the Sky / 31. Babble" / 31. Out of Mind / 32. 2 Late" / 33. Fear of Ghosts / 34. Hello, I Love You" / 35. Harold and Joe" / 36. Just Like Heaven / 37. This Twilight Garden / 38. Play / 39. Halo / 40. Scared as You / 41. The Big Hand / 42. A Foolish Arrangement / 43. Doing the Unstuck / 44. Purple Haze / 45. Purple Haze / 46. Burn / 47. Young Americans / 48. Dredd Song / 49. It Used to Be Me / 50. Ocean / 51. Adonais // 52. Home / 53. Waiting / 54. A Pink Dream / 55. This Is a Lie / 56. Wrong Number / 57. More Than This / 58. World in My Eyes / 59. Possession / 60. Out of This World / 61. Maybe Someday / 62. Coming Up / 63. Signal to Noise / 64. Signal to Noise / 65. Just Say Yes / 66. A Forest
Rating :
18. The Cure - Geffen 2004 Tracks:
1. Lost / 2. Labyrinth / 3. Before Three / 4. Truth, Goodness and Beauty / 5. The End of the World / 6. Anniversary / 7. Us or Them / 8 Fake / 9. alt. end / 10. (I Don't Know What's Going) On" / 11. Taking Off / 12. Never / 13. The Promise / 14. Going Nowhere / 15. This Morning
Rating : 5
19. 4:13 Dream - Geffen 2008 Tracks:
1. Underneath the Stars / 2. The Only One / 3. The Reasons Why / 4. Freakshow / 5. Sirensong / 6. The Real Snow White / 7. "The Hungry Ghost / 8. Switch" / 9. The Perfect Boy / 10. This. Here and Now. With You / 11. Sleep When I'm Dead / 12. The Scream / 13. t's Over
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Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - October 19 - 2017
2 Disintegration - 1989
3 Pornography - 1982
4 Standing on a Beach - 1986
9 Faith - 1981
11 The Head on the Door - 1985
12 Seventeen Seconds - 1980
12 Join the Dots - 2004
33 Japanese Whispers - 1983
43 Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - 1987
64 Three Imaginary Boys - 1979
64 Galore - 1997
78 Wish - 1992
270 Bloodflowers - 2000
658 The Top - 1984
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My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
1. Friday I'm in Love (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Thompson/Williams ) - Wish
2. Boys Don't Cry ( Smith/Dempsey/Tolhurst ) - Boys Don't Cry
3. Play for Today ( Smith/Gallup/Hartley/Tolhurst ) - Seventeen Seconds
4. In Your House ( Smith/Gallup/Hartley/Tolhurst ) - Seventeen Seconds
5. M ( Smith/Gallup/Hartley/Tolhurst ) - Seventeen Seconds
6. Holy Hour ( Smith/Gallup/Tolhurst ) - Faith
7. A Forest ( Smith/Gallup/Hartley/Tolhurst ) - Seventeen Seconds
8. Other Voice ( Smith/Gallup/Tolhurst ) - Faith
9. In Between Days ( Smith ) - The Head on the Door
10. Just Like Heaven ( Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams ) - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
11. Lovesong ( Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams/O'Donnell ) - Disintegration
12. High (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Thompson/Williams ) - Wish
13. The 13th (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Cooper/O'Donnell ) - Wild Mood Swings
14. Strange Attraction (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Cooper/O'Donnell ) - Wild Mood Swings
15. Mint Car (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Cooper/O'Donnell ) - Wild Mood Swings
16. Jupiter Crash (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Cooper/O'Donnell ) - Wild Mood Swings
17. Bare (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Cooper/O'Donnell ) - Wild Mood Swings
18. Cut Here ( Smith ) - Mixed Up
19. Lullaby ( Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams/O'Donnell ) - Disintegration
20. A Letter to Louise (Smith/Bamonte/Gallup/Thompson/Williams ) - Wish
21. There Is No If (Smith) - Bloodflowers
22. Just Like Heaven (Smith) - Kiss Me, Kiss Me
23. Catch (Smith) - Kiss Me, Kiss Me
24. How Beautiful You Are (Smith) - Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Lyrics and Chords
LINKS:
The Official Cure Page