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With Gallup's departure from The Cure and with Smith's work with Siouxsie & the Banshees, rumors spread that The Cure had broken up. In December of 1982, Smith remarked to Melody Maker "Do The Cure really exist any more? I've been pondering that question myself it has got to a point where I don't fancy working in that format again." He added, "Whatever happens, it won't be me, Laurence, and Simon together any more. I know that."
The Cure have been making music videos for their singles since their first video for "A Forest" in 1980. The Cure band's early videos have been described as "dreadful affairs" and have been maligned for their poor quality, particularly by The Cure itself. Lol Tolhurst said, "Those videos were unmitigated disasters; we weren't actors and our personalities weren't coming across." It was with the video for "Let's Go to Bed", their first collaboration with director Tim Pope, that The Cure would become noted for their videos. Pope added a playful element to The Cure's videos; the director insisted in a 1987 Spin interview, "I think that side of them was always there, but was never brought out". Pope would go on to direct the majority of The Cure The Cure's videos, and The Cure's videos, which became synonymous with the band, helped expand The Cure The Cure's audience during the 1980s. Pope explained the appeal of working with The Cure by saying, " The Cure is the ultimate band for a filmmaker to work with because really understands the camera. His songs are so cinematic. I mean on one level there's this stupidity and humour, right, but beneath that there are all psychological obsessions and claustrophobia."
Wary due to The Cure's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of second album Seventeen Seconds, which The Cure co-produced with Mike Hedges. Seventeen Seconds was released in 1980 and reached #20 on the UK charts. The Cure album single "A Forest" became The Cure's first UK hit single, reaching #31 on the singles chart. The Cure album was a departure from The Cure The Cure's sound up to that point, with Hedges describing it as "morose, atmospheric, very different to Three Imaginary Boys." 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." At the same time Smith was pressed concerning the concept of an alleged "anti-image". Smith told the press The Cure was fed up with the anti-image association that some considered to be "elaborately disguising their plainness", stating "We had to get away from that anti-image thing, which we didn't even create in the first place. And it seemed like we were trying to be more obscure. We just didn't like the standard rock thing. The Cure whole thing really got out of hand." That same year Three Imaginary Boys was repackaged for the U.S market as Boys Don't Cry, with new artwork and a new tracklist. The Cure set out on their first world tour to promote both releases. At the end of the tour Matthieu Hartley left the band. Hartley said, "I realised that the group was heading towards suicidal, sombre music‰ÛÓthe sort of thing that didn't interest me at all."
"Out of This World " (2000)
Sample of "One Hundred Years" from Pornography.
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The Cure in concert in 2004. From left to right: Robert Smith, Jason Cooper, and Simon Gallup.