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In 1982 The Cure recorded and released Pornography, the third and final album of an "oppressively dispirited" trio that cemented the The Cure's stature as purveyors of the emerging gothic rock genre. Smith has said during the recording of Pornography The Cure was "undergoing a lot of mental stress. But it had nothing to do with the group, it just had to do with what I was like, my age and things. I think I got to my worst round about Pornography. Looking back and getting other people's opinions of what went on, I was a pretty monstrous sort of person at that time." Gallup described the album by saying "Nihilism took over We sang 'It doesn't matter if we all die' and that is exactly what we thought at the time." Parry was concerned that the album did not have a hit song for radio play and instructed Smith and producer Phil Thornalley to polish the track "The Hanging Garden" for release as a single. Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, Pornography became The Cure's first UK Top 10 album, entering the charts at #8. The Cure release of Pornography was followed by the Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, where The Cure finally dropped the anti-image angle and first adopted their signature look of big, towering hair and smeared lipstick on their faces. The Cure tour also saw a series of incidents that prompted Simon Gallup to leave The Cure at the tour's conclusion. Gallup and Smith did not talk to each other for eighteen months following The Cure's departure.
Robert Smith voiced himself in the first season of the animated series South Park at the request of series co-creator Trey Parker, who is a fan of The Cure . Smith appeared in the episode "Mecha-Streisand," where The Cure fought a giant mechanical Barbra Streisand. As The Cure walked off triumphantly into the distance at the episode's conclusion, one of the series' main characters Kyle Broflovski shouted "Disintegration is the best album ever!"
Gothic phase (1980-1982)
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In May 1990, Roger O'Donnell left The Cure and was replaced by The Cure's guitar tech Perry Bamonte. That November, The Cure released a collection of remixes called Mixed Up. The Cure album was not well-received and quickly slid down the charts. The Cure one new song on the collection, "Never Enough", was released as a single. In 1991 The Cure were awarded the BRIT Award for Best British Band. That same year Lol Tolhurst filed a lawsuit against Robert Smith and Fiction Records in 1991 over royalties payments, and claimed joint ownership of the name "The Cure" with Smith; the verdict was handed out in September 1994 in favor of Smith. In respite from the lawsuit The Cure returned to the studio to record their next album. Wish reached number one in the UK and number two in the US and yielded the international hits "High" and "Friday I'm in Love". The Cure also embarked on the "Wish Tour" with Portsmouth's Cranes and released the live albums Show (September 1993) and Paris (October 1993). As a promotional exercise with the Our Price music chain in the UK, a limited edition EP was released consisting of instrumental outtakes from the Wish sessions. Entitled Lost Wishes, the proceeds from the four track cassette tape went to charity.
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