The Cure- Wish
surge of
happiness
One of the most
commercially successful Cure records
present a vision
of the day breaking after the gloomy depths of midnight have passed.
colors on the
cover present a happier Cure, with optimistic blue skies and white fluffy
clouds surrounded by bright reds and oranges.
iconic artwork
by Parched Art draws us into an exploration of the meaning and imagery of the
album cover and promises an optimistic view of love and life.
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Made in Germany
Recorded at The Manor (Oxfordshire, UK).
Mixed at Olympic (London, UK).
℗ © 1992 Fiction Records Limited
Red & blue picture cd, black print.
Released in jewel case with 12 page
booklet and back tray.
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Artwork by Parched Art (Porl Thompson & Andy Vella)
burst out laughing because we
realized that we didn't have a band anymore.
after the Wish
tour the band would fall apart.
During the three years since Disintegration's
release, "alternative" music had become mainstream, and the Cure
returned to an ever-expanding new audience.
The band remains one of the
most influential and successful to arise from the post-punk movement of the
late ’70s
decadent sound to the
sometimes-sterile ’80s, morphing from morbid goth to quirky pop to epic
psychedelia.
he group spent many years
struggling to find its sound.
Late bloomer- superstardom
that came with Disintegration and Wish
Wish"
was also the band's
overall highest charting album, and most commercially successful in the band's
career, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United
States, where it sold more than 1.2 million copies. "Wish" was
also nominated for the Grammy Award for best Alternative Music Album in 1993.
however they are
without the surrounding heart full of clouds. Many people consider Wish
to be one of the Cure's most immediately accessible albums, and the
preponderance of tattoos from this album artwork may bear that theory out.
Another factor
likely contributing to the high incidence of Wish-era symbolism in tattoos is
the high availability of recognizable iconography from that album. Some album
artwork is more difficult to distill into tattoo form, most notably, the photo
of the smeared lips from front cover of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me -
however some fans use the font style from that cover to embellish their bodies with words, instead of trying to reproduce the picture. Other album covers which
are relatively rare in tattoo form include the soft, out of focus photographs
from the covers of Faith and Seventeen Seconds (although there are tattoos
inspired by both of these albums).
