2015 celebrity Death poll

[swampfrog]

Add Erasure and Pet Shop Boys to that list and I'm right with you.

+New Order
+The Cure
+REM
+U2

and a few dozen more less influential but still important bands/acts/projects that established my alternative roots.

[Shaka]

+New Order
+The Cure
+REM
+U2

and a few dozen more less influential but still important bands/acts/projects that established my alternative roots.

I forgot. Add U2 to my list although they weren't a techno band.

[Northwestcoug]

+New Order
+The Cure
+REM
+U2

and a few dozen more less influential but still important bands/acts/projects that established my alternative roots.

How could I forget New Order?!?
My Mt. Rushmore of new wave: Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, and New Order. I appreciated the Cure, but I didn't love them.

[Commando]

How could I forget New Order?!?
My Mt. Rushmore of new wave: Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, and New Order. I appreciated the Cure, but I didn't love them.

I love the Cure long time. All those other post-punk bands are sub-cure in my book.

[swampfrog]

How could I forget New Order?!?
My Mt. Rushmore of new wave: Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, and New Order. I appreciated the Cure, but I didn't love them.

Maybe this belongs in the map thread? Behold the awesomeness.

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/lets-obsess-intricate-map-alt-music-history/

[swampfrog]

I forgot. Add U2 to my list although they weren't a techno band.

Also forgot The Smiths, which omission is a capital offense.

[clackamascoug]

The Cult - you Cure guys are sissies.

[New Mexican Disaster]

The Cult - you Cure guys are sissies.

Why do you want to bring gay slurs into it?

[smokymountainrain]

The Cult - you Cure guys are sissies.

The Cult is much better than the Cure, but I don't see the connection between the two. too different, imo.

[Shaka]

The Cult is much better than the Cure, but I don't see the connection between the two. too different, imo.

From a sonic perspective early Cult had quite a bit in common with The Cure.

[Northwestcoug]

I love the Cure long time. All those other post-punk bands are sub-cure in my book.

I was more into the electronic bands back then. The Cure is more of a 'solid' band IMO. They do have some great stuff, but it wasn't what I was in to.

[swampfrog]

The Cult is much better than the Cure, but I don't see the connection between the two. too different, imo.

While I can accept a personal preference for this, there's no question as to which is the most influential in the alternative landscape, and it's not The Cult. Personally there are few albums that exceed The Cure's Disintegration.

[Commando]

While I can accept a personal preference for this, there's no question as to which is the most influential in the alternative landscape, and it's not The Cult. Personally there are few albums that exceed The Cure's Disintegration.

Robert Smith has something going there. You either get it or you don't. I don't know that I've ever burned one calorie trying to convince anybody to like the Cure.

[Shaka]

Robert Smith has something going there. You either get it or you don't. I don't know that I've ever burned one calorie trying to convince anybody to like the Cure.

He's a genius guitarist.

[grapevine]

Janet Reno met her maker. Third choice for ag, after kimba Wood and Zoey Baird, Slick Willie as down and determined to pick women for that job and first too hired illegal alien babysitters. Reno not that great herself.