“One Hundred Years” by The Cure

"One Hundred Years" belongs to Pornography, the fourth Cure album, released by Fiction on 3 May 1982, and it's the sound of a band pushing its gloom as far as it will go. Robert Smith wrote the words and composed the music with Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst; Smith plays guitar, Gallup bass, Tolhurst drums, and all three share the keyboards.

They made the record at RAK Studios between January and April 1982 with new producer Phil Thornalley, and it nearly broke them: heavy drug use, fighting in the ranks and Smith's depression all bled into the music. Pornography closed out the band's early dark period; afterward Gallup left and the Cure turned toward brighter new wave. Critics were cool on it at first, but the album has since come to be seen as a milestone of gothic rock.

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