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“The Figurehead” by The Cure
From the album Pornography (1982)
“The Figurehead” by The Cure appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1982. It was first released in 1982 on the album Pornography. Its best result is #28 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1982. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #83 alternative song of 1982.
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"The Figurehead" belongs to Pornography, the Cure's fourth album, released by Fiction in May 1982. Robert Smith wrote the words and shares the music credit with Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst; Smith plays guitar and keyboards, Gallup bass, and Tolhurst drums and keyboards. The band produced it with Phil Thornalley, their first time working with him, and Smith, Thornalley and Mike Nocito engineered.
The RAK Studios sessions, which ran from January into April 1982, found the band close to falling apart, with heavy drug use, in-fighting and Smith's depression all feeding the music. It closed the book on the Cure's early gloom: Gallup left after the album, the sound brightened, and a record critics first dismissed is now held up as a gothic rock milestone.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 28 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1982 | 50 |
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