Great...another comment left that only allows a "flag" but no "reply". Oh well, here goes...
What did you do, spend all day researching the history of Robert Smith. Who gives a shit. Your comment may be right, as far as it goes... It is besides the point. Unless your point is to prove that you are a Post-Punk groupie. Me, I just listened to the Cure. I mean, who uses phrases like "The Cure started out as Punk band...one of a bunch that sprouted in the wake of the Ramones's..."except perhaps Korey Grow or Rob Sheffield.
Now, what I find most interesting is this :"I bought Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures direct from Rough Trade's USA mailorder outlet in '79 when Curtis was still alive, and the Cure's 2nd and Siouxsie's JuJu..."
If I did my math right, and I did... that was 41 years ago. Now, if I am generous, and I am...if I allow for you being at least 14 years old in 1979, why? that would make you at least 55-I repeat, FIFTY-FIVE, years old. 55...and you have the temerity make fun of my age, Gramps.
You are a fraud.