Robert Smith's 30 Favorite Songs

I just discovered a list that The Cure's Robert Smith revealed to SiriusXM all the way back in 2009 and it was a list of his 30 favorite songs of the 1980s. One of the songs that got included was The Psychedelic Furs' "Heaven"!

Here's the full list in alphabetical order:

1. ABC - The Look Of Love

2. The Associates - Tell Me Easter's On Friday

3. Bananarama and Fun Boy Three - It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It

4. David Bowie - Let's Dance

5. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

6. Cocteau Twins - Persephone

7. Cristina - Things Fall Apart

8. DAF - Sex Unter Wasser

9. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

10. Dinosaur JR - Freak Scene

11. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

12. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain

13. The Human League - Human

14. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking

15. Joy Division - The Eternal

16. Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

17. Madness - Return Of The Los Palmas Seven

18. Mel and Kim - Respectable

19. My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath

20. New Order - Everything's Gone Green

21. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

22. The Pixies - Gigantic

23. The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong

24. Prince - Starfish And Coffee

25. The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven

26. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

27. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

28. The Sugarcubes - Birthday

29. Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing

30. Tom Waits - In The Neighborhood

Plans for 2026

Since the New Year is already here, I thought of sharing a couple things I will eventually do on this blog for 2026.

The first one is that this year will be the 20th anniversary of Richard Butler's first solo album and I will write a post about it sometime in the Spring. And the second thing is that in 2025 I was originally going to post an article about Made Of Rain's fifth anniversary but I decided to postpone it. I didn't forget about it but I'm just waiting for the perfect time to publish it because I had a great idea for the blog post, and I'm not going to say what it is because I want it to be a surprise. I hope it will be published this year but I'll see what will happen in the future.

My wishes for 2026 are The Psychedelic Furs touring again and hopefully new music.

Photo: Simon Fowler.

Concert Ads #55

On February 16, 1984 The Psychedelic Furs performed at the Pabellon de la Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid in Madrid, Spain. According to the ad, it looks like the opener was Itoiz.