Songs Of A Lost World
by The Cure
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The Cure bestography
Songs Of A Lost World is ranked 7th best out of 40 albums by The Cure on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Cure is Disintegration which is ranked number 28 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,615.
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Songs Of A Lost World track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/15/2026 12:38 |  Leonard | 6,607 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 20:37 |  Special | 2,953 | 72/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2026 15:39 | TonySayers61 | 25,336 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2026 19:30 |  serpico | 898 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/27/2026 11:53 | wizardalien | 880 | 48/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.5/100, a mean average of 80.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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I liked Drone:nodrone and A Fragile Thing but overall the rest of the tracks are a bit too slow and boring for me. So goes into their lower ranked albums. Still glad they made this album though, it's nowhere near as bad as the likes of Faith, Pornography and The Top. (Edited)
"And Nothings Is Forever". To me, one of Robert Smiths most heart wrenching lyrics ever. They should appeal to everyone over 50. Fabulous Album. (Edited)
HoldenM 06/30/2025 20:58 | #309807 | TOP COMMENT
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A triumphant return for arguably the best band of their era. Yet, spending 16 years waiting for the right songs to come to them has been good for The Cure. Here, they are as refined and full of purpose as ever. Songs of a Lost World hearkens back to The Cure in their prime without being a carbon copy. Their familiar melancholy bolstered by robust production makes one wonder what this would have sounded like produced 35 or 40 years ago, but then it wouldn't have as much power. This is a singular entry in The Cure's catalog. Their best sine Wish and the only record of theirs since Disintegration without a single skip. Where most late period works remind us that artists are past their prime and often tarnish a strong legacy, Songs of a Lost World finds The Cure staking their claim. No one could do it and no one will do it better. (Edited)
I can't tell if I like The Cure, if I like the album, or both... in the end it's probably the first one more than anything. Solid album, solid sound, but nothing earth shattering. (Edited)
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Cargusbralem 12/31/2024 00:53 | #306733
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Very good, one of their best works (Edited)
Have recently been fully getting into 'Disintegration' (long overdue, I know) and then this came along... felt like serendipity! Really great to hear them still making music at such a high level thirty five years later :) (Edited)
Time will tell but i feel like in 10 years time this cure album will be remembered as fondly as some of their best work 9/10 (Edited)
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