Songs Of A Lost World (studio album)
by The Cure

Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Year: 2024
Release date: 2024-11-01
Overall rank: 1,106th   
Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 259 votes)
     
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Award Top 50 albums of the 2020s (24th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,106th)

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The Cure bestography

Songs Of A Lost World is ranked 8th best out of 40 albums by The Cure on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Cure is Disintegration which is ranked number 30 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 26,206.

The Cure album bestography « Higher ranked (829th)
Faith
This album (1,106th)
Songs Of A Lost World
Lower ranked (1,520th) »
Three Imaginary Boys

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Songs Of A Lost World track list

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Songs Of A Lost World rankings

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Overall rank: 1,106th | 2020s rank: 24th | 2024 rank: 4th

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Songs Of A Lost World ratings

Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 259 votes)
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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 81.9/100, a mean average of 81.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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From 07/17/2025 17:53 | #310190
"And Nothings Is Forever". To me, one of Robert Smiths most heart wrenching lyrics ever. They should appeal to everyone over 50. Fabulous Album.
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From 06/30/2025 20:58 | #309807
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.
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70/100
From 02/20/2025 19:27 | #307686
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.
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From 12/28/2024 09:26 | #306665
Very good, one of their best works
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From 12/02/2024 15:53 | #306345
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 :)
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From 11/27/2024 13:31 | #306307
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
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From 11/10/2024 20:04 | #305979
This sounds great, this could end up been my album of the year. Well worth the wait.
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