Faith
by The Cure
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The Cure bestography
Faith 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 27 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,450.
(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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Faith track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Faith rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 51 Music Albums of 1981 | 11/51 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 80 Music Albums of 1981 | 7/80 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 57 Music Albums of 1981 | 5/57 | 5 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 9 Music Albums of 1981 | 8/9 | 1 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 41 Music Albums of 1981 | 25/41 | 2 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 17 Music Albums of 1981 | 15/17 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 2/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | leniad | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 74/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Best of The 80s Pt.2 (101-200) | 27/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 87/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 395 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,146 | |||
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Faith ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/31/2026 19:51 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 20:37 |  Special | 3,026 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 13:23 | cicadelic | 13,977 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Faith forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 5 days ago in Chart of the day (#5439): By joedec BestEverAlbums 09/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5437): By Untitled BestEverAlbums 08/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5397): By Cheboygan74Faith comments
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MadhattanJack 03/11/2026 20:53 | #313518
Most people already know that the album cover is a photo of the ruins of the front tympanum arch of the Bolton Abbey Priory, taken on a very foggy day by Andy Vella (https://velladesign.com/the-cure-faith), who later went on to do the angry-bull cover of Swervedriver's "Mezcal Head" LP. The priory photo was intentionally blurred and washed out to make it even more spooky-looking — and this was at a time when you couldn't just load your photos onto a computer and run them through a Photoshop "Make it Spooky" plugin like you can today, you had to know how to do stuff like that manually, unless you could afford to hire an outside "spookiness consultant" to do it for you. But what people DON'T know is that "Bolton" isn't a palindrome — spelled backwards, it would actually be "Notlob." (Edited)
Difficult to be objective as this was the album I bought second-hand and played over and over again as a teen.
It's dark, mesmeric and repetitive - heavily based on drum, bass, guitar and of course Robert. The lyrics are cryptic and literary (The Drowning man is one of my favourite songs of all time and based around Gormenghast for instance).
This is the 2nd in the Dark-Cure trilogy (before they became a pop band) and stands side by side with the others as a truly great album. (Edited)
HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/07/2023 01:57 | #299012
What it lacks in the relative accessibility of Three Imaginary Boys and Seventeen Seconds, Faith makes up for by being one of the most haunting and forward thinking goth rock records of the day. The Joy Division influence is still present, but so is that of psychedelic and krautrock. It's a dense, abrasive, despondent work of genius. While Seventeen Seconds sees the band explore sonic landscapes akin to romantic-era ghost stories, Faith is much more morbid, spending its time wandering through a cemetery in a dense fog. All patient, gloomy texture. It's foreboding, but captivating nonetheless. (Edited)
Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/23/2022 03:52 | #292150
2nd album of trilogy it’s lesser of the 3 but they’re all classic. Primary and The Funeral Party are great songs and the rest of the album works well.
They continue style that they created on Seventeen Seconds - very dark, depressing and gothic. It is similar in quality to its predecessor. (Edited)
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