#curetober
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🎨 Paine Proffitt @paineproffitt para el “curetober” organizado por Cure Arts Collab.

@pipisilik.eurosky.social que dijiste algo del tintubre, éste te va a molar
October 7, 2026 at 7:27 AM
I’m participating in a daily art prompt thingy over on Instagram called Curetober, will probably post them here too. Most will be my silly little mixed media collages, but some won’t be!

Day 01: HELLO
October 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
doing a art challenge im calling 'curetober but its OCtober' over on tumblr, and cross posting it here to share the latest edition to my canvas, @hoshizoramiyuki.bsky.social's oc Cure Voyage from Expedition Precure! #precureoc #precurefanseries
October 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I run a little art prompt project for fans of The Cure, called the CureArtsCollab. Inspired by Inktober on IG, we started with Curetober in 2022, and have worked up to posting monthly Cure-themed art prompts. I posted this month's prompt yesterday, #thecuremixtapes2025. Here's the Call for Entries.
January 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Tonight’s contribution to the Cure inspired art challenge on IG

GAME

Inspired by Let’s Go To Bed & (a little) Play With Me.

#kerayzieart #artchallenge #TheCure #art #curetober2025 #curetober #curefanart
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If you see this, post a ghost!

I created this illustration for #Curetober, an annual creative challenge during October for fans of The Cure. This piece represents their 1989 b-side, Fear of Ghosts.

"...breaking windows in my heart
and the past is taunting
fear of ghosts is forcing me apart..."
June 16, 2024 at 2:00 AM
#Curetober 30 is How Beautiful You Are, from Kiss Me, otherwise known as Robert Smith's finest lyric. You know a song starting "you want to know why I hate you", despite that title, is gonna be a treat: closing "no one ever knows or loves another" only adds to this. Found a lyric video too, yay!
October 30, 2024 at 8:27 PM
In my nerdy elder fan free time I make Curefan merch and lead a little artists collective on IG. Our annual #Curetober art prompts begin soon. 🤓 #thecure
instagram.com/cureartscollab
September 26, 2024 at 3:49 AM
#Curetober 29 is the hazy, menacing Anniversary from 2005's The Cure. An unfairly maligned album, it was in turns the angriest, wisest, saddest and overall inspired that Robert Smith had sounded in *years*. The closest they ever got to shoegaze, this hits like a chill on a hot summer night.
October 30, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Track 20 of #Curetober is Speak My Language, a b-side to 1983's Lovecats. Rebuilding after they had disintegrated in 82, they were a new band in a new direction, yet still unmistakably The Cure. Even with casual poppy b-sides they were seemingly endlessly creative while still easily accessible.
October 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
#Curetober 31: finishing with *the* Cure anthem. First time I saw the Cure live was the Wish warm up tour in May 92, and this extended arrangement of A Forest floored me: the improvised nods back to so many previous works, that epic climax... From the live 1992 VHS Show (but stupidly, not the album)
October 31, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Fuck it, going to post a song by The Cure that I love every day this month until the new album comes out. May as well start with a heavyweight: The Same Deep Water As You from Disintegration. Probably the first time 17 year old me encountered a track that was more atmosphere than song.
#Curetober
The Cure The Same Deep Water As You
YouTube video by Robert74231
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October 1, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I don't know what your musical taste is, but if you're a fan of the macabre, I lead an art challenge on IG called #Curetober, or you can find prompts from #inktober, and variations thereof all October long. 🖤
September 26, 2024 at 4:01 AM
#Curetober 22 is the devastating live version of Homesick, from Entreat. The original is dense and claustrophobic, but this version is simultaneously lighter in tone while drenched in haunting, atmospheric feedback. One of the finest official documents of The Cure as a live force.
October 24, 2024 at 11:31 PM
#Curetober 25 is In Your House, from 1980's Seventeen Seconds. Drenched in mist, the album was the harbinger of the original "dark trilogy" of albums, while simultaneously laden throughout with catchy hooks and slinky moves. This was a mood Smith would go on to master through the years.
October 28, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Track 15 of #Curetober. 1984's The Top is a woozy, psychedelic affair. Messy and unfocused, much like Robert Smith's state of mind at the time. A nod to Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones, Bananafishbones arrives like a drunken uncle at a wedding, wobbling its unsteady way before finishing with a clatter
October 16, 2024 at 1:59 AM
#curetober, Day 8, and another b-side. This one is from some versions of 1985's Close To Me. When discovering The Cure, the Standing On A Beach compilation cassette, with associated b-sides, was a fantastic intro, and finishing with this dark gem was just perfect
October 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Track 18 of #Curetober, and the opening track from 1996's Wild Mood Swings. The bumpy start to a new, less frequent version of The Cure, Want was the glorious opener to a sprawling, unfocused collection of mostly lacklustre songs, peppered with the odd gem. The imperial run was definitely over.
October 20, 2024 at 12:58 AM
#Curetober 28 is the magnificent A Night Like This, a towering highlight from The Head On The Door. Simultaneously melancholic and uplifting, it even gets away with a non-more-80s sax solo. Sums up the accessible yet creatively rewarding ethos of the whole album in one quintessential Cure track:
October 30, 2024 at 12:32 AM
It's odd that 84's The Top is so divisive: yes it's unfocused and messy, but Shake Dog Shake is a quintessential Cure opener, Bird Mad Girl and Dressing Up top drawer winsome Smith poppery, Give Me It, Wailing Wall and The Empty World proper gnashing angst. Oh, have an epic closer for #Curetober 26
October 28, 2024 at 6:30 PM
#Curetober 24 is Sinking, the closer from 85's Head On The Door. A dizzy spin of moods, but given Inbetween Days opens "Yesterday I got so old", it shouldn't be surprising that aged only 26, Robert was already preoccupied with aging. More surprising was the return to 17 Seconds/Faith era melancholy
October 27, 2024 at 12:54 AM
#Curetober, Day 7. The Cure have a truckload of amazing b-sides. Fear Of Ghosts from the 1989 Lovesong single is huge: epic, poetic and dark, like most of Disintegration: "the further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get"
October 7, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Day 2 of a month of songs by The Cure, and I'm going with the gloriously languid If Only Tonight We Could Sleep from 1987's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. Lyrics perfectly suiting the beautiful instrumentation, its the sonic equivalent of having drunk *way* too much red wine while dizzy in love #Curetober
October 2, 2024 at 12:16 AM
#Curetober, Day 6 of The Cure. 1992's Wish was the first proper Cure album released after I became a massive fan. It's a mixed bag but the best tracks are stratospheric, and Rob's lyrics are peak. "It was the hope of all we might have been, that filled me with the hope to wish... impossible things"
To Wish Impossible Things
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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October 6, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Day 9 of #Curetober, and figure I may as well continue the b-sides theme... I can see why This twilight Garden wouldn't have fitted on 1992's Wish, but it's still quite mad that for years the only way to hear it was on the High single from the same year. Rob rarely sounds as romantic as he does here
October 8, 2024 at 11:45 PM