The Cure, going nowhere

There are varying opinions about when The Cure stopped being great - some say they're still great, some say they peaked with Disintegration and are on the way down ever since, some say they couldn't really recover after Pearl (known as Porl at the time) and Boris left, but I truly enjoyed Wild Mood Swings (not a flawless album, but definitely not as bad as people usually think), I really liked Wrong Number and then the Bloodflowers album, and even Cut Here was really good (let's forget about Just Say Yes for a moment), so I was quite happy with their output until they left Fiction. I'm not suggesting that leaving the label was what caused the decline, but something went wrong after that.

The best album ever

I'm cheating a bit, because it's not a proper studio album but a live one. Anyway, 101 by Depeche Mode is my ultimate desert island disc (cheating again, it's 2 discs on both vinyl and cd), the one I can never get tired of, the one I listen to the most, simply put, the best album ever.