The Cure Is A Band Which Formed In 1976 In Crawley England United Kingdom. The Band Originally Consisted Of Robert Smith vocals Guitar Pearl Thompson guitar Michael Dempsey bass And Lol Tolhurst drums With The Band's Lineup Overgoing Several Changes Throughout The Years And Smith Remaining As The Only Constant Member Throughout The Band's History. The Band Currently Consists Of Smith vocals Guitar Simon Gallup bass Roger O'Donnell keyboards Jason Cooper drums And Reeves Gabrels guitar . Read More On Last.Fm
The Second Track On The Cure’s Gothic Milestone Pornography Is Centrally About The “short-Term Effect” Of Drug-Taking Something The Band Had Been Doing A Lot Of During The Production Of The Album And Its Predecessor Faith Although On Another Level It Deals With The Same Themes Of The Shortness And Futility Of Life That Are Touched On A Number Of Pornography’s Other Tracks. Sound-Wise It Continues In The Same Vein As “One Hundred Years” Sustaining The Already-Intense Atmosphere With A Quick Driving Drum Pattern And Screaming Backward Guitar Noises. The Major Triad That Opens The Track Also Strikes An Unsettling Dissonance With The Dark Whirring Backing. In A 1989 Fanzine Smith Shared “a Short-Term Effect” Is About A Drug And Its Effect. Short-Term I Thought.“