Thought they got shat on for having an embarrassing first go at being famous with the man from Eurythmics.
Great band though
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this would be the starting point for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_5TC1s0wQ
I know what you mean. But I don’t think goth and shoegaze fans were that picky about their bands being commercial.
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oooh I saw them live twice and they were utterly fabulous. Totally absorbing.
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I was a casual fan back in the day but then got into them in a big way when they came back in the 00s. Still kick myself that I didn’t make more of an effort to see them live. This is their best track for me by miles - the drums and guitar really hit that 90s neep-neep-neep production perfectly in the nostalgia feels…
I definitely knew this about them at the time which almost certainly means that I read it in Melody Maker inevitably laden with the traditional amount of snark.
There was a thread about Garbage on the old forum where I repeated this take multiple times, much to no one’s amusement aside from myself. Sorry @deep-blue
Good band. Think they’re very consistent across their whole output tbh tbf…
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Do like me a bit of Curve. Might throw on Doppelgänger or The Way Of Curve on, later.
They sort of had their own thing, while being reminiscent of a lot of other things. That Doppelgänger came a year after Siouxie’s Superstition is not entirely surprising, come to think of it. Industrial-adjacent gothic electro dreampop.
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Bloody loved Curve. All the eras for different reasons. Remember being so excited when a new song popped up on a Sony MiniDisc ad in the cinema, and they didn’t actually release the song for another year or two (Chinese Burn). Never got to see them live sadly.
I always figured Garbage stole their thunder too, but pushed it (no pun intended) more into the pop side, whereas Curve skewed slightly more abrasive. Cuckoo was my first album so will always be my favourite.
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Love the first two albums. I only really took notice of them after Toni Halliday’s collaboration with Leftfield.
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They could never find the right angle
(Doesnt work)
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Think they were maybe late enough to the shoegaze party (at least as far as press coverage) to be considered the commercial face of it/cynically cashing-in?
Would have thought they would have been one of the top three biggest selling shoegaze bands though?
First album UK 11 seems pretty big…
Pleased to see the vinyl copy of Cuckoo I bought in the 90s for a fiver now goes for around £50 on Discogs!
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Never struck a chord with the right radio play listers.
2nd album went tonumber 2!
Its a maths pun.
Ooops. Sorry!
Really really love Turkey Crossing. Everything else I’ve heard by them left me cold. 
Loved them at the time of the first three EPs and Doppelganger, Cuckoo was good but Come Clean left me pretty cold. Not investigated their post 2000 output.
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Think I posted this somewhere a while back, but their Bandcamp page has got tons of stuff, including some live sets and various other rarities: Music | Curve
This track nails it for me:
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that’s amazing! If they could discover a recording of their Norwich Arts Centre 1991 gig I would THROW money at their feet. Although I think the Manchester Union 1991 recording must be pretty similar: Manchester Union 1991 - Bootleg Series Volume 12 | Curve
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Recovery off the Pink Girl With The Blues EP from Come Clean was a cracker though: