Wish is the ninth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1992. The record is the final studio album featuring Boris Williams and the first featuring Perry Bamonte, as well as being the last album featuring Porl Thompson for sixteen years. Special guest Kate Wilkinson plays the viola on the track "To Wish Impossible Things". Although not as well received by critics as Disintegration (1989), Wish is the band's overall highest charting album, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold more than 1.2 million copies. The album's second single, "Friday I'm in Love", became one of the band's most popular songs - reaching number six in the UK, number seventeen in the US and number one in South Africa. Wish also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1993. Wish is the ninth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1992. The record is the final studio album featuring Boris Williams and the first featuring Perry Bamonte, as well as being the last album featuring Porl Thompson for sixteen years. Special guest Kate Wilkinson plays the viola on the track "To Wish Impossible Things". Although not as well received by critics as Disintegration (1989), Wish is the band's overall highest charting album, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold more than 1.2 million copies. The album's second single, "Friday I'm in Love", became one of the band's most popular songs - reaching number six in the UK, number seventeen in the US and number one in South Africa. Wish also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1993. false 2022-11-27 11:36:49 Wish 8 1992 1992-01-01 1992-01-01 66 Alternative Rock Electronic Gothic Rock Indie Rock New Wave Pop Rock Post-Punk Rock Synth-Pop Jangle Pop Dance-Rock 111622 2113826 c88b1456-f32e-49c8-acc7-1637876f2e49 69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf 88154914-4f14-355c-8066-b3cecd38c42c /media/data/media5/Music/The Cure/Wish (1992)/folder.jpg The Cure AlbumArtist The Cure Artist The Cure The Cure 1 Open 06:51 2 High 03:37 3 Apart 06:38 4 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea 07:44 5 Wendy Time 05:13 6 Doing the Unstuck 04:24 7 Friday I’m in Love 03:38 8 Trust 05:33 9 A Letter to Elise 05:14 10 Cut 05:55 11 To Wish Impossible Things 04:43 12 End 06:47 The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member, though bassist Simon Gallup has been present for all but about three years of the band's history. Their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), along with several early singles, placed the band at the forefront of the emerging post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith's stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the goth subculture that eventually formed around the genre. After the release of the band's fourth album, Pornography (1982), Smith introduced a greater pop sensibility into the band's music, and they subsequently garnered worldwide mainstream success. Their singles compilation Standing on a Beach (1986) sold four million copies worldwide by 1989, and they reached their commercial peak with the albums Disintegration (1989) and Wish (1992). The Cure have released 13 studio albums, two EPs, and over 30 singles, and have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Their most recent album, 4:13 Dream, was released in 2008. The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.