1986年五月乐队为打开美国市场在美国出版了一首单曲"THE HEAD ON THE DOOR",这似乎成了成功的前兆,美国媒体显然被ROBERT SMITH的个人神秘魅力所吸引,称他为"THE MALE KATE BUSH(男人中的KATE BUSH)", 而当SMITH剪掉他一头蜘蛛网般的头发时,人们还为此感到沮丧. 到了1987年,乐队又有了新的成员键盘手ROGER O DONNELL,而此时THE CURE也成立十年有十年之久了,在这十年中,他们共售出了八百万张唱片,为了纪念这一切,THE CURE出版了一本名为"TEN IMAGINARY YEARS"的书,详细记载了这传奇般的十年.
乐队的下一张专辑是一张名为"KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME"的双唱片,整张专辑充满了无尽的想象力和喜怒无常的感情,不论是痛苦还是幸福,THE CURE的演绎都是如此的出色.随后推出的四首单曲"WHY CAN'T I BE YOU?""CATCH""HOT HOT HOT!""JUST LIKE HEAVEN"成为了美国各地独立电台的热门曲目.THE CURE也突然成为美国最走红的乐队之一.
但1989年,乐队与LOL TOLHURST的关系变得越来越糟,这直接导致了TOLHURST的离开.对于THE CURE来说, 这也许是最不应该发生的事.毕竟TOLHURST从乐队建设时就在乐队中,他的离开是每个人都不愿看到的.也许是受此事的影响,乐队的新专辑名为"DISINTEGRATION(瓦解)",这是一张带有着神秘和忧伤的专辑,在热门单曲"FASCINATION STREET" "LULLABY" "PICTURES OF YOU"和"LOVE SONG"的驱动下,"瓦解"升到了BILLBOARD的第二位,为此THE CURE 在美国进行了巡回演出.但在演出结束后,ROGER O DONNELL离开了乐队,取代他的是PERRRY BAMONTE.
1990年乐队出版了一张名为"MIXED UP"的混音专辑,包括了热门歌曲"NEVER EOUGH"和PAUL OAKENFOLD的经典歌曲"CLOSE TO ME"和翻唱混音版.更令人兴奋的是乐队在次年的二月的英国音乐颁奖典礼上获得了最佳乐队奖.
不过最令THE CURE感到自豪的是他们在1992年推出的"WISH",这张专辑获得了前所未有的成功.不仅仅是因为被众多的乐评人认为是他们最好的一张唱片,而是因为ROBERT SMITH在这张专辑中通过一首首歌曲将他多变的性格和梦想完完全全的表达出来,并建立起了一个完全属于他本人和THE CURE的世界.就如他自己所说的"我们做的越久,就会 和别人离的越远".在商业上WISH也获得了巨大的成功,英国的第一名和美国的第二名,还涌现了热门歌曲"FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE " "HIGY" "A LETTER TO ELESE" .
on candystripe legs the spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly!
a movement in the corner of the room!
and there is nothing i can do
when i realise with fright
that the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closer now
closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
don't struggle like that or i will only love you more
for it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
and i feel like i'm being eaten
by a thousand million shivering furry holes
and i know that in the morning i will wake up
in the shivering cold