>> we're not at all. we're the cure of the '80s. ♪ and i know i was wrong when i said it was true ♪ ♪ that it couldn't be me and be her in between without you ♪ >> the holy trinity of alternative british music is the cure, depeche mode, and the smiths. all three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the end of the '80s were selling out stadiums. ♪ will you take the pain i will give to you ♪ ♪ again and again and will you return it ♪ >> what's new order? computer programmers or musicians? >> i'd say neither, actually. >> what are you, then? >> bank robbers. ♪ how does it feel ♪ ♪ to treat me like you do ♪ ♪ when you place our hand upon me ♪ >> in the u.k. disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new order combined it with the new