Idle Cure

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Idle Cure was a hard/arena rock band based ouf of Long Beach, California. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music calls their sound "the best example of cloning a sound for Christian markets", distinguished by overtly religious lyrics, liking it to that of Def Leppard's Pyromania.^[1]

Guitarist Chuck King was also involved in the band Shout.

Their first four albums have been reissued as compilations by KMG Records.

1 Discography
2 Members
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Discography

1986: Idle Cure (Frontline Records)
1988: Tough Love (Frontline)
1990: 2nd Avenue (Frontline)
1991: Inside Out (Frontline, Review: Metal Observer)
1992: Breakaways (Frontline, Compilation)
1994: Eclipse (Salt, Review: Cross Rhythms^[2])
1998: Idle Cure/2nd Avenue (KMG Records, Compilation, Review: Cross Rhythms^[3])
2000: Tough Love/Inside Out (KMG Records, Compilation)

[edit] Members

Chuck King - guitar
Pete Lomakin - keyboard, vocals
Steve Shannon - vocals
Mark Ambrose - guitar
Glenn Pearce - guitar (1994)
Clark Edmond - Drums

[edit] References

^ Powell, Mark Allan (2002). "Idle Cure", Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, First printing, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 428-429. ISBN 1-56563-679-1.
^ Palmer, Dan (October 1994). "Idle Cure - Eclipse". Cross Rhythms (23).
^ Figgis, Alex (October 1999). "Idle Cure - Idle Cure/2nd Avenue". Cross Rhythms (53).