― Sansai, Friday, 22 October 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Edward Bax, Friday, 22 October 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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-- manthony m1cc1o (anthonyisrigh...), October 21st, 2004.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― the curefox, Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
** The new release dates are 29th November 2004 worldwide and December 7th in the U.S. on Rhino **
The Cure's debut album from 1979 has now been elevated to the Deluxe Edition series.
Compiled by Robert Smith and Digitally Remastered by Chris Blair at Abbey Road, this 2 CD set is a must for all Cure fans as it contains 6 Previously Unreleased songs and 15 tracks on CD for the very first time! The 16-page booklet has sleevenotes by Johnny Black plus rare and previously unseen photographs from Robert Smith's personal archive.
DISC 1 - Three Imaginary Boys
01. 10:15 SATURDAY NIGHT 02. ACCURACY 03. GRINDING HALT 04. ANOTHER DAY 05. OBJECT 06. SUBWAY SONG 07. FOXY LADY 08. MEATHOOK 09. SO WHAT 10. FIRE IN CAIRO 11. IT'S NOT YOU 12. THREE IMAGINARY BOYS 13. THE WEEDY BURTON
DISC 2 - Rarities 1977-1979
01. I Want To Be Old (sav studio demo 10/77 - previously unreleased song) (@) 02. I'm Cold (sav studio demo 11/77 - previously unreleased version) (@) 03. Heroin Face (live in the rocket, crawley 12/77 - previously available on 'curiosity' mc 1984) (@) 04. I Just Need Myself (psl studio demo 1/78 - previously unreleased song) (@) 05. 10:15 Saturday Night (rs home demo 2/78 - previously unreleased version) 06. The Cocktail Party (group home demo 3/78 - previously unreleased song) (@) 07. Grinding Halt (group home demo 4/78 - previously unreleased version) (@) 08. Boys Don't Cry (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously available on 'curiosity' mc 1984) 09. It's Not You (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously unreleased version) 10. 10:15 Saturday Night (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously unreleased version) 11. Fire In Cairo (chestnut studio demo 5/78 - previously unreleased version) 12. Winter ('tib' studio out-take 10/78 - previously unreleased song) 13. Faded Smiles (aka I Don't Know) ('tib' studio out-take 10/78 - previously unreleased song) 14. Play With Me ('tib' studio out-take 10/78 - previously unreleased song) 15. World War (on early copies of 'boys don't cry' album 1979) 16. Boys Don't Cry (single - also on 'boys don't cry' album 1979) 17. Jumping Someone Else's Train (single - also on 'boys don't cry' album 1979) 18. Subway Song (live in nottingham 10/79 - previously available on 'curiosity' mc 1984) 19. Accuracy (live in nottingham 10/79 - previously unreleased version) 20. 10:15 Saturday Night (live in nottingham 10/79 - previously unreleased version)
the bastards are gonna make me buy their whole fucking back catalogue again aren't they? gah...
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
No 'Plastic Passion' either, come to think of it :-/
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
On the plus side 'though, if I were to buy this, I would finally get to own "World War", after having spent the last 24 years quietly seething with self-righteous wounded indignation about the injustice of having apparently been expected to pay import prices to buy the Boys Don't Cry album, just to get that one track, when I already owned every single other track on the album, several of them more than once.
I may just decide that I'd prefer to carry on sulking about it 'though - I really haven't decided yet.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Saturday, 20 November 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― thin roberta, Saturday, 20 November 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Never say I don't do anything for you, Baaderonixxx:
http://www.siouxsieandthebanshees.co.uk/
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - DOWNSIDE UPB SIDES AND RARITIES - 4 CD BOX SETReleased: 29th November 2004
34 Tracks on CD for the first time including The Thorn EP.76 Page booklet with an introduction by SiouxsieFull track annotation by all 3 band membersFull lyrics for all b-sides printed for the first timeSleevenotes by Mark Paytress
Disc One01: Voices ( 5.33 )02: 20th Century Boy ( 1.58 )03: Pulled To Bits ( 3.24 )04: Mettagiesen ( 4.00 )05: Drop Dead Celebration ( 4.24 )06: Eve White Eve Black ( 3.03 )07: Red Over White ( 4.34 )08: Follow The Sun ( 2.47 )09: Snap Dash Snap ( 3.40 )10: Supernatural Thing ( 4.24 )11: Congo Conga ( 4.13 )12: Coal Mind ( 3.31 )13: We Fall ( 3.38 )14: Cannibal Roses ( 4.29 )15: Obsession Ii ( 3.52 )16: A Sleeping Rain ( 4.18 )17: Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant ( 2.33 )
Disc Two 01: Tattoo ( 3.29 )02: There's A Planet In My Kitchen ( 5.22 ) 03: Let Go ( 3.36 )04: The Humming Wires ( 4.22 )05: I Promise ( 4.38 )06: Throw Them To The Lions ( 4.50 )07: The Execution ( 3.50 )08: The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog ( 4.54 )09: Lullaby ( 3.32 )10: Umbrella ( 4.13 )11: Shooting Sun ( 4.44 )12: Sleepwalking ( On High Wire ) ( 5.10 )13: She Cracked ( 3.07 )14: She's A Cuckoo ( 4.15 )15: Something Blue ( 3.55 )16: The Whole Price Of Blood ( 3.53 )17: Mechanical Eyes ( 3.36 )
Disc Three01: False Face ( 2.51 )02: Catwalk ( 4.57 )03: Something Wicked ( This Way Comes ) ( 4.20 )04: Are You Stil Dying Darling ( 4.44 )05: El Dia De Los Muertos ( 3.38 )06: Sunless ( 4.26 )07: Staring Back ( 3.16 )08: Return ( 5.02 )09: Spiral Twist ( 3.55 )10: Sea Of Light ( 4.35 )11: I Could Be Again ( 4.30 )12: Hothead ( 3.30 )13: B Side Ourselves ( 3.47 )14: Swimming Horses ( 4.41 )15: All Tomorrows Parties ( 6.12 )16: Hang Me High ( 6.05 )17: Black Sun ( 3.10 )
Disc Four - The Thorn E.P. 01: Overground ( 3.52 )02: Voices ( 5.25 )03: Placebo Effect ( 4.36 )04: Red Over White ( 5.43 )
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
(Found this on http://neumu.net/ )
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
if we were trace the Cure's influences, what would they be? the post-punk + krautrock angle seems kinda obvious (Joy Division, etc.) but where did Smith's poppier inclinations come from? I have a hard time imagining what his record collection in the 80s would have consisted of, besides his contemporaries like Siouxsie and Echo & the Bunnymen and whatnot
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude's on the record as saying Mogwai are his current favourite band. This doesn't remotely answer the question (although it possibly explains some of the longer songs on their post-Wild Mood Swings albums)
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Since Mogwai's favourite album after Spiderland is Seventeen Seconds, that isn't that unlikely.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I'm thinking more like from Faith through Disintegration - the gothier stuff has fairly clear antecedents, but where did something like Caterpillar Girl or Close to You or Love Cats or any number of other tunes come from...?
xp
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like in among the dreary atmospherics and gothic clanging Smith always had a very keenly developed sense for pop melodies, but he never sounded like he was drawing from, say, the Beatles.
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Gonna suggest Steve Harley and cackle irreverently to myself
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
c'mon Dan surely you have some thoughts on this
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Nick Drake. Robert Smith got the band's name from the lyrics of "Time Has Told Me" ('a troubled cure / for a troubled mind')
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, my main thought is that the incredibly poppy strain always existed in their music, giving you songs like "Boys Don't Cry", "Jumping Someone Else's Train", "Object", "It's Not You", "Meathook", "Play For Today", "In Your House", "Secrets", "Primary", "Doubt", etc etc etc well before "Let's Go To Bed" appeared. As to where it came from, I don't specifically know, but they did cover Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and David Bowie.
xp: um, given how much Robert lies in interviews and how the band USED to be called Easycure, I don't know that I believe that
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Syd Barrett as well. At least in terms of hair, eyeliner & poppy quirkiness.
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I know the band was called the Easy Cure, but even that is meant in the sense of "the cure for a troubled mind"
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
When Malice's vocalist Martin Creasy quit the band, they took the new name Easy Cure in January 1977 from a song written by Tolhurst.
never mind lol
Barrett! of course. can't believe that didn't occur to me.
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
songs about cats, fairytales, fractured psyches.
duh
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
all of that stuff came from the gormenghast novels though
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
except for the parts that came from Wind in the Willows and Shakespeare, right
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"he never sounded like he was drawing from, say, the Beatles"
Mr Alphabet Says is a good Beatles tribute, surely better than the Dukes of Stratosphear: I'm pretty sure the White Album in particular was a great inspiration for him.
He also cited often Captain Beefheart as an influence and some of the theatrical flair (and the crazy uncle attitude) of Alex Harvey is certainly there.I'm pretty sure is also a big fan of soul and folk music: if I remember correctly he even eulogized Sandy Bull somewhere.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I just clicked on this thread and Ex-Lion Tamer by Wire came on my ipod, which almost certainly has something to do with Just Like Heaven.
― rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
While I know Smith has always downplayed the role punk, er, played, the band (at least in its formative years) always sounded to me like they'd been listening to a lot of, yes, Wire and the Buzzcocks, but arranged their songs in some sort of hushed environs, like a crowded flat with people sleeping or a place with grouchy neighbors, so that everything was sort of muted.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll add also the Only Ones to the Buzzcocks and Wire.Another Girl Another Planet is like the blueprint for many Cure songs.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i just started w/ Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and wau. where do I go next from here? Cure virgin.
― aero w. smith (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Go to one of the singles comps (Standing On A Beach/Staring At The Sea, Galore or Greatest Hits) and investigate albums in order of how appealing you find the singles.
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link