yeah even for a fanatic like me, it's been a bit disappointing. The "Faith" outtakes are interesting, simply for being so different from the actual album and 'The Top' ones are just awesome. KMKMKM are completely useless though. I still haven't bought 'Head on the Door', I'm wondering if I should.
― baaderonixx, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Abree with Bee OK, regarding the sound quality. Which is why I have mostly waited for the one disc version of the remaster to appear. It has usually even been at a discount almost at once.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 25 February 2008 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
so where's the DISINTEGRATION one?? did they forget?
they should get that bob clearmountain guy to remix it like he did with HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE.
― pisces, Friday, 4 April 2008 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link
they've stopped 'em for the time being cos a) bob's too busy not writing the lyrics for his otherwise-recorded new double album b) he's too busy touring Japan and Australia and New Zealand and Mexico and Europe and stuff and c) all he could find for the bonus disc was some really awesome alternative takes and cool remixes from the time and the whole Entreat album, so it's been put off until he digs up some bootlegs recorded on a walkman hidden in a duffle bag at the back of a stadium, and demos of him farting in the bath
― energy flash gordon, Friday, 4 April 2008 06:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Not that you're bitter or anything.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 April 2008 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not really! They were pumping them out way too fast, I'll be happy if it takes a couple of years so I can get around to listening to all the others again and then really be excited for Disintegration.
― energy flash gordon, Friday, 4 April 2008 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I wanna get the Mixed Up remaster
― baaderonixx, Friday, 4 April 2008 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll cut him some slack, but only because I'll be finally seeing them live in May! It seems like I've had these tickets for over a year now, what with the rescheduling.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Gosh...a Disintegration reissue...I'd never even thought of such a thing. *sighs heavily with a dreamy look in his eye*
― Bimble, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
you know, disintegration sounds fine. I don't think they need to reissue it
― akm, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
It sounds perfectly fine. I just want extra tracks plz.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
yes cheap home demos of prayers of rain plz
― baaderonixx, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
plus passed out pix of lol for extra lolz
― baaderonixx, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the extra tracks on the other albums turned out to be kind of a dud for me...the live stuff is nice but yeah, the demos are not the most exciting things. i kind of wish they'd just put the b-sides on these rather than join the dots
― akm, Friday, 4 April 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
The reissues (deluxe editions) would have had more values for me had they put on a lot of b-sides instead of live recordings and demos only.
And, yes, I am aware that those b-sides are available on "Join The Dots", but they would have fit in better put together with the respective albums from the same era.
I still only have burned copies of "Disintegration", "Mixed Up" and "Wish" though - so I am awaiting the reissues rather than buying the current and soon obsolute editions.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 2 May 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I doubt they'll do "Mixed Up" though.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 May 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
No, they're doing that. A post upthread talks about it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 May 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I still only have burned copies of "Disintegration", "Mixed Up" and "Wish" though
U MAD
― stephen, Friday, 2 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/images/desktops/andidas/OMG-Its-Domo-kun.jpg
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 2 May 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Blame it on my brother, who used to be a huge Cure fan. I felt we didn't need to have one original each, but I changed my mind when the remasters started appearing. ;)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 2 May 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I said the same as Geir upthread. The demos are interesting once, maybe twice, but I never replay them.
― akm, Friday, 2 May 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I've gone through two cassettes and one CD of "Disintigration", and I, too, am waiting for the reissue. I haven't listened to it for almost three years now. I guess that's fine, though, because I was WAY burned out on it by the time my CD got wrecked.
Is "Mixed Up" worth getting? I've picked up at least three live albums, three VHS/DVDs, the B-Sides box and most of the reissues, but haven't even given it a thought.
― BigLurks, Friday, 2 May 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
As Dan would say (and will say, and as I would say and will say) -- yes, it is worth getting. This is because there are some absolutely brilliant remixes on that thing.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm, i'd say it's more for the devoted...
― baaderonixx, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I'm not devoted, but I like it.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Mixed Up" is kind of worth it for the version of "A Forest" alone.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
a forest on mixed up is the first time a heard a cure song and noticed it - and i was converted ever since. mixed up will always be my fave - though in the years since I picked up their backcatalogue. i would definitely get a remastered mixed up.
― fantasimundo, Saturday, 3 May 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't listened to it for almost three years now.
oh man! i listened to it last night :)
― stephen, Saturday, 3 May 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I've gone through two cassettes and one CD of "Disintigration", and I, too, am waiting for the reissue.
On this note, anyone know when/if deluxe versions of Disintrgration and Wish are actually scheduled to appear anytime soon? I've been slowly collecting all the reduxes and I'm only one short of the (thus far) full set - but man I want a Disintegration one NOW!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 8 December 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
ned?
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 8 December 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Ya got me.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing on their site
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Monday, 8 December 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
No date yet - I guess it'll depend on whether that rumored "dark companion" album comes out. If not, I'm sure new reissues are ready to be released in 6 months or so
― baaderonixx, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qGNFDCoPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
hah i was more thinking of:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bamako/world/music/tuxedomoon/7_dark.jpg
― baaderonixx, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
My fear kinda extends to a lot of bands thusly, but perhaps the holdup on the Disintegration Deluxe reissues as well as the other four may just be an issue of money -- they can't afford to make them.
It's a bit irrational to think this right now, but the longer these get delayed, it seems the less money will be available to fund the reissues. It seems Bob's attitude is: well, always concentrate on the new stuff first, reissues whatever. Which is fine. I have no idea how well the Cure deluxe reissues have been selling.
― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 8 December 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
This actually crossed my mind as well. I remember when the last Associates/Billy Mackenzie reissues came out a couple of years back, one of the folks working on it via EMI commented that, essentially, it was the last chance for such reissues to be made in remastered CD format, and I can only guess this applies on a wide scale as well. And this was of course before the current economic whatsit.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I seriously doubt that. Reissuing this will be pretty cheap and the Cure have a slighter bigger audience than the Associates. With no promo they'll still manage to sell a pretty respectable amount.I think the delay is more linked to the new album and not wanting to interfere with its schedule. Might as well keep the new batch of reissues for that long 4-year stretch we'll have to endure til the next album
― baaderonixx, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I doubt it too, but that's because I'd be surprised if Disintegration isn't the best-selling album in their back catalog already. So I'd expect a reissue to actually make some money (whereas I wouldn't be shocked if The Top reissue barely covers costs in the short-ish term at least).
― Euler, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, I assume that even the Best Selling Album By A Very Popular Band Released As 2-CD Deluxe isn't guaranteed to be a blockbuster anymore, especially if the cheaper single disc version is available instead.
I hope I can be proven wrong.
― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 8 December 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
That said, I could imagine this and future ones being special deals through their website, so I don't think they'll vanish. But we may not see them in record stores right away like the previous ones.
― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 8 December 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^all this: BOO.
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 8 December 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
wish and disintegration don't really need remastering though, they sound great, and I'm hard pressed to think of bonuses for these that I'd care about that weren't already b-sides.
― akm, Monday, 8 December 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it's demos and live stuff and so forth that i'd like, i guess, rather than remasters - or maybe the kilburn national wish mini-tour show in its entirety!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 8 December 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd really like to hear Disintegration demos actually - just because how grand and over the top the finished article is
― baaderonixx, Monday, 8 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
related news: http://www.nme.com/news/the-cure/42829
art brut doing catch! lovely.
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i suppose i should tell people about my Cure night in London next week...
http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56698728155
do please come along!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Any word on the next batch of reissues? I'm getting antsy to hear them, but doesn't seem like any potential dates have been floated yet.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 April 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
no word, no potential, Bob very probably hasn't even started listening to his old cassettes to pick out the worst tracks yet
― Bostin' Legal (sic), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
WOAHH!
News« Prev 1 of 337 Next »'DISINTEGRATION' COMES OF AGE?!!Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/8/2009'DISINTEGRATION' COMES OF AGE?!!'DISINTEGRATION' COMES OF AGE?!!THE REMASTERED 'DISINTEGRATION' ALBUM (21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION) WILL BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE IN SPRING 2010 ON UNIVERSAL AND RHINOIT WILL BE AVAILABLE AS PART OF A 3CD DELUXE EDITION, AS A SINGLE CD AND ON DOUBLE VINYLTHE 3CD DELUXE EDITION WILL COMPRISE:>CD1 DISINTEGRATION01 PLAINSONG02 PICTURES OF YOU03 CLOSEDOWN04 LOVESONG05 LAST DANCE 06 LULLABY07 FASCINATION STREET08 PRAYERS FOR RAIN09 THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU10 DISINTEGRATION11 HOMESICK12 UNTITLEDCD2 RARITIES (1988 - 1989)ALL PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VERSIONS(* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG)01 PRAYERS FOR RAIN-RS HOME DEMO (instrumental)-04/8802 PICTURES OF YOU-RS HOME DEMO (instrumental)-04/8803 FASCINATION STREET-RS HOME DEMO (instrumental)-04/8804 HOMESICK-BAND REHEARSAL (instrumental)-06/88 05 FEAR OF GHOSTS-BAND REHEARSAL (instrumental)-06/88 06 NOHEART-BAND REHEARSAL (instrumental)-06/88 *07 ESTEN-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/88 *08 CLOSEDOWN-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/8809 LOVESONG-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/8810 2LATE (alt version)-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/8811 THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/8812 DISINTEGRATION-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/8813 UNTITLED (alt version)-STUDIO ROUGH (instrumental)-11/8814 BABBLE (alt version)-STUDIO ROUGH (instrumental)-11/8815 PLAINSONG-STUDIO ROUGH (guide vocal)-11/8816 LAST DANCE-STUDIO ROUGH (guide vocal)-11/8817 LULLABY-STUDIO ROUGH (guide vocal)-11/8818 OUT OF MIND-STUDIO ROUGH (guide vocal)-11/8819 DELIRIOUS NIGHT-ROUGH MIX (vocal)-12/88 *20 PIRATE SHIPS-(RS solo) ROUGH MIX (vocal)-12/89 *CD3 ENTREAT PLUSRECORDED LIVE AT WEMBLEY ARENA 1989REMIXED BY RS 2009(* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PERFORMANCE)01 PLAINSONG *02 PICTURES OF YOU03 CLOSEDOWN04 LOVESONG *05 LAST DANCE06 LULLABY *07 FASCINATION STREET08 PRAYERS FOR RAIN09 THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU *10 DISINTEGRATION11 HOMESICK12 UNTITLED>THE SINGLE CD WILL BE THE 12 TRACK ALBUM, AS WILL THE DOUBLE VINYL...AND IT IS LIKELY A REMASTERED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL 8 TRACK 'ENTREAT' LIVE ALBUM WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE...THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE REMASTERED CURE STUFF IN 2010... INCLUDING MIXED UP 2... THE CURE @ THE BBC BOX SET... IN ORANGE AND SHOW ON DVD... AND...ONWARDS!RSX
Posted by CURE:ROBERT on 10/8/2009'DISINTEGRATION' COMES OF AGE?!!
'DISINTEGRATION' COMES OF AGE?!!
THE REMASTERED 'DISINTEGRATION' ALBUM (21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION) WILL BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE IN SPRING 2010 ON UNIVERSAL AND RHINO
IT WILL BE AVAILABLE AS PART OF A 3CD DELUXE EDITION, AS A SINGLE CD AND ON DOUBLE VINYL
THE 3CD DELUXE EDITION WILL COMPRISE:
>
CD1 DISINTEGRATION
01 PLAINSONG
02 PICTURES OF YOU
03 CLOSEDOWN
04 LOVESONG
05 LAST DANCE
06 LULLABY
07 FASCINATION STREET
08 PRAYERS FOR RAIN
09 THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU
10 DISINTEGRATION
11 HOMESICK
12 UNTITLED
CD2 RARITIES (1988 - 1989)
ALL PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED VERSIONS
(* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG)
01 PRAYERS FOR RAIN
-RS HOME DEMO (instrumental)-04/88
03 FASCINATION STREET
04 HOMESICK
-BAND REHEARSAL (instrumental)-06/88
05 FEAR OF GHOSTS
06 NOHEART
-BAND REHEARSAL (instrumental)-06/88 *
07 ESTEN
-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/88 *
08 CLOSEDOWN
-BAND DEMO (instrumental)-09/88
09 LOVESONG
10 2LATE (alt version)
11 THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU
12 DISINTEGRATION
13 UNTITLED (alt version)
-STUDIO ROUGH (instrumental)-11/88
14 BABBLE (alt version)
15 PLAINSONG
-STUDIO ROUGH (guide vocal)-11/88
16 LAST DANCE
17 LULLABY
18 OUT OF MIND
19 DELIRIOUS NIGHT
-ROUGH MIX (vocal)-12/88 *
20 PIRATE SHIPS
-(RS solo) ROUGH MIX (vocal)-12/89 *
CD3 ENTREAT PLUS
RECORDED LIVE AT WEMBLEY ARENA 1989
REMIXED BY RS 2009
(* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PERFORMANCE)
01 PLAINSONG *
04 LOVESONG *
06 LULLABY *
09 THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU *
THE SINGLE CD WILL BE THE 12 TRACK ALBUM, AS WILL THE DOUBLE VINYL
...AND IT IS LIKELY A REMASTERED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL 8 TRACK 'ENTREAT' LIVE ALBUM WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE...
THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE REMASTERED CURE STUFF IN 2010... INCLUDING MIXED UP 2... THE CURE @ THE BBC BOX SET... IN ORANGE AND SHOW ON DVD... AND...
ONWARDS!
RSX
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link