The Cure boxset "Join the Dots", the tracklisting is here!!!!!

Chris, I have a 2nd gen monitor mix of All Cats Are Grey sneaked onto quarter inch during a break in recording by a tape-op, it's not a million miles different from the original but enough as to be of interest (tom placement, sfx at start and end louder) I could dig it out if yr interested.

(They stopped by yesterday, them UPS people, but when I was out and they need a signature dammit. So TODAY since I signed the slip. Grr.)

Those Elvis Costello re-issues should be a yardstick for bonus beats, Get Happy! Just amazing!

What could we see beyond:

TIB: All the extraneous material from the 1st wave that wound up on BDC, maybe even "See the Children"? haha. I wouldn't be surprised if Smith relegates "Object" to disc 2...
17 Seconds: peel sessions, live tracks - the demos wouldn't be that good, I would think they'd go for live stuff, the 17 tour was their first big one, some of their best shows. Prospect Hill!
Faith: Carnage Visors, demos, unreleased tracks (back in the late 80s, a collector told me there were four or five songs from these sessions no one has ever heard - can you verify?), peel sessions
Pornography: peel/jensen sessions ("Ariel"), demos, AIHTDIKH.

As for live stuff, well I said it before but there should be proper releases of IMO:

Lille 81
Arnheim 80
Herford 80
Werchter 81
Zomerpop/Jaapeden Halle. Shortish, Dutch Radio Broadcasts 81
Paris 82
Japan or Washington 84

And thats just for starters, never mind all those BBC live concerts!

Wasn't Prospect Hill an audience jobbie?

However, i'm saddened to admit that I have no idea what that acronym stands for - care to share?

anyone got any live KMKMKM-era boots? I'd love a whole gig...

KMKMKM boots are terrible, I regret to inform you. Most of the ones I've heard are soundboards from American dates, and Boris was playing a heavily electronic kit. Sounds like a Yamaha RX-7 through a Boss pedal, really dead and flat. The most widely available KMKMKM boot is Santa Barbara CA.

"All Mine" is just Smith wanking on guitar, as he was wont to do before anthems ("Disintegration" during the prayer tour, he always does it before "Three Imaginary Boys"). "Forever" was a more structured, mounting improvisation based around a frankly boring riff that built to crescendo. It dates from The Top tour as far as I know, it was another way to get Porl's sax in there. They did it with Shellyan Orphan in 1989 at their supposed "Last American show ever - we mean it!", and it was pretty awful. Cure: not a jam band.

i rented the trilogy dvd and made it about halfway through the disintegration set before having to turn it off. :(

You missed hearing the versions of "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and "The Kiss" at the end = your loss.

A quick google search revealed nothing to me.

Also, "SPLINTERED IN HER HEAD" OMG WTF AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*"Harold and Joe" starts*

Oh, that too.

I think if my wife woke me up in the middle of the night and shouted "SHAPE IS STILL ASLEEP WITH THE TOYS" at me, I Would simultaneously shit myself and have a gigantic screaming orgasm.

re. Dots, for the moment, I've been most impressed by Speak My Language, which I've never really cared about. It has an actual groove now! I've only listened to the 1st disc on my actual stereo (ie. while the rest I've encoded and played on the CPU).

($39.99 at Newbury Comics, BTW.)

The thing that's amazing me is how much I love the instrumental to "Breathe" because I've never really liked that song. I'm still not convinced by the vocal, though.

Also, "Hey You!!!" is flat-out wonderful.

and ben, thanks for the tip about crow's nest (kinda sad that they are going out of business). join the dots was sold out though. everything $18.98 and lower is on sale for $10.99 so i did manage to walk out of there with a lot of music!