A thread for the Cure reissues

If I were to buy one of the three albums first, I'd go for Seventeen Seconds simply because it's, umm, my favourite Cure album; but the extras don't look all that. Details please, and a compare-and-contrast would also be handy!

concluding remarks: Carnage Visors

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I've been enjoying all the liner note info with stuff I'd either missed or never knew, such as that info. For instance, Smith says the reason why "The Final Sound" segues into "A Forest" that way is because while it was supposed to be a long instrumental, the tape ran out and Mike Hedges didn't tell them that because they were on such a tight budget they couldn't afford an extra one! Sounds great of course, I love happy accidents.

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if that's the actual poster, it's rub.

it seems to me that the big ilm cure heads really dig these so far...i still have to ask, are the liner notes, remastering, and extra material really worth it?

i have to say that i am glad they are digipaks.

Nope -- they've said since the start that Join the Dots would not be replicated on the reissues and so far that's true. I am wondering how they'll handle the Japanese Whispers tracks, though.

I should also note (assuming it hasn't been already) if it hasn't been already that the live version of "Faith" on the second disc of that album is in fact the one from the 12" of "Charlotte Sometimes," which wasn't on JtD and so finally has resurfaced.

DESPATCHED AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH! I NEED TO SEE "DELIVERED"!

One consolation, the Stereolab box is aces.

Seems fairly obvious that they wouldn't bother doing a Japanese Whispers reissue (it being effectively a singles compilation anyway). I dare say either the three A-sides will be on the Top's second disc, or they'll get orphaned like Killing An Arab (to later be compiled on the Cure's Sensational Sixth Semi-Redundant Singles Comp!)

Sorta my thought. We'll see. There is also that Glove reissue as well...

Wow. I really need to get some sleep.

As for the liner notes, there are some serious holes indeed. No explanation on Carnage Visors or Airlock. Nothing said about that last demo on Pornography (ie. the let's go to bed skeleton), which was recorded AFTER the album, so probably around the time of Lament. Background info would have been nice.

Yeah, Faith sounds ridiculously great -- not that it didn't already, but jeez, just everything now, down to the texture of the keyboards on "The Holy Hour" and "The Funeral Party" and the way the drums sound on "All Cats are Grey" and... "Primary" now has this weird fluid grace in the bass that somehow I had never caught or felt before.

Have yet to listen to the extras for that one. But that will happen shortly.

But I was dumbstruck at just HOW HORRIBLE A DRUMMER LOL IS. It's like hearing a child barely competent...I still love the records and will forever but jeez...worst drummer ever.

I dont think his playing takes away from the songs...I just was amazed by it, in a: how come I did'nt notice this before.

Did he play drums on Porn. it sounds like a mixture of him and machines or overdubs, because it sounds vastly improved. Maybe he got beter?!?!

Boris on the other hand...AMAZING!

I like JAson a fair amount, too, but oftentimes he's a little too busy; Boris had a great knack for knowing when to stop embellishing.

In the liners for Pornography, Robert sez they invited Phil Thornalley in to coproduce because of his work on the Psychedelic Furs' Talk Talk Talk, specifically the drum sounds, so that might have something to do with it too...

* Solo home demo of "Doubt" -- *much* slower pace, just guitar and beatbox, no vocals, really enjoyable.

* "Drowning" -- you can sorta sense "The Drowning Man" trying to emerge from this, but it's still different enough, contemplative, almost more like a variant on Carnage's arrangement.