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

The Tiananmen "Faith" is just so over the top, I seriously can't listen to it. But I had that Hot Hot Hot boot too, great sound quality.

Demos of all of the albums would be great, actually. I want "Two People" on CD.

You guys are mental.

i had no idea these remasters were coming out. i assume that carnage visors will be on the remaster of faith, which will be nice as i want to replace my tapes already!

Crystal Palace Bowl, when they debuted Never Enough, it sounded awesome. I have the bootleg somewhere, come to think of it. And each remaster should def. have a live version of "A Forest" from that year.

Argh my fuckin' head's going to explode! You mean having lovingly collected all the albums on CD over eight years (Seventeen Seconds was the very first CD I ever bought - and I've just realised I made sure it was, just so I could say so in situations such as this), specifically bought the big empty black Wish-era box to put them all in, and now THE FUCKERS ARE GOING TO MAKE ME BUY THEM ALL AGAIN?

Where will it all end, I ask you? Did that sign say "Hell"? And what are we doing in this handcart? etc.

"Never Enough" is fantastic, of course - my copy's especially cool, since Simon Gallup gave it to me (my mate Higgy's mum used to walk her dog with Simon's wife, FACT!). "Harold & Joe"...mmm...

Anyone going to the London show in December?

Oh, and I've just realised why Hot hot Heat are so named...d'oh.

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I am stoked at the prospect of 2 CD remastered versions coming out this year, there is a lot of unreleased stuff out there that is worth hearing. Also they should get some kind of Dick's Picks (Ned's Picks?) thing happening, especially some of those foreign radio broadcasts from 80-82 Werchter/Lille/Hertford etc: They had an a great sound back then.

check www.skippyscage.com/mzui if anyone wants to trade some early Cure.

I WOULD HAPPILY TRAWL THROUGH THE ARCHIVES OF THAT. Um, please.

My box set is on order at my Fave Local Record Store, and I will be picking it up this Friday.

I read this whole post but maybe i missed this: anybody know if there’ll be duplication between the box and the future supplemental discs.

Mmmm.

"A Japanese Dream" sounds as shitty and thin as it did from day one and I'm convinced they mastered all of the KMKMKM B-sides from a virgin vinyl copy, there's shitloads of clipping in the left track on most of them and they sound way too high in the 8KHz range. I have CD-R boots with the "New Mix" of "Icing Sugar" that sound better than the one on here. The 12" remix of "A Japanese Dream" is so many light years better it's ridiculous. Why even acknowledge this bullshit single-length take, it has no space, no bass, no pulse, nothing compared to the extended mix. The real treausres on this set are Clearmountain's dubious single-prep mix of "How Beautiful You Are" and "To The Sky" (apparently this settles that the superior "Resurrection" mix from the early 90s Unplugged boot Acoustic Daze is a pure bootleg mix?).

Disintegration remaster is going to sound amazing: "Babble", "Fear of Ghosts" and particularly "Out of Mind" are so much fuller - the track depth and clarity in comparison to the original mixes is unreal, it's like new songs. "2 Late" still sounds as dry and distant from the album as it did on the "Lovesong" single. Still most everyone's favorite b-side, a lot of folks' favorite Cure song. Too Smiths/REM for me.

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.

Hah yeah the Walk remix used to be my testing-new-audio-equipement favorite. Hmm, I'm gonna have to give the 'IBD' remix another spin but I rememeber hating that "synth burble" and the pitch shift used to make me sea-sick.

I just got this and I must say I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's interesting to see what slipped through the cracks for me, cause I would have thought myself pretty familiar with everything up through Disintegration. Like, I can't understand why I saw that Half An Octopus 10"/Quadpus 12" thing so many damn times in stores and yet it never occured to me to buy it. I guess I didn't understand there was a track on there I hadn't got elsewhere. Or maybe I didn't think it would be worth the money. I really don't know.

Also a grand surprise are the Catch b-sides (I swear to god I never even saw that 12" in stores, for real - I looked up the sleeve online and it rings zero bells for me) and the Just Like Heaven 12" b-sides. I don't recall ever owning that 12" either, but I'm not sure why.

That flexi version of Lament is um...nothing to get excited about, though...;)

"To The Sky" leaves me weak at the knees. That might just be the best thing here.

I am amazed that they managed to turn the Doors' "Hello, I Love You" into a fantastic goth song. It's cool that it's mostly instrumental, too.

By that I mean the "unreleased psychedelic mix", not the other one. The other one is not goth.

Wait - I resurrected a Cure thread on ILM and no one responded??

HA! What a laugh.

Most of the Kiss Me b-sides are pretty great. I like them more than the album, in fact. When I bought it, it came with a bonus orange LP with all the b-sides and that's the one I always played.

Can anyone confirm if there is indeed an audible amount of clipping/distortion/etc. on the version of 'A Chain of Flowers' on disc 2?

I just bought a new set of speakers and it's driving me mad trying to figure out if its the speakers or the cd!!

Cheers!

Yeah, it clips... around 2:24, 3:08, other places too.

Cool, thanks.

The problems I'm having are with the guitar lines in the intro souding really shrill and distorted.

Clearmountain mix of How Beautiful You Are; amazing! wasn't there some story that Clearmountain was hired to remix the whole KMKMKM album by the Cure's manager? i know he did all the singles too.