Curiosity Redux Thread

Any news mzui?

Found a CD of a drunken Cure around a hotel piano playing silly versions of some songs but the quality is a bit meh, I might put one track in somewhere as a hidden bonus.

M.

Ah well then, apologies all round, I'll be back at work in 10 days or so then I promise I'll put a lid on this soon after.

This week is hopefully when I finally finish the masters.

I'm nearly done with the tracklist, been waiting for a few upgrades of certain shows which I've managed to get and am really happy with the quality, only the first 26 mins of CD1 is sourced from my tapes and even though it's bootleg quality, I guarantee it's never as bad as Heroin Face!

So, as a taster here is the final, final track list for CD1.

1. Meathook - London 79
2. A.M./In Your House (early version) - Birmingham 79
3. 10:15 Sat Night - Paris 80
4. Another Day - Stockholm 80
5. Primary (yellow/cold colours version) - Rennes 80
6. I'm Cold - Rennes 80
7. Plastic Passion - Amsterdam 80
8. Jumping Someone Else's/Another Journey By Train - Amsterdam 80
9. Fire In Cairo - Werchter 81
10. The Holy Hour - Sydney 81
11. Charlotte Sometimes (early version) - Sydney 81
12. Forever - Sydney 81
13. A Short Term Effect - Paris 82
14. Cold - Paris 82
15. Pornography - Paris 82
16. Lament - Elephant Fayre 83
17. Bananafishbones - s'Hertogenbosch 84
18. Bird Mad Girl - s'Hertogenbosch 84
19. Secrets - Washington 84

Stay tuned for CD's 2/3/4.

it looks absolutely awesome.

how do i get me one? goddamn.

ummm, how are you on "the kiss" tour? I've barely heard any kmkmkm stuff live, but i bet a load of it is phenomenal, especially when amped up in arena/stadium venues.

Fight
Torture
A Japanese Dream
Snakepit

I have been thinking about putting more in, 'Like Cockatoos' or 'If Tonight...' fr'instance.

Maybe we can set up relays for further copies? I'll gladly take care of EU folks.

Disc 2.

1. The Walk - Washington 84
2. The Wailing Wall - Washington 84
3. Happy The Man - Washington 84
4. Caterpillar - Washington 84
5. The Hanging Garden - Ludwigshafen 85
6. Screw - Ludwigshafen 85
7. The Baby Screams - London Camden Palace 85
8. A Night Like This - Glastonbury 86
9. Push - Glastonbury 86
10. A Forest - Glastonbury 86
11. Sinking - Glastonbury 86
12. The Blood - Houston 86
13. Torture - Birmingham 87
14. A Japanese Dream - Birmingham 87
15. Like Cockatoos - Santa Barbara 87
16. How Beautiful You Are - Santa Barbara 87
17. The Perfect Girl - Santa Barbara 87
18. Why Can't I Be You? - Santa Barbara 87
19. It's Not You (acoustic) - Bordeaux 89

I ditched Snakepit cause it's really quite a dull (and long) song live, so apologies to any Snakepit fans.

The Glasto 86 tracks are something else, very atmospheric and the
version of The Hanging Garden is awesomely tribal, can't wait for
you all to hear them.

Next is the Disintegration/Wish era which as we all know is quite well represented by live albums, any thoughts welcome as always.

Disc 3 up next week, after Glasto.

*sniffles*

That aside, ay-yi-yi this looks astoundingly great.

for 89-92 stuff just try and pick versions that are the least similar to the released live versions? interesting variations or jams or tags or fuckups?

Hopefully I can trick someone into copying them for me!!

Tracklists for CD's 3 & 4 coming very soon!

ok, missed this bit, i am officially looking for a kind soul to send one on to me.

if not, i rely on the largess of ilm to provide me with the necessary succour...

:-)

Got it this morning, it's not bad quality at-all, here is the tracklist.

CD1 :

1/Plainsong
2/Open
3/Fascination street
4/Alt.end
5/The blood
6/Shake dog shake
7/A night like this
8/The end of the world
9/Push
10/Just like heaven
11/A letter to elise
12/Lullaby
13/Never enough
14/Us or them
15/From the edge of the deep green sea
16/Signal to noise

CD2 :

17/The baby screams
18/One hundred years
19/End
20/Disintegration
21/At night
22/M
23/Play for today
24/A forest
25/Primary
26/Boys don't cry
27/10:15 saturday night

Actually, what would be totally brilliant would be a ten-minute long version of "Lost" that flowed into a ten-minute long version of "The Kiss".

You've all been mailed, Flowersdie your mail has bounced back so please get in touch, I've added Kephm and Charlie to the list because I am a superstitious fool.

At Night, The Baby Screams & Primary gotcha thanks!

(heh)

I've avoided too much Disintegration/Wish material here, you all have Entreat and Show right? But are we fans of Wrong Number? I've missed off Club America, Mint Car, The 13th could this be a mistake, opinions needed thx.

Dr C
Petrowski
Flowersdie
Fortunate Hazel
Ian Reese Moraine

There's no mad hurry but it would be nice to have the addresses ready.

I'll squeeze a 13th in there too.

:-P

- New album next april 2006 with a new Cure World Tour.

- The album will be produced by Robert himself !! Robert told us that Ross Robinson is a great man and he will be involved in the making of the new album but not as a Producer.

- Robert told us that the new album will have keyboards !! Robert and Porl will play them and at the moment they are not thinking about a new cure member.

- Robert is in contact with Severin and maybe he is going to do a collaboration in the new album but not like a new Cure member.

- Robert is really happy with this new line-up. He thinks it was important to take a "new direction" now.

- About Roger : Robert told us that he is a great musician but maybe he wasn't a part of "The Cure soul" . . . they had differences in the way of working and about the future of The Cure so . . . it was better to continue with this new line up.

(after listening to Robert 's words we could suppose that Robert thinks that Roger is an excellent musician but maybe they are people with great "differences" and minds . . .)

- About Perry : This is different beceause : Robert told us that He and Porl had a drink with Perry in an English pub one week before Benicassim and they still have a great relationship. Robert told us that Perry admires Porl as one of the best guitar players in Great Britain.

After listening to Robert's words we thought that maybe Robert and Porl had been thinking about " Porl's comeback" for a long time . . . we saw that
Porl and Robert are more like band members. They were together all night long ( Jason and Simon were in the backstage area), so we understood that Porl has been always a Cure member even when he left the band. Porl told us that he is always in contact with Robert ... so when Robert is recording a new song or just thinking about the future of The Cure . . . Porl supports Robert. For example : Robert told us that they played " Signal To Noise" because Porl wanted to play this song !! so we tought that it's easy to believe that when Robert was thinking about this song (in 2001),
maybe Porl was helping him.

For this reason we all ( Hispacure members ) thought after the meeting that . . . maybe Robert and Porl have been thinking about Porl's comeback for a long time. "The official news" were that Roger and Perry left the band and after Porl would returnto The Cure . . .

But we think that Robert was unhappy with The Cure line up for different reasons.

Roger : they had different opinions . . .

Perry : maybe Robert wanted Porl in the band again and it was better that Perry left. We think that Perry had been the first guitar during more than a decade ... and if Porl returned it'd become a difficult situation for Perry (even if Perry admires Porl). He would have been a second guitar ... and this is really difficult to accept or understand.

- so Robert told us that he is now really happy with the new line up : full of energy . . .

We also spoke about football !! spanish football : Real Madrid and Valencia !! and he told us that he is still a Queen's Park Rangers' supporter.

I love how they trot out this line as if it's a fresh concept and the Cure's lineup *doesn't* change every ten minutes.

PLEAAAASE!

I love how they trot out this line as if it's a fresh concept and the Cure's lineup *doesn't* change every ten minutes.

The previous line-up had been solid for almost ten years, that's longer than most bands' entire careers.

CD 4 tracklisting in an hour or two.

I still need addresses from:

Dr C
Petrowski
Flowersdie
Fortunate Hazel
Ian Reese Moraine

this seems like a really cool and daunting project btw.

Washington Post Pavillon - 84
Nanako Sun Plaza - 84
'Stained Glass Smile' Various Locations - 85
Glastonbury Festival - 86 (BBC Broadcast)
And the Top Demos...

Disc 1.

1. Meathook - London 79
2. A.M./In Your House (early version) - Birmingham 79
3. 10:15 Sat Night - Paris 80
4. Another Day - Stockholm 80
5. Primary (yellow/cold colours version) - Rennes 80
6. I'm Cold - Rennes 80
7. Plastic Passion - Amsterdam 80
8. Jumping Someone Else's/Another Journey By Train - Amsterdam 80
9. Fire In Cairo - Werchter 81
10. The Holy Hour - Sydney 81
11. Charlotte Sometimes (early version) - Sydney 81
12. Forever - Sydney 81
13. A Short Term Effect - Paris 82
14. Cold - Paris 82
15. Pornography - Paris 82
16. Lament - Elephant Fayre 83
17. Bananafishbones - s'Hertogenbosch 84
18. Bird Mad Girl - s'Hertogenbosch 84
19. Secrets - Washington 84

Disc 2.

1. The Walk - Washington 84
2. The Wailing Wall - Washington 84
3. Happy The Man - Washington 84
4. Caterpillar - Washington 84
5. The Hanging Garden - Ludwigshafen 85
6. Screw - Ludwigshafen 85
7. The Baby Screams - London Camden Palace 85
8. A Night Like This - Glastonbury 86
9. Push - Glastonbury 86
10. A Forest - Glastonbury 86
11. Sinking - Glastonbury 86
12. The Blood - Houston 86
13. Torture - Birmingham 87
14. A Japanese Dream - Birmingham 87
15. Like Cockatoos - Santa Barbara 87
16. How Beautiful You Are - Santa Barbara 87
17. The Perfect Girl - Santa Barbara 87
18. Why Can't I Be You? - Santa Barbara 87
19. It's Not You (acoustic) - Bordeaux 89

Disc 3.

1. Intro/Plainsong - Essen Germany 89
2. Fire In Cairo (acoustic) - Birmingham 89
3. A Strange Day - Glastonbury 90
4. Lullaby - Glastonbury 90
5. Disintegration - Glastonbury 90
6. The Big Hand - London Secret Gig 91
7. Harold & Joe - Jonathan Ross Show London 91
8. Doing The Unstuck - London 92
9. Wendy Time - London 92
10. Friday I'm In Love - London 92
11. Three Imaginary Boys - London 92
12. Want - Manchester 96
13. Trap - Manchester 96
14. Shiver & Shake - Manchester 96
15. Bare - Manchester 96
16. Shake Dog Shake - London 97
17. Wrong Number - London 97

Disc 4.

1. Close To Me - (Live 'Closer Mix' Version) London 97
2. The Last Day Of Summer - Los Angeles 00
3. The Loudest Sound - Mansfield MA 00
4. 39 - Mansfield MA 00
5. Before Three - Everett WA 04
6. Lost - Everett WA
7. The Promise - Imola Italy 04
8. Us Or Them - Imola Italy 04
9. The Lovecats - Coachella Festival 04
10. Hey You - London Barfly 04
11. I Dig You - London Barfly 04
12. I'm A Cult Hero - London Barfly 04
13. A Letter To Elise - Belgium 05
14. The Baby Screams - Belgium 05
15. At Night - Belgium 05
16. 10:15 Saturday Night - Saint Pere 05

71 Tracks of heaven.

There will also be a bonus MP3 CD of the following complete concerts:

1. Olympia Theatre, Paris 1982
2. Washington 1984
3. Hamburg 1985
4. London Olympia 1992
5. Belgium, Grote Kaal 2005
6. Hotel Konrad Sessions (drunken, apres show pissing about on a piano singing cure songs, good fun)

And, if I get my act together (and I'm not promising I will) a DVD of pre 86 live material.

So, I just have to mail the final tracklisting to Josh for the artwork and get the dupes ready, I still need those addresses so if anybody knows the people who still haven't gotten in contact (upthread a bit), please give them a nudge for me or else they will miss out as I only intend to make 15.

And thanks to you all for yer patience, it is much appreciated...

GOD AMONGST MEN RIGHT HERE

I WAS AT THIS SHOW

(you can put an MP3 of the dodgy 13th on the MP3 disc!)

(and btw that Sydney "Forever" is offishully called "Three")

I still need postal addresses for:

Ian Reese Moraine
Flowersdie
Dr C
Petrowski

If anyone knows these people, can you give them a nudge from me.

Here is the DVD tracklist in-case yr interested..

1. French TV - Paris 16/11/79 Killing An Arab
2. Top Of The Pops - 1980 Primary
3. Amsterdam 1980 - Jumping/Another/Grinding Halt
4. Werchter Festival 7/81 - Fire In Cairo/Play For Today/A Forest
5. USA TV 17/10/81 - Three Imaginary Boys
6. AlabamaHalle Munich 1984 - Shake Dog Shake/Primary/Piggy In The Mirror/100 Years/Bananafishbones/Pornography
7. UK TV Old Grey Whistle Test 1985 - Interview/In Between Days/Close To Me/A Forest
8. Spanish TV 1985 - Charlotte Sometimes/Three Imaginary Boys
9. Rokskilde Festival 6/85 - 100 Years/Give Me It/A Forest
10. French TV 12/6/87 - Why Can't I Be You?

Hang in there, I'm nearly done.

Back from NYC, all is good, I've started the packages, done the cd dupes, just waiting for a good moment to slip down to the expo shop and get the covers printed and cut.
-- mzui (mzu...), December 10th, 2005. (later)

:-D

(mzui, you still got my details?)

so mzui, how's it all going?

l-r: lurker, Ned, Und.

*mock-faints with exhaustion*

Kudos to K1T for sending me a mint quality copy of the Sydney Faith tour recording, and especially to Josh for the fantastic artwork, they make a very handsome set, so much so that I think when I print the next batch of covers I'll do it in better qualty paper...

I mentioned upthread that I'm considering a New Order '80-'89 2 CD set, so get thinking about tracks peeps.

Email my gmail (removing the cunning spam filter) with address details.

I'm doing copies for a couple of friends and I'm happy to do a few more if anyone wants to email me.

Could you possibly YSI the artwork?

:-D :-D

More later.

I will happily volunteer to help burn copies for folks here in the States, but to avoid doing it forever I'll limit it to the first five folks who respond *and* who are willing to post here saying they'll burn copies for five more, etc. Write me at my e-mail below and be prepared to send five CDRs -- I have no DVD burning capability at present, regrettably, so that will have to be set aside in this tree.

http://www.afoolisharrangement.com/Cure/pictures/CultHero/cultherolive030504_001.jpg

Also really nice to see the visuals that go with the "Fuck Robert Palmer!" take of "A Forest" (the Rock Werther 1981 version) and a six song set from the 1984 era band, just to see Andy Anderson on drums (as well as the bizarro bop 'yeah I'm getting into it!' take on bass courtesy of Mr. Thornalley).

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39PO1W4JSGXZC1EMCOA0P6R1JD

New email address is:- splintereinherhead2003@yahoo.com

It's also not too late for those who have missed this thead but the door is closing. E-mail me if interested...

The DVD would have to travel separately from the audio tracks on most or all torrent sites, but I guess they could be cross-referenced or something.

BTW, the DVD kicks ass, we really need a part two to that because it’s so great and also really only goes through The Top era with only a couple of songs past that point.

Regardless BIG props to Mzui for this amazing collection! Thanks also to ILM for contributing the songs to this collection as it’s something special.

I will try and get this off to everyone today but most likely tomorrow. The thing is I have burned an extra set. So the reason for bumping this thread is to ask if anyone wants it? If so e-mail me at the address below and we will go from there.

Whoa, weird. (Am about to give another copy to a friend of mine around here, rah. Thanks again, BeeOK!)

OH COME ON ORIGINAL LIST PEOPLE AND ACTUAL CONTRIBUTORS FIRST PLEEEEASE

Yes, but it would be nice if Ned and Bee could have held off on making copies for non-contributing people until the original list had gotten theirs.

If there is anything I can do to help get this out to people e-mail me at the address below so we can work out something, if there is still a problem.

! :-(