So, that Wish deluxe edition, then. . . any time you wanna release that there, Rob. Right, then.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
He is busy working on a new album that won't come out, either, even though nobody really wants it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
This thread will be a decade old in November and it probably STILL won't be out.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
I just want Mixed Up reissued in a vinyl box with the actual 12" mixes that matter like Primary added to the rest of the original tracklist.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
The whole reissue campaign started off so well, I hoped we would be able to march right through the catalog and carch up. But then I remembered that this is The Cure.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
took me a while to notice this but "Sadicic" on The Top reiussue is an embryo of "Prayers of Rain"
This becomes even more apparent if you listen to the 'Prayers for Rain' early versions.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
Good catch.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
So yeah I just listened to The Glove for the first time ever.
1. Holy fuck2. Help3. A Blues in Drag and Orgy are like what I always wish electronic film scores sounded like4. This is almost like having another album by my beloved therapy-damaged 80s artpop losers The Fibonaccis5. Certain tracks on this prefigure the sound of The Knife's Silent Shout to an extent I have heard nowhere else, is it just me?6. Yes
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 16 May 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i remember listening to that album for the first time back in the day and it really blew my mind, so good.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 17 May 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
The sound of Robert Smith's guitar on Blue Sunshine is just about one of my favorite things ever.
This is probably the best thing that came out of that project:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTKqod7QKaM
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
So good ! We should poll that album if enough people have heard it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2016/04/kiss-me-vinyl-reissue.html
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-2LP-180-Gram-Vinyl/dp/B00CF8YGRI/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__2?ie=UTF8&qid=1460040064&sr=8-1&keywords=cure+kiss+me+vinyl
roduct Code: WARB-RHI-7451Label/Make: RhinoGenre/Model: RockDescription: 180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP - 2 LPs SealedUPC: 081227967451Release date: May 13th, 2016
― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 May 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link
2LP 180 Gram Vinyl to be released next week. i think i have two copies of the original release and one included a third LP that was orange and had some B-Sides.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 May 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__2?ie=UTF8&qid=1460040064&sr=8-1&keywords=cure+kiss+me+vinyl
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 5 May 2016 08:14 (eight years ago) link
Signs of life!
I'll cut the cryptic crap soon, certainly before Christmas, but wanted to hint a little bit about next year's plans on The Cure project because I am excited! Be great to work with my old chums, as we go so far back. Going to be a bumper year for the 40th anniversary!— Tim Pope (@timpopedirector) December 3, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
Earlier:
Being the kind-hearted person I am, I can confirm one of my upcoming projects next year is with The Cure with whom I have worked since 1981. This will be with the full participation of Robert. Updates when I can, but suffice to say it will be a 40th anniversary project.— Tim Pope (@timpopedirector) December 1, 2017
And holy shit
Flicka flicka flicka. Here you are. Dust my lemon lies. 50 dusty boxes filled with memories. None of it seen before. From the 1970s to present day. Put that in your pipe and smoke it! More soon.— Tim Pope (@timpopedirector) December 3, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
is there still a reissue / expansion of Mixed Up in the works ? that's by far my favorite Cure.
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's what's unclear. If both audio and video could get properly jump-started here...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
hey, maybe the cure can leverage neil young's archive setup for this project! the key is to replicate the actual experience of opening a drawer stuffed with chaotically organized documents
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
Just listened to an interview with Tim Pope on Adam Buxton's podcast the other day. Buxton introduced the podcast with a disclaimer that Tim was not on drugs during the taping and something to the effect of "he is just a very animated man by nature". Disappointingly, they didn't discuss the Cure much, if at all.
― how's life, Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
They need to do Mixed Up with all the 12" mixes (Primary!) and it wouldn't hurt my feelings if they packaged together the B-Sides from the Standing On A Beach Cassette (heck, toss on the 87-90 b-sides too).
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
Just tag your Join The Dots rips that way, I did
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
"hey, maybe the cure can leverage neil young's archive setup for this project! the key is to replicate the actual experience of opening a drawer stuffed with chaotically organized documents"
that is the worst fucking UX I've ever seen on a website
― akm, Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
So many demos and rare bits were floated out on the back of the 2cd reissues, I'm wondering then if this is some sort of visual retrospective
― MaresNest, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
Does read like a visual project.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
something similar to this but hopefully better? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Singles_Collection
― piscesx, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
yeah - probably a box-set repackage of the old VHS compilations + Cure in Orange with added behind the scenes skits
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 4 December 2017 09:07 (six years ago) link
All together now..
"Dow do do, Dow do do .."
― Mark G, Monday, 4 December 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
If The Cure in Orange is part of this, then it's about fucking time!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 4 December 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
I dont really care about videos - give me the Wish remaster and maybe a '40 Imaginary years' book and I'll let them retire quietly
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 4 December 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
There's a ton of really smart early TV performances that I'd like to own in decent quality, foreign TV shows and things like The Tube and the Oxford Roadshow.
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 December 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link
Wow 30 years since Orange, say it isnβt so.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 4 December 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
I used to love the little interstitial bits on the Staring at the Sea VHS some funny shit there
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 December 2017 12:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKOdo_hD9k8
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 December 2017 12:35 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I remember there being a couple of funny bits of studio footage circa Japanese Whispers and The Head on the Door ... and outtakes from the 'Let's Go To Bed' shoot.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 4 December 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
That was the bit I was 'do'ing
― Mark G, Monday, 4 December 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
I love that part where Robert and Lol are sitting for photos and Lol says something like, "I felt terrible earlier, but now I feel wonderful." To which Robert responds, "That's because of all the drugs we took."
And then turns and looks wide eyed straight into the camera and covers his mouth with his hand.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Hah. About half of The Cure's discography is about drinking or doing drugs.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
Footage that surfaced earlier in the year, would buy the shit out of a collection of this type of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_nRxLWQAUI
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
Christ, HOW long ago did I start this thread. ANYWAY:http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2022/07/28/the-cure-wish-reissue-delixe-edition/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
That's pretty awesome. Sometimes I think that they've been dragging their feet with this one because it's the last reissue anyone will be excited about.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
Here it comes!
It looks lovely. The Lost Wishes stuff ought to have been on Join the Dots if there was any room but also their CD debut was always going to be one of the big draws to Wish.
Anyway I've/we've waited years for more instrumental demos - hope some of them are RS and his chintzy home get-up but I guess they'd be marked as such if so.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
You're welcome folks! I did that!
I'd been waiting years for this so I could replace my old cassette and burned CD copies, but I finally gave up and bought a new copy of it three weeks ago so OF COURSE this gets announced now.
Kidding aside, looks great!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
Definitely going to be worth having a non-mastered disc of any Cure album still kicking around.
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
*RE
Sometimes I think that they've been dragging their feet with this one because it's the last reissue anyone will be excited about.
I realize WMS is not going to be high on priority lists -- some excellent live shows from that era, though -- but I do want to see Bloodflowers get the treatment just so at long last there's a properly available version of "Spilt Milk," absolutely one of the greatest songs, and I still don't know why it never made Join the Dots.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
oh i'm actually v curious about what a wms reissue would entail
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
it would be very cool to see some of the full swing tour shows released.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
A few things missing on that reissue: eg unplugged Letter to Elise, live early versions from the secret gig, but yeah this is exciting. Otoh the October release makes me think this was green lit once it became clear that the there would be no new album for the tour.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
"...nine of which are completely unrelaxed songs"
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 28 July 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link