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Be careful when hitting your sac.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

It will be buffered by my large stash of Propaganda magazines. *puffs on cloves cigarette from behind the neck*

― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Pfft. Amateur. Smoke it through your black lipstick-lined tracheatomy hole next time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose that's one way to prevent the tar from affecting the larynx...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'd like to purchase all 4 tomorrow, but i don't think i can spend that much money right now. i might pick up the glove or THOTD.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

The demos on the second disc with Robert singing are entertaining as shit. They're of a much higher quality that the home demos on the first four, though they still sound like demos - the drum machine is way high in the mix and Robert's not trying too too hard. But still... miles above some of the shite on the first batch. Haven't made it to the outtakes yet, but this bodes well for round two's demos... better equipment I imagine.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Gah!

It's not immediately apparent that I'm talking about the Glove reissue. Haven't heard the others yet.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Already, got all four.

Now i want those Disintegration, Wish, Wild Mood Swings, and Bloodflowers reissues now dammit... sigh, they're probably going to make us wait until December... of 2007.

― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

maybe in the gap we can get CURIOSITY REDUX AAARRRGGH

― kit (kit brash), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

The hard-core lithium test will be to see who'll be getting the deluxe wild mood swings...

― Das Spiel ist aus für Baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

*impatiently tapping fingers on desk, waiting for the post to deliver all of them, which I pre-ordered...*

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

they should redo the cover art for the bloodflowers reissue, I might like it better.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

THE GLOVE BONUS DISC IS SO FUCKING AWESOME OMG

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

*cries*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I got all four sets this AM. It's sort of overwhelming. Overwhelmingly awesome... Did Head On The Door before lunch, just finishing The Top now. Saving the rest for tomorrow.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't believe the local Best Buy doesn't have these at all. I'm going to see for myself tonight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

According to the guy I talked to at my second Best Buy of the day, they aren't even planning on ordering them. None of the Chicago area stores even had them on the radar.

Finally found them at Border's.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Even the mall Wherehouse Music down here in the ass-end of Alabama had all four, even the Glove album.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't been able to find any either. weeeeeird.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE ALL FOUR OF THEM NYAH NYAH

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

And fuck you too. Actually I did swing by my Best Buy tonight and their lying website aside, they DID have what I most specifically wanted, the Glove and The Top, so all is well. Tomorrow I'll get Kiss Me from the UCI-area store and order Head on the Door through them, so all is well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

All is DOUBLY well, even.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

You want to hold me closer
And secretly entice
You take the size of shadowed men
And punish me with kisses every night

I do love this band. (And this side project.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Amoeba here I come, will have these by saturday. I'm so excited.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

One more week to wait for us ol' Europeans...

― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Thursday, 10 August 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, had "Push" been the instrumental demo version instead of what it ended up being, I would have liked it.

Also how awesome is "Innsbruck"?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. (That's the one I don't have yet -- just snagged Kiss Me, though. Will get my copy of Head on the Door on Tuesday.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Is the title track from The Top still as creepily awesome as I remember it?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

You tell us.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Does this mean I have to go out and buy all the re-issues too? *sigh* Very well.

(I'm assuming yes, right?)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

the demos and live tracks on this round are a bit dull, I'm sorry to say (didn't get the Glove though). but the albums do sound better, especially head on the door; and it's great to have Hey You!!! back.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i was only going to get the top at work last night, but i ended up buying all three of the new cure ones. atavistic teenage impulse.

because i'm awesome, the first thing i did was tear open the head on the door and play the push demo.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

The HOTD demos are fucking awesome!!!! Also Blue Sunshine pwns everything.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

And of course I'm already impatient for the next batch. (I figure Disintegration, Mixed Up and Wish, which would leave Wild Mood Swings and Bloodflowers to polish it off.)

Also Blue Sunshine pwns everything.

Yes indeed, yes yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

my logic was unassailable... i couldn't decide between the top and head on the door, so i bought all three.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt they'll do Mixed up, it'll probably be Disintegration, Wish, WMS, and Bloodflowers, no?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

and there is going to be some other kind of hits package, right? because otherwise Killing an Arab still vanishes into the wasteland

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt they'll do Mixed up

Are you nuts? They will so too do it, not least because there are plenty of other of uncollected remixes floating around. Plus, the extended version of "Never Enough."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

They didn't put "Primary (Red Mix)" on Join The Dots, right? Or "Let's Go To Bed (Milk Mix)"?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

they didn't do Japanese Whispers, so I'm gonna be pissed if lousy Mixed Up gets this remaster treatment and I have to buy shitty old comps for the miscellaneous and conspicuously absent songs like The Walk and Killing an Arab

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

They didn't put "Primary (Red Mix)" on Join The Dots, right? Or "Let's Go To Bed (Milk Mix)"?

Neither nor. There's also at least one alternate 12" mix from the Faith/Pornography days that was never collected, as well as the myriad of mixes from Wish onward, only some of which are on Join the Dots.

I'm gonna be pissed if lousy Mixed Up gets this remaster treatment and I have to buy shitty old comps for the miscellaneous and conspicuously absent songs like The Walk and Killing an Arab

The Greatest Hits comp which has the Japanese Whispers stuff on it is only a couple of years old. As for "Killing an Arab," it's almost like I don't ever need to hear it again, frankly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

i think they're planning to release a 2-CD killing an arab set with the original song and 37 alternate mixes, demos and live versions.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

good

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

So how many times have you bought these albums, now that you're getting the reissues? This will be my 2nd Blue Sunshine (vinyl + remaster), my 3rd Top (cassette, CD, remaster), 3rd Head On The Door (cassette, CD, remaster), and 4th Kiss Me (2 cassettes, CD, remaster)!!!

I think I'm gonna buy Kiss Me first, I've lost the CD a long time ago and was waiting for the reissues to buy it again. I don't think I can wait too long to get Blue Sunshine either, the bonus disc looks too good to be true!

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

second time for all of them except for the Top which I had on vinyl, so, third.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Second for all of them -- I only ever owned them on CD. (I actually ripped and sold them all back around when Join the Dots came out as incentive -- and interestingly I never felt the need to listen to the mp3s again, just been content to wait. So I gave the mp3 discs I made to a student worker of mine who wanted to know more about 'em.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised Ned! I thought you'd been listening to The Cure since way before CD's were available!

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, when DID I first hear about the Cure? It actually would have been 10th or 11th grade -- 1986 or so. We read The Stranger in class, and someone said, "Hey, you know, there's this song..." I remember "Just Like Heaven" being all over the radio in 1987, but I didn't start picking up their stuff until Disintegration came out -- then I was off to the races.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

My first Cure album was Pornography, which my father played to me in the car aged about 7 or 8. It was alongside XTC's Nonsuch and Pink Floyd's Ummagumma my initiation into popular music, and at the time I was entranced by the rhythm, melody and sheer cavernous sound of the whole thing. Its 'doom' and even 'unlistenability' never even registered; this was pop music as I knew it (and still do). One of the most important features of my musical upbringing, it still does the business today, albeit with its significance brought into sharper focus, although lines like 'the old man cracks with age' and 'I could lose myself in Chinese art and American girls' and 'Into the room, is it always like this?' and 'Static white sound' held a strongly poetic and wonderful meaning even way back when. It doesn't make me depressed, it makes me think 'Awesome!', like all the best albums do.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

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