A thread for the Cure reissues

you want catalogue continuity??!! with thisl band?!

i do kind of hate that all the bsides are on that box set and not with the albums but what can you do. digital stuff has made this somewhat irrelevant now

yeah

Because of the Wish reissue, a complete version of the well-known XFM radio live performance from Kilburn '92 has popped up, it's the best-quality copy I've heard and a great listen. So if anyone wants it.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/nzs2l6byftmayxktywej7/h?dl=0&rlkey=be5890ocywveuo1iw4u6gtlno

oooh, thanks for the upgrade

^ some background on the venue and what happened after it closed (john fashanu! religion! indecent assault!) : http://kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2016/01/kilburn-national-club.html

While we are sharing stuff, here is a link to an AI digitally upscaled copy of the otherwise OOP "Show" film:

https://www. mediafire .com/file/zdm6goof107ji1d/The_Cure_-_Show_%25281992%2529.zip/file

(Obviously delete the spaces around "mediafire")

Hmm, that Show file seems janky. I can download it but I can't unzip it or use Stuffit Expander on it.

I had trouble the first couple of times/apps, but my Mac opened it with iirc Unarchiver. No idea what caused the problem, but the movie inside works fine.

Yup, that did it, thanks!

I do highly recommend people get this because while the main body of the show itself was released as the Show album (either in the 2 CD version elsewhere or the album plus EP version here in the US), all those releases left off the encore numbers, and the audiovisual hit of "To Wish Impossible Things" in particular from this show is transcendent.

I've been spinning the Wish reissue for the last few days. Lots to dive into! Loving this so far.

Cool, thanks for that! The last time I saw Show was on a wobbly 2nd-generation VHS, so this is quite an improvement.

Dang, the holidays are starting early. Thanks!

I saw Show at the cinema (having seen the actual Wish tour twice) and thought it was remarkably dull.

nothing beats the real thing.

sidebar: was a smidge disappointed there was nothing in the way of a _tape (demo)_ on the new deluxe edition. it's so great, but (still!) unavailable on streaming.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/robert-smith-talked-wish-for-its-30th-anniversary-on-tims-twitter-listening-party/

To celebrate Wish's 30th anniversary and plug the reissue, frontman Robert Smith -- whose Caps Lock key on his laptop has been stuck for years -- stopped by Tim's Twitter Listening Party to offer up a very entertaining track-by-track look back at the album. You can replay the whole thing over at the Listening Party site, but here are some highlights.

"MAKING THIS ALBUM I USED TO GET GOING AROUND 4PM… LISTEN TO THE PREVIOUS DAYS THING… CYCLE TO THE LOCAL PUB… CYCLE BACK… FAFF ABOUT… EAT… THEN GO FOR IT!," Robert said. "ME AND SIMON AND PERRY (AND OF COURSE DAVE AND STEVE) WERE THERE FOR THE DURATION… BORIS AND PORL WOULD FREQUENTLY TAKE TIME AWAY… WE DEMO’D EVERYTHING AS A BAND, BUT WE RECORDED THIS WISH ALBUM IN DIFFERENT WAYS. USUALLY BORIS AND SIMON AND ME WOULD PUT DOWN A BACKING TRACK - ONCE WE WERE HAPPY WITH A TAKE (THIS WAS RECORDED TO TAPE REMEMBER - NO CUTTING AND PASTING BACK THEN!) ME AND SIMON AND PERRY WOULD OVERDUB ‘OTHER BITS’. THEN PORL WOULD ADD HIS THING - THEN I WOULD SING - AND THEN ME AND BORIS WOULD ADD SOME FINAL BITS OF ‘THE WEIRD STUFF’… USUALLY PERCUSSION! BREAKFAST AND BED AROUND 7AM…" Robert then added, "I STILL KEEP THESE HOURS! BUT I DO CYCLE TO THE PUB FAR LESS OFTEN."

He really is a vampire.

I for one would love to see photos of RS cycling to the pub back in 1991.

the NME cover feature at the time saw Robert explain that his High video look was the result of repeatedly getting his usual hair caught in overhanging branches and thus being pulled off his bike when cycling back to the studio.

Sounds like a Cure video

Watching this now. I don't know why I can't ever seem to remember that the Cure are a psychedelic rock band — I mean, there are three guitarists onstage! And when I saw them on the Bloodflowers tour there were a (to me) shocking number of extended, almost Hendrixian guitar solos. And I mean I don't even hate Smith's voice. One of these days I'm going to have to really dive in.

It's worth it, they're a pretty neat band. And the psychedelic element pops up pretty early in their career, too.

Yeah it's very much a throughline -- like, he's not the ONLY guy who found a way to further explore the spaces that Hendrix opened up of course but he's easily one of the most strongest and most distinct; you can actually tell his guitar tone from a mile off in a lot of cases. By translating that into a time and a presentation that wasn't just trying to clone 1967, or simply redo the sonic and songwriting tropes, he synthesized a distinct aesthetic and approach.

Didn't they get comparisons in the press to Pink Floyd back around 17 Seconds/Faith? I never understood that.

Maybe because they were slow?

(fwiw, along with alcohol, weren't the Cure really into taking acid?)

I think acid had a big part in their output, yes.

From what I recall reading starting around "Pornography" to ???

I'm amazed Smith isn't in rehab. Guess he found a way to moderate.

He and Bernard Sumner have that in common at any rate.

Drinking a ton and taking loads of LSD (and other drugs) doesn't necessarily imply a substance abuse problem requiring rehab?

Of course not. Given the noted public breakdowns of their peers, though, it's surprised me how well these two have lingered.

The Cure always seemed to have a marked lack of scandal and newsworthy antics, which I guess is supported by these bike-riding anecdotes I'm seeing this morning... I guess there's that photo in Ten Imaginary Years where you can see lines of coke on a mirror

cycling is The Cure:

Simon Gallup was interviewed in SingleTrack magazine - https://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2019/04/stw-2019-04-23-DSF5938.jpg
https://singletrackworld.com/2018/11/singletrack-magazine-issue-121-simon-gallup-there-is-no-cure/

Jason Cooper did a fundraiser for the British Heart Foundation earlier this year: https://images.jg-cdn.com/image/cb26d615-f163-421f-8a0b-351816fa8ac0.jpg
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jason-cooper25

i certainly used to take lots of acid and listen to the cure.

This was the last Cure album i bought

https://imgur.com/7b47da61-e4ac-4b5c-b382-9f6a94bdcb27

https://i.imgur.com/UusBhG2.png

excellent.

His face looks like that because of all the acid, you see.

the exploding boy!

speaking of his hair when are we going to see Cocteau Twins reissues with bonus treasures!?

"Wish" was never a favorite, except for FMTEOTDGS, but this remaster is giving me a new appreciation for most of the rest. The bonus stuff is pretty solid as well. Love the weird remix of High with the sequenced harpsichord.

xp They've already reissued the CT albums, remastered by Robin "cocaine ears" Guthrie to add brickwall compression to their galaxy of sonic disasters.

The Cure have today shared an upgraded, extended HD version of Play Out, their 1991 behind-the-scenes their documentary.

Directed by Peter Fowler, Play Out follows The Cure across a handful of vastly different, yet equally important performances. From debuting future hits at small-scale English clubs to a headlining set at Wembley Arena and a coveted spot on MTV Unplugged, the expanded version of the documentary offers an even closer look at how one of history’s most influential goth-rock bands came to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9A7BG7omKY

Someone on YouTube was nice enough to break it all down:

Tracklisting and time codes:

T&C II Club London - 17th January 1991
Behind The Scenes 0:14
Wendy Time 1:25
The Big Hand 7:13
Away (Cut) 11:58
Let's Go To Bed 16:51
A Strange Day 20:15
10.15 Saturday Night 24:17
Killing An Arab 28:28

Wembley Arena - London - The Great British Music Weekend - 19th January 1991
Behind The Scenes 32:09
Pictures Of You 39:41
Fascination Street 47:19
Lullaby 52:24
A Forest 56:40
Backstage At The Wembley Arena 1:06:49

Jonathan Ross Show - 23rd January 1991
Rehearsals ("Hello I Love You", "Just Like Heaven", "The Walk", "Bland with an Edge") 1:10:17
Harold And Joe 1:13:28

E - Zee Hire Rehearsal Studio - London - 22nd January 1991
The Blood 1:17:35
The Walk 1:22:50

MTV - "Unplugged" - 24th January 1991
Backstage At The MTV Studios 1:26:27
Just Like Heaven 1:39:12
A Letter To Elise 1:43:40
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 1:48:23
Boys Don't Cry 1:51:56

Dominion Theatre - London - 9th February 1991
Rehearsals For "The Brit Awards" 1:55:07

London - 10th February 1991
At The Fiction Office 2:00:13
Backstage At The Dominion Theatre 2:03:57
Never Enough 2:06:18
"The Brit Awards" Presentation By Roger Daltrey 2:10:40

Ah, so great. Will be downloading that for sure.

feels great to be a cure fan rn

put out the new record before i die robert!

it's raining cure videos this week

Oh man I watched that soooo many times back in 91-92. It aired on ppv in the States under a different name and somehow my parents let me buy it.