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Sootickle 1039 posts |
May 06, 2005, 23:38
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keith a 9574 posts |
May 08, 2005, 19:09
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In case you don't susbcribe, here's the Red Sun had to say about them on their newsletter... 17 Seconds first... Disc: 1 01. A Reflection 02. Play For Today 03. Secrets 04. In Your House 05. Three 06. The Final Sound 07. A Forest 08. M 09. At Night 10. Seventeen Seconds Disc: 2 01. I'm A Cult Hero - Vinyl Single A Side By Cult Hero 02. I Dig You - Vinyl Single B Side By Cult Hero 03. Another Journey By Train (Instrumental Demo 1/80) 04. Secrets (Instrumental Demo 1/80) 05. Seventeen Seconds (Live In Holland 1/80) 06. In Your House (Live In Holland 1/80) 07. Seventeen Seconds (Live In Holland 1/80) 08. Three (Alt. Studio Mix 2/80) 09. I Dig You (Cult Hero-Live In The Marquee Club 3/80) 10. I'm A Cult Hero (Cult Hero-Live In The Marquee Club 3/80) 11. M (Live In Holland 5/80) 12. The Final Sound (Live In France 6/80) 13. A Reflection (Live In France 6/80) 14. Play For Today (Live In France 6/80) 15. At Night (Live In France 6/80) 16. A Forest (Live In France 6/80) Digitally remastered 2-CD set compiled by Robert Smith. Features 15 tracks on CD for the very first time. Deluxe package contains a 20 page booklet including sleevenotes and lyrics with rare and previously unseen photographs. Originally released in 1980, Seventeen Seconds introduced the darker, emotionally weighty sound for which The Cure are now renowned. Features the classic single “A Forest.” A bonus disc, Rarities 1979-1980, contains 15 tracks making their CD debut, including the vinyl-only sides “I’m A Cult Hero” and “I Dig You. Seventeen Seconds is The Cure's second album and was originally released in 1980. It is a very pivotal album in the band's history; it almost never happened because the band almost came to end. Robert Smith was growing at odds with bassist Michael Dempsey. At the same time he had met bassist Simon Gallup, who was in the band Magspies, and they were much more compatible musically. Smith and Gallup decided to record together along with local postman Frank Bell under the name Cult Hero. The two tracks from their single appear on the rarities disc here along with live performances of those songs. The Cure was on tour opening for Siouxsie and the Banshees when the latter's guitar player quit. Smith was enlisted to fill the role, playing in both bands each night. Following a gig on October 3 in Newcastle, Smith wrote many of the words that appear on Seventeen Seconds. He created demos and then played them for Dempsey who didn't like them. Smith then took them to Gallup who loved them. Gallup was asked to join The Cure as was his band mate keyboardist Matthieu Hartley. Although their debut album Three Imaginary Boys received critical acclaim, Smith was disappointed with elements of it and wanted to create something that he could be totally proud of. He says in the liner notes, “I’ve always thought of Seventeen Seconds as our ‘opening’ album. It was the first record I felt was really The Cure.” Engineer Mike Hedges “appreciated the musical direction – morose, atmospheric and very different to Three Imaginary Boys. Seventeen Seconds is very good. The music and lyrics have matured and the mood of the entire album is balanced. The second disc, Rarities 1979-1980 starts with the aforementioned tracks by Cult Hero. The Cure rarities begin with a couple of home instrumental demos: “Another Journey By Train” and “Secrets.” The liner notes by Johnny Black are impressive and well written. They provide great biographical information about the band, the material and the recording process. Smith is quoted throughout, providing his insights as to what was happening.
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keith a 9574 posts |
May 08, 2005, 19:11
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2-CD: 982 183-4 RELEASED: 2005 LABEL: Fiction Disc: 1 01. The Holy Hour 02. Primary 03. Other Voices 04. All Cats Are Grey 05. The Funeral Party 06. Doubt 07. The Drowning Man 08. Faith 09. Carnage Visors - The Soundtrack Disc: 2 01. Faith (Instrumental Demo) 02. Doubt (Instrumental Demo) 03. Drowning (Instrumental Demo) 04. The Holy Hour (Home Demo) 05. Primary (Studio Out-Take) 06. Going Home Time (Studio Out-Take) 07. The Violin Song ( Studio Out-Take) 08. A Normal Story (Studio Out-Take) 09. All Cats Are Grey (Live 1981) 10. The Funeral Party (Live 1981) 11. Other Voices (Live 1981) 12. The Drowning Man (Live Australasia 8/1981) 13. Faith (Live In The Sydney Capitol Theatre 8/1981) 14. Forever (Live 1981) 15. Charlotte Sometimes (Single 1980) Digitally remastered 2-CD set compiled by Robert Smith. Features 4 previously unreleased tracks and 15 tracks on CD for the very first time including Carnage Visors: the soundtrack. Deluxe package contains a 20 page booklet including sleevenotes and lyrics with rare and previously unseen photographs. Lush and atmospheric, 1981’s Faith is a striking conceptual song cycle marked by spiritual resonance, gothic veneer, and such signature Cure songs as “The Drowning Man,” “Primary,” and “All Cats Are Grey.” A bonus disc, Rarities 1980-1981, contains 15 tracks making their CD debut, including the unreleased cuts “Drowning,” “Going Home Time,” “The Violin Song,” and “A Normal Story.” On "Faith", the revolving Cure line-up was down to a core of three: Robert Smith on vocals and lead, Simon Gallup on bass, and Laurence Tolhurst on drums, with keyboardist Matthieu Hartley abruptly leaving days before the recording session started. Slimmed down to the elemental basics, the band's playing is honed tight, with Gallup's big bass sound up front and Smith's guitars washing over the mix. Some of the songs on this disc are stone-cold classics. The major lyrical inspirations for the songs are said to be the death of "several friends and relations" and the terminal illness of Tolhurst's mother, and that combined with Smith's meditations on faith and disbelief provide the thematic core for the album. There is a broad sonic range within the basic bleakness of the album: "Primary" and "Other Voices," which both appear on the excellent Staring at the Sea compilation, are jittery, paranoid fun, as is "Doubt," while "The Funeral Party," "The Drowning Man," and "Faith" are majestic, epic stretches of unremitting rainy darkness. This release is where The Cure found the heart of darkness that was only hinted in earlier songs. The band wouldn't release another album that was so thoroughly and completely dark until "Disintegration" closed out their classic period at the end of the 1980s, but the darkness that flowered on Faith is what many still consider to be the Cure's classic sound, and it would reappear lyrically or musically on almost every other Cure release. Carnage Visors - The Soundtrack on Disc 1 is a 27-minute instrumental, a soundtrack to a 1981 tour film and previously available on the cassette version of Faith. Disc 2 consists of home demos and studio out-takes of the "Faith" material, four previously unreleased songs cut during the Faith sessions, and majestic live performances from the summer of 1981. Disc 2 closes with the Cure's landmark 1981 single "Charlotte Sometimes, in which the dead ground covered by the Faith sessions yields a sinisterly beautiful flower, a perfect goth pop single.
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keith a 9574 posts |
May 08, 2005, 19:12
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2-CD: 982 183-7 RELEASED: 2005 LABEL: Fiction Disc: 1 01. One Hundred Years 02. A Short Term Effect 03. The Hanging Garden 04. Siamese Twins 05. Figurehead 06. A Strange Day 07. Cold 08. Pornography Disc: 2 01. Break [Group Home Demo] 02. Demise [Studio Demo] 03. Temptation [Studio Demo] 04. The Figurehead [Studio Demo] 05. The Hanging Garden [Studio Demo] 06. One Hundred Years [Studio Demo] 07. Airlock: The Soundtrack 08. Cold [Live] 09. A Strange Day [Live] 10. Pornography [Live] 11. All Mine [Live] 12. A Short Term Effect [Live] 13. Siamese Twins [Live] 14. Temptation Two [Studio Demo] Digitally remastered 2-CD set compiled by Robert Smith. Features 5 previously unreleased tracks and 14 tracks on CD for the very first time. Deluxe package contains a 20 page booklet including sleevenotes and lyrics with rare and previously unseen photographs. 1982’s Pornography remains one of The Cure’s heaviest albums, both emotionally and sonically. Features Cure classics “The Hanging Garden” and “One Hundred Years.” A bonus disc, Rarities 1981-1982, contains 14 tracks making their CD debut, including the previously unreleased “Temptation Two” and four live cuts from a 1982 performance at the Hammersmith Odeon. The music on Pornography paints a dark vision with sound layers that create a hypnotizing wall, the structure is both intriguing and maddening at the same time. It is like a slow-paced film populated with fascinating characters, the pacing tries your patience, but the actual content holds you enthralled. The drum beats, hypnotic in repetition, the thrumming bass and dissonant guitars all together create an apocalyptic cacophony. On top of that is the imagery conjured by vocalist Robert Smith. From the opening line, "It doesn't matter if we all die" right through the closing thought "I must fight this sickness, find a cure" the listener is taken on a stream-of- consciousness ride of imagery and despair. The second disc, compiled by Robert Smith, contains rarities from the time surrounding the release of the album. The first few demos are instrumental tracks including "Demise" and "Temptaion". There is also a selection of live tracks including the title cut "Pornography." The most intriguing track of the bunch is the 12-minute epic soundscape "Airlock: Soundtrack.", it is an interesting blend of dissonant sounds and gothic groove - an intriguing journey in sound. Topping off this package, are interesting liner notes placing the state of the band into context.
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keith a 9574 posts |
May 08, 2005, 19:13
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2-CD: 982 182-8 RELEASED: 2005 LABEL: Fiction Disc: 1 01. 10:15 Saturday Night 02. Accuracy 03. Grinding Halt 04. Another Day 05. Object 06. Subway Song 07. Foxy Lady 08. Meathook 09. So What 10. Fire In Cairo 11. It's Not You 12. Three Imaginary Boys 13. The Weedy Burton (Previously Unreleased) Disc: 2 01. I Want To Be Old (Sav Studio Demo 10/77) 02. I'm Cold (Sav Studio Demo 11/77) 03. Heroin Face (Live At The Rocket 12/77) 04. I Just Need Myself (Psl Studio Demo 1/78) 05. 10:15 Saturday Night (Home Demo W/Vox 2/78) 06. The Cocktail Party (Group Home Demo 3/78) 07. Grinding Halt (Group Home Demo 4/78) 08. Boys Don't Cry (Chestnut Studio Demo 5/78) 09. It's Not You (Chestnut Studio Demo 5/78) 10. 10:15 Saturday Night (Chestnut Studio Demo 5/78) 11. Fire In Cairo (Chestnut Studio Demo 5/78) 12. Winter (Studio Out-Take 10/78) 13. Faded Smiles (Aka I Don't Know) (Studio Out-Take 10/78) 14. Play With Me (Studio Out-Take 10/78) 15. World War (On Early Copies Of Boys Don't Cry Album 1979 ) 16. Boys Don't Cry (On Boys Don't Cry Album 1979 ) 17. Jumping Someone Else's Train (On Boys Don't Cry - 1979 ) 18. Subway Song (Live In Nottingham 10/79) 19. Accuracy (Live In Nottingham 10/79) 20. 10:15 Saturday Night (Live In Nottingham 10/79) Digitally remastered 2-CD set compiled by Robert Smith. Features 6 previously unreleased songs and 17 tracks on CD for the very first time. Deluxe package contains a 16 page booklet including sleevenotes and lyrics with rare and previously unseen photographs. Before they honed their patented blend of dark melodies and gothic textures, The Cure made catchy, if angular, pop-punk. The band started out as a trio with Robert Smith on guitar, Lol Tolhurst on drums and Michael Dempsey on bass. Three Imaginary Boys sounds very good for a debut album. It still has a unique sound after all these years; however, it's hard to truly appreciate what this sounded like in 1979. It's a problem all art suffers when you look back after its influence has made permeated the culture. Disc one is the original album in its entirety, clocking in at a meager 36 minutes. The songs are short and the structure of the music is simple, but you can hear the seeds of what The Cure's sound would later become throughout the album. "Object" has a cool echo effect on the vocals. "Subway" is a short, spooky song about a woman being followed. "Meathook" is a weird, funny story about going into a butcher shop and Robert repeats some words. The only well known song is "10:15 Saturday Night". Disc 2 is over an hour of rarities spanning 1977-1979. It's a mixture of live tracks, demos and studio tracks; three of which appeared on the Curiosity cassette in 1984. Future member Porl Thompson plays guitar on six of the tracks, adding more of a rock sound to the music. On two of the home demos the vocals are horrendous and should have been left off. You can hear the progression of "10:15 Saturday Night" as the home demo has very pronounced keyboards and the tempo is slowed down. The two tracks from "Boys Don't Cry" have a warmer sound in both the vocals and music. The disc closes with three tracks recorded live in Nottingham in 1979. The liner notes have some interesting information about the band at this stage and the recording of the album. Robert discusses why he "never allowed anyone in the studio in the role of 'producer'" after this album and the ame artwork that graces the cover. For fans that already have the album, the remastering and rarities are well worth the price.
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Billy Milk 2045 posts |
May 08, 2005, 19:18
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i've had 'em a week and while the albums are undeniably fantastic mostly (don't know where i stand with pornography, mind), the bonuses are a necessarily mixed bag with some gems. the sleevenotes though are utter bollocks. the usual fawning guff that toe the party line and shed no new light. bit of a bugbear of mine, sleevenotes.
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