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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Jan 09, 2018, 21:04
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Ooooh, cheers fer the heads up. I had it in mind that cos' the deluxe edition is a few years old now, it was gonna be magabucks. Fer that price I might just pick up yet ANOTHER copy of the first Cure album :) The demo versions look like the might be interesting as well...Ta!
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tk421 121 posts |
Jan 09, 2018, 21:20
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"Yeah, I like them." We maybe the only two who do... There's a radically difference in the sound between the euphoric singles and the reverberation album. The singles sound like something from a compilation of obscure garage bands, the album has a much more polished or lush sound. Andy Partridge was on twitter a while ago saying he didn't think Geoff Emerick was a producer but rather he was an engineer. Although, I thought he did a good job on Reverberation but, as I say, a very different sound to the singles.
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garerama 1111 posts |
Edited Jan 09, 2018, 22:29
Jan 09, 2018, 22:26
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Monganaut wrote: Ooooh, cheers fer the heads up. I had it in mind that cos' the deluxe edition is a few years old now, it was gonna be magabucks. Fer that price I might just pick up yet ANOTHER copy of the first Cure album :) The demo versions look like the might be interesting as well...Ta! No probs. Yes the BDC deluxe was going for silly money until the recent jewel case re-issue. The demos are interesting. If I remember correctly bit lo-fi rehearsal/ live in places but a good listen nonetheless. Got the first 4 on deluxe format and all contain nice bonus material selected by Mr Smith ...
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Jan 09, 2018, 23:26
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I picked up Seventeen Seconds and Pornography and The Top deluxe editions, along with The Glove deluxe for my eldest when she was going through the inevitable 14 year old Cure obsession several years back. Some good stuff amongst the extras on them all. I steered clear of Faith, though it does have it's moments, it's still too much of a dirge to be a happy listen. Mind you, I still have my original 'double play' tape of it somewhere with 'Carnage Visors' on the B-side. Think the 'Concert' album tape version had some great stuff on the B-side too as I recall, 'Curiosity (Killing the Cat): Cure Anomalies 1977–1984. Looks like many of those Concert extras ended upon the second discs of various deluxe editions. The Cure were always good at giving you extra stuff on the cassette versions to make it worth you're while. The second disc of The Glove Blue Sunshine deluxe makes the album a whole different beast when Bob was singing all the trax instead of Landray or whatever she was called doing the few she did. I still love those little musical interludes on The Glove album, they manage to sound like proper mad 60's bits and bobs.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Jan 10, 2018, 13:03
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Was talking to sweetcheat in a soundtrack a week or two back prompted by him listening to Seventeen Seconds. You've mentioned 2 in the holy trinity of Cure tapes with great extras Faith/Carnage Visors concert/ curiosity The other one that springs to mind is of course standing on the beach - The Singles with the b sides from that period on side 2. I haven't got any deluxe editions as of yet, but might have to remedy that - especially if it means picking up Cd versions of the tape rarities. There is the Join the Dots box set as well that gathers all things like that
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spencer 3071 posts |
Jan 10, 2018, 20:02
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I can recommend Proculs Edmonton with bonus tracks...very fine
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spencer 3071 posts |
Edited Jan 10, 2018, 20:08
Jan 10, 2018, 20:08
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Give The Byrd's Transmission Impossible 3CD live set a go...top. The CD of the one off McGuinn Clark and Hillman reunion with Crosby is transcendent.. Knocking on Heaven's Door inc. Bliss
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Jan 11, 2018, 00:16
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Think I have the singles one too now you mention it, though that was a charity shop find from the days when we had a very old volvo that only had a tape deck. The deluxe re-issues are well worth a punt, 'specially now they seem to be at reasonable prices again. Remember owning The Sky's Gone Out by Bauhaus on tape as a weener. That had the press The Eject And Give Me The Tape live album on the flip side. Mind you, I think initial copies of the vinyl had the album for free as well, before the live album became a stand alone release.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Edited Jan 13, 2018, 14:57
Jan 13, 2018, 14:49
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The live album is on my list to listen to having relatively recently enjoyed the sky's gone out. Incidentally I dug out my Faith/Carnage Visors tape to play this week and found the former a real harrowing listen as you'd intimated it might be. A real claustrophobic lysergic dirge of an album. Never really occurred to me what was going on behind the scenes, listening to it as a teenager - just liked the misery of it all! sounds really messed up to these ears now. Don't think it was a high point in Bob's life. Did enjoy revisiting the latter though - hadn't heard it in about 20 years.
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Edited Jan 14, 2018, 02:29
Jan 14, 2018, 02:15
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Press the Eject is one of my fav' live Bauhaus records (I bought A LOT of bauhaus boots back in the day). It almost works as a 'best of' up to the time of Sky's Gone Out. Really love their live version of the cheery John Cale classic Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores, and the final two tracks Stygmata... and Dark Entries fairly roar. I'm sure it was tootled with after the fact, as many 'live' recordings were back then, but it's still a great album. Yup, Faith sure is a miseryfest of a record, well except Primary, which for me doesn't seem to fit. When I read one of the Cure Biogs many many years ago, it was intimated that the whole Faith tour to support the album was one of Bob's worst times. They were all pretty much drunk out of their minds the whole time, and the tour almost broke down totally on several occations. Sadly, the reasons why were never really looked into, though I think the band were just not getting along, and the various personalities involved were grating on each other big time. I read back in the day that the Joy Division album 'Closer' was one of Bob's fav records of the time, guess that might be an insight into where his head was at. I think I read that they were good mates, but I might have mis-rememberd that. Thjough Joy Div did open for the Cure during 1979 tour slots, so maybe I'm not... http://www.post-punk.com/when-joy-division-opened-for-the-cure/ As a kid I also though Pornography was a little claustrophobic and cold, but when I bought it for the eldest during her Cure phase (we all have one), I found it to be an immensely enjoyable record, still pretty dark, but not the slow motion dirge of Faith. The lyrics are coming from a similar place though......"Doesn't matter if we all die"......"Feels Like a Hundred years"..."In the hanging garden change the past".... didn't sound a happy puppy on the whole during that whole period. You can see why they went a bit pop, just to bloody cheer themselves up!
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