Galore: the Cure: Amazon.ca: Music

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1. Why Can't I Be You?

2. Catch

3. Just Like Heaven

4. Hot Hot Hot!!!

5. Lullaby

6. Fascination Street

7. Lovesong

8. Pictures Of You

9. Never Enough

10. Close To Me

11. High

12. Friday I'm In Love

13. A Letter To Elise

14. The 13th

15. Mint Car

16. Strange Attraction

17. Gone!

18. Wrong Number

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Standing on a Beach, the first singles compilation from Britain's premiere love cats, was the capper on a period of startling, evolving growth for Robert Smith & Co. This rather less interesting 18-song companion piece documents a peak commercial run that ended abruptly with last year's Wild Mood Swings disc. The one new studio track here, "Wrong Number," is a buzzing, synth-suffused delight that hooks deep after three spins. It's the cherry on a cake built from latter-day gems like "Lovesong," "Just Like Heaven," and "Friday I'm in Love." --Jeff Bateman

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5.0 out of 5 stars The band's best singles, Aug 10 2004

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Iqbal Faizer "Muldfeld" (Montreal to Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Galore (Audio CD)

While some might prefer the previous singles release covering 1978-1986, this one has better singles. This is not to say that the earlier singles collection doesn't have awesome songs; it does and is totally worth it. It's just that this one is even better. The only problem is that the tracks from Disintegration (1989) are heavily reworked to give them a contemporary feel. The problem with trying to be trendy and contemporary is that they end up sounding too much of that era, rather than standing alone. Translation, the Disintegration songs sound late '80s with higher-pitched drum beats, losing the songs' subtlety. "Pictures of You," which is normally a great, slow-building, elegant song, is butchered here with a tacky "catchy" drum beat which is now so out of date it's embarrassing. Other than the Disintegration tracks, this collection is great for an introduction. Just remember if you like this stuff, the band's albums have other great songs just as poppy and also very different, but no less spectacular. So give "Wish" (1992), "Disintegration" (1989), and "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" (1987) a shot if you end up liking this. Don't waste your money on buying them now; they (along with all the albums) will be digitally remastered with a bonus disc of rarities and live performances next year.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Jonesing for "Pictures Of You", May 11 2004

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galore (Audio CD)

Thanks to the recent TV commercial for HP Digital cameras, I found myself really wanting to have some Cure in my life again and went looking for "Pictures Of You." Yes, at one time I had almost all the Cure CD's in my collection, but time and economics had weeded them away. And "Disintegration" was never really my fave Cure album. But "Galore" offered me an opportunity to get the single song I wanted plus a batch of others I remembered with fondness.

As dark and morose as The Cure's image had always been, their records after "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" frequently found them making dazzlingly brilliant singles. That's where "Galore" picks up, with the singles "Why Can't I Be You" to the absurdist "Mint Car" from "Wild Mood Swings." There's even a pretty good new track with "Wrong Number." Hard to believe it, but Robert Smith was just as pop song smart as any New Romantic period hit maker, and in songs like "Lullaby," he showed the kind of playfulness ("the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight") that many of his fans didn't always "get." He never had any probelm with playing against preconceived notions of what a Cure song should be; I doubt a rapping Robert ("Hot Hot Hot") was in any goth fan's must hear list.

I also found it ironic that "Standing On The Beach" image of an old man was mirrored by the baby with the ice cream on "Galore." If you wanted to read more into it, you'd almost suspect Robert Smith was gently trying to remind listeners that he didn't mind playing to his more childlike nature when making music. While there has yet to be a comprehensive single disc collection of the Cure's best, a purchase of "Galore" and "Standing" will at least put all the singles at your fingertips.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Best of? Not really., Jan 25 2004

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Ben Dugan "Ben Dugan" (Flying Monkey Killer) - See all my reviews

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Though "Galore" holds a lot of really good songs ("Friday I'm In Love", "Love Song"), this really isn't the best place to start with the Cure.
The problem? This is the weakest time period in the Cure's recording history. Sure they made "Disintigration" during this time period, but they also made "Wild Mood Swings". Do you see what I'm talking about?
Of the songs on here, there are some really stellar numbers, like "Just Like Heaven", "Friday I'm In Love", "Just Like Heaven" and all of the Cure's good singles from "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" to "Wild Mood Swings". But why do you need to shorten "Pictures of You"? And why even bother putting songs from "Wild Mood Swings" on because they are just going to bring you down.
If you are just getting into the Cure, "Staring at the Sea" is a better place to start. After you get that, go ahead and get this one, because it will show you whether or not you'll get into latter day Cure.

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