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Track Listings
| 1. Boys Don't Cry |
| 2. A Forest |
| 3. Let's Go To Bed |
| 4. The Walk |
| 5. The Lovecats |
| 6. Inbetween Days |
| 7. Close To Me |
| 8. Why Can't I Be You? |
| 9. Just Like Heaven |
| 10. Lullaby |
| 11. Lovesong |
| 12. Never Enough |
| 13. High |
| 14. Friday I'm In Love |
| 15. Mint Car |
| 16. Wrong Number |
| 17. Cut Here |
| 18. Just Say Yes |
Product Description
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As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of "Lovecats"--reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; they offered a goth-free playtime divergence from some of the weightier studiousness of those early albums. Or, as smudged frontman Robert Smith says of this 18-track collection, "Songs that are sung with a smile." This wasn't always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic "A Forest," the Blair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does is focus attention on the Cure's perennial unpredictability--the breathless claustrophobia of "Close to Me," the New Order-lite of "The Walk," the brass- section embellished thrust of "Why Can't I Be You." Oddly, chart-wise, the Cure's lost weekend began immediately after "Friday I'm in Love," their most ebullient melodic moment and the ultimate "clocking-off to kick those heels" anthem. But at least the inclusion of two new songs, "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes" (with Saffron from Republica), indicate that the Cure remain a healthy, ongoing concern. --Kevin Maidment
Album Description
Deluxe three disc set (two CDs and one NTSC/Region 0 DVD), part of Universal's outstanding Sound & Vision series, with each disc packaged in it's own individual cardboard sleeve and all three tucked inside a cardboard slipcase. Disc One features 18 of the Cure's best-known tracks including 'Friday I'm In Love', 'Boys Don't Cry', 'Close To Me', 'Just Like Heaven' and more. Disc Two features the same tracks performed acoustically by Robert Smith and the boys. Disc Three is a DVD featuring the videos for the 18 tracks on Disc One plus six of the same songs performed acoustically as featured on Disc Two. Most certainly a feast for the Cure fan's ears and eyes!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
What's the point???,
By The Scenario (Roseville, MN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
The Cure have already put out one of the most celebrated best-of's of the rock era, "Staring At The Sea", covering all the singles from their 1979-1985 period (definitely the fans' favorite era). They followed it up a few years back with an admirable companion, "Galore", which picked up where the previous volume left off. Those two CD's give you every single the Cure released up through 1997. I would suggest picking those two up and leaving this one (which only scrapes together a few choice selections from those albums and throws in two new songs) in the dust. If "Greatest Hits" at least contained two of their biggest breakthrough hits from "Disintegration" ("Fascination Street" and "Pictures of You"), I could recommend it for an ultra-casual fan, but without those two songs it barely merits mention. It doesn't even contain anything from "Bloodflowers", their last stuido album, the only one not covered on "Staring At The Sea" or "Galore". The completist will want it for the two new songs (what a [bad move] move by the band and the record company), but for the casual fan, get the previous two compilations and enjoy!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Songs,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
This CD has so many awesome tracks from the Cure. I love it almost as much as I love cheese. And let me tell you how much I love cheese. Very much. The Cure fans who arent stuck up about "well so-and-so song should've been in here" please get a life. Get this album.
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE POINT TO THIS GREATEST HITS ALBUM BEING RELEASED....,
This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
In August, 2004 - the Cure will be coming out with remastered versions of 'Pornography', 'Faith', 'Seventeen Seconds', & then they will possibly move on to remastering their latter albumsThis greatest hits album, is remastered - Robert Smith knew he wanted his Cure albums remastered, which is why he decided to come out with another greatest hits album to kick off the remastered versions of the Cure's albums, everything more clear now? Now if you're actually looking for a review on the album - get it, pick it up , awesome music... of course, it's from one of the greatest bands ever
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