Cure, The - Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978>2001 The Fiction Years

Label:
Catalog#:
R2 78043
Format:
4 x CD, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
2004
Genre:
Electronic, Rock
Style:
Alternative Rock, New Wave, Goth Rock, Synth-pop, Ethereal

Tracklist

  1978>1987
1-01   10:15 Saturday Night 3:40
1-02   Plastic Passion 2:14
1-03   Pillbox Tales 2:54
1-04   Do The Hansa 2:38
1-05   I'm Cold 2:47
1-06   Another Journey By Train 3:04
1-07   Descent 3:07
1-08   Splintered In Her Head 5:16
1-09   Lament (Flexipop Version) 4:34
1-10   Just One Kiss 4:08
1-11   The Dream 3:12
1-12   The Upstairs Room 3:29
1-13   Lament 4:23
1-14   Speak My Language 2:42
1-15   Mr. Pink Eyes 2:42
1-16   Happy The Man 2:45
1-17   Throw Your Foot 3:33
1-18   New Day 4:08
1-19   The Exploding Boy 2:52
1-20   A Few Hours After This… 2:26
1-21   A Man Inside My Mouth 3:05
1-22   Stop Dead 4:02
  1987>1992
2-01   A Japanese Dream 3:29
2-02   Breathe 4:46
2-03   A Chain Of Flowers 4:52
2-04   Snow In Summer 3:25
2-05   Sugar Girl 3:13
2-06   Icing Sugar 3:20
2-07   Hey You!!! (12" Extended Remix) 4:06
    Remix - Alan Gregorie , François Kevorkian
2-08   How Beautiful You Are 4:23
2-09   To The Sky 5:13
2-10   Babble 4:18
2-11   Out Of Mind 3:51
2-12   2 Late 2:39
2-13   Fear Of Ghosts 6:49
2-14   Hello I Love You (Psychedelic Mix) 6:02
2-15   Hello I Love You 3:29
2-16   Hello I Love You (Slight Return Mix) 0:11
2-17   Harold And Joe 5:07
2-18   Just Like Heaven (Dizzy Mix) 3:43
  1992>1996
3-01   This Twilight Garden 4:43
3-02   Play 4:34
3-03   Halo 3:44
3-04   Scared As You 4:10
3-05   The Big Hand 4:51
3-06   A Foolish Arrangement 3:49
3-07   Doing The Unstuck (12" Version) 5:52
    Remix - Mark Saunders
3-08   Purple Haze (Virgin Radio Version) 3:16
3-09   Purple Haze 5:20
3-10   Burn 6:35
3-11   Young Americans 6:21
3-12   Dredd Song 4:23
3-13   It Used To Be Me 6:48
3-14   Ocean 3:28
3-15   Adonais 4:11
  1996>2001
4-01   Home 3:22
4-02   Waiting 3:32
4-03   A Pink Dream 3:42
4-04   This Is A Lie (Ambient Mix) 4:30
4-05   Wrong Number (P2P Mix) 8:12
4-06   More Than This 5:09
4-07   World In My Eyes 4:50
4-08   Possession 5:15
4-09   Out Of This World (Oakenfold Mix) 6:59
    Remix - Paul Oakenfold
4-10   Maybe Someday (Acoustic Mix) 4:57
4-11   Coming Up 6:25
4-12   Signal To Noise (Acoustic Mix) 3:34
4-13   Signal To Noise 4:05
4-14   Just Say Yes (Curve Mix) 3:16
    Remix - Curve
4-15   A Forest (Mark Plati Mix) 6:41
    Featuring - Earl Slick
  Remix - Mark Plati

Credits

Artwork By [Package Designed By] - Julien Potter
Compiled By, Compilation Producer - Robert Smith
Mastered By - Chris Blair
Mixed By - Bob Clearmountain (tracks: 2-08) , Bryan 'Chuck' New* (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16, 2-18, 3-04) , Chris Parry (tracks: 2-10 to 2-13) , Curve (tracks: 4-14) , Dave Allen* (tracks: 1-03, 1-04) , Mark Plati (tracks: 4-15) , Mark Saunders (tracks: 2-10 to 2-13, 2-17, 3-01 to 3-03, 3-05, 3-06) , Mike Hedges (tracks: 4-10) , Paul 'P-Dub' Walton (tracks: 4-13) , Paul Corkett (tracks: 4-08) , Paul Oakenfold (tracks: 4-09) , Robert Smith (tracks: 1-03, 1-04, 1-09, 2-04, 2-05, 2-10 to 2-13, 4-03, 4-05, 4-12, 4-13) , Steve Lyon (tracks: 4-03) , Steve Osborne (tracks: 4-09) , Steve Spencer (tracks: 2-04, 2-05) , Tim Palmer (tracks: 4-04)
Other [Project Co-ordination, Assisted By] - Daren Butler
Other [Project Co-ordination] - Daryl Bamonte , Joe Black
Other [Sleeve Notes, Assisted By] - Robert Smith , Simon Gallup
Other [Sleeve Notes] - Johnny Black
Photography - Andy Vella , Anna Pills , Claude Gassian , Derek Ridgers , Ebet Roberts , Fin Costello , John Taw , Lewis Lee , Parched Art , Paul Cox , Peter O'Donnell , Porl Thompson , Ralph Denyer , Richard Bellia , Robert Smith , Ronnie Randall , Steve Gullick , Terrasson , Tom Sheehan
Photography [Front Cover Image] - Andy Vella
Producer - Anna Pills (tracks: 1-09) , Bryan 'Chuck' New* (tracks: 3-08 to 3-10) , Chris Parry (tracks: 1-01 to 1-05, 1-10, 1-14 to 1-18) , Cure, The (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16, 3-01 to 3-07, 4-12) , Dave Allen* (tracks: 1-16, 1-17, 1-19 to 2-13, 2-18, 3-01 to 3-07) , Keith Uddin (tracks: 4-12) , Mark Plati (tracks: 4-05, 4-13 to 4-15) , Mark Saunders (tracks: 2-17, 4-05) , Mike Hedges (tracks: 1-06 to 1-08) , Paul Corkett (tracks: 4-06 to 4-11) , Phil Thornalley (tracks: 1-14) , Robert Smith (tracks: 1-06 to 1-09, 1-14 to 2-13, 2-17, 2-18, 3-08 to 4-11, 4-13 to 4-15) , Steve Lyon (tracks: 3-11 to 4-04) , Steve Nye (tracks: 1-11 to 1-13) , Steve Whitfield (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16) , Steven Severin (tracks: 1-09)
Written-By - Williams* (tracks: 2-01 to 2-13, 2-17 to 3-07, 3-10) , Bowie* (tracks: 3-11) , Cooper* (tracks: 3-12 to 4-04, 4-08 to 4-14) , Morrison* (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16) , Hendrix* (tracks: 3-08, 3-09) , Densmore* (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16) , Tolhurst* (tracks: 1-01 to 1-08, 1-10, 1-12, 1-14, 1-15, 1-18, 2-01 to 2-13, 2-18) , Gore* (tracks: 4-07) , Hartley* (tracks: 1-06) , Dempsey* (tracks: 1-01 to 1-05) , Bamonte* (tracks: 3-01 to 3-07, 3-10, 3-12 to 4-04, 4-08 to 4-14) , Thompson* (tracks: 2-01 to 2-13, 2-17 to 3-07) , Manzarek* (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16) , Krieger* (tracks: 2-14 to 2-16) , Smith* (tracks: 1-01 to 2-13, 2-17, 2-18 to 3-07, 3-10, 3-12 to 4-06, 4-08 to 4-14) , O'Donnell* (tracks: 2-10 to 2-13, 3-12 to 4-04, 4-08 to 4-14) , Gallup* (tracks: 1-06 to 1-08, 2-01 to 2-13, 2-17 to 3-07, 3-10, 3-12 to 4-04, 4-08 to 4-14)

Notes

Contains a 76 page booklet featuring rare & previously unseen photographs and a complete Fiction discography.

In conjuction with Fiction records and Elektra Entertainment.

This compilation ℗ 2004 Elektra Entertainment Group © 2004 Fiction Records Ltd. Manufactured & marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing.
Printed in U.S.A.
Barcode: 0 8122-78043-2 9

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Review by metro_electro Apr 03, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
I always felt that when 'Standing On A Beach - The Singles' was released, the cassette version blew the other available formats out of the water. Side two of that tape complemented all those hits with dark and experimental b-sides. If you were new to The Cure and picked up what you thought was a 'Best Of' of sorts, you got an inside look at why they earned their cult status. Not only did you get a pile of hit tunes but you got access to all those rare singles that serious fans were always after. The CD and LP versions just never delivered the same back story.

When this box set was released, it was as if we could finally add that side two cassette to our CD collections (which was my original motivation for this purchase). Leafing through the book and listening to the development of The Cure's 'throw away' tracks, which they are not, confirms what I felt when I first heard that original cassette. You have your 'MTV' Cure, which delivers smash hits over and over again for the masses (which, let's admit it, is okay), and you have your 'fan dedicated, personal' Cure, which writes all those instrumentals and quirky songs that serious fans can hang onto and call their own. This box set demonstrates that fan dedicated, personal side beautifully and in a very complete way.

If you really only bought their full length albums and the odd single here and there, this box set cracks open that other side. You'll be quite amazed at what you will find.
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