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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Label: Elektra / Wea Catalog: Music Release date: 2001-11-13 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0075596272629 Upc: 075596272629  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (18) |
 Boys Don't Cry A Forest Let's Go To Bed The Walk The Lovecats Inbetween Days | Close To Me Why Can't I Be You? Just Like Heaven Lullaby Lovesong Never Enough | High Friday I'm In Love Mint Car Wrong Number Cut Here Just Say Yes |
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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 |
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 Written on August 20, 2006 Summary: Self explanatory If you like the greatest hits by the Cure, you will like the greatest hits album by the Cure. No brainer.  Written on June 27, 2006 Summary: always wonderful every cd put out by the cure is wonderful! if you are a serious cure fan like me defiently should get this cd! Written on May 10, 2006 Summary: BRILLIANT stop crying everyone. get over it. so 'pictures of you' isnt on this album. it doesnt matter, every song on here is great, and essentially there most popular songs from the charts. UNBELIEVABLE! the cure are the best band ever.  Written on May 9, 2006 Summary: A Victim Of 1 Disc Band Overviews Around the turn of the century, record companies began to released one disc compilations that attempted to take artists with a ton of output and try to make an 80 minute attempt to capture the essentials. Needless to say, all of these attempts have failed. Great songs were overlooked, and instead of giving a quality overview of the band, one got instead the feeling of being ripped off. The Cure's Greatest Hits falls victim to the one disc overview. A greatet hit album serves two purposes. One is to collect the best for fans who may desire to have many of their favorites on one album. The second is to provide new-comers to the band an overview of their career. The problem with The Cure is that they have released over 30 singles, and no single disc set can truly capture the best of their work. For instance, how does a Cure best of ignore "Pictures of You"? It would be akin to a Billy Joel best of leaving off "The Stranger". This song is considered one of the Cure's best, and leaving this off for stuff like "The Walk", "High", and "Never Enough" is an insult. While "Pictures of You" is the biggest example of a song that is missing, there are plenty of other songs of lesser impact that still should have been on there. For instance, the sublime "Catch", the melancholy "A Night Like This", or even "Jumping Someone Else's Train." And what about their break-out single, "Killing An Arab"? The problem with this album is that it attempts to provide an overview of the Cure but instead only barely touches the surface. Leave this one on the CD racks and spend the extra money to get Staring at the Sea and Galore. Written on May 9, 2006 Summary: whet your appetite for the Cure with these tunes Being a Cure fan who did not at all like this talented and innovative band's early music when it first came out (way too dark and down for my pop sensibilities), and really only turned on to them with a few tracks on The Head on the Door, but mostly with Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (not only 'cause the band put out such great music by then, but because I became friends with one of the guys in the band's brothers, who was a really nice guy and a huge fan and supporter of their music, of course), this CD satisfies my desire to hear many of their mid-to-later career singles, all in a handy single disc that I can keep in my car and play whenever I need a quick Cure fix. Songs like The Lovecats, Just Like Heaven, Inbetween Days, Lovesong, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry, Let's Go to Bed, and Friday I'm in Love bring me back to a different time and head when I need some escape from the stressors of the present, and always provide me immense aural pleasure. A good collection from the 1985 and on (I think) period to whet the appetites of future fans, who can then go out and get the LPs from whence these songs came for a real bite of the band. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2001-11-13 | 2006-11-14 | 1995-03-14 | 1989-05-01 | 1998-11-03 | 1998-10-06 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ean | 0075596272629 | 0093624425625 | 0093624579427 | 0075596085526 | 0724349623927 | 0093624711025 |
| Upc | 075596272629 | 936244256258 | 093624579427 | 075596085526 | 724349623927 | 936247110250 |
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