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 Cure News Archive - November 2001
Early copies of Greatest Hits, however, come with a bonus disc reprising the entire album with newly recorded acoustic versions that are as lightheartedly madcap and fluffy-haired grinny as only The Cure can be.
With The Cure’s demise (and frontman Robert Smith’s long-threatened solo album) still shrouded in gray uncertainty, Greatest Hits arrives to remind us of all that went before—and to show us what The Cure are doing now.
'Greatest Hits' obviously selects the lighter moments of their career rubber-stamping the notion that The Cure were a prolific singles band throughout.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/chainofFlowers/nov01.html

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
As Greatest Hits shows, it has been a long and winding road for The Cure, but it's been a downhill road for some time.
a singles compilation), Galore (another singles compilation) and Mixed Up (remixes of largely the same tracks), here on Greatest Hits we wonder what the point was of releasing many of the same tracks yet again.
Mint Car, Wrong Number and brand new tracks Cut Here and Just Say Yes are new to Cure compilation CDs, but they are the weakest tracks on the album (Wrong Number sounds like someone trying to sound like Garbage - Mint Car just sounds like someone trying to sound like The Cure).
www.musicomh.com /albums/cure.htm

  
 Band Info.
The Cure's accomplishments -- including five consecutive million-selling albums between 1986 and 1992 -- is the celebrated subject of the new album and video collection "Galore-- The Singles 1987-1997," which salutes the group's rise from cult favorite to mass-market sensation.
Seventeen hits, and an 18th that should be: "Wrong Number," recorded with David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels rounds off the album as a fitting companion to those songs we have already loved.
Cure fans embrace both aspects of the band, but Smith acknowledges that the material on "Galore" fills a certain purpose for his group.
home.att.net /~cure/bandinfo.htm

  
 dj dan mollen
Someday, the Counting Crows will put out a greatest hits album that will make everyone forget their miscues, but in the meantime we’ll have to be satisfied with occasionally uneven, but ultimately satisfying efforts like This Desert Life to keep us company.
As you might expect from the Beastie Boys, this collection does not follow the typical greatest hits format.
Cure fans of any stripe can content themselves with three songs that serve as the record's centerpiece.
www.mollen.net /jukebox9.htm

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
Despite the general perception that 2000's Bloodflowers was to be the Cure's last official effort, Robert Smith and the boys are heading into a U.K. studio to record two new tracks for a greatest hits album, due by year's end on Elektra.
Greatest Hits, slated for November 13, amasses 16 choice cuts spanning the British group's 23-year career,
"The Greatest Hits" to feature duet with Republica singer, bonus acoustic disc
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/greatesthits.html

  
 Encyclopedia: Greatest Hits (Cure compilation)
Greatest Hits is a 2001 album by The Cure.
The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greatest-Hits-(Cure-compilation)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
As Greatest Hits shows, it has been a long and winding road for The Cure, but it's been a downhill road for some time.
What we're left with here is a testimony to the fact that, for a few years, The Cure were a great band and produced some great songs, but this album also charts their decline, which makes it a bittersweet pill for any fan or admirer of The Cure.
They'd release umpteen albums and singles, play Wembley and all the other big barns, influence a generation and define the goth-pop genre.
www.musicomh.com /albums/cure.htm   (462 words)

  
 The Count: new music, greatest hits albums, kids, panang curry as cure-all
The Count: new music, greatest hits albums, kids, panang curry as cure-all
Have you noticed the glut of new greatest hits albums by 90's bands?
Also, it's something that as Michael Jackson releases a new greatest hits compilation he finds himself in legal troubles.
people.cs.uchicago.edu /~srasul/blog-old/C978878582/E1270065207   (177 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: The Cure
Smith also talked about the track "Maybe Someday" as being an indication of the band's breakup: "That's the 1 song on the album abut ending the Cure.
Since the conception of the Cure, many bands have come and gone claiming to be the best representative of modern rock music.
The Cure toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-c/cure_main.htm   (177 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Video: The Cure - Greatest Hits
The Cure Greatest Hits video compilation really gives the band a chance to show anyone how versatile their music, and their videos actually are.
There is only one minor flaw with The Greatest Hits video: Not all of my favourite Cure videos are included.
However, my overall perception of the video is as the partner to the Greatest Hits CD album so inevitably, not ALL of the videos I like could possibly be included.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RFUR   (177 words)

  
 The Cure-Greatest Hits (2001)
Greatest Hits features some of the most creative music videos ever screened on television, and is a recommended purchase to anyone who is interested in real music.
Unfortunately, the label in question, Ariola-Hansa, saw The Cure as a malleable, fresh-faced pop group, while Smith had other ideas, and a year later the relationship was dissolved with nothing having been released.
While The Cure are pretty light compared to what I normally enjoy listening to, there is no denying their creativity, and if creativity is what you want in your music videos, then you need look no further than this DVD.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=1132   (177 words)

  
 The Cure: Greatest Hits at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
The Cure: Greatest Hits at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
Matching folio to the compilation album, arranged for intermediate to advanced guitarists in tablature and standard notation, with full lyrics, melody lines and chord boxes.
Twenty hit songs from Robert Smith's quarter-century career at the head of goth pioneers The Cure.
www.i.musicroom.com /music_sales_ask/Alternative/Songbook/Cure/pk-19061   (177 words)

  
 Red Room Credits from Contributors - The Cure On Fiction discography
Maybe Someday : UK CDR Promo- Canada promo CD compilation - US promo CD compilation Modern rock series, US Promo Elektra sampler,CMJ Promo CD, Polish CD Greatest Hits (taiwan double CD) - South Africa, Argentina, Mexico and Chili CD French promo cd 6 tracks - Double tape from turky - Greatest hits French promo Video
The Lovecats - 7"Holland and US, 12" Holland/ Compilations with the lovecats : Brit stars French cd, the one and only 80's album (tape and CD)/ the ongoing history Canada CD/ Smooth and Easy Germany LP/ Now that's what I call Music (tape)/ Throbbin'84 (Australia LP)
Just hits tape australia compil with in between days/ All hits tape australia with close to me
www.on-fiction.com /TheCure/new_contrib.htm   (177 words)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
As Greatest Hits shows, it has been a long and winding road for The Cure, but it's been a downhill road for some time.
What we're left with here is a testimony to the fact that, for a few years, The Cure were a great band and produced some great songs, but this album also charts their decline, which makes it a bittersweet pill for any fan or admirer of The Cure.
They'd release umpteen albums and singles, play Wembley and all the other big barns, influence a generation and define the goth-pop genre.
www.musicomh.com /albums/cure.htm   (456 words)

  
 The Philly Wire: The Cure
The Grammy-nominated album ''Bloodflowers'' was released in 2000, followed by the nine-month ''Dream Tour'', attended by over one million people worldwide.In 2001 they left Fiction and released their Greatest Hits album.
In 1977, ''Easy Cure'' auditioned for Hansa Records and receieved a recording contract worth £1000.A year later, following disagreements about the direction the group should take, the newly named ''Cure'' were signed as a trio (minus Porl Thompson) by former Polydor records scout Chris Parry's new Fiction label (distributed by Polydor).
The band members' lives began to be marked by increasing drug use.In 1982 The Cure recorded ''Pornography'', a bleak, nihilist offering that led to more rumours that Smith was suicidal.
www.phillywire.com /The_Cure.html   (456 words)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
Despite the general perception that 2000's Bloodflowers was to be the Cure's last official effort, Robert Smith and the boys are heading into a U.K. studio to record two new tracks for a greatest hits album, due by year's end on Elektra.
Robert Smith and company plan to record two new songs for a Cure greatest hits album that should be released before the end of the year.
The Cure have dismissed persistent rumours that they are to split, and as well as working on new material, performed at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark earlier this month (July 1).
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/greatesthits.html   (3017 words)

  
 PORNOGRAPHY
bloodflowers -- greatest hits -- join the dots -- the cure
albums -- three imaginary boys -- boys don’t cry -- seventeen seconds -- faith -- pornography -- japanese whispers -- the top
imaginaryboys.altervista.org /english/cure/discography/pornography_album.htm   (3017 words)

  
 News Archive: October 1997
Cure fans can expect the band to play a set of greatest hits pulled from the new album (Galore) as well as 1986's Standing On A Beach.
The Cure's accomplishments -- including five consecutive million-selling albums between 1986 and 1992 -- is the celebrated subject of the new album and video collection "Galore -- The Singles 1987-1997," which salutes the group's rise from cult favorite to mass-market sensation.
When the Cure's worldwide recording contracts are up after the release of their next studio album, singer Robert Smith wants to take advantage of the situation and do a little something for his fans.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/oct97.htm   (3017 words)

  
 The Philly Wire: The Cure
The Grammy-nominated album ''Bloodflowers'' was released in 2000, followed by the nine-month ''Dream Tour'', attended by over one million people worldwide.In 2001 they left Fiction and released their Greatest Hits album.
The album's title was taken from a line in the song "Killing an Arab." This release was accompanied by a video version called ''Staring at the Sea'' and by another tour, as well as a live concert film called ''The Cure In Orange''.
The band members' lives began to be marked by increasing drug use.In 1982 The Cure recorded ''Pornography'', a bleak, nihilist offering that led to more rumours that Smith was suicidal.
www.phillywire.com /The_Cure.html   (3017 words)

  
 The Cure Reviews
Cure - Greatest Hits (Japanese Version) [IMPORT] - Amazon.com Review.
Concert: The Cure Live [LIVE] [IMPORT] - Amazon.com Review, and 5 Customer Reviews.
Cure - Amazon.com 10 Sound Clips, Review, and 131 Customer Reviews.
www.iq451.com /music/cure.htm   (3017 words)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
Robert Smith and company plan to record two new songs for a Cure greatest hits album that should be released before the end of the year.
Despite the general perception that 2000's Bloodflowers was to be the Cure's last official effort, Robert Smith and the boys are heading into a U.K. studio to record two new tracks for a greatest hits album, due by year's end on Elektra.
From N.M.E. THE CURE are compiling a 'GREATEST HITS' compilation, and have entered the studio to work on new material.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/greatesthits.html   (3017 words)

  
 BBC - Classic Rock/Pop Review - Queen, Greatest Video Hits 2
queen are the greatest, the beatles are overated and socalled djs like maconie who harp on about rubbish like the smiths and the cure are morons,they only had about 5 hit records between them.queen have spent more weeks on uk album than anybvody else,that says it all,socalled music experts have not got a clue.
I got their Greatest Hits 1 and 2 for my last b'day on sheetmusic for the piano, and 8 months on, I'm still playing it and liking it as much as I did back then.
I hear that the Innuendo album and the Made in Heaven album will be on GVH 3.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/classicpop/reviews/queen_video.shtml   (4265 words)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits : album review
As Greatest Hits shows, it has been a long and winding road for The Cure, but it's been a downhill road for some time.
What we're left with here is a testimony to the fact that, for a few years, The Cure were a great band and produced some great songs, but this album also charts their decline, which makes it a bittersweet pill for any fan or admirer of The Cure.
They'd release umpteen albums and singles, play Wembley and all the other big barns, influence a generation and define the goth-pop genre.
www.musicomh.com /albums/cure.htm   (522 words)

  
 The Cure
In 2001 they left Fiction and released their Greatest Hits album.
In 1981 came the album Faith, which hit #14 on the UK charts, as well as an instrumental soundtrack for the film Carnage Visors (these were packaged together on a long-play cassette).
In 2002 they continued recording, and also headlined twelve major music festivals, in addition to playing several three-hour concerts during which they performed the albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers in their entirety in Berlin.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_cure.html   (1488 words)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
Robert Smith and company plan to record two new songs for a Cure greatest hits album that should be released before the end of the year.
From N.M.E. THE CURE are compiling a 'GREATEST HITS' compilation, and have entered the studio to work on new material.
The group release their Greatest Hits album on November 12.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/greatesthits.html   (1488 words)

  
 The Cure - Greatest Hits
Robert Smith and company plan to record two new songs for a Cure greatest hits album that should be released before the end of the year.
Despite the general perception that 2000's Bloodflowers was to be the Cure's last official effort, Robert Smith and the boys are heading into a U.K. studio to record two new tracks for a greatest hits album, due by year's end on Elektra.
From N.M.E. THE CURE are compiling a 'GREATEST HITS' compilation, and have entered the studio to work on new material.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/greatesthits.html   (3017 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cure - Greatest Hits (English Version) [IMPORT]: Music
These two collections have a much broader range of styles and songs, and even Robert Smith himself said that the Greatest Hits was a poor representation of what the Cure stood for.
If you are just getting into the Cure, instead of buying The Greatest Hits collection, go all out and grab "Standing On A Beach" (The singles from 1978-1986) and "Galore" (the singles from 1987-1997).
The European Edition of the Cure's Greatest Hits features the Substitution of "The Catepillar" in Place of 'the Walk" (As Featured on the USA Edition) and also Includes the Bonus Track of "Pictures of You" to Boot.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RD9B/billyee   (673 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Musik: Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits erinnert uns noch einmal daran, dass die besten Singles von The Cure sehr oft aus Nebenbeschäftigungen heraus entstanden sind -- dies ist besonders bei "Lovecats" zu spüren, dem vom Jazz der Straßenmusikanten beeinflussten Stück.
Das Album hat den Titel "Best of the best-Greatest hits" verdiet.
A Slight Case of Overbombing - Greatest Hits Volume One ~ Sisters of Mercy
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RCE1   (1034 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: Galore
I still think that Galore is a better comprehensive album of the Cure's best songs than the Greatest Hits album from 2001.
At one point I did own their greatest hits however I didn't think it was any more different from "Galore" with the exception of the exclusion of my favorite Cure song of all time "Pictures of You".
And is atill the only one i have.(probably getting new self-titled album for christmas) Anyways it did take a few listens for me to fall in love with this, but after that i got/get goosebumps everytime i listen to this album!!!
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002HR2?v=glance   (1034 words)

  
 The Cure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2001 The Cure left Fiction and released their Greatest Hits album and DVD, which featured the music videos for a number of classic Cure songs.
The Cure is in the studio as of January 2006 and plan to release their thirteenth studio album this summer.
The Cure released their first eponymous album on iam records on June 28, 2004, which was produced by the label's owner, nu-metal guru Ross Robinson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cure   (4620 words)

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