I have more music by The Cure than any other band in my iTunes library by a long shot and in many instances I have more music by The Cure than I have of some entire genres combined. Sometimes that's not too hard. For example, my hip-hop collection is fairly small. That being said my northern soul collection is fairly large and I still have more Cure stuff than I have northern soul. (Keep the faith, indeed.)
Whenever I get in the mood to listen to The Cure the mood lasts for weeks on end. After all I have a lot of stuff, right? Of all of it though, none of their music is as important to me as the stuff they were doing around the time the band released Seventeen Seconds.
For me, this time period really begins in late 1979. Simon Gallup had joined the band on bass and Mathieu Hartley came on as the band's first keyboard player. Early, unfinished versions of tunes like Play For Today and A Forest were showing up in live sets. Even though the new material hadn't completely evolved the songs showed there was a lot more to the band than was apparent from their album Three Imaginary Boys.
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I've got a few mashups featuring Cure tunes - very good.
Have you checked Nouvelle Vagues version of A Forest
Yeah I heard it. It was an entertaining tune but over all I thought the album was a bit too gimmicky. I don't think I kept it.
I don't have any Cure mashups. Maybe that could be a spot on planetmondo sometime?
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