Trilogy edit airing in Mexico

"A 1-Hour Trilogy show, will be broadcast on Mexican Cablevision Suscriptor Channel, on Friday 15th 9 am to Saturday 16th 7 am."
(Thanks Jorge/Mad Bob RJS)

Support the Singles!

Well, the campaign for Sleep When I'm Dead was a complete failure, but that shouldn't deter us from trying again. So check out the Support the Singles page, find your local station, and ask them to play The Perfect Boy. Hell, play the "emo remixes" card with them if you have to. : )
And if you hear it being played anywhere, or you have success with your local dj, please post a report in the comments. Thank you!

Charts update

Sleep When I'm Dead
US - drops to #8 on the Hot Singles Sales chart (4th week).
Spain - remains at #3 (5th week).

Freakshow
US - drops to #15 on the Hot Singles Sales chart (9th week).
Spain - drops to #6 (8th week).

The Only One
US - up to #14 on the Hot Singles Sales chart (10th week).
Spain - up to #4 (13th week).

Perfect Boy reviews

Obskure, nerd [heart] geek and Stereogum have reviews of The Perfect Boy. (Thanks Emmanuel, Sofia and Paul)

Lighting the 4Tour

PLSN has an interesting article on the lighting and production of the 4Tour. (Thanks 7bluestars)

The Cure For Love

Rev. Heron has penned a new article called The Cure for Love.

Official lyrics for TPB / WY

Robert has posted the official lyrics for The Perfect Boy and Without You. And Happy 20th Anniversary to RS & MP. Cheers!

The Perfect Boy video

Here's the video for The Perfect Boy.
Download the flv file here, and the iPod version here.
Also on Perez Hilton.
(Thanks Felicia/NeverForget and Brad)

The Perfect Boy / Without You on iTunes

The Perfect Boy and Without You are up on iTunes (US).
(Thanks Brad)

Some store reports:
"The single (both 7'' and CD) is out today in Ireland @ HMV" (Thanks Vikk)

"My local FYE store (Tacoma, WA) had four copies of The Perfect Boy when I dropped in during my lunch break." (Thanks Brad)

"I got the CD today from HMV on Market Street in Manchester." (Thanks John)

Articles on Hypnagogic States ep

Stereogum, Pitchfork and The Quietus have articles about the remix ep. (Thanks Sofia and JPX)

65DOS talk about remixing The Cure

From the 65DOS website:

For the past few weeks 65's time has been taken up almost exclusively with:

A - Advanced Accountancy Techniques
B - Remixing The Cure

The Cure asked us personally to remix all four of their new singles, which was a lot of noise condensed into a short two and a half week period. We came out the other side with bruised ears and cautious smiles. It seems that their label have upped the stakes by adding some big names to their remix e.p - bands we imagine you have about the same amount of respect for as we do. They'll certainly open up our music to new markets we've not been able to reach yet! The Cure though are fucking great and have managed to negotiate around the fact that nobody has heard of us by stitching all of our remixes together and putting it on the e.p as one 20minute track. Four remixes in one! It has been called 'Exploded Head Syndrome'. It is reassuringly confusing, so we recommend that you check it out. It's out 13th September on A MAJOR LABEL! (although the royalties are going to the Red Cross). This is how far we have come, people! We're gonna see if we can get in touch with Jared Leto now that we're 'cd buddies' and see if he can divert perhaps 5% of the budget for his next 30 Seconds to Mars video to us so we can live off it for the next five years and make about a million albums.

We're rolling with the big guns now, 65kids. Soon we'll be able to start selling our music to adverts! Oh, wait…

Anyway. We actually did two different remixes of 'The Only One', and have been told that the one which isn't included on 'Exploding Head Syndrome' will be available as an exclusive if you buy from iTunes. So. Investigate that too. Or you could skip iTunes, give a bit of cash straight to The Red Cross and find it on the torrents instead. The choice is yours.

Secondly, there is an article, which will perhaps turn into some kind of open debate, about the nature of remixing. It is written by us. It is appearing on The Quietus by the end of today. You can read it here. We hope that it will be of some interest to you. There are literally dozens of inconsistencies with the ideas we put forward so please go and post arguments against any or all of the points made. And if anyone has a copy of that unofficial 65 remix album that somebody compiled and was floating round our messageboard a little while ago, then if you wanna pass that around too we don't mind.

You might stop hearing from us for a while soon. But we won't have disappeared. We'll just be hiding.

Take care, 65kids.
65

(Thanks Hobbes, Debi, Ryanne, Viviane, and DJ Scribbles)

Without You lyrics

Without You - 4:11

Anything at all, but you know I can't stop
It's life on the moon, all this talk of giving up
Life is too short, for it not to be true
The best idea I think, is for me to go my way

Anything at all, but don't want me to change
Hard to understand, when a plan is this strange
Life is too big, yeah, has to be true
The best idea I think, is for me to go my way

If all that you want, is how it could be
You may as well go now, there's no wait and see

Anything at all, but don't ask me to (be?)
You have to accept, I can't ever play safe
Life is too real, for it not to be true
The best idea I think, is for me to go my way

If all that you want, is how it could be
You may as well go, no, there's no wait and see
We'll always be wrong
If all I won't give, is all that you want
It's a strange way to live and let live
And all that you do, is measure me up, falling shorter than you
It's a strange way to love, (and be as/as big as? ) I want
Oh I know that you know, I can't fake, change, or stop

So anything at all, you know I won't choose
If all you could win, is all I would lose
When life is too right, yeah, has to be true
The best idea I think, is for me to go my way
(Whispered) Without you

(Thanks to V for putting this together with me)

The Perfect Boy lyrics

Best Cure single in ages! I absolutely love it!

The Perfect Boy (Mix 13) - 3:23

You and me are the world, she said
Nothing else is real
The two of us is all there is
The rest is just a dream

Always meant to be, I can feel it
Like a destiny thing
Written in the stars
Inescapable fate, yeah it's out of my hands
Falling into your arms

And I don't want to get innocent
But I would love you to take my time
We're on the edge of a beautiful thing, she said
Come on, let's stay here for awhile

Oooooh girl, he is the one for sure
Oooooh girl, he is the perfect boy

Yeah, me and you are a world, he said
But not the only one I need
The two of us is never all there is
That doesn't happen for real
If it was meant to be us, it was meant to be now
Don't see the sense in wasting time
If you're so sure about this (love kismet hearty thing?)
You know tonight, you're mine

And I don't want to get obvious
But I have to be gone by three
We're on the edge of a beautiful thing, he said
So come on, jump with me

Oooooh girl, he's not the one for sure
Oooooh girl, he's not so wonderful
Oooooh girl, he's not the one for sure
Oooooh girl, he's not the perfect boy....at all

You and me are the world, she said
Nothing else is real
The two of us is all there is
The rest is just a dream

And her heart may be broken a hundred times
But the hurt will never destroy
Her hope, the happy ever after girl
One day finds the perfect boy

(Thanks to V for putting this together with me)

Robert confirms Hypnagogic remixes

Robert has posted the news about the Hypnagogic States remix ep on the official site. Besides the previously posted remixes, he says there will also be a 65DOS remix called Exploding Head Syndrome. He's posted the cover artwork too. And then there's this bit:
"The Cure’s new studio album, their 13th, is scheduled for release on 13th October via Suretone/Geffen... but what does schedule ever know?!!"

Hmm...

Perfect Boy / Without You previews

Previews for The Perfect Boy and Without You are up at Buecher. (Thanks ALe)

And longer previews at Juno. (Thanks Crypt-X)

Charts update

Sleep When I'm Dead
US - drops to #7 on the Hot Singles Sales chart (3rd week).
Spain - remains at #3 (4th week).
Europe - drops to #81 (3rd week).

Freakshow
US - drops to #11 on the Hot Singles Sales chart (8th week).
Spain - up to #4 (7th week).

The Only One
US - drops to #15 on the Hot Singles Sales chart (9th week).
Spain - drops to #5 (12th week).

Hypnagogic States ep remixes

Here's the list Universal has:
The Only One remixed by Jared Leto (30 Seconds to Mars)
Freakshow remixed by Jade Puget (AFI)
Sleep When I'm Dead remixed by Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)
The Perfect Boy remixed by Pete Wentz & Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy)

German article about After The Rain

Laut has an article about the German version of David Fargier's first book 'Nach Dem Regen' ('After The Rain'). And here's an interview with David about his second book.

More album/video certifications

France
Boys Don't Cry - OR (Oct. 1st, 1986)
Disintegration - OR (June 22nd, 1989), Double OR (Sept. 19th, 1989)
Kiss Me - OR (June 5th, 1987)
Mixed Up - OR (Dec. 19th, 1991)
Seventeen Seconds - OR (Sept. 1st 1986)
Standing on a Beach - OR (August 1st, 1986), Double OR (Oct. 15th, 1992)
Head on the Door - OR (Dec. 19th, 1985)
Wish - OR (May 19th, 1992)
OR = 100,000 / Double OR = 200, 000

(Please note that these figures are a few years old, and SOAB (450,000+ sold) and Disintegration (260,000+ sold) are thought to be platinum now. And Kiss Me (210,000+ sold), should be Double OR now.)

Canada
Wish - Gold (May 20, 1992)
Trilogy - Platinum (April 26th, 2004)
Gold (album) = 50,000 / Platinum (video) = 10,000

Germany
Disintegration - Gold
Standing on a Beach - Gold
Trilogy - Gold
Gold (album and dvd) = 100,000

(Thanks to David Fargier for the great research)

And here are the US and the UK certifications that were previously posted

The Cure vs. The Smiths in Chicago

RETROFORWARD MADNESS ROUND 2
Thursday August 14, 2008
The Cure vs. The Smiths
Neo
250 N. Clark
10pm - 12am
followed by Atomic New Wave Dance Party
21 and over
$5 cover
transportation: 22 clark bus, red line at fullerton, fullerton bus.