Cure best of the decade polls

Update 4: Due to some jackass, or jackasses, screwing up the poll, it is now closed and the results discarded. Had a really nice battle going between BF and UTS, but some no-lifer had nothing better to do than add hundreds of votes for BF. So we revert back to the results of the previous poll of the Top 25, and Underneath The Stars wins, followed by Bloodflowers, Last Day of Summer, Out Of This World and Cut Here. Thanks to everyone who voted (once) and enjoyed the polls. And to the asshole(s), get a life.

Update 3: Okay, we have our top ten now for the final round of voting on the best Cure song of the past decade. Can any song defeat UTS? And we have a winner for Best Tour - Dream Tour 00, and Best Album - Bloodflowers. Thanks to everyone for voting!

Update 2: The top 25 Best Cure Songs Of This Decade have been decided. Now vote for your favorite on that list in round 2, and we will take the top 10 from this one, and have the final vote next weekend. Songs are listed in their final order from the previous poll. The top 25 contains 10 BF tracks, 7 TC tracks, 7 4:13 tracks, and Cut Here.

Update: Added the "Best Cure song of this decade" poll. Cast your vote, and we will take the top 20-25, and run it again next week.

I'm going to be adding a few Cure - Best of This Decade polls over the coming days, and will start with the best album and tour. What do you think? Which Cure album and tour was the best of this decade (2000-2009)? Why?

Disintegration pre-order bonus

Update: From Chris @ Ideal Copy - "We felt comfortable with our announcement in our newsletter about a bonus item to be included with pre-orders for the Disintegration 3CD Deluxe because our regular customers have a history with us and probably have a good idea of the incentives we try to provide them. For instance, this year we included exclusive promo only remix CDs and exclusive-content samplers for the new Pet Shop Boys album and Kraftwerk Reissues Box Set, respectively.

For those that have not shopped with us before - we're big fans of the Cure and have had a good relationship with Rhino over the past 5+ years. For the previous Cure reissues, we have included promo-only posters for those that ordered them from us. Nice posters. Big. We probably have a few left.

When we spoke to Rhino about doing the same thing with Disintegration, they indicated that they probably weren't going to do posters, but they were most likely going to do something else. Something that I thought was pretty cool.

So, sorry to tease, but we found all this out right before the holiday break, and I'm sure Rhino won't have confirmation until mid January.

As usual, any pre-order bonus is first come first serve. Always best to get the order in in a case like this, and then cancel if it's not for you. Even if we weren't offering a bonus, we think you should buy from us, rather than the robot companies. We'll figure out a way to make you happy with your purchase from us no matter what.

Oh yah, we just activated the 2LP vinyl reissue as well. How cool is that? My picture disc from 1990 only has 10 tracks and the 2LP has all twelve. and i just want to own one version of their albums on vinyl. quite the dilemma, eh?"

From the Ideal Copy newsletter: "...those who do get their orders in early should be getting a very special Free Bonus Item as well. Can't say what it is yet, but it's probably not a Promo Poster as we've done in the past, unfortunately. It's better. :) More details as we get confirmation."

More live 4Tour footage at TheCure.pl

"Please check news at www.thecure.pl as we will welcome New Year with another exclusive - Multicam video consisting of Katowice, Berlin, Vienna and Prague material." (Thanks Jacek)

Disintegration Memories

As promised, Roger has posted his memories of the Disintegration era, and as a special bonus, he has also included his demo of The Other Side/Fear of Ghosts. Thank you so much, Roger!

4Tour live in Poland video

Update 2: Get the show in MP3 and in MP4 - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. (Thanks Deadboycraved and AndytheCurefan)

Update: The show is online now - The Cure live in Katowice, Poland on Feb. 19th, 2008.

"On 24 or 25th of December - www.thecure.pl will put online a concert from 4tour - one that not so many people had a chance to see ;) you can see the snippet here." (Thanks Jacek)

Joyeux Noël

Joyeux Noel and the happiest of holidays to you all!


The Cure - Merry Christmas Everybody (Wembley Arena - Dec. 9th, 1987)


Siouxsie & the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant (Dec. 15th, 1982)

Melissa reminisces about Curiosa

Melissa Auf der Maur reminisces about her time on the Curiosa Tour. But it's Close To Me, not Close To You. That was a Carpenters song. Whole different thing. : P (Thanks Mark)

Disintegration delayed

No real surprise, but Rhino has rescheduled the Disintegration 3 CD remaster for March 16th, 2010. (Thanks Friend of CoF)

Disintegration 3 CD remaster in Feb!

Update: Deep Discount (US), Amazon (US), Amazon (Canada), Amazon (UK), and Amazon (Germany) have it up for pre-ordering, though note that the UK, German, and Canadian sites only list the US import right now.

Rhino has given the 3 CD remastered edition of Disintegration a release date (subject to change, of course) - Feb. 16th, 2010 in the US. (Thanks Friend of CoF)

Memories of Disintegration update

From Roger's website: "This has turned into a bit of a dialogue with myself and I'm sorry for that but the good news is I have decided to publish the Disintegration memories page and it will go live on December 28th. I've written, re written, edited and revised and I'm happy with it now. I've also let a few friends whose opinions I respect read it and it they have all encourgaged me to publish."

My Days Beyond free download

The last of Roger's free downloads concludes with 1997's unreleased album My Days Beyond - "Written and recorded in my apartment in London during 1997, this is quite a large group of songs which would have been at the time written as possible songs for the upcoming Cure record (Bloodflowers)."

Cure live at Shepherd's Bush 1997 on BBC 6

Update: You can download the show here. (Thanks Heron)

On the BBC iPlayer for a limited time - The Cure recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1997. Presented by Chris Hawkins. (Thanks JC)

Daryl update

Daryl has a new website up at Bamonte.com, and you can hear Andrew Phillpott's "In The Bush" remix of Compact Space's Push Push here.

Big Buildings free download

Roger continues his series of free downloads, with his previously unreleased album Big Buildings.

Glove cover

"A month late, but Burnt Fur covered "Orgy" by the Glove back at their Halloween show. You might remember a post a few months ago about them covering "The Upstairs Room"."
(Thanks AndytheCurefan)

Curespotting

"My favourite Cure song and favourite song ever, Plainsong, was used in a BBC documentary about the 1989 Czechoslovakian revolution." (Thanks James)

"Tonight (11/27) on France Inter, in the program 'La Vie Comme Si', the whole program was about cats (in mythology, literature, etc...), and they played 'the lovecats'." (Thanks Fabien G)

"Local newspaper mag In This Week has a holiday blu-ray gift guide in which Trilogy is highly recommended." (Thanks Heron)

Kiss Me (remastered) was a pick of the week. (Thanks Kate)

Some Cure mentions in reviews of the new The Bravery album, and another in an article about the Russian band Manicure. (Thanks Kate)

The Vault: An Exploration of the Gothic. (Thanks Kate)

Rob Edmonds talks about his Caterpillar poster. (Thanks Kate)

"In the video 'Girls: Lust For Life' (Warning: NSFW!), the guitarist is wearing a Cure T-Shirt." (Thanks McIntosh)

Stranger Than Fiction download

Update 2: Here are those other 2 Tim Pope songs (which aired on the Cure 102 radio show on Oct. 6th, 1990) - I Need You and Drive You Round The Bend. And here's Tim's full segment, and interview with Robert, from the show. (Thanks Olivier)

Update: Here's the Tim Pope 12". (Thanks Moggieboy)

"Just to let you know that I've uploaded the Stranger Than Fiction compilation to my blog, Ripped In Glasgow. I've got the full 12" rip of Tim Pope's record as well to put up if the demand's there." (Thanks Moggieboy)

Fade Away: The Early Years vinyl

Update: "I checked with Universal UK who told me this is a bootleg, a Dutch supplier claims its from Russia."
(Thanks Chris White)

Been getting a lot of inquiries about this release, and it looks to be another repackaging of the previously released Russian vinyl editions that Vinyl Lovers/Lilith put out in 2007, much like the Into The Dark set I posted about back in July, but possibly with the bonus tracks from the new remastered cds. More info on it here (though their track list is wrong. See the comments for the full list). (Thanks to everyone who emailed about this)

Grey Clouds Red Sky free download

As previously mentioned, Roger will be offering 3 of his early albums for free downloading over the next few weeks. First up is Grey Clouds Red Sky, which will be available from Dec. 1st - 7th. The MIDI files are also available.

Cure 4Play in Charlotte repeat

HDNet will be repeating The Cure 4Play in Charlotte on Sunday, Nov. 29th, at 5:25 pm eastern. And if you missed them the first time, you can get the video from Dime or Megaupload, watch most of it on YouTube, and get the MP3s from Piratebay.