Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001

Cure - Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001

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Artist: Cure
Brand: CURE
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-01-27
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. 10:15 Saturday Night
  2. Plastic Passion
  3. Pillbox Tales
  4. Do the Hansa
  5. I'm Cold
  6. Another Journey by Train
  7. DeScent
  8. Splintered in Her Head
  9. Lament (Flexipop Version)
  10. Just One Kiss
  11. The Dream
  12. The Upstairs Room
  13. Lament
  14. Speak My Language
  15. Mr Pink Eyes
  16. Happy the Man
  17. Throw Your Foot
  18. New Day
  19. The Exploding Boy
  20. A Few Hours After This...
  21. A Man Inside My Mouth
  22. Stop Dead
Music CD 2
  1. A Japanese Dream
  2. Breathe
  3. A Chain of Flowers
  4. Snow in Summer
  5. Sugar Girl
  6. Icing Sugar (Weird Remix)
  7. Hey You!!! (Kevorkian 12" Remix)
  8. How Beautiful You Are (Clearmountain 7" Remix)
  9. To the Sky
  10. Babble
  11. Out of Mind
  12. 2 Late
  13. Fear of Ghosts
  14. Hello I Love You (Psychedelic Version)
  15. Hello I Love You
  16. Hello I Love You (10sec Version)
  17. Harold and Joe
  18. Just Like Heaven ('Chuck' Remix)
Music CD 3
  1. This Twilight Garden
  2. Play
  3. Halo
  4. Scared as You
  5. The Big Hand
  6. A Foolish Arrangement
  7. Doing the Unstuck (Saunders 12" Remix)
  8. Purple Haze (Virgin Radio Version)
  9. Purple Haze
  10. Burn
  11. Young Americans
  12. Dredd Song
  13. It Used to Be ME
  14. Ocean
  15. Adonais
Music CD 4
  1. Home
  2. Waiting
  3. A Pink Dream
  4. This Is a Lie (Palmer Remix)
  5. Wrong Number (Smith Remix)
  6. More Than This
  7. World in My Eyes
  8. Possession
  9. Out of This World (Oakenfold Remix)
  10. Maybe Someday (Hedges Remix)
  11. Coming Up
  12. Signal to Noise (Acoustic Version)
  13. Signal to Noise
  14. Just Say Yes (Curve Remix)
  15. A Forest (Plati/Slick Version)

Free Music Notes for Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001

Free Music Review: Just when you thought it was safe to stop buying
Hit: 5 Stars

I read through all the reviews for this CD collection and didn't see much focusing on the songs, so I thought I'd give my thoughts here on songs I liked and why.

Disc 1: 10:15 on a Saturday Night everyone's heard a zillion times, but the original Staring at the Sea mix was very quiet, whereas this one is volume boosted for modern stereos. (Just like all the other tracks on this compilation). Thank you!

Do the Hansa is a funny song poking fun of The Cure's early relationship with Hansa records (as detailed in the excellent liner notes). Another Journey by Train is the standout song on this CD, their first instrumental. Think of the "train tracks" closing sounds from Jumping Someone Else's Train, and you'll appreciate how this track compliments it. Descent is a quiet and moody instrumental, one can feel touches of A Forest in this.

Just One Kiss is a poppy little song that drums like The Hanging Garden, a nice feel. The Exploding Boy is something Robert Smith wrote upon feeling the weight of success, very spritely. A Few Hours After This is an interesting track, although after a few replays the overbearing keyboards get on your nerves.

Disc 2: A common theme on a lot of these tracks (and much early Cure for that matter) is for most of the song to be an instrumental, with Robert's vocals coming in for the latter third of the song. And so it is with many tracks on this CD, such as Breathe and Icing Sugar. Icing Sugar has a guest sax player that really improves the track over what made it onto Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.

A Chain of Flowers is a very touching song about a girl's funeral, "please wake up". Robert's guitar is particularly haunting on this one. Sugar Girl is a delight, giving those light melodies that only Robert Smith could pull off. How Beautiful You Are is shorter than the Kiss album version, but it's just a different edit that works fine. To The Sky is just a delight as Robert sets up a hypnotic beat and chorus. Unusual for The Cure, yet beautiful.

Babble and Out of Mind are familiar to those who have the Fascination Street CD single, for some reason I don't like listening to them out of that sequence. 2Late and Fear of Ghosts were also on the Lovesong CD single, nothing new there. The final standout on this CD is Harold and Joe, with vocals reminiscent of Wrong Number and similar light touches.

Disc 3: This CD has some of the strongest tracks of the compilation, making one wonder why a lot of these were unreleased. I think the answer is that Robert Smith is the creative genius who makes these songs, and so he's too close to them or he's played them too many times to like them as much as we do. Be grateful he's releasing them now, they could actually tour off this material if you ask me.

This Twilight Garden opens this CD, alone worth paying for the collection. The stunning Cure "dreaminess", for lack of a better term, is fully in play here. This song just carries you away with its fantasy sound, amazing. Play has beautiful guitar work and thoughtful lyrics (or is that redundant?). Halo, Scared as You, The Big Hand, A Foolish Arrangement follow sequentially, all great to put on your playlist. I love the opening to Arrangement.

Burn of course is from the Crow soundtrack, easily their best soundtrack work next to Carnage Visors (which is on the Faith reissue). It Used to be Me has a great chorus, and a relentless beat that draws you in. Ocean has some nice moments, rather like love poetry set to music as all of Bloodflowers seemed to be.

Disc 4: The weakest CD of the compilation, marking the direction of The Cure as others have noted. This is a Lie is a standout as a thoughtful track, with delightful orchestral arrangements. The remixes of Wrong Number and Forest did nothing for me, although others like them. More Than This is probably the best track of this CD, sounding like a Duran Duran song with Robert Smith dropped in over Simon Lebon. Not a Cure song, which is why Robert left it unreleased, but still a delight to hear him sing and play.

Maybe Someday has a delightful opener and great vocals by Robert, again, why was this not the main single of his newer work? That's the curse of the creative genius, they make great stuff and then run with something else. But we get to hear it now("someday..."), so everything's okay. Signal to Noise acoustic is a nice bonus that was apparently left off the Acoustic CD that comes with special versions of the Greatest Hits collection. Nice to get a bonus to that CD, which in itself is a treat.

I shelled out the money for this collection on a lark and have not regretted it. There is a ton of new stuff here, especially for those of us who don't have 100+ maxisingles like some Cure fans. This collection will give many many listenings of great music, for any sort of Cure fan.

I must make a regretful announcement for those considering spending the money on this collection. A few months after this hit the shelves, they issued two-CD remasters of Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography. I have listened to all three remasters in great detail, and the songs that others lament are not included on Dots are largely on these releases. Sad to say, the additional songs on those three reissues are priceless and amazing, buy them too.

That's a lot of new Cure to have to pay for, but Dots and the Three reissues for their early albums are worth every penny. They are a delight, thank you to Robert Smith and his bandmates for being such prolific musicians. Even their "rejected" material is better than what most bands put out.
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Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 Poster

B-sides and rarities, 1978-2001. Fiction/Elektra/Rhino. 2004.
A testament to the Cure?s explosive creativity, Join the Dots is also an ode to the band?s remarkable consistency. Spanning the group?s entire career, it?ll keep fans happily burrowing away for hours; days, even. Disc 1 concentrates on Robert Smith?s early growth spurts, when his jerky goth-pop blossomed with depth and savvy. Disc 2 recycles some of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me?s motifs (there?s a touch of "A Thousand Hours" in "Breath," for instance), and pays tribute to their early-90s Mixed Up Madchester phase with "Harold and Joe." Elsewhere, there are covers of "Young Americans," Depeche Mode?s "World in My Eyes," "Purple Haze," and three versions of the Doors? "Hello I Love You," as well as more recent material like an acoustic version of "Maybe Someday" from 2000?s Bloodflowers. The handsome packaging features a complete career retrospective partially narrated by Smith himself. As a capstone to a brilliant career, Dots is a sublime walk down memory lane for tortured hearts and melancholy moods. --Matthew Cooke

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