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

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Artist: The 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)

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

The Cure's B-Sides and Rarities will definitely be a cherished box set for die hard Cure fans. However, if you aren't familiar with Robert Smith and his quirky, lovable dramatic self, in listening to this four cd box set, you will experience a beautiful journey into the amazing multi-faceted side of Smith's brilliant psyche.

The box set comes with a four cd compilation accompanied with a colorful and beautifully designed book that reads the history of the last 20 years of music in which The Cure has created. In listening to the compilation, you will travel with the band from their early, visceral hard hitting punk inspired days, to the beautiful tapestry of love songs and introspective lyrics prolifically written by Robert Smith.

The first cd punches in with the b-side of "Killing An Arab", 10:15 Saturday Night, and makes you laugh at the fast paced Rockabilly inspired "Pill Box Tales". If you haven't heard the early Cure's dynamic punk, even at a young age, vividly executed, I highly recommend it. You will notice the influence of Bowie, Hendrix, and the pre-punk 60s juxtaposed with the clean, ethereal sound that remains a theme throughout the band's history, drawing you into the darkest period of the band's musical caravan. The b-sides of the album
"Disintegration", the climax to following albums "Faith" and "Pornography brings the somber B-side to "The Walk" which is entitled "Just One Kiss", and contrary to this, the b-side of "The Lovecats" entitled "Speak My Language which is a jazzy, light hearted number.

The 2nd cd brings you to the years of albums such as "Galore" and "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me". The Dizzy Mix
of "Just Like Heaven" is a stripped down version of the flawless single. And Smith does three renditions of "Hello, I Love You" by The Doors. The b-side of "Just Like Heaven" is "Snow in Summer", yet another heart felt love song that, as most of these b-sides, was an intentional match for the released single.

Venturing into the greater 'poppy' years of the band's work, the third cd will give you b-sides from the album "Wish" and "Wild Mood Swing such as the beautiful love song b-side to the single "Friday I'm In Love" entitled "Halo" and "Ocean", a soft introspective love song that is the b-side to the swanky single "The 13th". In this, Smith's subtle humor is apparent, revealing that his dark side isn't the only impetus behind his music.

Cd four there is a delightful and reflective b-side to the "Ambient Mix-B-Side of Gone! and Strange Attraction" entitled "This Is A Lie" which is a favorite of mine. Fans will definitely enjoy "The Oakenfield Mix" of the melancholy "Out Of This World" which was never released. This cd also has the acoustic mix of the head nodding "Maybe Someday" which derives from the 2000 album release "Bloodflowers".

If you are a die-hard Cure fan, this will be a delightful addition to your collection, and something that will be listened to frequently as well as a beautiful coffee table display. To the ones that know Robert Smith as the goth, gloom and doom king, it will give you a fresh perspective on the complex artist and his articulately written gift of intellect and music that he brings to the table. This will definitely be a regular play list on my own ipod.
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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
Subtitled - B-sides & Rarities 1978-2001 - The Fiction Years. First-ever collection of hard-to-find gems in a career-spanning four-disc remastered set. As The Cure nears its third decade at the forefront of pop culture, Universal, Rhino & Fiction/Elektra are celebrating the band's remarkable career with this collection. 70 tracks compiled by Robert Smith, 25 on CD for the first time & 10 tracks previously unreleased. Includes 76-page booklet featuring rare & previously unseen photographs & a complete Fiction discography. Packaged in long-digibook format. 2004.

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