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Compiled by Robert Smith, this CD Includes 70 Digitally Remastered Songs Over Four Cds. Includes 10 Previously Unreleased Tracks, 25 on CD for the First Time and Cover Versions and Tracks from Soundtracks and Non Cure Compilations. Also Included is a 76 Page Booklet featuring Rare and Previously Unseen Photographs Including a Complete Fiction Discography.

Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Nicely handled compilation
  • A musical gem-chest is finally unlocked...
  • Amazing Collection of B-Sides
  • Exhaustive.
  • Go to Napster and buy the whole thing for $10
 Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001
The Cure
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001906O0
Release Date: 2004-01-27

Tracks:

  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

Tracks:

  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)

Tracks:

  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

Tracks:

  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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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

Album Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Nicely handled compilation.......2007-07-18

"Join the Dots" is a long overdue compilation from the post punk/goth pioneers. This isn't really a surprising set, clearly being what it claims to be, a compilation of b sides and rarities. Pretty much everything is here. Only completists will previously have everything on here, which have been available on various singles, soundtracks, or collected on various bootleg compilations.

What is remarkable about this set is the quality of the output presented here. Robert Smith's remarks in the opening of the liner notes strike a chord when he says he always hoped to hear another version of the band he was listening to at the time on the b side. If your curious how a true a statement this is, listen to several tracks on the first disc, notably the Exploding Boy or A Few Hours After This to hear the Cure in full experimental mode, fooling around with a grandiose sound listeners would become more familiar with on later recordings.

There are many moments on here that find the Cure outshining the respective albums that these bsides support. To the Sky is one of the most remarkable songs they've recorded while the Wild Mood Swings era bsides are better than anything off of that album.

This is overall a great set. Aside from a few throaway remixes, it's solid. The Cure are one of the few bands (along with the Pet Shop Boys and until recently Depeche Mode) who have put as much care into the b-sides as they would on the a-sides, really giving something extra to their fans. Fantastic set.

4 out of 5 stars A musical gem-chest is finally unlocked..........2007-02-20

It has been a long-held belief by many, if not most, Cure fans that Robert Smith often chooses to hide away the most beautiful of his works, striking them from the track lists of the "official" Cure albums, and placing them instead elsewhere (usually, in difficult-to-find places.)

"Join the Dots: B-sides and Rarities" fuels that belief even further, as nearly any listener could tell from the very first playing of the compilation. Essentially, this 4-disc set is Robert's way of finally unlocking the stored-away gem-chest of beloved yet elusive material, which many fans had for years been hoping would be opened.

The strongest sections of this compilation are definitely the second and third discs. Why so many of these songs were never A-sides is a mystery known only to Robert and to God.

Among the very greatest works on "Join the Dots" - which happen to also be among the very greatest Cure songs ever made - are:

Breathe
A Chain of Flowers
Snow in Summer
To the Sky
Signal to Noise
Waiting
2 Late
This Twilight Garden
Home
Halo
A Pink Dream
Fear of Ghosts

Also notable are Burn, More Than This (which is not, as some erroneously think, a Roxy Music cover), the Exploding Boy, Coming Up, and Out of Mind, among a few others.

The Dizzy Mix of Just Like Heaven also proved to be quite nice, however it would have been preferrable to include the much more scarce (and better) Extended Dizzy Mix of the song, in my opinion.

All in all, this compilation is one of the very best bets for Cure fans, along with Disintegration and Wish. It could also combine well with Greatest Hits.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing Collection of B-Sides.......2006-08-25

From the saturnine appearance of Robert Smith it looks like he's spent the better part of his career wallowing in self pity with very little time to put out a prodigious library of music. Maybe he is depressed but he isn't lazy. His work ethic is clearly shown in this dazzling collection.

Made up of b-sides covering over 20 years Follow the Dots never disappoints. The material is strongest at the beginning but song quality never falls off precipitously. It's amazing that this is all B-side material!

I give it the highest possible rating!

5 out of 5 stars Exhaustive........2006-08-24

An exhaustive overview of pretty much all b-sides and rarities by the Cure during their tenure on Fiction Records (1978-2001), "Join the Dots" is a critical collection for fans. Around five hours of rare Cure music is contained within the four CDs of the set, and while some of the material left out can be annoying (more on that in a minute), this is a superb resource for any of us who try and gather the entire output of a band.

The set runs chronologically, providing a fine overview of the band's career as much as anything else. The Cure always seemed to fill their b-sides with interesting material, from the early days (jaunty, clean tone punky "Plastic Passion") to much later (the absolutely superb "Sugar Girl"). Like many bands, in teh '90s the Cure became involved with tribute albums ("Purple Haze") and soundtracks ("Burn", "Dredd Song"). Some great performances ended up on these, "Burn" in particular from the Crow is highly regarded, and while there are bound to be some things you won't care for (for me it's the occasional 12" remix and some of the b-sides that just sound incomplete and unmemorable like "Halo"), it'll be someone else's goldmine.

The only really noticably missing stuff on here are the a-sides-- "Killing An Arab", "Charlotte Sometimes", et.al. While these have all been released in one fashion or another, it'd be nice to see all of them collected in a convenient (and remastered!) package as some of them never ended up on albums.

Per usual good boxed set standards, the entire set has been rematered-- it sounds great, crisp and clear with an opportunity to really appreciate the subtleties of the pieces, and includes extensive liner notes about each disc and a detailed discography.

I can't imagine anyone but a real diehard of the band would want this, but for those of us who fall in that category, "Join the Dots" is a great set. Recommended.

3 out of 5 stars Go to Napster and buy the whole thing for $10.......2006-04-12

I really really love this album. With that said, you must be wondering why I'm giving it 3 stars. Well ... the entire first disc of b-sides is amazing, while the other 3 quickly dive from "ho-hum" to the point where you're scrapping the barrel for good tracks.

... AND this would have gotten 5 stars if it were the first (essential) disc for only $10. After breaking the first disc, I pondered whether or not to buy the whole thing new. And then I found it on Napster for $10; think of it as a "great b-side album from 3IB - Head Cure + 3 bonus discs."

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Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001
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    		Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001
    The Cure
    Manufacturer: Universal
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00012SYV4
    Release Date: 2004-01-26

    Tracks:

    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. Dream
    12. Upstairs Room
    13. Lament
    14. Speak My Language
    15. Mr Pink Eyes
    16. Happy the Man
    17. Throw Your Foot
    18. New Day
    19. Exploding Boy
    20. Few Hours After This...
    21. Man Inside My Mouth
    22. Stop Dead

    Tracks:

    1. Japanese Dream
    2. Breathe
    3. 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]

    Tracks:

    1. This Twilight Garden
    2. Play
    3. Halo
    4. Scared as You
    5. Big Hand
    6. 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

    Tracks:

    1. Home
    2. Waiting
    3. 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. Forest [Plati/Slick Version] - The Cure, Earl Slick

    Album Details

    Compiled by Robert Smith, this CD Includes 70 Digitally Remastered Songs Over Four Cds. Includes 10 Previously Unreleased Tracks, 25 on CD for the First Time and Cover Versions and Tracks from Soundtracks and Non Cure Compilations. Also Included is a 76 Page Booklet featuring Rare and Previously Unseen Photographs Including a Complete Fiction Discography.

    Music:

    1. Jonesin' To Swing
    2. Just Released: The Anthology [Import] [Original recording remastered]
    3. Living Life Lookin' Out
    4. Lounge Candelas Version II
    5. Love Is a Gas
    6. Mad Dog, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Import]
    7. Mantra Wars
    8. Mary [Import]
    9. Masterplan B-Sides [Extra tracks]
    10. Maximum R.E.M. [Import]

    Music

    music

    Music

    Yer Favourites [Original recording remastered]

    Bach: Solo Suites; Chromatic Fantasy; Chaconne

    Another Real Good'un

    Between the Earth and the Stars

    Believe Pt. 1

    Amor a la Mexicana

    Africanize [Import]

    And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

    Aliveelectric

    A Night at the Pops

    A Vera [Import]

    African Cookbook

    Ahh Tu Sabes

    Sleepless Nights Live 1990

    Love Songs