Cure - Greatest Hits (Japanese Version) [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring the Track "The Catepillar" Instead of "The Walk" Found on the USA Version.

Tracks:

Boys Don't Cry
A Forest
Let's Go To Bed
The Walk
The Lovecats
Inbetween Days
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You?
Just Like Heaven
Lullaby
Lovesong
Never Enough
High
Friday I'm In Love
Mint Car
Wrong Number
Cut Here
Just Say Yes

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As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of "Lovecats"--reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; they offered a goth-free playtime divergence from some of the weightier studiousness of those early albums. Or, as smudged frontman Robert Smith says of this 18-track collection, "Songs that are sung with a smile." This wasn't always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic "A Forest," the Blair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does is focus attention on the Cure's perennial unpredictability--the breathless claustrophobia of "Close to Me," the New Order-lite of "The Walk," the brass- section embellished thrust of "Why Can't I Be You." Oddly, chart-wise, the Cure's lost weekend began immediately after "Friday I'm in Love," their most ebullient melodic moment and the ultimate "clocking-off to kick those heels" anthem. But at least the inclusion of two new songs, "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes" (with Saffron from Republica), indicate that the Cure remain a healthy, ongoing concern. --Kevin Maidment

Customer Reviews:

Attention Guitarists.......2007-07-14

For you guitarists out there, there is a companion tab book to this CD. So if your Cure collection is not 100% complete, you can buy this CD and have all the songs in the books. Very helpful!

The cure I remember..........2007-03-27

This is a great cd, that offers some "old" stuff and some "new" stuff all in 1 cd. After the 80's tapes that have long been "borrowed" and all the songs I wanted to hear again, they are here on this cd. Only a couple missing, which would have made this cd the "motts", but I guess that's why it's not called the all time greatest hits. Not a bad cd at all, worth the bucks.

The Cure has some really great hits.......2007-03-23

I bought this cd only for about 3 songs but after listening to the cd I found that I liked every song on the cd. My friends and I love to listen to it in the car. Its such a great cd, and you totally get your moneys worth.

One way or the other, get the song "Cut Here".......2007-03-18

For a greatest hits collection, you are much better off getting "Staring at the Sea" and/or "Galore", depending on whether you like early Cure, later Cure or both. But the one thing you should not miss from this latest greatest hits package is the song "Cut Here". It is one of the most lovely songs the Cure has done in a long while, including some of Robert Smith's most personal and heartfelt lyrics. (It is about Billy MacKenzie; check wikipedia for more info.) Musically, the 6-string bass evokes the heyday of both the Cure and New Order. Don't miss out on this gem. Download that track or find a copy of the import cd single or get a used copy of "Greatest Hits" just for this song. You'll be glad you did.

For ultra casual fans only.......2007-03-13

If "Staring at the Sea", undoubtadly one of the best greatest hits albums ever released period, was for casual listeners, then "Greatest Hits" is for ultra casual Cure fans only. We get many songs that we would come to expect when seeing a Cure disc with this title on the cover: "Boys Don't Cry", "Inbetween Days", "Close To Me", "Why Can't I Be You?", "Lovesong", and "Friday I'm in Love" are here as they should be, while two songs recorded just for this release, "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes", are included as well. Both songs are pretty decent enough, but nothing real special to make completists rush out to get this if they own every Cure album and "Staring at the Sea" and "Galore". There is nothing from "Bloodflowers" included here, nor is fan favorite song "Burn" from The Crow soundtrack or breakthrough hit "Pictures of You", which leads one to wonder what the point of putting this together was (well, besides to make a little extra dough, then again, that was the reason this was made, but I disgress). That aside, there's nothing bad to be found here, and "Greatest Hits" is instantly enjoyable for ultra casual fans who don't own any other Cure discs or compilations.

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First Review - Please Don't Be The Last!

Greatest Hits
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Manufacturer: Universal/Fiction/Polydor
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ASIN: B0000YE45S
Release Date: 2005-07-11

Tracks:

Boys Don't Cry
Forest
Let's Go To Bed
Walk
Lovecats
Inbetween Days
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You?
Just Like Heaven
Lullaby
Lovesong
Never Enough
High
Friday I'm In Love
Mint Car
Wrong Number
Cut Here
Just Say Yes
Boys Don't Cry (Acoustic)
Forest (Acoustic)
Let's Go To Bed (Acoustic)
Walk (Acoustic)
Lovecats (Acoustic)
Inbetween Days (Acoustic)
Close To Me (Acoustic)
Why Can't I Be You (Acoustic)
Just Like Heaven (Acoustic)
Lullaby (Acoustic)
Lovesong (Acoustic)
Never Enough (Acoustic)
High (Acoustic)
Friday I'm In Love (Acoustic)
Mint Car (Acoustic)
Wrong Number (Acoustic)
Cut Here (Acoustic)
Just Say Yes (Acoustic)
Boys Don't Cry (Video)
A Forest (Video)
Let's Go To Bed (Video)
Walk (Video)
Lovecats (Video)
Inbetween Days (Video)
Close To Me (Video)
Why Can't I Be You? (Video)
Just Like Heaven (Video)
Lullaby (Video)
Lovesong (Video)
Never Enough (Video)
High (Video)
Friday I'm In Love (Video)
Mint Car (Video)
Wrong Number (Video)
Cut Here (Video)
Just Say Yes (Video)
Forest (Acoustic)
Lovecats (Acoustic)
Close To Me (Acoustic)
Lullaby (Acoustic)
Friday I'm In Love (Acoustic)
Just Say Yes (Acoustic)

Album Description

Deluxe three disc set (two CDs and one NTSC/Region 0 DVD), part of Universal's outstanding Sound & Vision series, with each disc packaged in it's own individual cardboard sleeve and all three tucked inside a cardboard slipcase. Disc One features 18 of the Cure's best-known tracks including 'Friday I'm In Love', 'Boys Don't Cry', 'Close To Me', 'Just Like Heaven' and more. Disc Two features the same tracks performed acoustically by Robert Smith and the boys. Disc Three is a DVD featuring the videos for the 18 tracks on Disc One plus six of the same songs performed acoustically as featured on Disc Two. Most certainly a feast for the Cure fan's ears and eyes!

Album Details

Universal Sound and Vision Deluxe Package features Eight Hit Singles that Includes the Albums "Greatest Hits" and 18 Acoustic Versions (Previously Only Available in an Extremely Limited Edition Issue of the CD). The Dvd (Ntsc/All Regions) features all 18 Promo Videos, plus Six Acoustic Performances and Three Bonus Hidden Videos. Includes Exclusive Liner Notes in an Eight Panel Dvd-sized Digipack Housed in a Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

First Review - Please Don't Be The Last!.......2005-09-20

The Cure! How can you go wrong? You really can't. The Acoustic Hits are GREAT!! And I mean GREAT!! The arrangements and Sound Quality are AMAZING. BUT BEWARE! The discs are labled incorrectly. Disc 1 is labled Acoustic Hits and it is really the Greatest Hits. Disc 2 is Labled Greatest Hits and it is really the Acoustic Hits. Also the DVD is a PAL not a NTSC/All Regions as in the editorial notes. Be prepared to have a DVD player that converts PAL to NTSC. Whatever you do, buy this on for the Acoustic Hits, even if it is labled wrong.

Someone who has this box set, please respond. What is your experience with this?

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two minor differences
it's the CURE!!

Cure - Greatest Hits (English Version)
Cure
Manufacturer: Universal/Polydor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005RD9B
Release Date: 2001-11-19

Tracks:

Boy's Don't Cry
A Forest
Let's Go To Bed
Lovecats
Caterpillar
Inbetween Days
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You
Just Like Heaven
Lullaby
Love Song
Pictures Of You
Never Enough
High
Friday I'm In Love
Mint Car
Wrong Number
Cut Here
Just Say Yes

Album Details

The European Edition of the Cure's Greatest Hits features the Substitution of "The Catepillar" in Place of 'the Walk" (As Featured on the USA Edition) and also Includes the Bonus Track of "Pictures of You" to Boot.

Customer Reviews:

two minor differences.......2004-01-07

Actually, both previous reviews are almost correct.

Instead of "The Walk" from the domestic release, this English version has "The Caterpillar" AND it also has an extra track: "Pictures of You." So this import disc has 19 tracks instead of the domestic 18. Ironically, "Pictures of You" is the Cure hit no getting airplay in an oft-repeated digital camera commercial here in the States.

Of course, most Cure fans, like myself, will be buying this for the bonus Acoustic disc - but that disc is the same on both versions, hewing to the Domestic track listing. Not worth the extra bucks if you live in the U.S.

Cheers!

it's the CURE!!.......2002-07-01

The only difference between this album and the regular version is that this CD has 1 extra track - Pictures Of You.

A lot of Cure fans love this song, but i feel it is extremely overrated, and they should have added Fascination Street (from Disintegration) or something from Pornography instead.

If you are just getting into the Cure, instead of buying The Greatest Hits collection, go all out and grab "Standing On A Beach" (The singles from 1978-1986) and "Galore" (the singles from 1987-1997). These two collections have a much broader range of styles and songs, and even Robert Smith himself said that the Greatest Hits was a poor representation of what the Cure stood for.

However, I suggest the best way to get into the Cure are through the ACTUAL ALBUMS and not the collections. Most Cure fans agree "Faith", "Pornography", "Top", "Disintegration", "Wish" and "Bloodflowers" are among the best, but "Wild Mood Swings" is very under-rated. Heck - if you count them all up, The Cure has around 17 CD's.. (that includes studio albums, a remix album, the 2 single collections, the greatest hits, and live albums)

But back to the greatest hits... if you feel you MUST buy it, make sure you get the version with the ACOUSTIC SONGS on the second disc, because they are absolutely amazing. (they were the reason I got the greatest hits in the first place!) Dont worry that this version has 1 extra song.