Cure - Live in Brussels - 1987

Tonight's second show is a grand one that I would've given my left gonad to see.  When this tour hit, and they came through Chicago, I was living there at the time and remember a bunch of kids at school going to see them.  I remember the girls coming back the next day with their concert Ts on, and their hair all ratted up and the dark eyeliner practically dripping from their eyes.  I wasn't the HUGE fan of them like I am now, and chose to see other shows that year, based on what my friends wanted to see, really.  Now, I look back and kick myself.

This is a great recording of a great show.  There's enough concert hall echo in the soundboard recording to make it feel like you're really there.  They all play in excellent form, and Robert is chipper and talkative.

I know the cover of Kiss Me3 is of Robert's lips and eye, but I found these pics in HD and had to use them, they looked so good.  Of course, I had to do a lot of adjusting of colors and whatnot, but I think I got it to match up with the album pretty good.

Also, you will note this recording is 1 1/2 hours long, more than will fit on one disc, but I only made one cover.  I did it like this, as it's tough to decide where to split the track listing, and also a lot of you have said that you simply encode the jpg graphic to the Mp3 file.  If you feel the need to burn it off and make a case, just split the album wherever you desire and squeeze the two discs into one case.  Simple enough.

Cure - Live in Brussels - 1987 - Pt 1 

Cure - Live in Brussels - 1987 - Pt 2

 

Cure - Kiss Me Remixes - 1987

As Fiction, Elektra and Rhino began releasing the Deluxe versions of the Cure albums, I fervently anticipated the arrival of Kiss Me x 3.  This is the album, as I've said in my first Kiss Me x3 post, that was my "life" during 87 and 88.  It was and still is BY FAR my favorite Cure album.  So much of my soul is in all of those songs, and so much of those songs are in my soul.

When they finally released the Deluxe version, I felt a distinct tinge of disappointment, as the bonus disc didn't have any remixes, and there were no new, un-heard-of tracks, and the only additional material was demos of songs we had already heard.  Despite, I still anxiously listened to the bonus material, hoping to find something new and wonderful to pull me back in.  But, there really wasn't.

The bonus disc from Rhino is ultimately a disappointment.  First, in my opinion, as stated in the last couple of posts, I despise live tracks unless they are part of the entire concert.  None of these hit and miss bastards.  The bonus disc had six separate tracks from four different shows.  WHY?!  That's just dumb.  Second, all of the rest of the tracks were "demos" and "guide vocals".  They may as well just have been labeled instrumentals, because that's all they were.

I've arranged here today the missing "third disc" that many have mentioned before.  I've included all of the remixes from the singles and b-sides.  I've included alternate mixes, and then finally the To the Sky remix.  Yes, I've included some of the tracks from the original bonus disc, to flesh this one out, and cut out the unnecessary.  This is what the second disc should have been, in my opinion.

I hope this one fits up snugly against the Album set I posted some time ago.  It completes that Kiss Me era, but I still have a few shows from the Kissing Tour that may yet make it here....

The Kiss Me Remixes

Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - 1987

Continuing on the theme of 1987 being a pivotal year for my musical tastes, I bring my version of the Cure's Kiss Me 3 album.

Overwhelmingly, the song "Just Like Heaven" typifies my life at that time.  I felt like "Duckie" from the Pretty In Pink movie, and I had two different girls that I would have done anything to be with.  One teased me and kept stringing me along, the other pushed me away constantly.  "Just Like Heaven" was that teen angst heartache of unrequited love in my life.  I think, the lyrics described what I wanted, but never had.

A nice long album full of some great songs, I still found the singles to be more interesting in this case.  Lots of extra tracks and mixes, and the creative covers that only the Cure could make. (Although, I hated the "Why Can't I Be You?" single cover, and left it off this sleeve.)  Once I found a decent copy of "To the Sky", I was able to complete my project.

At first, I planned on using the extra tracks and mixes to make a "Part II" album.  But, I settled on blending the non-album tracks into the album, leaving the remixes out.  I also utilized the A-Side/B-Side format to wedge most of the b-sides in between the two album sides.  I also then cut a couple of tracks into the album tracks on the last half of the album, to add a tad bit of diversity.

Still too many tracks to put onto one disc, this is a two disc set.  The mixes will be on a separate disc later on.

Enjoy!

Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - 1987