in praise of ... concert: the cure live (because of the cure/rapture/interpol howdown!)

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i haven't followed AMG's advise -- to see this on DVD -- but the CD is fine enough. it's my fave cure concert disk (of the official ones, that is). those lucky enough to see 'em live, how does this stack up to them now?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Details have become clouded in my mind over time, but is this the same concert that the film In Orange was from as well? If so, you have to keep in mind that this was like 19 or 20 years ago and with one of the more 'classic' line-ups.

The only time I've seen the band was on their Wish tour and it was still awe inspiring.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it's certainly not arena rock cure. it's more punk.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Totally dig this.

I got this around 1987, on cassette it had a whole side dedicated to bootleg quality versions of early tracks called "Curiosities", really piqued my interest in boots and Cure boots in general.

Great album, great lineup, although not my fave selection of tracks, smashing version of Killing An Arab IIRC, it's not the Cure In Orange era Cure, it's just a little before that lineup.

They had a really good drummer at this time called Andy Anderson who apparently flipped out a few times and was sacked, he's on "Concert".

There isn't a DVD/Video of this era comercially available (I'm sure AMG must be referring to "The Cure In Orange" but if you can find it, there is a fantastic concert of this lineup live in Japan that came out originally as a Japanese only laserdisc, there's also fantastic 1984 bootlegs from Washington and again Japan.

― mzui, Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've also got that cassette.
I wasn't very familiar with early Cure at the time, so my luv for "One Hundred Years" began here.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heroin Face" (on Curiosities) sounds like the Buzzcocks.

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 2 August 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And I mean it, Robert Smith sounds like Pete Shelley.

Oh, and it's great. The album, I mean.

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 2 August 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

A very great album, the more so because:

* it was a transitional lineup on the way to the classic enough Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/*coughhackTolhurstOHYEAHO'Donnell-Bamonte lineup for the rest of the eighties and beyond

* it was STILL utterly amazing

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is playing bass on 'Concert' Gallup, Ely or the producer bloke?

― mzui, Monday, 2 August 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil Thornally I think. I think the live tracks were taken from the Top tour. The alternate version of In Your House sounds brilliant on the rarities section too. Surely it was the early version of Boys Dont Cry that sounds like the Buzzcocks, not heroin face?

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

but you have to go see In Ornage, just so you can see one of em Simon? pull off Roberts wig backstage right before they walk out /my memory is crumbling

― kephm, Monday, 2 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely it was the early version of Boys Dont Cry that sounds like the Buzzcocks, not heroin face?

Yeah, that too.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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