The Cure's Greatest Hits on DVD, Classic/Dud?

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So, on various very cheap DVD collections, I noticed two of the kids' favourites are "Inbetween Days" and "A Forest". Oh, and the "Close to me" Remix. So, I tell them "That's the same group" and they are "Really? He looks much different there"...

So I think "Hey, let's find the Greatest Hits DD of recent vintage. I do have a "Staring at the sea" Video, but it's a bit boring up to "The Walk" or thereabouts.

And lo, I find it on e-bay for £2.70 + £3 p&p (bid ends)

It nips handily from "Boys don't cry" and "a forest" (I think) to "Let's go to bed" and the fun stuff.

Heh, I envy me sometimes. I get to see Amber and Alice as they see this stuff for the first time!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, the dud is where you (may or may not) say "Wahaidaminnit, no "Hanging Garden"? "

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think there's supposed to be an overall compilation of every video in the works, so I might wait on that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

There are some other videos hidden on the DVD. I have never located them myself. Classic, all the same.

― LC (Damian), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i hate teh cures

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

massive dud, it was taken from masters from previous VHS compilations so you get a second or so of other videos at the start or end of songs.

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

really?

Oh well. The video "Staring at the sea" had the best sound of any video I ever owned. Included the 'alternate' mix of Love Cats. And it was £5 so hey.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Hi,

The version I got doesn't have the "second or two of other songs" but does snip off the first fragment of some songs (Boys don't cry, A Forest, etc) and it does not have the extra videos you get by going downdownleft etc.. And the love Cats has a hangover of sound from the Video Diary bit, it's not bad as it fits with the song but still.

As I said before, those videos had great sound and sodoes this DVD. Being taken from the mastersof the VHS is not the same as being taken fromthe VHS, naturally.

The kids did love it, of course, they hadn't seen "Love Cats" before, but their favourites remain "Inbetween Days" and "A Forest"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

hah - that's funny, the video for Forest is so dour that I'm surprised kids would like it!

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

They (Alice Particularly) are transfixed!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it was bits of interstitial thingummys that Pope did for Staring, not the clips themselves. shat me enough to take it back to the shop, anyway!

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

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