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2005 Collection of Original Hits by the Great San Francisco Rock Band that Brought the Psychedelic 60"s Back Down to Earth with their Roots Oriented Songs that Follow in a Long Tradition of Blues and Folk Greats+ Taking their Original Sound to an Electrified Level. Embraced by Hippies+ Businessmen+ Military+ Intelligentsia and Nerds Alike+ Ccr"s Ring of Truth Transcends the Pop Charts of the Time and Becomes Relevant in Any Era of Rock Music. Their Chain of Smash Hits Includes "Suzie Q"+ "Green River"+ "Proud Mary"+ "Bad Moon Rising"+ "up around the Bend"+ "it Came Out of the Sky"+ "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" and Many More Included on this Volume.
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Seventeen Seconds

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Originally a goth-flavored post-punk outfit The Cure evolved into one of the truly seminal bands of the 80s and ultimately one of modern rocks most celebrated and influential acts. Guided by creative visionary Robert Smith The Cures signature sound balances dreamy pop savvy and poetic lyricism with a dark brooding intensity. The bands first four groundbreaking albums-newly remastered-are a series of masterpieces that laid the groundwork for their phenomenal and enduring popularity. Fusing superbly crafted songs with charged emotional depth from the very beginning The Cures early catalogue as upgraded by Rhino is ready to be revisted.
Bloodflowers

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No one revels in the sumptuous pleasures of melancholy like Robert Smith the Cures leading mopemeister. In Smiths world it is always raining comfort and happiness are fleeting love is epic and torturous. On IBloodflowers the bands 11th studio album his lyrical prowess continues to astound. Considering the subject matter Smiths always managed to steer clear of the clichéd bad-high-school-poetry trap and on IBloodflowers the imagery is some of his most vivid and stabbing. On The Loudest Sound a story about a couple who are of course growing apart he sings of their tension: She dreams him as a boy / And he loves her as a girl / And side by side in the silence without a single word / Its the loudest sound I ever heard. The music grows out of the same dichromatic marriage of loves eternal hope and heartbreaks inevitable bleakness. Layers of the Cures signature ethereal buoyant guitar licks are paced at the momentum of a lava lamp while melodies lurk only in an understated synth or distorted guitar. None of the songs scream radio hit like iWishs Friday Im in Love anomaly; and although IBloodflowers is less abstract comparisons to iDisintegration are easily drawn. If this really threatens to be the last Cure album--no really the real end--its a vision of loneliness Iand loveliness a low note rarely surpassed in beauty and breadth. Beth Massa


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Aussie reissue of 2000 album includes one bonus track Coming Up. Polydor. 2004.


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Digitally Remastered Edition of the Final Cure Album of the Trilogy which Joins Pornography and Disintegration.
Seventeen Seconds [Deluxe Edition]

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Originally a Goth-flavored post-punk outfit the Cure evolved into one of the truly seminal bands of the 80s and ultimately one of modern rocks most celebrated and influential acts. Guided by creative visionary Robert Smith the Cures signature sound balances a dreamy pop savvy with a dark brooding majesty and fuses superbly crafted literate songs with a feverish emotional intensity. The bands early catalog-newly remastered and expanded wtih a wealth of rarities-is a series of masterpieces that laid the groundwork for their phenomenal and enduring popularity.
Pornography [Deluxe Edition]

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Originally a Goth-flavored post-punk outfit the Cure evolved into one of the truly seminal bands of the 80s and ultimately one of modern rocks most celebrated and influential acts. Guided by creative visionary Robert Smith the Cures signature sound balances a dreamy pop savvy with a dark brooding majesty and fuses superbly crafted literate songs with a feverish emotional intensity. The bands early catalog-newly remastered and expanded wtih a wealth of rarities-is a series of masterpieces that laid the groundwork for their phenomenal and enduring popularity.
Faith [Deluxe Edition]

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Originally a Goth-flavored post-punk outfit the Cure evolved into one of the truly seminal bands of the 80s and ultimately one of modern rocks most celebrated and influential acts. Guided by creative visionary Robert Smith the Cures signature sound balances a dreamy pop savvy with a dark brooding majesty and fuses superbly crafted literate songs with a feverish emotional intensity. The bands early catalog-newly remastered and expanded wtih a wealth of rarities-is a series of masterpieces that laid the groundwork for their phenomenal and enduring popularity.
Three Imaginary Boys

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Originally a postpunk outfit with gothic leanings The Cure evolved into one of the most visionary creatively satisfying and influential groups to come of age in the 1980s. From dreamy pop to moody expressionism their signature sound is adventurous hypnotic and rich with texture. Formed in 1976 by Robert Smith and schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass) and Laurence Tolhurst (drums) The Cures stunning debut album on U.K.-based Fiction Records launched an extraordinary career and enduring worldwide popularity.


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Though this 1979 debut album by The Cure would scarcely dent the Top 50 in the UK and entirely forego an official American release (though a handful of tracks would appear on the US-only compilation IBoys Dont Cry) it remains equal parts touchstone and curiosity for Cure faithful. Its easy to see why mainstay Robert Smith has long had mixed feelings about it: The spare angular performances and New Wave-y production cliches often seem more akin to Devo or the B-52s. Smith himself hadnt quite perfected the moody wail that would make him a pioneering goth icon though there are hints of dark things to come on the title track and 10:15 Saturday Night. The real attraction here is the sets 20-song bonus disc a treasure trove of primal Cure that includes key A-sides (Boys Dont Cry Jumping Someone Elses Train) early outtakes and demos (including the Ziggy-esque I Want to Be Old from 77 more emblematic tracks from the following year and a haunting Smith home-recording of 10:15 that shows how focused the singers instincts were when left to his own devices) and some energetic if sonically flawed live tracks. Its a must for Cure fans an intriguing warts-n-all portrait of a seminal rock band finding its true voice. Jerry McCulley
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Concert: The Cure Live

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White Back Cover.
Greatest Hits

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Deluxe three disc set (two CDs and one NTSC/Region 0 DVD) part of Universals outstanding Sound Vision series with each disc packaged in its own individual cardboard sleeve and all three tucked inside a cardboard slipcase.


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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.
Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities+ 1978-2001

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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 bands 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.


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A testament to the Cures explosive creativity IJoin the Dots is also an ode to the bands remarkable consistency. Spanning the groups entire career itll keep fans happily burrowing away for hours; days even. Disc 1 concentrates on Robert Smiths early growth spurts when his jerky goth-pop blossomed with depth and savvy. Disc 2 recycles some of IKiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Mes motifs (theres a touch of A Thousand Hours in Breath for instance) and pays tribute to their early-90s IMixed Up Madchester phase with Harold and Joe. Elsewhere there are covers of Young Americans Depeche Modes 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 2000s IBloodflowers. The handsome packaging features a complete career retrospective partially narrated by Smith himself. As a capstone to a brilliant career IDots is a sublime walk down memory lane for tortured hearts and melancholy moods. --IMatthew Cooke
The Cure - Greatest Hits

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As IGreatest 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 wasnt always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic A Forest the IBlair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does is focus attention on the Cures perennial unpredictability--the breathless claustrophobia of Close to Me the New Order-lite of The Walk the brass- section embellished thrust of Why Cant I Be You. Oddly chart-wise the Cures lost weekend began immediately after Friday Im 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
The Cure - Greatest Hits (Limited Edition with Bonus Disc)

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As IGreatest 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 wasnt always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic A Forest the IBlair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does is focus attention on the Cures perennial unpredictability--the breathless claustrophobia of Close to Me the New Order-lite of The Walk the brass- section embellished thrust of Why Cant I Be You. Oddly chart-wise the Cures lost weekend began immediately after Friday Im 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
Bloodflowers

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Japanese edition of Robert Smiths latest. Includes one bonus track Coming Up. A return to darker material like Pornography. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Bloodflowers

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Aussie reissue of 2000 album includes one bonus track Coming Up. Polydor. 2004.


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Digitally Remastered Edition of the Final Cure Album of the Trilogy which Joins Pornography and Disintegration.


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No one revels in the sumptuous pleasures of melancholy like Robert Smith the Cures leading mopemeister. In Smiths world it is always raining comfort and happiness are fleeting love is epic and torturous. On IBloodflowers the bands 11th studio album his lyrical prowess continues to astound. Considering the subject matter Smiths always managed to steer clear of the clichéd bad-high-school-poetry trap and on IBloodflowers the imagery is some of his most vivid and stabbing. On The Loudest Sound a story about a couple who are of course growing apart he sings of their tension: She dreams him as a boy / And he loves her as a girl / And side by side in the silence without a single word / Its the loudest sound I ever heard. The music grows out of the same dichromatic marriage of loves eternal hope and heartbreaks inevitable bleakness. Layers of the Cures signature ethereal buoyant guitar licks are paced at the momentum of a lava lamp while melodies lurk only in an understated synth or distorted guitar. None of the songs scream radio hit like iWishs Friday Im in Love anomaly; and although IBloodflowers is less abstract comparisons to iDisintegration are easily drawn. If this really threatens to be the last Cure album--no really the real end--its a vision of loneliness Iand loveliness a low note rarely surpassed in beauty and breadth. Beth Massa
Wild Mood Swings

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Japanese edition of their first studio album in four years features the B-side It Used To Be Me as a bonus track plus The 13th Mint Car Want Club America This Is A Lie Strange Attraction Jupiter Crash Round Round Round Gone! Numb Return Trap Treasure and Bare.


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Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track: It Used to Be Me.
The Top

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This 1984 Release from the Princes of Gloom and Doom Rock Contains Caterpillar featuring Singer/Songwriter Robert Smith on Violin the Brooding Wailing Wall Eccentrically Named Bananafishbones and Seven More.


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1984 album that is unavailable domestically. 10 tracks including The Caterpillar Bird Mad Girl Shake Dog Shake Dressing Up Give Me It. Fiction / Universal.
Concert: The Cure Live

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Black Backing Cover.


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Incredible live album taken from May 1984 shows in London Oxford. 10 tracks including The Walk Killing An Arab One Hundred Years The Hanging Garden Primary Charlotte Sometimes A Forest 10:15 Saturday Night and more. 1984 Fiction release. Produced by Dave Allen and The Cure.
Japanese Whispers

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This 1984 Release is a Precursor to the Staring at the Sea/Standing on a Beach: The Singles Collections which Came Out in 1986. Japanese Whispers Includes the Early Gems Lets Go to Bed The Walk (Cracked the UK Top 20) The Lovecats (A UK Top 10 Single) and Four More.


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1983 singles collection featuring the 7 inch versions of three singles (Lets Go To Bed The Walk The Love Cats) and five of the B-sides from these singles (The Dream Just One Kiss (7 inch version) The Upstairs Room Speak My Language and Lament. Unavailable domestically. Fiction / Universal.
Show

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The bands 1993 live album with four bonus tracks that appeared separately in the U.S. on the Sideshow EP: Open The Walk Fascination Street and Lets Go To Bed. 18 tracks total also featuring High Pictures Of You Lullaby Just Like Heaven A Night Like This Friday Im In Love and Inbetween Days. Double slimline jewel case. 1993 Fiction release.
Three Imaginary Boys

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Their 1979 debut album that was never issued domestically. Features four tracks not on Boys Dont Cry (the U.S. version of the debut) a cover of Jimi Hendrixs Foxy Lady Object Meat Hook Its Not You. 12 tracks total also featuring 10:15 Saturday Night Grinding Halt and Fire In Cairo. Fiction / Universal.


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The Release of Three Imaginary Boys the Cures 1979 Debut Album Signaled the Musical Arrival of One of the Most Important and Original Goth/New Wave Bands. This Version Contains Four Tracks Not Included on the US Pressing of the Bands Initial Release which Was Titled Boys Dont Cry (1980): Object a Remake of the Jimi Hendrix Tune Foxy Lady Meathook and Its Not You.
Galore

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IStanding on a Beach the first singles compilation from Britains premiere love cats was the capper on a period of startling evolving growth for Robert Smith Co. This rather less interesting 18-song companion piece documents a peak commercial run that ended abruptly with last years IWild Mood Swings disc. The one new studio track here Wrong Number is a buzzing synth-suffused delight that hooks deep after three spins. Its the cherry on a cake built from latter-day gems like Lovesong Just Like Heaven and Friday Im in Love. Jeff Bateman
Wild Mood Swings
Paris

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The Cure is bombarding us with disposable product: Theres iShow the soundtrack from the film of its Detroit stop on the 92 Wish tour; iSide Show an EP of five live tunes not included on iShow and iParis a different live set recorded in Europe. Considering that much of its reputation rests on Tim Popes visionary videos iShow (the movie) is a dreadful bore concentrating exclusively on the band performing much like Pink Floyds iLive At Pompeii. The soundtrack is just as tedious skimping on the catchy hits (Friday Im in Love is here but not The Love Cats) and dwelling on droning mood pieces such as From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea. iShow is for the devoted only while the other discs are for those devotees who actually go out in public dressed like Fat Bob. Jim DeRogatis
Show

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The Cure is bombarding us with disposable product: Theres iShow the soundtrack from the film of its Detroit stop on the 92 Wish tour; iSide Show an EP of five live tunes not included on iShow and iParis a different live set recorded in Europe. Considering that much of its reputation rests on Tim Popes visionary videos iShow (the movie) is a dreadful bore concentrating exclusively on the band performing much like Pink Floyds iLive At Pompeii. The soundtrack is just as tedious skimping on the catchy hits (Friday Im in Love is here but not The Love Cats) and dwelling on droning mood pieces such as From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea. iShow is for the devoted only while the other discs are for those devotees who actually go out in public dressed like Fat Bob. Jim DeRogatis
Side Show

Cure Album Editorial:
The Cure is bombarding us with disposable product: Theres iShow the soundtrack from the film of its Detroit stop on the 92 Wish tour; iSide Show an EP of five live tunes not included on iShow and iParis a different live set recorded in Europe. Considering that much of its reputation rests on Tim Popes visionary videos iShow (the movie) is a dreadful bore concentrating exclusively on the band performing much like Pink Floyds iLive At Pompeii. The soundtrack is just as tedious skimping on the catchy hits (Friday Im in Love is here but not The Love Cats) and dwelling on droning mood pieces such as From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea. iShow is for the devoted only while the other discs are for those devotees who actually go out in public dressed like Fat Bob. Jim DeRogatis
Wish

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Another brilliant set of obsessive musings pried from Robert Smiths fuzzy navel. Epic elegies (From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea) and tuneful romps (Friday Im In Love) are classic Cure cuts--iJeff Bateman
Staring at the Sea: The Singles

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Big and moody IStaring at the Sea compiles some hits and near misses of these excavators of the dark soul. Beginning with their earliest hits--the sparse Killing an Arab the aptly tedious 10:15 Saturday Night and the charming Boys Dont Cry--this collection stops before the comparative giddiness of IKiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. p Musicians first brooding art types second The Cures unique instrumentation doesnt get the credit it rightfully deserves. The thrashy trash-can break in Jumping Someone Elses Train the sprightly synthesized recorder of Close to Me and the techno-pop disco lines in Lets Go to Bed and The Walk are downright brilliant in their effectiveness and simplicity. A string of money shots if ever there was one. Steve Gdula
The Head on the Door

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This is the Cure album to start with. Robert Smith and companys best and most coherent statement IThe Head on the Door is a successful if schizophrenic synthesis of the best of 80s rock boasting danceable Eurobeat anthems (In Between Days) world-music-flavored exotica (Kyoto Song the Latin-tinged The Blood) and more sullen statements of post-modern angst from the band that gave you such downer epics as iFaith and iPornography. More than any other Cure album IHead rewards those who dont subscribe to the darker side of the groups ethos. The use of Spanish guitar and other colorful arrangement touches help to create a rich dynamic. The softer more introspective cuts (like the claustrophobic Close to Me Smiths confessional classic) are also far more effective for them. Don Harrison
Boys Don"t Cry

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When Robert Smiths long-running group made this debut (actually the resequenced American version of the British IThree Imaginary Boys) they werent the Goth-and-reverb new wave heroes they later became; they were just a trio of disaffected kids who didnt like what was on the radio because it wasnt smart enough or dark enough. Smiths lyrics are bleakly sarcastic (as when he spells out the title of Fire in Cairo) and literate (the single Killing an Arab a nihilistic sketch based on a scene from Albert Camuss IThe Stranger). The band matches them with swift tingling arrangements that dodge skillfully around rocks machismo and self-indulgence even when Smith launches into the occasional gnarled little solo. Douglas Wolk
Pornography

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Singer Robert Smith was determined to make the Cure one of the most distinctive groups of any age. After jaunty power pop was in vogue Smith shifted to tone poems and ethereal freakouts. However with IPornography he entered the downward spiral that prompted the greatest music of his career. The title track is sheer hell as Smith abandons music altogether. But the remaining tracks are among the finest the 80s had to offer. One Hundred Years with its grinding riff Siamese Twins with its stuttering beat and The Figurehead (I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year) are gothic studies in terror par excellence. Nothing sounded like IPornography not even other Cure records. It has since been decided that IPornography is the first volume of a trilogy thats completed by IDisintegration and IBloodflowers. Both are worthy but nothing beats the first installment. Rob OConnor
Kiss Me+ Kiss Me+ Kiss Me

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Released in 1987 at the height of the compact-disc revolution iKiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is the prototypical CD album. Cure architect Robert Smith knew that the newly popular format could handle almost twice as much music as records and he wasnt about to waste the space. Unfortunately many of IKiss Mes 17 tracks sound more like B-sides. The cream is certainly worth culling however; Catch How Beautiful You Are and the alternative-rock staple Just Like Heaven are among the Cures finest moments. Hot Hot Hot!!! and Why Cant I Be You? reveal that underneath all the dyed-black hair and glum stares lay a fervent dance band. Who knew? Bill Crandall
Disintegration

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IDisintegration is a pop album realized on an epic scale. Most of its 12 songs are long mood pieces that develop slowly around the listener. Anchored by complex drum patterns the layered guitars soaring bass lines and rich keyboards blend to create a lush evocative soundscape that captures the ear immediately; and for all its length the album is never boring. The lyrical focus is intensely personal throughout and with the exception of Love Song the mood is overwhelmingly dark and brooding. Here are songs of remembrance that through their deep candor transcend the individual level to explore universal longings and fears. Robert Smith his vocals plaintive or angry or despairing unfolds a tapestry of loss. Broken bonds old lies missed opportunities belated realizations. Anyone who has experienced the joy and sorrow--especially the sorrow--of love will find his or her deepest sentiments noble and petty alike echoed poetically here. Al Massa

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