Cusm,

Robert Smith does the vocals on all the songs I listed. You can tell it's him singing on the songs. I have the Blink-182, Junkie XL, and Earl Slick songs. I also have the Faith Healer cover from a show the Cure did last summer.

The "Yesterday's Gone" song Robert did with Reeves Gabriel gives you a kind of idea about how these songs are. You can tell it's Robert singing.

The cover & back cover artwork has been posted at

http://www.thecure.com/news.html

looks nice. :drool:

Oh...my....god!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

I am SOOOO going to ****ing buy this on January 24th, 2004 it's not even funny!!!!!!

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep.../dotscover.jpg

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The Cure:

Join The Dots: B-sides & Rarities - 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years)

# of Discs: 4

Total running time: 300+ minutes

Also included:
A 76-page book with rare photos, a
track-by-track breakdown from Robert &
Simon and original commentary by noted
U.K. scribe Johnny Black.

Digitally Remastered and Produced by:
Robert Smith

Released by:
Universal in Europe
Rhino Records in North America

Suggested retail price: $54.98

Track Listing

Disc 1 (1978-1987)
10:15 Saturday Night
Plastic Passion
Pillbox Tales
Do The Hansa
I'm Cold
Another Journey By Train
Descent
Splintered In Her Head
Lament (flexipop version)
Just One Kiss
The Dream
The Upstairs Room
Lament
Speak My Language
Mr. Pink Eyes
Happy The Man
Throw Your Foot
New Day
The Exploding Boy
A Few Hours After This
A Man Inside My Mouth
Stop Dead

Disc 2 (1987-1992)

A Japanese Dream
Breathe
A Chain Of Flowers
Snow In Summer
Sugar Girl
Icing Sugar (weird remix)
Hey You!!! (kevorkian 12" remix)
How Beautiful You Are (clearmountain 7" remix)
To The Sky
Babble
Out Of Mind
2 Late
Fear Of Ghosts
Hello I Love You (psychedelic version)
Hello I Love You
Hello I Love You (10 second version)
Harold and Joe
Just Like Heaven ('chuck' remix)

Disc 3 (1992-1996)

This Twilight Garden
Play
Halo
Scared As You
The Big Hand
A Foolish Arrangement
Doing The Unstuck (saunders 12" remix)
Purple Haze (virgin radio version)
Purple Haze
Burn
Young Americans
Dredd Song
It Used To Be Me
Ocean
Adonais

Disc 4 (1996-2001)

Home
Waiting
A Pink Dream
This Is A Lie (palmer remix)
Wrong Number (smith remix)
More Than This
World In My Eyes
Possession
Out Of This World (oakenfold remix)
Maybe Someday (hedges remix)
Coming Up
Signal To Noise (acoustic version)
Signal To Noise
Just Say Yes (curve remix)
A Forest (plati/slick version)

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Is he wearing leg warmers?

don't rip on the cure. one of the most influential bands out there... from pop to black metal - everyone likes 'em.

do a search on a recent thread discussing this B-side box for more info.

Terrible subject header.

Yeah, but it guarantees everyone will click on it...even people with little to no interest in the Cure (people like me, for instance).

Not really.

This thread is just for you guys.


;)

huh? what does britney spears have to do with the cure?

Not only that people who are interested in the Cure may miss this thread completely.

It's a lose-lose situation!

sorry........ everyone with taste. ;)

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...=join+the+dots

We were already discussing this back in November.

Bad attempt at humor, suggesting the only people that do not like the Cure would be Brittney fans.

Thanks for the merger mods...didn't see this old one :D

It has been reported that the cure are also going to re-release ALL of their albums on CD with a 2nd disc to include b-side, demos, outtakes, etc. Does anyone have any other info on this, and if all of the songs that people are listing in this thread (that are not on Join the Dots) will be included on these re-issues? kinda sucks IMHO, and here I thought the B-side box would take care of all of the songs I don't have.

Just a heads-up: this box set's on sale at Best Buy this week for $39.99. Can't wait!

Brian 1972,

Here's an outtake of an interview Robert Smith did on a French call in show on 1/22/04.

"So was it a pleasant or painful journey, 25 years of Cure's history?

Actually it's still ongoing, because the box set was really just the start of it, because I'm going through the entire studio albums..remastering them, and every one has got an accompanying extra cd, so a lot of people haven't quite understood that this "Join The Dots" set is just the b-sides, although it says rarities, the real kind of obscure stuff is coming out on the extra cds.

Ah, well that would answer all of the fans saying "well I've got all of that already". Does that mean that you're just entirely in a kind of, certainly not a nostalgia trip, but you know, looking backwards, or is this giving you a lot of inspiration for what comes next?

Well, it kind of took up most of the middle of last year, so in fact we were supposed to be going in to the studio and recording a new record in last August, but I had to postpone it, because I wanted to get this all finished the way...because I realized there isn't really anyone else who could do this, because there isn't anyone else that's been around for the whole time. But I mean all in all it's quite...it has two sides to it really. I mean I like most of...I'm pleased with most of what we've done. There's obviously some really terrible things, but in the main, it's quite nice looking back...I haven't really taken the opportunity in the last 25 years to seriously kind of look back at what we've done, so I suppose it's quite a nice nostalgic trip really.

And even going through, you've always said not only can you not remember recording Disintegration, no not Disintegration, sorry, Pornography, but I mean did you find anything even weirder than you ever imagined?

There's a lot...I mean specifically in the very early years, there's a whole set of demos for the Pornography album, which again I have no recollection...I know it's just me on my own, and no one remembers me doing them. A lot of the early stuff, like pre-Three Imaginary Boys on the first....I think probably the most interesting, and the most varied, and the most observed extras disc is the one accompanying the first album, because that's got stuff going right back to like 1975 I think, on there. It's pretty bizarre...some of it.

So Join the Dots will have the b-sides and the remastered CDs will have other miscellaneous tracks. :up:

That is correct.

Yippee!

Anyone know off-hand if this will be the best price on this set? I didn't recall seeing it in CC's ad this weekend.

Yeah, it wasn't in the CC circular. BB was the only one I saw it advertised in (no Media Play insert in this week's paper, nothing in Target's, etc.). Amazon lists the MSRP at $55, so the BB price is a tidy little discount. I don't see this being a widely promoted item, unlike, say, the new Jay-Z disc or something.

did anyone get this yet? i'm getting mine at lunch and then having a cure-a-thon for the rest of the afternoon at work.

Feb 10th

Doubt anyone has it yet