Artist.......: The Cure
Album........: Live au Festival des Vieilles Charrues
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-07-21
Str.date.....: 2012-07-20
Quality......: 233kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.thecure.com/
track title time
1. Live au Festival des Vieilles Charrues 66:38
* Open
* High
* The walk
* The end of the world
* Lovesong
* Sleep when i'm dead
* Mint car
* Friday i'm in love
* Doing the unstuck
* Play for today
* A forest
* Bananafishbones
* Pictures of you
* Lullaby
Runtime 66:38
Size 111.20
Release Notes:
Out of all the bands that emerged in the immediate aftermath of punk rock in the
late '70s, few were as enduring and popular as the Cure. Led through numerous
incarnations by guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith (born April 21, 1959), the band
became notorious for its slow, gloomy dirges and Smith's ghoulish appearance, a
public image that often hid the diversity of the Cure's music. At the outset,
the Cure played jagged, edgy pop songs before slowly evolving into a more
textured outfit. As one of the bands that laid the seeds for goth rock, the
group created towering layers of guitars and synthesizers, but by the time goth
caught on in the mid-'80s, the Cure had moved away from the genre. By the end of
the '80s, the band had crossed over into the mainstream not only in its native
England, but also in the United States and in various parts of Europe. the Cure
remained a popular concert draw and reliable record-seller rhroughout the '90s,
and their influence could be heard clearly on scores of new bands during the new
millenium, including many that had little to do with goth.
Originally called the Easy Cure, the band was formed in 1976 by schoolmates
Smith (vocals, guitar), Michael Dempsey (bass), and Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst
(drums). Initially, the group specialized in dark, nervy guitar pop with
pseudo-literary lyrics, as evidenced by the Albert Camus-inspired "Killing an
Arab." A demo tape featuring "Killing an Arab" arrived in the hands of Chris
Parry, an A&R representative at Polydor Records; by the time he received the
tape, the band's name had been truncated to the Cure. Parry was impressed with
the song and arranged for its release on the independent label Small Wonder in
December 1978. Early in 1979, Parry left Polydor to form his own record label,
Fiction, and the Cure was one of the first bands to sign with the upstart label.
"Killing an Arab" was then re-released in February of 1979, and the Cure
embarked on its first tour of England.
the Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, was released in May 1979 to
positive reviews in the British music press. Later that year, the group released
the non-LP singles "Boys Don't Cry" and "Jumping Someone Else's Train." That
same year, the Cure embarked on a major tour with Siouxsie and the Banshees.
During the tour, the Banshees' guitarist, John McKay, left the group and Smith
stepped in for the missing musician. For the next decade or so, Smith would
frequently collaborate with members of the Banshees.
At the end of 1979, the Cure released a single, "I'm a Cult Hero," under the
name the Cult Heroes. Following the release of the single, Dempsey left the band
to join the Associates; he was replaced by Simon Gallup at the beginning of
1980. At the same time, the Cure added a keyboardist, Mathieu Hartley, and
wrapped up production on the band's second album, Seventeen Seconds, which was
issued during the spring of 1980. The addition of a keyboardist expanded the
group's sound, was which now more experimental and often embraced slow, gloomy
dirges. Nevertheless, the band still wrote pop hooks, as demonstrated by the
group's first U.K. hit single, "A Forest," which peaked at number 31. After the
release of Seventeen Seconds, the Cure launched its first world tour. Following
the Australian leg of the tour, Hartley exited the lineup and his former
bandmates chose to continue without him, releasing their third album in 1981
(Faith) and watching it peak at number 14 in the charts. Faith also spawned the
minor hit single "Primary." the Cure's fourth album, the doom-laden,
introspective Pornography, was released soon after in 1982. Pornography expanded
their cult audience even further and cracked the U.K. Top Ten. After the
Pornography tour was completed, Gallup quit the band and Tolhurst moved from
drums to keyboards. At the end of 1982, the Cure released a new single, the
dance-tinged "Let's Go to Bed."
Smith devoted most of the beginning of 1983 to Siouxsie and the Banshees,
recording the Hyaena album with the group and appearing as the band's guitarist
on the album's accompanying tour. That same year, Smith also formed a band with
Banshees bassist Steve Severin; after adopting the name The Glove, the group
released its only album, Blue Sunshine. By the late summer of 1983, a new
version of the Cure -- featuring Smith, Tolhurst, drummer Andy Anderson, and
bassist Phil Thornalley -- had assembled and recorded a new single, a jaunty
tune named "The Lovecats." The song was released in the fall of 1983 and became
the group's biggest hit to date, peaking at number seven on the U.K. charts. The
new lineup of the Cure released The Top in 1984. Despite the pop leanings the
number 14 hit "The Caterpillar," The Top was a return to the bleak soundscapes
of Pornography. During the world tour supporting The Top, Anderson was fired
from the band. In early 1985, following the completion of the tour, Thornalley
left the band. the Cure revamped their lineup after his departure, adding
drummer Boris Williams and guitarist Porl Thompson; Gallup returned on bass.
Later in 1985, the Cure released their sixth album, The Head on the Door. The
album was the most concise and pop-oriented record the group had ever released,
which helped send it into the U.K. Top Ten and to number 59 in the U.S., the
first time the band had broken the American Hot 100. "In Between Days" and
"Close to Me" -- both pulled from The Head on the Door -- became sizable U.K.
hits, as well as popular underground and college radio hits in the U.S.
the Cure followed the breakthrough success of The Head on the Door in 1986 with
the compilation Standing on a Beach: The Singles. Standing on a Beach reached
number four in the U.K., but more importantly it established the band as a major
cult act in the U.S.; the album peaked at number 48 and went gold within a year.
In short, Standing on a Beach set the stage for 1987's double album Kiss Me,
Kiss Me, Kiss Me. The album was eclectic but it was a hit, spawning four hit
singles in the U.K. ("Why Can't I Be You," "Catch," "Just Like Heaven," "Hot Hot
Hot!!!") and the group's first American Top 40 hit, "Just Like Heaven."
Following the supporting tour for Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, the Cure's activity
slowed to a halt. Before the Cure began working on their new album in early
1988, the band fired Tolhurst, claiming that relations between him and the rest
of the band had been irrevocably damaged. Tolhurst would soon file a lawsuit,
claiming that his role in the band was greater than stated in his contract and,
consequently, he deserved more money.
In the meantime, the Cure replaced Tolhurst with former Psychedelic Furs
keyboardist Roger O'Donnell and recorded their eighth album, Disintegration.
Released in the spring of 1989, the album was more melancholy than its
predecessor, but it was an immediate hit, reaching number three in the U.K. and
number 14 in the U.S., and spawning a series of hit singles. "Lullaby" became
the group's biggest British hit in the spring of 1989, peaking at number five.
In the late summer, the band had its biggest American hit with "Love Song,"
which climbed to number two. On the Disintegration tour, the Cure began playing
stadiums across the U.S. and the U.K. In the fall of 1990, the Cure released
Mixed Up, a collection of remixes featuring a new single, "Never Enough."
Following the Disintegration tour, O'Donnell left the band and the Cure replaced
him with their roadie, Perry Bamonte. In the spring of 1992, the band released
Wish. Like Disintegration, Wish was an immediate hit, entering the British
charts at number one and the American charts at number two, as well as launching
the hit singles "High" and "Friday I'm in Love." the Cure embarked on another
international tour after the release of Wish. One concert, performed in Detroit,
was documented on a film called Show and on two albums, Show and Paris. The
movie and the albums were released in 1993.
Thompson left the band in 1993 to join Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's band. After
his departure, O'Donnell rejoined the lineup as a keyboardist, and Bamonte
switched from synthesizer duties to guitar. During most of 1993 and early 1994,
the Cure were sidelined by an ongoing lawsuit from Tolhurst, who claimed joint
ownership of the band's name and also sought to restructure his royalty
payments. A settlement (ruling in the band's favor) eventually arrived during
the fall of 1994, and the Cure shifted their focus to the task at hand:
recording a follow-up album to Wish. However, drummer Boris Williams quit just
as the band prepared to begin the recording process. The group recruited a new
percussionist through advertisements in the British music papers; by the spring
of 1995, Jason Cooper had replaced Williams. Throughout 1995, the Cure recorded
their tenth proper studio album, pausing to perform a handful of European
musical festivals in the summer. The album, titled Wild Mood Swings, was finally
released in the spring of 1996, preceded by the single "The 13th."
A combination of pop tunes and darker moments that lived up to its title, Wild
Mood Swings received a mixed reception critically and commercially, slowing but
not halting the momentum gained by Wish. Galore, the Cure's second singles
collection focusing on the band's hits since Standing on a Beach, appeared in
1997 and featured the new song "Wrong Number." the Cure spent the next few years
quietly -- giving a song to the X-Files soundtrack, Robert Smith appearing in a
memorable episode of South Park -- re-emerging in 2000 with Bloodflowers, their
last album of original material for Fiction. Designed as the final installment
in a heavy goth trilogy that stretched all the way back to Pornography and
included Disintegration, Bloodflowers was well received and a respectable
success, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. The next
year, the Cure closed out their contract with Fiction with the career-spanning
Greatest Hits, which was also accompanied by a DVD release of their most popular
videos. During 2002, they spent some time on the road, capping off their tour
with a three-night stand in Berlin, where they played each album of their "goth
trilogy" on a different night; the event was documented on the home video
release Trilogy.
the Cure signed an international deal with Geffen Records in 2003 and then
launched an extensive reissue campaign in 2004 with the rarities box set Join
the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years); double-disc
expanded editions of their earliest albums soon followed. Also in 2004, the band
released its first album for Geffen, an eponymous effort recorded live in the
studio. Heavier but not necessarily harder -- and certainly not gloomier than
Bloodflowers -- The Cure was partially designed to appeal to a younger audience
familiar with the Cure through their influence on a new generation of bands,
many of which were showcased as opening acts on the band's supporting tour for
the album. the Cure underwent another lineup change in 2005, as Bamonte and
O'Donnell left the group and Porl Thompson came back for his third stint. This
new, keyboard-less lineup debuted in 2005 as the headlining act at the benefit
concert Live 8 Paris, then headed out on the summer festival circuit, highlights
of which were captured on the 2006 DVD release Festival 2005. the Cure popped up
on various festivals over the next two years, playing a more extensive European
tour in early 2008, as they completed their 13th album. Originally conceived as
a double album, the record was split in two prior to its release, with the
lighter, poppier material released first as 4:13 Dream in October 2008.