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Concert: The Cure Live
Concert: The Cure Live was the band's first live album, released in October 1984 on Fiction. It was recorded during the tour for The Top, with performances at London's Hammersmith Odeon and in Oxford, and it arrived in the same year as that studio record.
It sits between the bleak intensity of the early albums, from Three Imaginary Boys through Pornography, and the brighter turn the band took with The Head on the Door in 1985. That makes it a useful snapshot of the group mid-transition. The cassette edition is worth tracking down too, since its B-side carried Curiosity (Killing the Cat): Cure Anomalies 1977-1984, a companion collection of rarities and oddities from the band's first seven years.
Concert: The Cure Live: tracklist and credits
10 tracks · 42:28Tracklist
- 1Shake Dog ShakeRobert Smith4:15
- 2PrimaryGallup, Smith, Tolhurst3:30
- 3Charlotte SometimesGallup, Smith, Tolhurst4:07
- 4The Hanging GardenGallup, Smith, Tolhurst4:05
- 5Give Me ItRobert Smith2:49
- 6The WalkRobert Smith and Lol Tolhurst3:32
- 7One Hundred YearsGallup, Smith, Tolhurst6:49
- 8A ForestGallup, Hartley, Smith, Tolhurst6:46
- 910:15 Saturday NightDempsey, Smith, Tolhurst3:45
- 10Killing an ArabDempsey, Smith, Tolhurst2:51
- Produced by
- David M. Allen, The Cure, Dave Allen
- Recorded at
- Apollo Theatre, Eventim Apollo, The Manor Mobile
- Recorded
- 5 May 1984, 8–10 May 1984
- Engineered by
- David M. Allen
- Labels
- Fiction, Elektra (Canada)
- Length
- 42:28
Line-up
- Phil Thornalley · bass
- Andy Anderson · drums (drum set)
- Robert Smith · guitar, lead vocals
- Porl Thompson · guitar, keyboard, saxophone
- Lol Tolhurst · keyboard
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1980
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1981
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1982
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1993
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1993
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1996
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia 1984-10-26 vs 1984-12-18 (musicbrainz), 1984-10-22 (wikidata)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 18 December 1984 | ignored lone early release dated 1984-10-16 |
| Wikipedia infobox | 26 October 1984 | |
| Wikidata | 22 October 1984 | |
| UK / Europe release | 16 October 1984 | earliest UK or European date |
12 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | XE | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
| — | XE | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
| — | XW | Polydor | 042282368225 | other |
| — | XE | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
| 16 October 1984 | GB | Fiction | 042282368218 | original |
| 18 December 1984 | DE | Fiction | 042282381125 | other |
| 1987 | AU | Fiction | 090317076928 | other |
| 1988 | VE | Distribuidora Sonográfica C.A. | other | |
| 1990 | GB | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
| 1991 | XE | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
| 1999 | AR | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
| 2006 | XE | Fiction | 042282368225 | other |
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|---|---|---|
| fanarttv ✓ | 1000×1000 | upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50) |
| coverartarchive | 600×600 | upscaled |