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Label: Elektra / Wea
Catalog: Music
Release date: 2001-11-13
Media: Audio CD
discs number: 1
Ean: 0075596272629
Upc: 075596272629

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Album tracks: (18)

Boys Don't Cry

A Forest

Let's Go To Bed

The Walk

The Lovecats

Inbetween Days

Close To Me

Why Can't I Be You?

Just Like Heaven

Lullaby

Lovesong

Never Enough

High

Friday I'm In Love

Mint Car

Wrong Number

Cut Here

Just Say Yes

Professional Review:

As Greatest 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 wasn't always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic "A Forest," the Blair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does is focus attention on the Cure's perennial unpredictability--the breathless claustrophobia of "Close to Me," the New Order-lite of "The Walk," the brass- section embellished thrust of "Why Can't I Be You." Oddly, chart-wise, the Cure's lost weekend began immediately after "Friday I'm 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

User Reviews:

Written on November 7, 2006
Summary: I love the Cure!
This is one of those CD's that goes in the player in the car and never comes out. I love the line up...all of my favorite Cure songs along with some I don't remember as clearly. A definite must-have.

Written on October 28, 2006
Summary: Past, Present, Always
Excellent!!! Great Music to listen and dance too!!!! I recommend it to everyone especially new fans. Enjoy!!!!

Written on October 9, 2006
Summary: They should release a 2-disc Greatest Hits Compilation.
...and this is the list of songs they should put on the compilation

Disc 1.
The Singles:1979-1987

1.Killing an Arab
2.10:15 Saturday Night
3.Boys Don't Cry
4.Jumping Someonelse's Train
5.A Forest
6.Play for Today
7.Primary
8.Other voices
9.Charlotte Sometimes
10.The Hanging Garden
11.Let's go to Bed
12.The Walk
13.The Lovecats
14.The Caterpillar
15.Inbetween Days
16.Close to me
17.A Night Like This
18.Why Can't I Be You?
19.Catch
20.Just Like Heaven
21.Hot Hot Hot!!!

Disc 2.
The Singles:1989-2004

1.Lullaby
2.Fascination Street
3.Lovesong
4.Pictures of You
5.Never Enough
6.Closr to me(Closer Mix)
7.High
8.Friday I'm in Love
9.A Letter to Elise
10.The 13th
11.Mint Car
12.Strange Attraction
13.Gone!
14.Wrong Number
15.Out of this World
16.Maybe Someday
17.Cut Here
18.Just Say Yes
19.The End of the World
20.Alt.End
21.Us or Them

Written on September 14, 2006
Summary: Hidden stuff
I found this info on the Internet; I haven't verified it yet.

1) Go to the song select. There is a hidden star after "Just Say Yes" that shows the "Greatest Hits" album cover.
2) "The Caterpillar" Highlight "The Walk" and press down, right, right.

3) "Close To Me (Closer Mix)" Highlight "Close To Me" and press up, up, up.

4) "Pictures Of You" Highlight "Friday I'm In Love" and press down, down, down.

All 18 videos are under Title 1, Chapters, 1-18.

All 6 acoustic videos are under Title 2, Chapters 1-6.

The Cover of the Greatest Hits album is under Title 3, Chapter 1.
There are three bonus videos:

"The Caterpillar" is under Title 4, Chapter 1.

"Pictures of You" is under Title 5, Chapter 1.

"Close to Me (Closer Mix)" is under Title 6, Chapter 1.

All of the videos, including the live and hidden videos are available in both 5.1 and stereo mixes.

Written on August 23, 2006
Summary: A bit thin of a career retrospective.
A career overview of tracks selected by Robert Smith, "Greatest Hits" may be a bit of a misnomer, at least here in the United States, but nonetheless this proves to be a fine overview of the Cure's tenure with Fiction Records-- the only shortcoming of the piece is that as a single disc, selection had to be carefully performed and a number of critical pieces were omitted.

The album opens with one of the band's early singles, the moody "Boys Don't Cry" and tracks their time with Fiction, from the early, somewhat bleak stuff ("A Forest") to the flirtations with pop ("Close to Me", "Why Can't I Be You?", "Just Like Heaven", breakthrough "Friday I'm in Love") to funky experiments (horn-laden single mix of "Close to Me", which is vastly superior to the album mix, "Mixed Up" new track "Never Enough") and the bleaker pieces the band's reputation centers around ("Lovesong"). The collection also includes a pair of new tracks-- "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes". Both are driven by programmed rhythms and while "Cut Here" is decent enough, I actually find the somewhat forced ecstacy of "Just Say Yes" to be downright irritating.

But there is a lot missing, and with the record clocking in at only 68 minutes, there was room for a bit more-- no "Killing An Arab" or "10:15 Saturday Night" from their early days, nothing at all from "Faith", "Pornography" or "The Top", with several pieces from those albums being fine candidates ("Shake Dog Shake", "Primary", non-album track "Charolotte Sometimes", "The Hanging Garden" or live set feature "One Hundred Years") and a noticably absent "Pictures of You" from "Disintegration" (curiously, it was included on the European release of the record). Maybe a two disc set would have served better, but certainly some of these could have been included with some songs quite frankly making me wonder why they were chosen in place of those ("High" for example).

Still, no collection is perfect, and this one does a pretty good job at what it targets. If you're new to the band, it's a decent overview.

A final note, when the album was initially released, it included a bonus disc with acoustic renditions of all the songs on the record-- fans will want to track this one down.

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