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The Cure - Greatest Hits
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
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Tracks| 1 | Boys Don't Cry | | 2 | A Forest | | 3 | Let's Go To Bed | | 4 | The Walk | | 5 | The Lovecats | | 6 | Inbetween Days | | 7 | Close To Me | | 8 | Why Can't I Be You? | | 9 | Just Like Heaven | | 10 | Lullaby | | 11 | Lovesong | | 12 | Never Enough | | 13 | High | | 14 | Friday I'm In Love | | 15 | Mint Car | | 16 | Wrong Number | | 17 | Cut Here | | 18 | Just Say Yes |
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