Anxiety said:

Coo!

Moonbeam said:

okay, THAT seems like a perfect time to sign off...dinner time catch y'all later!

endorphin74 said:

"Canoe Feel the Love Tonight?"

TRON said:

OH

MY

GOD



i'm really leavin now

byeeeee

endorphin74 said:

Great. Drove another good one away.

So anyway, back on topic...

What does everyone think of Mixed Up?

TRON said:

don't worry - it's not like he fled north to canoe-da or anything.

Anxiety said:

Actually LOL.

TRON said:

i know it has its fans, so i will apologize for this up front (sorry!), but:



it just felt like the cure was so far away from itself with that and wish and wild mood swings. i'm sure there's a lot of good material i'm not giving a chance by saying that, and 'join the dots' turned me on to some good recordings from that era, but 'mixed up' just isn't the kind of thing that represents why i love the cure.

though i will admit that 'never enough' is a semi-decent song, and i've always thought the 'fascination street' remix is The Deal.

Anxiety said:

I have kind of a weird background with this album.

I first knew of The Cure in '87 and started buying their stuff in '89. I actually had Mixed Up before any of their older albums, even Staring at the Sea. And to my naive ears, I liked the newer, snazzier remixes way more than the old, dirgey originals. I still think most of the remixes are pretty decent as far as remixes go, and the extended versions just build upon the originals, so the album is half true to The Cure anyway. Most of the Cure fans that I knew at the time were like, "Geez, what do you like about it?" But now that I know all of their work, I wonder what it was that I was missing about their early work. Why didn't I connect with it right away. Perhaps cuz I was young and didn't know any better. Cuz now I hardly ever put on Mixed Up. I still listen to their old stuff all the time.

i liked the remixes i heard from 'kiss me' and 'disintegration'. they seemed to keep true to the mood of the original songs, and they didn't get too housey-clubby/generic. i'm very picky with remixes, especially with new wave/80s pop remixes. there was just so much crap done to so many good songs.

probably Staring at the Sea, just cuz i have so many great memories listening to that album. i agree that Greatest Hits was kinda pointless.


off topic a little bit, but does anyone have the single edit for out of this world?

JonSnow said:

I do! And the "Maybe Someday" one.

TRON said:

i have maybe someday, but i've been searching for OOTW for ages. I saw a couple on ebay a while back but i didn't pay close enough attention. I really need to find a copy of that promo.

there was also a promo of The Last Day of Summer, correct? Is it the album version?

TRON said:

TRONNIE!!!!! Where ya been hidin?????

JonSnow said:

Yeah, to my knowledge the "Last Day of Summer" one is the album version.

If I knew how to do that yousendit business, I'd send you the "Out of This World" edit.

bratchildsfriend said:

I only come out when Gangsta's away.

TRON said:

yeah I don't know how to do yousendit either... no worries though, i'll get it on ebay eventually

I don't even consider "Japanese Whispers" a compilation. I mean, it really could/should be viewed as a bona-fide stand-alone album these days.

TRON said:

You need to get back here and kick Gangsta's butt to the curb. He's edging in on all YOUR territory ~ Bowie, Bjork, The Cure, TORI for God Sake. You need to set that boy straight!!!!

Novabreaker said:

bratchildsfriend said:

GangstaFam said:

is it kinda like how beta band's 'three e.p.s' album isn't considered a collection of singles as much as it is an album in its own right?

GangstaFam said:

"Maybe Someday" was a U.S. top 10 modern rock hit if that means anything.

Now I have an excuse to post this Cure U.S. chart discography that I had been saving since the last big Cure thread:

LPs
Boys Don't Cry - did not chart
Seventeen Seconds - did not chart
Faith - did not chart
Pornography - did not chart
The Walk - #179
Japanese Whispers - #181
The Top - #180
The Head On The Door - #59
Standing On A Beach - #48
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - #35
Disintegration - #12
Mixed Up - #14
Wish - #2
Show - #42
Paris - #118
Wild Mood Swings - #12
Galore - #32
Bloodflowers - #16
Greatest Hits - #58
The Cure - #7
Join The Dots - did not chart

Singles
Boys Don't Cry/Jumping Someone Else's Train - #70 dance
A Forest - #47 dance
Primary - #25 dance
Let's Go To Bed - #109 hot 100, #32 dance
Love Cats - #107 hot 100, #52 dance
In Between Days (Without You) - #99 hot 100, #39 dance
Close To Me - #32 dance
Why Can't I Be You - #54 hot 100, #27 dance
Just Like Heaven - #40 hot 100, #28 dance
Hot Hot Hot!!! - #65 hot 100, #11 dance
Fascination Street - #46 hot 100, #1 modern rock, #7 dance
Love Song - #2 hot 100, #2 modern rock, #7 dance
Lullaby - #74 hot 100, #23 modern rock, #31 dance
Pictures Of You - #71 hot 100, #19 modern rock, #33 dance
Never Enough - #72 hot 100, #1 modern rock, #6 dance
Hello I Love You - #6 modern rock
Close To Me (remix) - #97 hot 100, #33 dance
High - #42 hot 100, #1 modern rock, #22 dance
Friday I'm In Love - #18 hot 100, #1 modern rock, #32 dance
A Letter To Elise - #2 modern rock
Purple Haze - #2 modern rock
The 13th - #44 hot 100, #15 modern rock
Mint Car - #58 hot 100, #14 modern rock
Wrong Number - #8 modern rock
Maybe Someday - #10 modern rock
The End Of The World - ?? modern rock

I think 'Greatest Hits' is okay for playing in the car when I don't have time to listen to both 'Standing On A Beach' and 'Galore'. It serves that purpose just like Prince's 'The Very Best Of Prince' and The Banshees' 'The Best Of Siouxsie And The Banshees'. Sometimes you want a slice, but not the whole cake.

I found the the acoustic disc in 'Greatest Hits' to be pretty lifeless, though.

I like Mixed Up. It was my first introduction to their pre-Disintegration material and I fell in love with those remixes. To this day, I love the Tree Mix of "A Forest" every bit as much as the original. The only one I really struggle with on there is the remix of "Inbetween Days".

TRON said:

My main problem with 'Mixed Up' was that I had half of those tracks already from the 12" singles. I made my own revised album excluding the regular extended versions and in their place adding the remixed b-sides that didn't make it on there ("Let's Go To Bed", "Primary" and "Just Like Heaven") as well as the 86 extended version of "Boys Don't Cry" and the live version of "Disintegration" from the "Pictures Of You" CD (which I always felt was superior to the album version). I also put them all in chronological order. I like listening to it a lot more this way.

sextonseven said:

I made a pretty cool Mixed Up Part 2. I'll post the results if I can find 'em.

I like this one the best.

It's the first Cure album I ever bought. And since it was in cassette form, it included the B-sides on side 2.

It was "just like Heaven".

Them other ones are cool too, but I like this one the best.

NWF said:

Me too! It was also my first taste of The Cure.