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Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years) (Box Set) (CD)

By: The Cure (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years) (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Cure (Artist)
1   10:15 Saturday Night
2   Plastic Passion
3   Pillbox Tales
4   Do The Hansa
5   I'm Cold
6   Another Journey By Train
7   Descent
8   Splintered In Her Head
9   Lament
10   Just One Kiss
11   Dream, The
12   Upstairs Room, The
13   Lament
14   Speak My Language
15   Mr. Pink Eye
16   Happy The Man
17   Throw Your Foot
18   New Day
19   Exploding Boy, The
20   Few Hours After This, A
21   Man Inside My Mouth, A
22   Stop Dead
 
DISC 2 for Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years) (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Cure (Artist)
1   Japanese Dream, A
2   Breathe
3   Chain Of Flowers, A
4   Snow In Summer
5   Sugar Girl
6   Icing Sugar
7   Hey You!!!! - (Extended mix)
8   How Beautiful You Are
9   To The Sky
10   Babble
11   Out Of Mind
12   2 Late
13   Fear Of Ghosts
14   Hello I Love You
15   Hello I Love You - (Slight Return mix)
16   Hello I Love You - (Psychedelic mix)
17   Harold And Joe
18   Just Like Heaven - (Dizzy mix)
 
DISC 3 for Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years) (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Cure (Artist)
1   This Twilight Garden
2   Play
3   Halo
4   Scared As You
5   Big Hand, The
6   Foolish Arrangement, A
7   Doing The Unstuck
8   Purple Haze - (live)
9   Purple Haze
10   Burn
11   Young Americans
12   Dredd Song
13   It Used To Be Me
14   Ocean
15   Adonais
 
DISC 4 for Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years) (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Cure (Artist)
1   Home
2   Waiting
3   Pink Dream, A
4   This Is A Lie - (Ambient mix)
5   Wrong Number
6   More Than This
7   World In My Eyes
8   Possession - (previously unreleased)
9   Out Of This World - (Steve Osbourne/Paul Oakenfold mix)
10   Maybe Someday - (Acoustic mix)
11   Coming Up
12   Signal To Noise - (Acoustic mix, previously unreleased)
13   Signal To Noise
14   Just Say Yes - (Curve mix, previously unreleased)
15   Forest, A - (featuring Earl Slick)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/19/04, p.72) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Many of the songs on JOIN THE DOTS would have fit perfectly on various Cure records..."
Spin (2/04, p.100) - "[I]t's a fine survey of their ambient pop sorrow, simultaneously pained and giddy."
Entertainment Weekly (3/5/04, p.68) - "[D]isc 1 is essential [and] even the lesser material leaves lipstick traces." - Rating: B+
Uncut (2/04, p.86) - 3 stars out of 5 - "This 70-song curiosity box mopes about the dank bus terminals and spooked back alleys of Curetown....In its own darkling way, this collection might even give you the best feel for the place."
Mojo (Publisher) (2/04, pp.106-7) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A] band whose influence is, against all the odds, still active, still oozing through the teenage consciousness into full-grown bands."

Title Note

Includes 76-page book.

The Cure includes: Robert Smith (vocals, guitar); Porl Thompson (guitar); Simon Gallup, Michael Dempsey (bass); Lol Tolhurst (drums).

Producers include: Chris Parry, Robert Smith, Mike Hedges, Dave Allen, The Cure.

Compilation producer: Robert Smith.

Recorded between 1978 & 2001. Includes liner notes by Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, and Johnny Black.

A remarkable four-disc set of B-sides and rarities, JOIN THE DOTS serves as a sort of alternate history for the Cure, one of the world's most beloved post-punk/alt-rock bands. Painstakingly compiled by Cure frontman (and the group's only constant member) Robert Smith, DOTS provides dozens of glimpses into the literal flip-side of their singles by collecting many long-lost tracks, including the classic songs previously featured only on the cassette version of STARING AT THE SEA: THE SINGLES.

Disc one begins in the late 1970s and consists of early tracks that show the Cure in a wildly adventurous mode--tearing into the punky "Pillbox Tales," drifting through the gloomy "Descent," and bouncing along to the oddly danceable "Throw Your Foot." By disc two, Smith and the lads have become college-rock heroes, and despite their goth looks, they move steadily into poppier territory on songs such as the synth-laden "Breathe" and the upbeat "Hey You!!!," eventually settling into their dreamy post-DISINTEGRATION era on "This Twilight Garden," "Halo," and "Home" on the third and fourth discs. Also included are cover tunes and remixes, topping off an impressive collection that features many could've-been A-sides (particularly "The Exploding Boy," "Harold and Joe," and "Signal to Noise") and reveals why a younger generation has become entranced by the Cure's dynamic sound.

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