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The Cure - Galore Audio CD

A fair review of the The Cure "Galore" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Cure reviews here, or go back to the The Cure tabs.

The Cure Band: The Cure
Title: Galore
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-10-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Why Can't I Be You? 2: Catch 3: Just Like Heaven 4: Hot Hot Hot!!! 5: Lullaby 6: Fascination Street 7: Lovesong 8: Pictures of You 9: Never Enough 10: Close to Me [Closet Remix] 11: High 12: Friday I'm in Love 13: Letter to Elise 14: 13th [Swing Radio Mix] 15: Mint Car [Radio Mix] 16: Strange Attraction [Album Mix] 17: Gone! [Radio Mix] 18: Wrong Number

Sound Check, please!
g. The songs themselves are as good as everyone says, however, there's a major problem with the mastering on this collection! Some songs (e. , "Close to Me") are so soft that I have to crank up the volume on my headphones to make out the words, and then when louder songs come on (e. g. , "Friday I'm in Love"), my ears get blasted and I have to rush to turn it back down again. Not a fun listening experience, despite the brilliant tunes! I'd be interested to hear if people buying the CD version have the same problem or if it's just the mp3 album.


Excellent first half. But incomplete.
So I've been on a long ride with them. I've been a Cure fan since I was 10 back in '87 and they were my first real band that I liked. Unfortunately I had to put with their stuff from the 90's as opposed to growing up in the 80's when they were at the height of their creativity. That's where this Singles compilation gets hit hard. This compliation covers many songs from only 4 albums; 1987's 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me', 1989's 'Disitegration', 1992's 'Wish' and 1996's 'Wild Mood Swings'. Plus 3 singles 1990's 'Never Enough', 'Close To Me' (remix) and new single 'Wrong Number'.

The first 8 tracks are excellent mainly to the fact that they came from quite possibly their two best albums in Kiss Me. . . and Disintegration. The next 5 are very good with Never Enough (original version) and the remixed version of Close To Me, while the next 3 are singles from the good, but patchy at times 'Wish' album. However due to radio overkill I can't listen to 'Friday, I'm In Love' anymore without cringing. Us Cure fans know that they have better songs that deserve more recognition. The last 5 songs fall short by Cure standards with 4 songs from the bad 'Wild Mood Swings' and the below average 'Wrong Number'.

All in all, if you get this you'll want to own 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' and 'Disintegration' eventually. Which is why you should probably just save up a few more dollars and just get those 2 albums instead. This compilation ends on such a bad note that I wish that they had waited until they released 'Bloodflowers' and their self titled 'The Cure' for a wider range of sounds and more material for a proper second 'Singles' compilation. Somehow I almost feel like this was rushed out to appease the masses after the catastrophe that was 'Wild Mood Swings'. Unless you're a complete novice to The Cure there's no real reason go out and get this.


Relentlessly cheerful
The Cure are perfect car music and this selection of their boppy singles is a good representation of their later work. I bought this album for just one track - 'Lullaby' - but am playing the whole thing endlessly. .


Single Versions of songs used rather than Album versions
The only reason it does not include 'A Head on the Door' is that those songs were included on the Best of Vol 1 called 'Standing on a Beach'
But 'A Head on the Door' really belong on this comp. Galore covers the Cure from 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me' through 'Wild Mood Swings'.

Some problems with this era are that Robert Smith wrote a few great songs on KMKMKM, then Disintegration, which is the best CD in the catalog, then Wish. . . which has a few great songs, and finally Wild Mood Swings. . . which isn't very good.

But after reading 62 Amazon regarding this cd, not one person mentioned that several of the song are the single version and not the album versions.
They are:
# "Just Like Heaven" (Bob Clearmountain Mix) - 3:32
# "Hot Hot Hot!!!" (Francois Kevorkian and Ron St. Germain Mix) - 3:35
# "Lullaby" (Single Mix) - 4:10
# "Fascination Street" (Single Mix) - 4:20
# "Lovesong" (Single Mix) - 3:28
# "Pictures of You" (Single Mix) - 4:48
# "Never Enough" (Single Mix) - 4:28
# "Close to Me" (Closest Mix) - 4:21
# "High" (Single Mix) - 3:33
# "Friday I'm in Love" (Single Mix) - 3:36
# "A Letter to Elise" (Single Mix) - 4:20
# "The 13th" (Swing Radio Mix) - 4:17
# "Mint Car" (Radio Mix) - 3:31
# "Strange Attraction" (Album Mix) - 4:21
# "Gone!" (Radio Mix)

So it is well worth seeking out each individual cd to get the album versions, which are better.

The second problem I have with this comp is the song selection.
They get all the best songs from Kiss Me & Disintegration , and Wish, but there are way too many songs from Wild Mood Swings.
The new song, wrong number is very good, btw.
So if I were making a vol 2 to Standing on a Beach, here would be my best of:
1) In Between Days
2) Close to me (Version off of Head on the Door)
3) Push
4) Why Can't I be You
5) Catch
6) If only Tonight we could sleep
7) Just Like Heaven
8) Pictures of You
9) Lullaby
10)Fascination Street
11) Love Song
12) Friday I'm in Love
13) A Letter to Elise
14) High
15) To wish impossible Things
16) The 13th
17) Mint Car
18) Wrong Number.


A great find!
I found it in a box of random cds near a dumpster of an apartment complex. This is the album that introduced me to The Cure. Now I don't know why someone would want to throw this cd away because I think it is fantastic, I guess one persons trash is anothers treasure. Personally I like the first half of the album better than the second, but in general all the songs are decent. My favorite is lullaby! Like another reviewer wrote it is eerie and I love the lyrics and the video as well--go check it out. Other than lullaby my other favorites are why can't I be you, hot hot hot, fascination street, wrong number and gone! I give it a 4/ 5 and definitely recommend it! .


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