THE CURE 17 SECONDS 180 GRAM DOUBLE LP SET GATEFOLD JACKET RARE BONUS TRACKS

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THE CURE - SEVENTEEN SECONDS DOUBLE GATEFOLD JACKET LP SET 180 GRAM HEAVY VINYL  LIMITED EDITION LP WITH BONUS TRACKS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THIS OUT OF PRINT ISSUE - This was a rare limited edition 180 gram pressing of this CURE title AND THE GATEFOLD JACKET & YELLOW STICKER IS KEY TO OWNING THE ORIGINAL 2008 RELEASE. 

 

NOW OUT OF PRINT AND OUR LAST COPIES FOREVER TREMENDOUSLY RARE NOW AND THIS SET SELLS FOR CLOSE TO $300 IN THE COLLECTORS MARKET.

 

This 180 Gram Heavy Vinyl LP has been critically acclaimed & is a new listening experience that will virtually make you feel as if you were in the studio with the band.

 

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2008 Vinyl pressing reissue includes 15 bonus tracks. Originally released in 1980 as the follow up to their debut album, three imaginary boys, and featuring a new line-up that included Simon Gallup and Mathieu Hartley. This is the album that gave the band their first hit ('a forest') and also began to solidify the brooding atmospheric sound that would soon make these grandfathers of Goth International Pop icons. This edition features 15 bonus tracks from the deluxe CD edition.

 

This is an awesome, moody little album that fits right in today with the slew of bands going after the early-80s 'post-punk' sound. This disc marks the first of a masterful trilogy that continues with Faith and Pornography.

The Cure are famous for being gloomy, and this album backs it up, but it's not heavy or depressing and it never gets to be too much. Quite the opposite. Some songs are slower, like In Your House, while other like Play For Today (the first track after the instrumental opening) open up with an electronic calling in the back and a punchy little rhythm, immediately catchy, and the perfect length. Three, meanwhile, has the feeling of a dark jingle. At Night has a slow, fuzzy opening and a steady beat, sounding a little like a dark Police. The classic track A Forest sounds even richer in the remastered format. There's the classic Cure guitar, the bobbing basslines, some swishy help from the keyboards in the background to lend that gray atmosphere...it sounds like 1980, it's spot-on. The whole trilogy is accompanied by perfect album art--they each sound like the covers. A wash of muted colors on what looks like a blurry windshield here, to the mysterious gray, faint scribbling of Faith, to the tortured Scream-like cover of Pornography.

An addictive album of good songs, with Smith's voice never overbearing, nor never too much whining, and some very fine singing. Pornography would bring the band to a darker place, with its far more depressed quality. Seventeen Seconds is getting there, but it's minor-key pop with some very good production. Cure addicts may break it down more in terms of band lineups, but I find the whole release an excellent effort.

Quite frankly, better than most of the bands out there who were in diapers when this was released, you may as well check out the original thing. And at 30-odd minutes, it's the old style of complete, quality beginning-to-end albums perfect for a slow day at home, preferably in the middle of the week when it's raining.

The new Cure remastereds are excellent, a real value for fans. For one, the sound is vastly improved--just compare any track on here, but especially 'A Forest'--big difference. The bass is bigger, punchier, the sounds are all clearer and brought up front. The older, unremastered rock albums really do suffer with the original LP format--everything is flattened right out to the middle, while the new discs bring much-needed oomph to everything. The second disc is full of goodies, from demos to live versions of nearly the entire album in great sound quality. And of course, nice liner notes with actual notes, old pictures, the whole job.    TRACK LISTING - NOT EXACT TO THIS ORDER BUT THERE ALL ON THIS PRESSING   Disc: 1 - ORIGINAL LP TRACKS 1. A Reflection 2. Play for Today 3. Secrets 4. In Your House 5. Three 6. Final Sound 7. A Forest 8. M 9. At Night 10. Seventeen Seconds Disc: 2 - ALL BONUS TRACKS SOME LIVE  1. I'm A Cult Hero - 2. I Dig You  - 3. Another Journey By Train 4. Secrets 5. Seventeen Seconds 6. In Your House 7. Three 8. I Dig You 9. I'm A Cult Hero 10. M 11. Final Sound 12. A Reflection 13. Play for Today 14. At Night 15. A Forest

 

 

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