The Cure King Biscuit Flower Hour DLP 16/2/86 Listed No4 RC
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The Cure Ultra Rare King Biscuit Flower Hour DLP 16/2/86 Listed No4 RC
These King Biscuit promo LPs are just impossibly rare and hard to find, see the attached link from record collector issue 106 June 1988. both LPs are in VG condition.
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/discography/rarities.html
The Cure Top 100 Rarities
Record Collector, Number 106, June 1988
Compiled by Dave Thompson
Additional information by Lorne Murdoch
In the four years since RC last looked at the Cure (issue 61), the band have firmly established themselves as a top line attraction around the world, and this new found success is reflected in the nature of their greatest rarities. It is no great surprise that, as their profile has risen, so their record companies in each territory have devoted more and more energy to devising new "collectibles" for the market. Indeed, many of the rarest releases listed here are promotional devices -- picture discs, coloured vinyls, and so on. At the other end of the scale, however, many of the band's earliest releases are today very hard to come by; even those singles which made the lower reaches of the UK chart are attracting very high prices, while foreign promotional copies of these are equally sought-after. Almost predictably, the scarcest items are either those produced in very limited editions (the King Biscuit Flower Hour albums, various promos and test pressings) or those items never made available to the public, like the acetate of "A Forest". Other items, like the vinyl promos of "Carnage Visors" and "Curiosity", and test pressings of the unreleased "Grinding Halt" -- once scheduled as the Cure's second UK single -- also fall into this category. Foreign releases take a fair share of the action, with two Spanish items ranking amongst the Top 20 price-wise, including an exclusive coupling of two tracks from the "Head on the Door" album. The most important, and most sought-after of all the items are the US radio albums. Whereas most other records featured are simply vinyl variations of conventional releases, the King Biscuit Flower Hour discs near the top of our list comprise otherwise unavailable live versions. no more than four hundred copies of each were pressed (the Dutch radio album, lower in the chart, appears to have been made available in considerably greater numbers), and as with similar releases by the likes of U2, Bruce Springsteen and so on, there is little doubt that these sets will continue to appeal to collectors.
- Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (US 12" promo in "First Aid" box, 100 only) 100
- A Forest (UK metal acetate) 70
- Westwood One (US radio show, live double, b/w Europe) 60
- King Biscuit Flower Hour (US radio show, double, 16/02/86) 60
- King Biscuit Flower Hour (US radio show, double, 21/09/86) 60
- I'm a Cult Hero/I Dig You (UK 7" promo, Fiction) 55
- Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (US 7-track promo sampler CD) 55
- King Biscuit Flower Hour (US radio show, "Outfield", double, 12/06/87) 55
- Carnage Visors (12" test pressing) 50
- Grinding Halt/Meathook (UK 7" test pressing) 50
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