The track listing is mostly old songs (2/3 are from before Wish), with two new tracks (sounding a bit less tired than recent Cure; at least Robert isn't moping about growing old and having forever lost the angst of youth or what have you; and one of them features a more electronic production; and one less feeble than Smith and Reeves Gabrels' GrooveBox noodlings). There are a few notable omissions (for one, it jumps straight from A Forest to Let's Go To Bed, missing out two of their better (if not best) albums).
I'll probably get the DVD as well, when it comes out. Some of the videos would be worth having (though it'd be nice if they put on Charlotte Sometimes, for example; and one can always wish for the Carnage Visors short film).
As if by strange coincidence, after having bought the CD, I stepped into Slow Glass Books and noticed an issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction with a story titled Doing the Unstuck, by Paul Di Filippo, and filled with Cure references.
Btw, I read the Paul Di Filippo story. It's very silly.
Actually, I meant "not bad", not "not good". It's quite reasonable in fact.
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Wed Nov 21 07:58:24 2001
that's a bugger about the acoustic disc, that'd be the only reason I'd get the best of.
Funny thing about Cure references in fiction though. I'll probably get around to posting up the next two portions of Highway Gothic, part two finishes up with the Cure concert, with a couple of jokes there.