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Staring at the Sea - The Singles |  | Artist: The Cure
Label: Fiction
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 8805
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 042282923929
EAN: 0042282923929
ASIN: B00002615M
Release Date: December 31, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Killing An Arab | | • | 10.15 Saturday Night | | • | Boys Don't Cry | | • | Jumping Someone Else's Train | | • | Forest | | • | Play For Today | | • | Primary | | • | Other Voices | | • | Charlotte Sometimes | | • | Hanging Garden | | • | Let's Go To Bed | | • | Walk | | • | Love Cats | | • | The caterpillar | | • | In between days | | • | Close to me | | • | A night like this |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Big and moody, iStaring at the Sea/i compiles some hits and near-misses of these excavators of the dark soul. Beginning with their earliest hits--the sparse "Killing an Arab", the aptly tedious "10:15 Saturday Night" and the charming "Boys Don't Cry"--this collection stops before the comparative giddiness of iKiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me/i. Musicians first, brooding art types second, The Cure's unique instrumentation doesn't get the credit it rightfully deserves. The thrashy, trash-can break in "Jumping Someone Else's Train", the sprightly synthesized recorder of "Close to Me" and the techno-pop disco lines in "Let's Go to Bed" and "The Walk" are downright brilliant in their effectiveness and simplicity. i--Steve Gdula /i
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Sometimes I Dream July 30, 2001
Matthew Giuliano (Philadelphia, PA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Staring at the Sea is a collection of singles from the band's albums from Three Imaginary Boys (released in America as Boys Don't Cry, with a few variations) in 1979 up through Head on the Door in 1985. This album provides a fine panorama of the Cure's progression from a power (punk) trio (Killing an Arab, Boys Don't Cry), through the heavily synthesized sounds of Faith (Other Voices), the gothic, drum machine of Pornography (The Hanging Garden), to the Cure's most complex (and commercially successful) arrangements in Head on the Door (Inbetween Days, Close to Me). New fans will instantly fall in love with Boys Don't Cry, Love Cats, Caterpillar, Inbetween Days and Close to Me. Killing an Arab was the band's first single, and despite its name, is merely an adaptation of Albert Camus' The Stranger, not a reflection of any racial animosity. Charlotte Sometimes is a gem on this album. It was never released on a full-length album, yet it is a favorite of many Cure fans; the studio version is a bit sluggish, though, and fans will find that songs like Let's Go to Bed, The Walk, and Charlotte (though cleverly appealing as mid-80s antiquities) are literally transformed by the performances of these songs in the live CDs Show and Paris. This compilation is outstanding, though. New fans are encouraged to check out Galore, which is a collection of more recent singles that most people are more familiar with, but when you are ready to fall in love with the Cure, and you will, this album should immediately become part of your CD collection.
great February 3, 2000
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
By far the best Cure album ever done. Listen and Buy, worth it just for close to me and Lovecats
A fantastic introduction to The Cure... April 12, 2008
Dakota
...but I do wonder why they insist on making a cd like this, with mostly singles from albums and then one or two non-album releases that you can't find anywhere else. This has some of my favourite ever songs on it, but if I were to buy this album, it would be for the two or so songs that I don't have - it's not really fair/value for money for long time fans.
Ideal intro to classic Cure May 1, 2002
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I'm an admirer of the Cure rather than a fully paid up fan, and don't own any Cure albums other than this, but among the 17 songs here are 5 bona fide masterpieces.pI hadn't heard Killing an arab for 20 years, and for me it's the absolute best Cure song ever - the arabian-style guitar, the brilliant guitar work, the atmosphere, the desolate lyrics. 10:15 saturday night is another work in the same mould - wonderfully atmospheric, brilliant guitar breaks.p A forest must be the definitive Cure song - hypnotic bass, guitar and vocals and swooshy sound effects over a drum machine - a bit Doctor Who-ish in a way, and totally - well, yes - brilliant. Then there's The love cats - a song which is virtually impossible to sit still to. Double bass and piano - your grandma would love it too. Finally there's Close to me, a song that's sounds as if it's been put together in the kitchen with string and sellotape, which is what gives it it's charm.pThere's a lot of other songs on this album, but for me it's those 5 that make this compilation a must have.
Nuggets amongst the dirges October 6, 2001
corduroyangel@aol.com (Kendal, Cumbria)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'll admit, I'm not a committed Cure fan, but BLIMEY did they write some great songs! A lot of their album stuff, for which I just never had the patience and perseverance, is thankfully given another chance on this value-for-money compilation. How could anyone resist Love Cats, Let's Go To Bed or Inbetween Days? I've always loved Smith for his unnerving juxtaposition of the upbeat melody, the suicidal lyric and the frankly comedic video, mixed in various proportions according to the individual track recipe. Crazy, loveable, sexy and highly individual - I hate to break it to you but there'll never be another Cure. If you need proof it's Staring At The Sea.
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