Close To Me: a Podcast about The Cure: Recent Episodes

Ben Shirai

Starting at the beginning and going album by album through The Cure's discography. PATREON: https://patreon.com/Closetome?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator

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1."Open"
2."High"
3."Apart"
4."From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea"
5."Wendy Time"
6."Doing the Unstuck"
7."Friday I'm in Love"
8."Trust"
9."A Letter to Elise"
10."Cut"
11."To Wish Impossible Things"
12."End"

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1 Why Can't I Be You? (12")
2 Catch
3 Hot Hot Hot!!! (12")
4 Just Like Heaven
5 Lullaby
6 Fascination Street
7 Lovesong
8 Pictures Of You
9 Never Enough
10 Close To Me (Closer Mix)

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  1. | "Lullaby" (Extended Mix) | 7:43
  2. | "Close to Me" (Closer Mix) | 5:44
  3. | "Fascination Street" (Extended Mix) | 8:47
  4. | "The Walk" (Everything Mix) | 5:27
  5. | "Lovesong" (Extended Mix) | 6:19
  6. | "A Forest" (Tree Mix) | 6:55
  7. | "Pictures of You" (Extended Dub Mix) | 6:41
  8. | "Hot Hot Hot!!!" (Extended Mix) | 7:01
  9. | "The Caterpillar" (Flicker Mix) | 5:27
  10. | "In Between Days" (Shiver Mix) | 6:22

  11. | "Never Enough" (Big Mix)

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Robert Smith – guitars, vocals, keyboards
Simon Gallup – bass, keyboards
Porl Thompson – guitars
Boris Williams – drums, percussion
Roger O'Donnell – keyboards
Lol Tolhurst – other instruments

1."Plainsong"
2."Pictures of You"
3."Closedown"
4."Lovesong"
5."Last Dance"
6."Lullaby"
7."Fascination Street"
8."Prayers for Rain"
9."The Same Deep Water as You"
10."Disintegration"
11."Homesick"
12."Untitled"

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We have been talking about it pretty much since the first episode and it finally happened, we went to the Cure Concert.

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  • ALEKSANDER

Side A
1. | "The Kiss"
2. | "Catch"
3. | "Torture"
4. | "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep"

Side B
1. | "Why Can't I Be You?"
2. | "How Beautiful You Are..."
3. | "The Snakepit"
4. | "Hey You!"

Side C
1. | "Just Like Heaven"
2. | "All I Want"
3. | "Hot Hot Hot!!!"
4. | "One More Time"
5. | "Like Cockatoos"

Side D
1. | "Icing Sugar"
2. | "The Perfect Girl"
3. | "A Thousand Hours"
4. | "Shiver and Shake"
5. | "Fight"

  • Robert Smith – guitar, keyboards, vocals, recorder on "The Snakepit" and "Like Cockatoos"
  • Simon Gallup – bass guitar
  • Porl Thompson – guitar, keyboards, saxophone on "Shiver and Shake"
  • Lol Tolhurst – keyboards
  • Boris Williams – drums, percussion
  • Roger O'Donnell – keyboards on live tracks from the deluxe edition

Guest musician

  • Andrew Brennen – saxophone on "Icing Sugar" and "Hey You!!!"

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Staring At The Sea: The Images (1986)
1 |  | Killing An Arab
2 |  | 10:15 Saturday Night
3 |  | Boys Don't Cry
4 |  | Jumping Someone Else's Train
5 |  | A Forest
6 |  | Play For Today
7 |  | Primary
8 |  | Other Voices
9 |  | Charlotte Sometimes
10 |  | The Hanging Garden
11 |  | Let's Go To Bed
12 |  | The Walk
13 |  | The Lovecats
14 |  | The Caterpillar
15 |  | In Between Days
16 |  | Close To Me
17 |  | A Night Like This

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HEAD ON THE DOOR (1985)
Robert Smith – vocals, guitars, keyboards, production
Lol Tolhurst – keyboards
Porl Thompson – guitars, keyboards
Simon Gallup – bass guitar
Boris Williams – drums, percussion
Ron Howe – saxophone on "A Night Like This"

Side one
1. | "In Between Days" 
2. | "Kyoto Song" 
3. | "The Blood" 
4. | "Six Different Ways" 
5. | "Push"

Side two
1. | "The Baby Screams"  
2. | "Close to Me" 
3. | "A Night Like This" 
4. | "Screw" 
5. | "Sinking"

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THE CURE "The Top" 
Released 4 May 1984[

Side A
"Shake Dog Shake" 
"Bird Mad Girl" (Smith, Tolhurst)  
"Wailing Wall"  
"Give Me It"  
"Dressing Up"  
Side B
"The Caterpillar" (Smith, Tolhurst) 
"Piggy in the Mirror" (Smith, Tolhurst)  
"The Empty World"  
"Bananafishbones"  
"The Top"  

Robert Smith – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, organ, recorder, violin, harmonica , production
Lol Tolhurst – other instruments
Andy Anderson – drums, percussion

Porl Thompson – saxophone

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BLUE SUNSHINE
Released 9 September 1983

  1. | "Like an Animal"  
  2. | "Looking Glass Girl" 
  3. | "Sex-Eye-Make-Up"  
  4. | "Mr. Alphabet Says"  
  5. | "A Blues in Drag"  
  6. | "Punish Me with Kisses"  
  7. | "This Green City" 
  8. | "Orgy"  
  9. | "Perfect Murder" 

  10. | "Relax"

  11. Robert Smith - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

  12. Steven Severin - bass, keyboards
  13. Jeanette Landray - vocals
  14. Andy Anderson - drums
  15. Martin McCarrick - keyboards, strings
  16. James SK Wān - electric kazoo
  17. Ginny Hewes - strings
  18. Anne Stephenson - strings

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CLOSE TO ME

Released16 December 1983
RecordedNovember 1982 – April 1983
All tracks written by Robert Smith and Laurence Tolhurst except as noted.

"Let's Go to Bed" 
"The Dream"
"Just One Kiss"
"The Upstairs Room" 
"The Walk" 
"Speak My Language" 
"Lament" 
"The Love Cats"

Robert Smith – vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar
Lol Tolhurst – keyboards, drum machine, vibraphone (6, 8)
Steve Goulding – drums (1, 3)
Phil Thornalley – double bass (6, 8)
Andy Anderson – drums (6, 8)

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Pornography
 released on 3 May 1982 by Fiction Records.
All songs written by The Cure (Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst)

Side A

  1. "One Hundred Years"
  2. "A Short Term Effect"
  3. "The Hanging Garden"
  4. "Siamese Twins"

Side B

  1. "The Figurehead"
  2. "A Strange Day"
  3. "Cold"
  4. "Pornography"

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Ben and Bryn are joined by Spidey to look at The Cure's 3rd album.

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FAITH
Released April 17, 1981

The CureRobert Smith – vocals, guitars, keyboards, six-string bass, production
Simon Gallup – bass guitar, production
Lol Tolhurst – drums, production

Mike Hedges – production, engineering
Graham Carmichael – engineering
David Kemp – engineering
Martyn Webster – engineering assistance
Porl Thompson – album cover design

Side A
1.  "The Holy Hour"  
2.  "Primary"
3.  "Other Voices" 
4.  "All Cats Are Grey" 

Side BNo.TitleLength
1.  "The Funeral Party"  
2.  "Doubt"  
3.  "The Drowning Man"  
4.  "Faith"

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Seventeen Seconds was released on 18 April 1980. 
Two members of the Magazine Spies, bass guitarist Simon Gallup and keyboardist Matthieu Hartley, were added to the band's lineup.  Gallup replaced Michael Dempsey.

  • Robert Smith – guitars, vocals, production
  • Matthieu Hartley – keyboards, production assistance
  • Lol Tolhurst – drums, production assistance
  • Simon Gallup – bass guitar, production assistance

Side A
1. | "A Reflection" | 2:12
2. | "Play for Today" | 3:40
3. | "Secrets" | 3:20
4. | "In Your House" | 4:07
5. | "Three" | 2:36

Side B
6. | "The Final Sound" | 0:52
7. | "A Forest" | 5:55
8. | "M" | 3:04
9. | "At Night" | 5:54
10. | "Seventeen Seconds"

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Having recorded demos which got them singed to Fiction Records, The Cure release Three Imaginary Boys onMay 11, 1979 by Fiction Records. 

Robert Smith – guitar, lead vocals (all but "Foxy Lady"), harmonica ("Subway Song")

Michael Dempsey – bass, backing and lead ("Foxy Lady") vocals

Lol Tolhurst – drums

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History and Demos (1964-1978)

Starting outs young boys in Crawly and moving though influences up to recording their first demos in 1978.

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