The Cure Assemblage (1991) 12 CD Box Set

The Cure - Assemblage (1991) 12 CD Box Set  Music

Posted by Designol at April 29, 2023
The Cure - Assemblage (1991) 12 CD Box Set

The Cure - Assemblage (1991) 12 CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 3.17 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.28 Gb | Scans ~ 147 Mb
Label: Fiction Records | # 511 124-2 | Time: 09:01:38
Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave

Rare 1991 French-only 12-CD set, comprising all their albums from Three Imaginary Boys to Disintegration in individual card wallet picture sleeves, plus 68-page deluxe illustrated booklet [all text in French], housed in a picture box with pull-out tray and die-cut band logo section with rotating wheel insert!

The Cure - Happily Ever After (1981) US Press 1987  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 22, 2023
The Cure - Happily Ever After (1981) US Press 1987

The Cure - Happily Ever After (1981) US Press 1987
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 397 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 167 Mb | Scans ~ 55 Mb
Post-Punk, Gothic Rock | Label: A&M Records | # CD 6020 | Time: 01:12:43

For American ears only, in the years before a new deal with Elektra finally granted the Cure the access to the airwaves that they'd all but given up dreaming of, …Happily Ever After is nothing less than a two-for-one repackaging of the band's second and third European albums, the brooding gloom of Seventeen Seconds and the affirmative darkness of Faith. It makes for discomforting listening, both for newcomers to the sound of the early group and for fans more accustomed to experiencing the two records in separate sittings. Together with the band's fourth album, Pornography, the two LPs here were the sound of the Cure racing to distance themselves not simply from their early reputation as a moody power pop band, but also from any of the other comparisons, compadres, and contemporaries that the post-punk scene could throw at them. Seventeen Seconds, one U.K. review famously remarked, was the sound of the band sitting in a dark room, staring at clocks. Faith was what happened when those clocks stopped.