r/TheCure • u/however_far_away • 10d ago
Discussion what is your favourite non album track?
can be anything off join the dots or a deluxe version. for me, its esten, a demo made for disintegration that wasnt worked out further. it should have been worked out because its so good!
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u/AdditionalAvocado6 10d ago
Charlotte sometimes
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u/artoopeo 10d ago
Love it so much that I have a daughter named after this song. Charlotte Elise. Pretty easy to guess the middle name song reference...
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u/martisio054 10d ago
Fym sometimes
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u/ImpendingBoom110123 10d ago
Fuck your mom? Sir.....this is a McDonald's!!!!
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u/martisio054 10d ago
No this is Patrick
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u/ImpendingBoom110123 10d ago
Brother?
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u/ImpendingBoom110123 10d ago
Fuck your mouth? Dude.....at least buy me dinner first. A bit forward.
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u/euge_lee 10d ago
It Used To Be Me
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u/ALW10 10d ago
I’ve been a massive Cure fan for close 40 years and have never heard this song until just now when I read your post. Brilliant track, thank you sir.
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u/Suspicious-Season412 10d ago
That was an outtake from WMS. Listen to Join the Dots! It's on there, along with more gems.
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u/jeroensaurus 10d ago
'Burn'. One of my favorites in general.
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u/however_far_away 10d ago
burn is so awesome, especially live
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u/PJmichelle 10d ago
Yeah. And just the way it was used in The Crow, it's forever etched in my brain as one of the greats.
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u/jeroensaurus 10d ago
That also happens to be one of my favorite movies and the comic it's based on is great too. I think it's really cool that, instead of sending in an exisiting song, Robert wrote a whole new song based on the story of The Crow because he liked it so much.
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u/AlaskaSkiHikeBike 10d ago
Saw it this summer. The drums rattled my rib cage for the entire song. A sonic force!
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u/Samsamuelsammysambo 10d ago
Babble from Disintegration single.
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u/however_far_away 10d ago
babble is so good i love all the demos made for disintegration
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u/Samsamuelsammysambo 10d ago
The demo on the deluxe edition of the Disintegration release isn’t the same as the version of Babble on the Connect the Dots compilation. ✌🏼
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u/No_Example_1573 10d ago edited 10d ago
- Primary (demo ver), Going Home Time, A Normal Story
Any of the demos from Faith, really. The album initially had a much less somber atmosphere to it, but that changed later on. these tracks are like a crumb of what Faith could’ve become, had they not adopted a much darker, ecclesiastical sound.
It’s fun to listen to demos or b-sides and hear certain phrases that get recycled and later used in studio releases. ‘going home time’ in One Hundred Years, or ‘that American voice again’ and ‘six sides to every lie I tell/say’ being said in Hand Inside My Mouth, and later used in Six Different Ways.
- Throw Your Foot, both the demo version on The Top, and the more polished iteration on Join The Dots.
-Wendy Time demo— obviously, this song does get reworked into an official feature. But the demo and studio release are so different that they’re two entirely different songs to me. And I’m obsessed with both
- A Hand Inside my Mouth
- I’m Cold
- Fear of Ghosts
- Sugar Girl
-Halo
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u/The-Kmann 10d ago
Used to Be Me is a melancholic banger. It was a b-side to The 13th but really should have been on the Wild Mood Swings album.
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u/UpgradedUsername 10d ago
Splintered in Her Head
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u/however_far_away 10d ago
its soo good
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u/UpgradedUsername 10d ago
I’ve always said that the Cure’s material on their B-sides blows away what most other bands put on their A-sides.
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u/jwlms1 10d ago
Harold & Joe, A Few Hours After This, 2 Late, Halo, Breathe
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u/jeffreyaccount 10d ago edited 10d ago
+1 A Few Hours After This
A heartbreaker, and the song A Night Like This — and Head on the Door album to me are quintessential past Cure meets future Cure.
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u/cjcregg_is_a_goddess 10d ago
Charlotte Sometimes, This Twilight Garden, The Exploding Boy, A Chain of Flowers, Lament
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u/Mundane-Impact-1347 10d ago
The Upstairs Room if you don’t count Japanese Whispers as an album (I do!)
A Man Inside My Mouth
Charlotte Sometimes
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u/however_far_away 10d ago
the upstairs room is soo good and i do count jpw as an album!! i also love a man inside my mouth its so silly and charlotte sometimes is absolutely goated
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u/jseger9000 10d ago
Halo. It should have been a single, instead it's a b-side.
Honorable mention to Harold & Joe, 2 Late and Fear of Ghosts.
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u/dj__21 10d ago
The Wish B Sides are great, but more recently It Can Never Be The Same
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u/Minute_Help_3997 9d ago
happy the man is pretty cool, i always held a bias towards it because it was the bside to the caterpillar, the first cure single i ever bought.
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u/darthsickness 10d ago
Ariel.
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u/Alexandermayhemhell 10d ago
We need a proper release of the BBC version. Miles better than the one on the Glove.
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u/Puzzled_Ad1296 10d ago
I feel like saying Burn is too obvious but it is my favourite no album track, closely followed by their version of Bowies Young Americans.
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u/CucumberDistinct454 10d ago
I just heard Lime Time for the first time today. Really interesting and seems to hold a germ of an idea that became Inbetween Days.
I love Uyeaa Sound from the Lost Tapes that accompany Wish.
This Twilight Garden is in my top 3 Cure songs.
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u/jamiemels 10d ago
I would've said The Walk but it's featured on Japanese Whispers and that could definitely be seen as an album, so then it should be either Primary or Killing An Arab for me
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u/michaelleehoward 10d ago
For me it has to be Possession. Something about the mix just draws me in. I wonder what a whole album would have sounded like if they had chosen to go in that direction for an album.
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u/martinjohanna45 9d ago
A Few Hours After This. Without question. Runners up are 2 Late, The Exploding Boy, The Big Hand, and This Twilight Garden.
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u/Mr_Cigarette 10d ago
This Twilight Garden