The Cure - Peel Sessions

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Album Details: Peel Sessions

Release Date:: 01/01/1988
Label:: Dutch East
UPC:: 017531834127

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after the bullocks
, January 26, 2000
Reviewer: geko_91205 - See all geko_91205's reviews

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Everyone is always curious to know how the peel seesions version of any band sounds in comparison to the actual finished product. Well, if you're expecting unraw melody, don't come round to the peel sessions. This is the Cure in the early days at their rawest, breaking away from the post punk era. Too bad it doesn't have 8 tracks like the Siouxsie peel seesions."Boys Don't Cry makes all the difference.+
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Though it was by no means the greatest John Peel Session that the Cure ever recorded (that honor belongs to their 1981 airing), the band's debut on the show, in late 1978, remains one of their bestloved, as the then allbut unknown quartet previewed four of the songs that knowing journalists had already tagged the sound of "the southern Buzzcocks.

Recorded on November 12 for broadcast on December 4, "Killing An Arab" (the group's stillunreleased debut single), "10:15 Saturday Night," "Fire In Cairo," and "Boys Don't Cry" all peeled out of Robert Smith's thenfirm grasp on the mechanics of postpunk power pop, a little rougher and rawer than the versions that would eventually make it onto vinyl, but crackling with precision and energy regardless.Michael Dempsey later admitted, "the...songs captured the spirit far more than the album versions...more like the original demos that had secured our recording contract in the first place, just better quality. All [the] songs in the first...session should be seen as the definitive sound of the early Cure." Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

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