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| The Cure - Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Cure
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $5.69
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Avg. Customer Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 1391
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 62726
UPC: 075596272629
EAN: 0075596272629
ASIN: B00005R09Z
Release Date: November 13, 2001
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| Customer Reviews:
 Solid Greatest Hits Compilation February 5, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The tracks chosen are The Cure's more up-tempo, high energy pop songs. Perhaps this will not satisfy the hardcore fan, but I think the tracks on this CD are well chosen for those who are not acquainted with The Cure's body of work or didn't grow up listening to alternative music in the 80's. Not a good retrospective compilation, but a solid greatest hits collection. It has a good choice of songs to introduce The Cure to a new generation.
 DEPRESSINGLY GREAT ! August 24, 2005
2 out of 21 found this review helpful
PICTURE PINK FLOYD IF THEY WERE A GARAGE BAND FROM THE 80'S AND IF THEY REALLY SUCKED...NOW GIVE THEM A LITTLE TALENT, TEMPO, AND SONGWRITING AND YOU WOULD HAVE A PRETTY KILLER BAND CALLED THE CURE......EVERY SONG HERE IS A CLASSIC AND IT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF REALLY LAME CHICKS WITH THEIR NOSES IN THE AIR BACK IN THE 80'S....YEAH , ROBERT SMITH IS A DRAG AND HIS BRITISH DEPRESSION GETS BORING FAST...BUT STILL YOU LISTEN AND YOU ENJOY THE CURE...'BOYS DON'T CRY' KICKS THINGS OFF AND IT ONLY GOES UPHILL FROM THERE...ITS ALL GOOD HERE, THOUGH I LIKE PUNK BANDS MORE AND I THINK SABBATH DEFINES DEPRESSION BETTER...I STILL LIKE THE CURE THOUGH ...AND FOR ALL YOU LAME CHICKS IN THE 80S...WELL, I HOPE YER ON WELLFARE.....--CLARK HAGINS.
Bowing to Robert January 29, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm so mad at myself for not listening to them sooner. I started listening to them when I was a senior in high school, 3 years ago. I brought this cd, my first Cure cd, when I moved to Manhattan for college. I was really depressed from leaving Dallas, and I have to say, WOW! The Cure really did CURE me.
These songs were amazing and I just love every song on it.
Just Like Heaven is no doubt my wedding song. So, about every week I ended up going to Virgin in Times Square and buying another cd of theirs. I pretty much own most of them. I haven't gotten around to listening to all of them because I just can't seem to stop listening to my favorites. None the less, Third Eye Blind is my favorite band of all time but The Cure sure is very close in 2nd place. Both are amazingly talented and have greatly affected my life. Robert Smith, you are a God.
 A Victim Of 1 Disc Band Overviews May 9, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Around the turn of the century, record companies began to released one disc compilations that attempted to take artists with a ton of output and try to make an 80 minute attempt to capture the essentials. Needless to say, all of these attempts have failed. Great songs were overlooked, and instead of giving a quality overview of the band, one got instead the feeling of being ripped off. The Cure's Greatest Hits falls victim to the one disc overview.
A greatet hit album serves two purposes. One is to collect the best for fans who may desire to have many of their favorites on one album. The second is to provide new-comers to the band an overview of their career. The problem with The Cure is that they have released over 30 singles, and no single disc set can truly capture the best of their work.
For instance, how does a Cure best of ignore "Pictures of You"? It would be akin to a Billy Joel best of leaving off "The Stranger". This song is considered one of the Cure's best, and leaving this off for stuff like "The Walk", "High", and "Never Enough" is an insult.
While "Pictures of You" is the biggest example of a song that is missing, there are plenty of other songs of lesser impact that still should have been on there. For instance, the sublime "Catch", the melancholy "A Night Like This", or even "Jumping Someone Else's Train." And what about their break-out single, "Killing An Arab"?
The problem with this album is that it attempts to provide an overview of the Cure but instead only barely touches the surface. Leave this one on the CD racks and spend the extra money to get Staring at the Sea and Galore.
BRILLIANT May 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
stop crying everyone. get over it. so 'pictures of you' isnt on this album. it doesnt matter, every song on here is great, and essentially there most popular songs from the charts.
UNBELIEVABLE! the cure are the best band ever.
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