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The Cure - Join the Dots

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 10:15 Saturday Night
2 Plastic Passion
3 Pillbox Tales
4 Do the Hansa
5 I'm Cold
6 Another Journey By Train
7 Descent
8 Splintered in Her Head
9 Lament (Flexipop Version)
10 Just One Kiss
11 Dream
12 Upstairs Room
13 Lament
14 Speak My Language
15 Mr Pink Eyes
16 Happy the Man
17 Throw Your Foot
18 New Day
19 Exploding Boy
20 Few Hours After This
21 Man Inside My Mouth
22 Stop Dead

Disc: 2

1 Japanese Dream
2 Breathe
3 Chain of Flowers
4 Snow in Summer
5 Sugar Girl
6 Icing Sugar (Weird Remix)
7 Hey You!!! [Kevorkian 12" Remix]
8 How Beautiful You Are [Clearmountain 7" Remix]
9 To the Sky
10 Babble
11 Out of Mind
12 2 Late
13 Fear of Ghosts
14 Hello I Love You [Psychedelic Version]
15 Hello I Love You
16 Hello I Love You [10Sec Version]
17 Harold and Joe
18 Just Like Heaven ['Chuck' Remix]

Disc: 3

1 This Twilight Garden
2 Play
3 Halo
4 Scared As You
5 Big Hand
6 Foolish Arrangement
7 Doing the Unstuck [Saunders 12" Remix]
8 Purple Haze [Virgin Radio Version]
9 Purple Haze
10 Burn
11 Young Americans
12 Dredd Song
13 It Used to Be Me
14 Ocean
15 Adonais

Disc: 4

1 Home
2 Waiting
3 Pink Dream
4 This Is a Lie [Palmer Remix]
5 Wrong Number [Smith Remix]
6 More Than This
7 World in My Eyes
8 Possession
9 Out of This World [Oakenfold Remix]
10 Maybe Someday [Hedges Remix]
11 Coming Up
12 Signal to Noise [Acoustic Version]
13 Signal to Noise
14 Just Say Yes [Curve Remix]
15 Forest [Plati/Slick Version] - the Cure, Earl Slick

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Out of print in the U.S.! UK pressing of this remarkable four CD box set from the British Post-Punk band led by Robert Smith. Join the Dots serves as a sort of alternate history for The Cure. Painstakingly compiled by Cure frontman (and the group's only constant member) Robert Smith,... Dots provides dozens of glimpses into the literal flip-side of their singles by collecting many long-lost tracks, including the classic songs previously featured only on the cassette version of Staring at the Sea: The Singles. Spanning the band's entire career up to 2004, Join the Dots features everything that made the band so special including hits, album tracks, rarities and previously unreleased gems. So good, it will make you cry. 70 tracks. Polydor.

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.32 x 5.16 x 1.02 inches; 13.69 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Universal Uk
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2007
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 28, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Universal Uk
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000VRXO6O
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 4
  • Customer Reviews:
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PZ
5.0 out of 5 stars You cant ship a heavy CD box set in an envelope!
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
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The CD box set is wonderful. The crappy way Amazon shipped it is embarrassing. This is a 4-disc box set with a heavy 50 page booklet. Simply thrown into a padded envelope without any thought or care about how the product would be received. Shame on you, Amazon. I have four bent corners on a box set that was quite expensive and that I had hoped would be a proud piece. 👎🏼
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Sanctuary_25
5.0 out of 5 stars The Crucial CURE!
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2011
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Here's a material list of the components within this Boxed Set:

- 4 Discs; Disc 1: 1978-1987, Disc 2: 1987- 1992, Disc 3: 1992- 1996, Disc 4: 1996- 2001.

- 70 tracks in Total

- 69 page book that includes dozens of photos, a quasi-biography, excerpts from interviews with Robert and Simon, and an essay by Johnny Black.

- All comes packaged in a sturdy, hardcover book-like jacket.

Join The Dots is, perhaps, the most far-reaching collection of career- spanning material ever released by a commercial artist. It is certainly the most ambitious endeavor The Cure has released over their expansive 30+ year career. For the first time, every B-Side (all 48 of them!), every contribution made to a film soundtrack, and all other unreleased tracks are made available on the CD format in this four-disc package. In total, there are 70 tracks to feast your ears on for months to come. More important and ultimately more satisfying than any regular album from The Cure, this massive compilation is Crucial for fans of this legendary band.

For someone my age, this box set is a godsend. I was born in 1987, which means that the majority of this material was released before I was born or when I was only a little kid. At the time of purchasing this item, I owned six of their albums and two DVDs; a pretty large and effective representation The Cure's accomplishments, I thought. The four discs that make up Join The Dots, however, are just as representative of everything The Cure stands for as all of those albums and DVDs. The Cure has always taken the creative high road by never pandering to the Mainstream audiences, but simply writing and releasing the material that pleased them. The music in this collection reveals even more of that creativity and originality that has been vital to the band's long term success. Even if you're already a devout admirer, as I am, I think you will develop a higher level of respect and love for The Cure after you experience the music on these discs. They really are that good!

If you're a dedicated fan, then you know most of their best songs were never released as singles. I'm sure this is why I found that the majority of the B-sides are a bit more musically and lyrically mature and compelling than the better known A-sides. This trait is especially true for the First and Fourth discs. The Cure's A-sides didn't start matching the quality of the B-sides until they released "The Head on the Door". For me, the Second and Third discs are the best. All the characteristics you love about this band will be strongly reinforced on these two discs.
To conclude, I must reiterate how essential the music on these discs truly is. No matter how well you think you know The Cure's world, you must have this. You will be truly surprised that just one band was capable of creating so much material. Until I bought this boxed set, I never knew how much music I was missing from them. I hadn't a clue that they had so much music out there, waiting to be discovered. I'm sure this is probably the case with many of you, as well.
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BJS777
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential, Beautiful Cure Tracks
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021
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This jumbo booklet containing all of The Cure's b-sides from 1978 to 2001 is absolutely fantastic. It doesn't contain the meandering Carnage Visors, but that is just fine with me. It does contain all of Japanese Whispers (except for the a-sides The Walk & Let's Go To Bed).

The Cure are so good they can't even contain all their great songs on official albums. Their creativity bubbles over into the b-sides of singles. The b-sides from their masterpieces, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Disintegration, Wish & even Wild Mood Swings could compose a masterpiece album of its own.
The version of one of my favorite Cure b-sides, I'm Cold, is different from the version on the Standing On A Beach, Staring At The Sea cassette; this version here is sped up. I love both versions so much!
My favorite b-sides here are Babble, 2 Late, Out Of Mind and Fear Of Ghosts from the Disintegration period & Scared As You, Play, Halo and This Twilight Garden from the Wish era. Ocean and Adonais from the 13th are very nice too.
I do also have many of these cd singles in my collection, but this is a perfect, comprehensive collection for those who want these songs without hunting down all the numerous singles.
I consider this collection essential!
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Wilder K. Raven
5.0 out of 5 stars Some of The Cure's best songs
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016
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If you don't have a collection of The Cure's 45 RPM singles and EP releases, then this is really the only way to get a lot of these songs, many of which I consider The Cure's best work.

I know most people consider Disintegration to be their best, but not me. I think Robert (or the record company) pushed a lot of his best work to the B-sides of some of the singles from the early and mid-1980s, and these are some hard-to-find songs, now. Songs like Lament, Speak My Language, The Exploding Boy, Throw Your Foot, and Happy The Man are what I consider some of the best work the band has done, and while you do get to hear them perform these in concerts quite a bit (while throngs of preppies who only own Disintegration wrinkle their noses and scream "play Fascination Street!") you wouldn't find most of these songs on the readily-available studio albums on CD... Until Join The Dots came out.

Of course, there's also some silly stuff like their short-but-sweet "Hello I Love You" cover (and their more serious, full-length one), and lots of tracks from movie soundtracks and compilations (Burn, Dredd Song, Young Americans, etc.) but for me the highlight of this set is CD1.

The price varies wildly in the resale market, but if you can snatch a copy of the full, original release with an intact booklet and case, you'll be happy you paid a little extra for it if you're a Cure fan.

Bottom line: You want this collection.
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Just B…
5.0 out of 5 stars All any new Cure Fan needs…
Reviewed in Canada on January 25, 2024
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Perfect B-side boxed set for a new Cure fan…
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Abraham
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Mexico on September 15, 2023
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Es la edición pequeña pero los 4 discos son espléndidos
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars b sides
Reviewed in Italy on November 3, 2023
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raccolta di b sides, molti dei quali meritavano essere inclusi negli album da cui furono esclusi. a corredo un bel booklet di una band intramontabile. ricomprato dopo 20 anni per regalarlo a mia figlia
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Manuel Carricoba Marín
5.0 out of 5 stars Imprescindible para damas y caballeros.
Reviewed in Spain on March 8, 2023
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¿Qué voy a decir del grupo musical de mi vida? Conocía esta compilación hace mucho tiempo, y la mayoría de sus canciones mucho más tiempo incluso. Esta colección hubiera encumbrado a casi cualquier banda... ¡y "sólo" son caras B! Miles o millones de grupos hubieran sido felices con haber compuesto alguna de las muchas y mejores canciones de estos discos. Y es que, además de estupendas, The Cure publicó una gran cantidad de canciones en formatos diferentes al LP. El diseño es muy atractivo y el precio actual obliga a la compra a cualquier mediano fan.
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PLC
5.0 out of 5 stars CD
Reviewed in France on March 26, 2021
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TRES BON
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