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Track List
01) Plainsong
02) Open
03) Fascination Street
04) A Night Like This
05) The End of the World
06) Lovesong
07) Just Like Heaven
08) The Only One
09) The Walk
10) Push
11) Friday I'm in Love
12) In Between Days
13) Play for Today
14) A Forest
15) Primary
16) Shake Dog Shake
Cd 2
01) The Hungry Ghost
02) One Hundred Years
03) End
04) Disintegration
05) Lullaby
06) The Lovecats
07) The Caterpillar
08) Close to Me
09) Hot Hot Hot!!!
10) Let's Go to Bed
11) Why Can't I Be You?
12) Boys Don't Cry
13) Jumping Someone Else's Train
14) Grinding Halt
15) 10:15 Saturday Night
16) Killing Another
01) Plainsong
02) Open
03) Fascination Street
04) A Night Like This
05) The End of the World
06) Lovesong
07) Just Like Heaven
08) The Only One
09) The Walk
10) Push
11) Friday I'm in Love
12) In Between Days
13) Play for Today
14) A Forest
15) Primary
16) Shake Dog Shake
Cd 2
01) The Hungry Ghost
02) One Hundred Years
03) End
04) Disintegration
05) Lullaby
06) The Lovecats
07) The Caterpillar
08) Close to Me
09) Hot Hot Hot!!!
10) Let's Go to Bed
11) Why Can't I Be You?
12) Boys Don't Cry
13) Jumping Someone Else's Train
14) Grinding Halt
15) 10:15 Saturday Night
16) Killing Another
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6:53
4:58
4:10
3:40
3:35
3:47
4:14
3:31
4:37
3:34
2:58
4:06
6:35
4:20
4:44
4:48
6:50
6:11
8:31
4:43
3:50
3:56
3:37
3:34
3:36
3:27
3:05
3:11
3:11
3:41
3:37
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First Released
2011
Alternative Rock
Gritty
Rock/Pop
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Bestival Live 2011 is a live album recorded by The Cure during Bestival 2011 music festival in September 2011, and released in December 5, 2011.
All profits from the sale of the album go to the Isle of Wight Youth Trust.
User Album Review
When The Cure – the band Robert Smith formed with schoolmates in Sussex sometime in the late 1970s – played 2011’s Bestival back in September it marked their first UK show in some two years. But little had changed in the band’s world – unsurprising, really, as few contemporary bands can claim to have spanned features in Sounds, Smash Hits and NME (collecting a Godlike Genius Award along the way) with such enviable ease.
From the early 80s it took them no time to hollow out the energy of punk into something bleak and beautiful – and like all great bands they quickly created their own universe. Once the listener-in-waiting gets past this set’s awful bootleg-like cover – it might be a charity release, benefitting the Isle of Wight Youth Trust, but nothing can excuse this lazy effort – the sound quality is wonderful, immediately putting aside any fears of bootleg quality presentation in that department.
Punk allowed anyone to be a frontman, and Smith lets his singing do the talking here. It is the Gothfather and company’s fifth live album, their first since 1993, and captures their current vitality as a live band. Their two-and-a-half hour sets are frequently described as ambitious, which implies they might struggle to meet the demands of such a duration. But few can forget the number of hits they’ve had – easily enough to fill a lengthy performance. Close to Me, The Lovecats and Boys Don’t Cry all feature on what might seem a marathon listen to the casual fan; but to the hardcore crowd, this stirs memories without anyone losing the way back to their tent.
The opener, Plainsong, confirms rumoured changes in The Cure’s line-up, with the return of Roger O’Donnell on keyboards. These are presented to the fore of the mix, offering a very different sound following six years of the band operating as a trio. The brooding magnificence of A Forest threatens to overshadow the first half of the set, but it’s neatly pruned, as tight and otherworldly as its studio version. And the song’s in good company as the band casts a luxuriously hypnotic spell on the senses, getting through more material on two discs than most bands do across a career. From the scratchy dark funk of Play for Today to the half-awake sensuality of The Only One from their last album, 2008’s 4:13 Dream, it’s effortless.
Observant fans will acknowledge the first airing of The Caterpillar since 1991, but this is primarily a celebratory set of greatest hits to appeal to casual and obsessive fans alike. It confirms The Cure as an ongoing, still-vibrant concern.
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Bestival Live 2011 is a live album recorded by The Cure during Bestival 2011 music festival in September 2011, and released in December 5, 2011.
All profits from the sale of the album go to the Isle of Wight Youth Trust.
User Album Review
When The Cure – the band Robert Smith formed with schoolmates in Sussex sometime in the late 1970s – played 2011’s Bestival back in September it marked their first UK show in some two years. But little had changed in the band’s world – unsurprising, really, as few contemporary bands can claim to have spanned features in Sounds, Smash Hits and NME (collecting a Godlike Genius Award along the way) with such enviable ease.
From the early 80s it took them no time to hollow out the energy of punk into something bleak and beautiful – and like all great bands they quickly created their own universe. Once the listener-in-waiting gets past this set’s awful bootleg-like cover – it might be a charity release, benefitting the Isle of Wight Youth Trust, but nothing can excuse this lazy effort – the sound quality is wonderful, immediately putting aside any fears of bootleg quality presentation in that department.
Punk allowed anyone to be a frontman, and Smith lets his singing do the talking here. It is the Gothfather and company’s fifth live album, their first since 1993, and captures their current vitality as a live band. Their two-and-a-half hour sets are frequently described as ambitious, which implies they might struggle to meet the demands of such a duration. But few can forget the number of hits they’ve had – easily enough to fill a lengthy performance. Close to Me, The Lovecats and Boys Don’t Cry all feature on what might seem a marathon listen to the casual fan; but to the hardcore crowd, this stirs memories without anyone losing the way back to their tent.
The opener, Plainsong, confirms rumoured changes in The Cure’s line-up, with the return of Roger O’Donnell on keyboards. These are presented to the fore of the mix, offering a very different sound following six years of the band operating as a trio. The brooding magnificence of A Forest threatens to overshadow the first half of the set, but it’s neatly pruned, as tight and otherworldly as its studio version. And the song’s in good company as the band casts a luxuriously hypnotic spell on the senses, getting through more material on two discs than most bands do across a career. From the scratchy dark funk of Play for Today to the half-awake sensuality of The Only One from their last album, 2008’s 4:13 Dream, it’s effortless.
Observant fans will acknowledge the first airing of The Caterpillar since 1991, but this is primarily a celebratory set of greatest hits to appeal to casual and obsessive fans alike. It confirms The Cure as an ongoing, still-vibrant concern.
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