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Seventeen Seconds [Deluxe Edition] [Box set]

The Cure | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (2 May 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B0007SM9Y0
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 51,302 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. A Reflection
2. Play For Today
3. Secrets
4. In Your House
5. Three
6. The Final Sound
7. A Forest
8. M
9. At Night
10. Seventeen Seconds
Disc: 2
1. I'm A Cult Hero - Vinyl Single A Side By Cult Hero
2. I Dig You - Vinyl Single B Side By Cult Hero
3. Another Journey By Train(Aka 44f)(Group Home Instrumental Demo 1/80)
4. Secrets (Group Home Instrumental Demo 1/80)
5. Seventeen Seconds (Live In Amsterdam 1/80)
6. In Your House (Live In Amsterdam 1/80)
7. Seventeen Seconds (Live In Amsterdam 1/80)
8. Three (Alt. Studio Mix 2/80)
9. I Dig You (Cult Hero-Live In The Marquee Club 3/80)
10. I'm A Cult Hero (Cult Hero-Live In The Marquee Club 3/80)
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Album Description

Originally a Goth-flavored post-punk outfit, the Cure evolved into one of the truly seminal bands of the ‘80s, and ultimately one of modern rock’s most celebrated and influential acts. Guided by creative visionary Robert Smith, the Cure’s signature sound balances a dreamy pop savvy with a dark, brooding majesty and fuses superbly crafted, literate songs with a feverish emotional intensity. The band’s early catalog-newly remastered and expanded with a wealth of rarities-is a series of masterpieces that laid the groundwork for their phenomenal and enduring popularity.

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180 grams audiophile vinyl / Including the hit single 'A Forest'
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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful
By Jason Parkes #1 HALL OF FAME
Format:Audio CD
'Seventeen Seconds' was the first classic album by The Cure- a very different version of The Cure to that of 'Three Imaginary Boys' (though a few songs lead this way, 'Subway Song', 'TIB', 'Another Day'). Original-bassist Michael Dempsey left to join Associates (Robert Smith ironically performed backing-vocals on Associates debut-LP 'The Affectionate Punch'!)& the Smith-Tolhurst unit expanded with the arrival of bassist (the timeless Simon Gallup) & brief-keyboardist (Matthieu Hartley). The songs had been becoming bleaker, Smith (the principal songwriter) influenced by 'Astral Weeks', Nick Drake, 'Low' & Joy Division began a trilogy of miserable albums that climaxed with the toxic 'Pornography.'

Smith had been exposed to many post-punk peers (The Banshees, Killing Joke, Wire) & this version of The Cure certainly belonged to that time of young men in long coats (The Bunnymen, Joy Division, The Sound). There are a few tracks that are more experimental, possibly in the second-side of 'Low'-vein- something like 'Three' could be contrasted to Joy Division's 'As You Said', or further back to Faust & Neu! The original 10-track album remains wonderful, the reissued cover reminding us of The Cure's anonymous image at the time (...everything was a blur...)- this album would be a favourite of Steve Albini's (his outfit Big Black would record a song 'Bad Houses' from 1986's 'Atomizer' that nodded towards this record).

I love every song, and have known this album since 1987, the remastering etc. obviously makes it sound even better. While the bonus-disc happily brings the great I'm a Cult Hero/I Dig You by The Cult Heroes (which I thought had been forgotten on the 'Three Imaginary Boys' reissue!)& some demo-alt versions that will appeal as much to Cure-fans as 1984's 'Curiosity.'

'Seventeen Seconds' always seemed to me a bit of a post-punk 'Dark Side of the Moon'- tracks like 'A Reflection', 'The Final Sound' & 'Three' setting a tone before other songs. The classic 'A Forest' is of course here; though since 'Wild Mood Swings'-era I've plumped more toward 'Play for Today', which has a gorgeous melancholy that could give way to something like 'In Between Days' or 'Just Like Heaven' at any second...A few songs seem quiet- 'Secrets' demonstrating that Joy Division were not alone (plagiarist noters note that Pere Ubu preceded Joy Division...). Even better is 'At Night' (title from a Kafka-piece found in Penguin's 'The Great Wall of China'), which quotes Franz's words exactly at several points ("someone has to be there"), so is therefore very 2004 in a Franz Ferdinand stylee!!!

'M' picks up from 'Three Imaginary Boys' - there is a pop-element to the DIY drones that stop/start; while 'In Your House' is another Cure-classic that was echoed last year with 'alt.end.' & the title track is so wonderful, you wonder why it doesn't get played very often by the band as say 'Faith', 'Disintegration', 'Three Imaginary Boys' or 'Pornography' does...

A wonderful reissue of a classic album, and I know I'm being a spoilsport with the whole Cure-renaissance-deal, but my favourites are 'Faith', 'Pornography' & this - all of which amongst reissues of 2005 and going to war with Judee Sill and Nine Inch Nails as we speak!!! I were only a nipper in 1980, but this be one of those records yow should purchase alongside 'Crocodiles', 'Closer', 'Ju-Ju', 'Killing Joke' & 'The Affectionate Punch.'

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I believe that this is amongst the Cure's finest work, possibly a pinnacle. It was also the first Cure album I heard, and when I got it initially on vinyl it was in a two-album collection along with Faith. So I have always seen both excellent albums as two halves of a whole. Faith goes even bleaker, but both albums are the kind of medicine (or cure, I hate to say it!) for feeling bleak. If you're in that dark zone, this will comfort you and lift you. Heavy on drums. Obviously influenced by Bowie's 'Low', but with a voice of it's own. It is also excellent driving music for the long dark open road.
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Just My Review..... 22 May 2001
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Format:Audio CD
Still capturing the more accessible pop elements and angular post-punk leanings of Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds marks a move toward the despair for which the band would become best known. The tempos are slowed down considerably, and the addition of subtle synthesizers to minimalist arrangements builds a darkly evocative atmosphere of depression.
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The bleak and droning roots of what went on to become 'Goth'
The Cure's "Seventeen Seconds" is a kind of 'proto-Goth' calling card, the point where spikey, jumpy late Seventies New Wave starts to transform itself into the genre of Gothic... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Vauxhall1964
No escaping Joy Division in 1980
Don't get me wrong,I really like this album,but s with a lot of albums of this time(even OMD)the ghost of Joy Division looms large. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Martinis
A brilliant Cure album
17 Seconds, together with Faith, is one of The Cure's greatest albums. The atmosphere created is briiliant. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2005
Arise, all ye Curists - this is the first great Cure album!!
This is a milestone album, transcending all their previous material, without making it appear any less than the brilliant work it is. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2005 by Steven T. Jarvis
It's not a case of aiming to please...
Seventeen Seconds is everything it's title would suggest. Intense. Dense. Bleak. And cathartic. For me, it represents Robert Smiths' desire to push the Cure into bleaker... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2004 by Jonathan James Romley
Essential "Emo" post-punk
The Cure occupy a unique place in 80s indie music, because Robert Smith was never afraid to let his emotions show. Read more
Published on 16 May 2004 by Mtroll
Essential "Emo" post-punk
The Cure occupy a unique place in 80s white-kid music, because Robert Smith was never afraid to let his emotions show. Read more
Published on 16 May 2004 by Mtroll
a dream of coldness for fog-loving punks
Goth is not just sisters, fields. Seventeen Seconds shows the listener that subtle sketches of fear and sadness can be as haunting, as chilling. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2002
One of the best Cure albums
The Cure moved from the Buzzcocks meets Pere Ubu sounds of '3 Imaginary Boys' to this place. O.K., it's possibly rooted in the area Joy Division operated in- but then so are songs... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2001 by Jason Parkes
The Best Album by the Cure
There is just one problem with this album - it's far too short. This album cuts straight to the pure emotion that Robert Smith has been trying to relay ever since. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2000 by jseddon@rm.com
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