The Cure: Curætion 25 + Anniversary 2019 1080p Blu-ray AVC LPCM 2 0

A cursory glance at the long discography of The Cure would seem to suggest that it took this British band at least a decade to really gain a significant foothold on the American airwaves and (perhaps more saliently) in album and/or single sales. The band’s first album, Three Imaginary Boys from 1979, frankly didn’t even set the British charts on fire, rising “only” to number 44 on the album charts, but the next several follow ups did significantly better, with at least some of the band’s work managing to get into the Top 10 of album sales. One of those albums, a 1984 opus perhaps ironically named The Top, got to number 10 itself on the British album charts, but it’s perhaps notable that it was the first album by the band to chart in the United States, crawling up to the relatively paltry position of 180. 1985 seemed to be a turning point of sorts for Robert Smith and company, resulting in their first American Gold Album for The Head on the Door, this honor despite the fact that the album’s top spot on the chart was a relatively middling number 59. 1985 also saw The Cure managing to chart for the first time on the American singles chart, with a tune called “In Between Days” which barely cracked the “Hot 100” by making position 99. While the rest of the eighties and first part of the nineties were considerably “kinder” to the band in terms of airplay and sales, it’s kind of interesting to note that The Cure still didn’t really have major success on the “mainstream” pop and rock charts in the United States, despite the fact that band did manage to claim the top spot a couple of times on the “Alternative” singles chart. All of this is to say that the two concerts included in this appealing release may not exactly provide a “greatest hits” assemblage for some listeners at least, since The Cure arguably hasn’t had a slew of actual hits on this side of the pond, anyway. That said, fans of The Cure are almost sure to find this a really enjoyable “two fer” that offers the band in fine form and which also features two fairly different concerts with decidedly different presentational attributes.
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Thanks. Unfortunately the song ‘alt.end’ on disc1 (00001.m2ts around 8:40-9:40) is badly ripped and skipping/distorted.
BD1
Disc Title: CURATION-25: From There To Here | From Here To
Disc Size: 43,248,275,354 bytes
Protection: AACS
BDInfo: 0.7.5.5
Name: 00000.MPLS
Length: 2:24:13.945 (h:m:s.ms)
Size: 42,673,582,848 bytes
Total Bitrate: 39.45 Mbps
VIDEO:
MPEG-4 AVC Video 29960 kbps 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
AUDIO:
LPCM Audio English 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
BD2
Disc Title: ANNIVERSARY: 1978-2018 Live In Hyde Park London
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Protection: AACS
BDInfo: 0.7.5.5
Name: 00000.MPLS
Length: 2:15:22.414 (h:m:s.ms)
Size: 46,395,598,848 bytes
Total Bitrate: 45.70 Mbps
VIDEO:
MPEG-4 AVC Video 35986 kbps 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
AUDIO:
LPCM Audio English 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
DTS-HD Master Audio English 5152 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 5152 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Tracklist
Disk1
Curation-25: From There To Here | From Here To There From There To Here
1 Three Imaginary Boys
2 At Night
3 Other Voices
4 A Strange Day
5 Bananafishbones
6 A Night Like This
7 Like Cockatoos
8 Pictures Of You
9 High
10 Jupiter Crash
11 39
12 Us Or Them
13 It’s Over
14 It Can Never Be The Same
From Here To There
15 Step Into The Light
16 The Hungry Ghost
17 Alt.End
18 The Last Day Of Summer
19 Want
20 From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
21 Disintegration
22 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
23 Sinking
24 Shake Dog Shake
25 One Hundred Years
26 Primary
27 A Forest
28 Boys Don’t Cry
Disk2
Anniversary: 1978-2018 Live In Hyde Park London
1 Plainsong
2 Pictures Of You
3 High
4 A Night Like This
5 The Walk
6 The End Of The World
7 Lovesong
8 Push
9 Inbetween Days
10 Just Like Heaven
11 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
12 Play For Today
13 A Forest
14 Shake Dog Shake
15 Burn
16 Fashination Street
17 Never Enough
18 From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
19 Disintegration
20 Lullaby
21 The Caterpillar
22 Friday I’m In Love
23 Close To Me
24 Why Can’t I Be You?
25 Thanks @ 40
26 Boys Don’t Cry
27 Jumping Someone Else’s Train
28 Grinding Halt
29 10.15 Saturday Night
30 Killing An Arab