Tracks
CD1 Original Album Remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios
1 01: Open (6:51)
2 02: High (3:37)
3 03: Apart (6:38)
4 04: From The Edge of The Green Sea (7:44)
5 05: Wendy Time (5:13)
6 06: Doing The Unstuck (4:24)
7 07: Friday I'm In Love (3:38)
8 08: Trust (5:32)
9 09: A Letter To Elise (5:14)
10 10: Cut (5:55)
11 11: To Wish Impossible Things (4:43)
12 12: End (6:45)
Tracks
CD2 Demos – All previously unreleased versions. *Unreleased track.
1 01: The Big Hand [1990 Demo] (4:38) [final version on B-side to A Letter To Elise 7"]
2 02: Cut [1990 Demo] aka "Away" (3:31) [final version appears on WISH]
3 03: A Letter To Elise [1990 Demo] aka "Cut" (5:01) [final version appears on WISH]
4 04: Wendy Time [1990 Demo] (5:13) [final version appears on WISH]
5 05: This Twilight Garden [Instrumental Demo] (3:25) [final version on B-side to High 7"]
6 06: Scared As You [Instrumental Demo] (2:33) [final version on B-side to Friday I'm In Love 12"]
7 07: To Wish Impossible Things [Instrumental Demo] (3:33) [final version appears on WISH]
8 08: Apart [Instrumental Demo] (3:38) [final version appears on WISH]
9 09: T7 [Instrumental Demo] (2:40) *
10 10: Now Is The Time [Instrumental demo] (2:20) *
11 11: Miss Van Gogh [Instrumental demo] (2:48) *
12 12: T6 [Instrumental Demo] (3:14) *
13 13: Play [Instrumental Demo] (2:28) [final version on B-side to High 12"]
14 14: A Foolish Arrangement [Instrumental Demo] (2:28) [final version on B-side to A Letter To Elise 12"]
15 15: Halo [Instrumental Demo] (3:06) [final version on B-side to Friday I'm In Love 7"]
16 16: Trust [Instrumental Demo] (4:02) [final version appears on WISH]
17 17: Abetabw [Instrumental Demo] (2:26) *
18 18: T8 [Instrumental Demo] (2:17) *
19 19: Heart Attack [Instrumental Demo] (2:41) *
20 20: Swing Change [Instrumental Demo] (2:10) *
21 21: Frogfish [Instrumental Demo] (2:35) *
Tracks
CD3: 'Lost Wishes' / Studio Out-Takes / 12" Remixes / Live / Rare / Previously Unreleased.
1 01: Uyea Sound [Dim-D Mix] (5:28 [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]
2 02: Cloudberry [Dim-D Mix] (5:22) [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]
3 03: Off To Sleep... [Dim-D Mix] (3:47) [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]
4 04: The Three Sisters [Dim-D Mix] (4:12) [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]
5 05: A Wendy Band [Instrumental] (3:47) *
6 06: From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea [Partscheckruf Mix] (7:36) **
7 07: Open [Fix Mix] (6:51) [B-side to High 12"]
8 08: High [Higher Mix] (7:15) [High 12"]
9 09: Doing The Unstuck [Extended 12" Mix] (5:54)
10 10: Friday I'm In Love [Strangelove Mix] (5:29 [Friday I'm In Love 12"]
11 11: A Letter To Elise [Blue Mix] (6:36)
12 12: End [Paris Live 92] (8:38) **
https://www.thecure.com/
Another one to delay a new album...
The "Wish" remaster (30th anniversary deluxe edition) is indeed coming, official release date is Oct 7th 2022.
QuoteThe 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of 'Wish' newly remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios is now available to pre-order on CD, Deluxe CD & Black Vinyl. Shipping dates starting from October 7th 2022.
Pre-order now at https://thecure.lnk.to/Wish30
https://www.facebook.com/thecure
Not to complain but no Letter to Elise unplugged or Big Hand/Away t+c club. Harrumph.
Wow.
I'd love to have seen a few tracks from Play Out as well, but I'm particularly looking forward to the demos (and please, let us have the original vocals this time, not some re-sung stuff again) and remastered Lost Wishes.
Quote from: Matti on July 29, 2022, 08:44:41I'm particularly looking forward to the demos and remastered Lost Wishes.
Me too.
Articles on the net come dropping like rain, for example:
QuoteWish was The Cure's 9th studio album, released on April 21, 1992. It became the band's best-selling album, reaching #1 in the UK and #2 in the US, where it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Album category. The album yielded three hit singles, "High" in March 1992 - which reached #8 in the UK - the evergreen "Friday I'm In Love" in May 1992 and "A Letter To Elise," which was released in October 1992. That year's Wish tour would be the Cure's most extensive, with 111 shows in 21 countries.
The new deluxe 3CD 45-track edition of Wish--set for release on October 7, 2022--includes 24 previously unreleased tracks & four that are new to CD and digital. The double-LP vinyl version arrives on January 27, 2023.
...
The prolific period of recording Wish began with demo sessions at The Live House in Cornwall and continued at Farmyard Studios in the Cotswolds. "We got around forty songs put down during those two sessions," recalls Robert Smith, "we were on fire!"
On arrival at The Manor, a residential studio in Oxfordshire, in September 1991, the band all bought bicycles. Robert Smith, "There was a pub down the nearby canal path, and most early evenings we'd cycle down there for a 'livener' or two. I was the only one 'un-cool' enough to have a bike with lights, so I was always at the back on the way there and always at the front on the way back... I still can't believe we never ended up in the water."
From the start of the recording, Smith had a clear vision of what Wish should be. "The overall sound was in my head from the start. We used a pretty small palette of sounds, as we did with Disintegration, but managed to create a lot of different kinds of songs with it. I think Kiss Me was more of a reference than Disintegration."
Listening back to the album in 2022, Smith has said, "There's a side to the album which I had kind of forgotten, a very gentle, yearning thing which is quite beautiful. Trust is one of the best things we've ever done, I think, it's played with great feeling, and To Wish Impossible Things is another gorgeous, melancholic piece... in fact it could well be my favorite song on the record."
https://www.rhino.com/article/the-cure-detail-wish-30th-anniversary-deluxe-edition
And another:
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2022/07/28/the-cure-wish-reissue-delixe-edition/
Dropping another link for pre-order as this is selling out very quickly!
https://www.banquetrecords.com/the-cure/wish-%2830th-anniversary%29/3579322
Quote from: pyota on July 28, 2022, 20:53:43Not to complain but no Letter to Elise unplugged or Big Hand/Away t+c club. Harrumph.
good that you mention this, would love to have seen the instrumental version of The Big Hand on this
And another Elise (https://www.discogs.com/de/release/1836449-Cure-A-Letter-To-Elise) version missing... Anyway, looking forward to this one.
BUNDLE: Wish 30th Anniversary with free Robert Smith mini print
https://www.thefloodgallery.com/products/bundle-wish-30th-anniversary-with-free-mini-print?variant=43240529494186&mc_cid=d82fb15824&mc_eid=7366e487ee
WARNING! prices here are more expensive than elsewhere
Saw they added more pre orders for some items (previously all was sold out).
And delivery is postponed to november...
Amazing!!
And another preview:
Sounds different/better than the mix that leaked with the "Music for Dreams" package, but it's also shorter (which isn't necessarily bad).
Anyone receive their copy yet? I only got an email that it shipped. Was also thinking about splurging on the RSD picture disc my local record shop said they were getting it. Slightly annoying that they sell the black vinyl and only later announce the picture disc but whatever ...
I got mine last Friday, here's my first impression of...
CD 1 (original album)
I do agree with what RS has said about the original mix, that it sounds a bit flat, or compressed or whatever. This is really a release that deserves the term "remaster". To me it sounds much clearer, livelier, and more transparent. Nice invitation to rediscover a great album. In some cases I even discovered things I didn't know or remember they were there in the first place. And the guitar solo on Deep Green Sea takes me to yet another level of "How the f**k are you actually doing that?"
(to be continued)
Still waiting for mine, ordered at recordstore, but i'm in Barcelona so it will take a few days, maybe this week if i'm lucky.
So far listening to it via Tidal/apple music, but i'm not a fan of streaming services, i usually rip my CDs and upload them to Youtube Music.
Quote from: Matti on November 28, 2022, 19:10:51I got mine last Friday, here's my first impression of...
CD 1 (original album)
I do agree with what RS has said about the original mix, that it sounds a bit flat, or compressed or whatever.
I always felt that the cd format of 80s albums were much quieter than the vinyl or tape equivalents. Nice to get that fixed in the remasters.
Yesterday I went to a shop and bought the 3disc version (hard to believe, but such things as shops do still exist!). Couldn't believe my luck when I went up to pay and saw the sign which announced "20% discount on everything today"! :happy
First thing I listened to was the "lost wishes", it was a pleasure to hear these (remastered) instrumentals. Next I listened to some demos, which I will continue today (plus probably the remastered album). :cool