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Title: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: KingOfSomeIsland on April 19, 2007, 07:19:25
I cant make a poll for this as theres 65 songs on it. So just say which songs you like best and why. Mine are:

- A Chain of Flowers (just beautiful)
- 2 Late (great song, happy and sad at the same time)
- Fear of Ghosts (like lullaby only much creepier)
- It Used to Be Me (Id like to know what Robert was thinking when he kept this off WMS)
- Signal to Noise (wouldve been a great song for them to go out on, but maybe its better that they diddnt)
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: rjl on April 19, 2007, 17:51:16
This Twilight Garden, The Exploding Boy, both versions of Lament, The Dream, The Upstairs Room... Too difficult. Like the album tracks, it's easier to pick what you don't like...
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Bloodflower on April 19, 2007, 20:38:13
Hmm... Probably Fear of Ghosts, It Used To Be Me, or Burn.

And sixty-five songs? I count seventy....
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: disintegration on April 19, 2007, 20:55:39
-A chain of flowers
-This twilight garden
and much more....
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Janko on April 19, 2007, 22:59:56

"JOIN THE DOTS" IS ANOTHER PRODUCT THAT SETS THE STANDARDS FOR ALL BANDS!
WHAT A COLLECTION OF SONGS!
LINER NOTES!
PHOTOS!
...





A FEW HOURS AFTER THIS


SPECTACULAR!
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: KingOfSomeIsland on April 20, 2007, 02:01:56
Quote from: rjl on April 19, 2007, 17:51:16
This Twilight Garden, The Exploding Boy, both versions of Lament, The Dream, The Upstairs Room... Too difficult. Like the album tracks, it's easier to pick what you don't like...

What i dont like? hmm all the covers and Wrong Number [P2P Mix] (completely ruined the song, it wasnt even that good of a song to begin with).


and yeah it is 70 songs, i forgot i took all the Japanese Whispers songs off my ipod.
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Bloodflower on April 20, 2007, 06:08:07
The P2P mix of Wrong Number is pretty sub-par.... But I like the psychedelic mix of Hello, I Love You. I dig Descent, too. Really an outlier in their discography. It's well-done, I think.
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: adam60 on April 20, 2007, 10:56:29
It's all so good. The 1st and 2nd discs have so much great music.

Cold, Burn, Big Hand, Twighlight Garden, Just One Kiss, 2 Late, Lament, A Few Hours After This, Mr. Pink Eyes. There are so many great b-sides (I know Burn wasn't a B-side)...
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: PAOKCURE on April 20, 2007, 14:58:01
What can I choose first? There are so many excellent songs.
Signal to noise
A chain of flowers
Fear of ghosts 
This twilight garden
Too late
The big hand
A foolish arrangement
The exploding boy
Harold and Joe
came to my mind first but there many many others.
If you put a gun in my head I would say Fear of ghosts or A chain of flowers or...
OK OK don't shoot!

What a divine group! And I believe it proves it with JTD more than with any other album-collection etc
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: splitmilk34 on April 20, 2007, 15:47:44
This is a loaded question, here it goes though:

A FEW HOURS AFTER THIS, THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN, EXPLODING BOY, LAMENT, UPSTAIRS ROOM, I'M COLD, TO THE SKY, BABBLE, SCARED AS YOU, IT USED TO BE ME, ADONAIS, HOME, WAITING, AND SIGNAL TO NOISE.
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Sussex on May 02, 2007, 16:20:49
Sugar Girl
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Grinding Halt on May 02, 2007, 19:02:36
Hi...

Through your foot, A man inside my mouth, : 2 crazy songs !
Exploding boy : beautiful bass line !
Lament : beautiful song
A Japanese dream : drums drums and drums !


There's just one song I don't like : Just say yes...

Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: psychophysio on May 03, 2007, 07:51:28
My faves are:
It used To be me, Breathe, and the Mark Plati Mix of A Forest
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: billee on May 03, 2007, 13:09:36
 Has to be Possession for me. :)
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Cure on May 03, 2007, 19:17:01
this twilight garden
play
halo
scared as you
burn
harold & joe
a chain of flowers
2 late
a few hrs after this
it used 2 b me
adonais
babble
breathe
a foolish arangement
ocean
waiting
home
a pink dream
burn

but i'd choose 'home' in my current mood
such an easy choice 2 pick a fav. cure-song

haha
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Virpi on February 29, 2008, 23:28:47
my favourite songs of this collection are

A Chain Of Flowers and This Twilight Garden
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Carnage Visor on March 01, 2008, 01:36:36
I'd have to say all, but right now I'm thinking:

S-S-S-S-STOP DEAD

Very catchy/New Wave-y song.

I also love "I WANT TO BE OLD", and find the lyrics very ironic considering that was one of Robert's fears at one point (to grow old)
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Poe on March 30, 2008, 13:33:07
Join The Dots, such a scrumptious collection of songs. So hard to pick a few favorites...

Well, I'm very grateful for the Maybe Someday acoustic version, like it more than the original. More Than This is good, and I hear it's from the X-files! Originally written for the show/movie, perchance? Oh and To the sky: the melody sounds kind of breezy, like a cold and beautiful spring morning, and then Robert sings the first line "One perfect morning I was all alone..." Happy-sad perfection!

Someone has said Freak Show/Don't Say Anything sounds like Throw your foot, but I don't hear that, do you? I like em both!

Here's a list of where the songs come from (what single and so forth):

http://imaginaryboys.altervista.org/english/cure/discography/dots_album.htm
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: mint car on March 30, 2008, 14:06:37
I love A Chain Of Flowers, The Big Hand, To The Sky...  :P :P
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: r1ghteousone on April 02, 2008, 11:09:12
Can't think of too many artists who've had such great songs as flip-sides...maybe only Prince/The Banshees.    'A Chain of Flowers' stands out - it's good enough to be an album track...no doubt. Pretty much all of the first two discs contains top-notch material though.
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: fannwenner on May 01, 2008, 16:23:03
Breathe, Burn, Fear of ghosts
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: tigermilk on May 01, 2008, 16:31:17
10:15 Saturday Night is a Cure classic!!
The Big Hand (love the guitars), Lament, Plastic Passion, Splintered In Her Head, A Japanese Dream, Fear Of Ghosts, Etc etc...

Every song on the box set is wonderful. What a great band The Cure are, to have such brilliant b-sides.  :smth020
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: othervoices13 on March 10, 2010, 21:16:06
There are so many great songs here...Some that I've heard before and many new. The best discoveries for me are:

This Twilight Garden (how is this not on Wish?)
2 Late
The Exploding Boy
Fear of Ghosts
A Japanese Dream
Babble
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: Whiskers on March 18, 2010, 22:46:00
10:15 Saturday Night
Descent
New Day
The Exploding Boy
To The Sky
Babble
2 Late
Fear Of Ghosts
Burn
This Is A Lie (Ambient Mix)
Title: Re: Best off Join the Dots?
Post by: fiction on March 18, 2010, 23:05:27
Quote from: Whiskers on March 18, 2010, 22:46:00
The Exploding Boy

My dream of a B-side collection with Cure started in 1985 with this brilliant track hidden as a B-side on In Between Days. Still one of their absolute top three tunes if You ask me.