Fading Roots

Label: None
Catalog Number: None
Date: Various
Venue: Various
Length: 70:00
Medium: Vinyl
Source: Audience Recording
Rating: Varies

Album: Seventeen Seconds
  • Seventeen Seconds
  • Play For Today
  • Three Imaginary Boys
  • Fire In Cairo
  • In Your House
  • 10:15 Saturday Night
  • At Night
  • M
  • Accuracy
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Plastic Passion
  • Jumping Someone Else's Train/Another Journey By Train
  • Grinding Halt
  • A Forest
  • Three
  • Killing an Arab
  • Subway Song
  • Plastic Passion
  • Grinding Halt
  • Desperate Journalist
  • 10:15 Saturday Night
  • Killing an Arab
  • Fire in Cairo
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Do The Hansa
  • Let's Go to Bed
  • Just One Kiss
  • Ariel
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7
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11
Average:
7.87
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Comments
The cover is a picture of Robert in a blazer and striped button down shirt in b/w. (Circa '84) The back is another pic of Robert (Circa '86) with no make-up on and various early pics scattered about and it says in the bottom right-hand corner "This album was recorded at a live performance in Sydney-80 and from various sessions done for John Peel and Kid Jensen." The records have fucked-up shit printed on them. The first record has "Nightingale Music - The MD's" as the record company and the artist, and the second has "Paradigm - National Health". The names of the albums are "Music As Therapy" and "It's a Sound Modality". Some of the names of the songs are "Carnal Malpractice, Radiation Prostration, Enema With an Exaust Valve, and No Pills/No Pop". I guess that this is a rare find, and a keeper for the songs and the funny shit on the records.

Submitted by: (Michael )

A pretty nice boot...sound quality is pretty good on the live stuff as vinyls go...the Peel and Jensen sessions are actually pretty poor quality, and several songs are cut short, probably in order to cram a bunch of songs on the 2 records. Mission accomplished.

Submitted by: (LaMent)

This was the second or third Cure boot I ever bought. I got it for $4! It was stuck down in the over stock bin at a used store. I figured $4,...why not! As said previously, the live stuff is great. The down side to the live show is the way they put cue breaks in between every song. I guess this was to disguise the fact that they were pressing a bootleg. Anyway, some songs are cut off due to the cues. If you run the LPs through an EQ when putting them on tape (boost the high and low ends) it sounds great for a 1980 show. As I posted on the disscusion board, the Peel and Jensen sessions suck as far as sound quality goes. It sounds like a twentieth generation recording. The versions of Just One Kiss and Let's Go To Bed are different from the original version. Over all a pretty decent 2LP vinyl boot.

Submitted by:(Seandark)

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