The Glove - Blue Sunshine
Ripped from a vinyl album released on Wonderland Records (SHELP 2) in 1983 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Here is an album unearthed from the penguinflight vinyl archive which I am digitising and I turned my back on thirty-three plus years ago. I did buy the Like An Animal single because I loved Steve Severin's bass line, but really disliked Landray's voice on the single. She fairs better with Looking-Glass-Girl, which suits her voice better. A few years back, Rhino released the original Robert Smith vocal demo versions as a bonus cd for the US market and now I am torn between which versions are best. During the recent ripping and mastering process I have grown to enjoy this record more and more, to now really appreciate what Severin and Smith were trying to achieve. ...and that is coming from a man who thinks that Smith struggled to write proper songs post Pornography.
A1 Like An Animal
A2 Looking-Glass-Girl
A3 Sex-Eye-Make-Up
A4 Mr. Alphabet Says
A5 A Blues In Drag
B1 Punish Me With Kisses
B2 This Green City
B3 Orgy
B4 Perfect Murder
B5 Relax
Gone in two weeks...
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"During the recent ripping and mastering process I have grown to enjoy this record more and more, to now really appreciate what Severin and Smith were trying to achieve. ...and that is coming from a man who thinks that Smith struggled to write proper songs post Pornography."
ReplyDeletesame here, on both counts. i enjoy this album much more today than i did when it was released first - it has aged much better than most of the cure's albums post "17 seconds" IMHO. would love to see them play this live in full with reeves gabrels throwing some of his madder guitar work in!
ha, i just picked up the "punish me with kisses" 7'' yesterday in stockholm (they also had the "like an animal" 7'' but i'm on the hunt for the 12''.
ReplyDeleteanyway, from what i can gather the title track of this single was remixed and strangely enough wasn't released on the 90's reissue nor the deluxe edition.
a great album, imho.
Punish Me was remixed by Mike Hedges for the 7" (there was never a 12") and is a few seconds shorter than the album version. It does feature on the US deluxe CD edition from 2006.
Deletesilly me. i didn't know it was on the deluxe edition. i guess i'll have to hunt that down. thx for clearing that up.
DeleteI bought all their records (er, three) and figure this is better than most Cure or Banshees records. Personally love Landray's vocals and find them a huge improvement over Smith.
ReplyDeleteBetter than the Banshees? Big statemnt that.
ReplyDeleteAwesome post though, thanks.