Concert: The Cure Live

Concert: The Cure Live
Live album by The Cure
Released	22 October 1984
Recorded	The Manor Mobile, live at the Hammersmith Odeon London, 9–10 May 1984, and in Oxford, 5 May 1984
Genre	gothic rock
Length	42:27
Label	Fiction (UK) Elektra (Canada)
Producer	Dave Allen, The Cure
The Cure chronology
The Top (1984)The Top1984 Concert: The Cure Live (1984) The Head on the Door (1985)The Head on the Door1985

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[2]

Concert: The Cure Live is the first live album by English rock band the Cure. It was recorded in 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and in Oxford. Its cassette tape edition featured, on the B-side, a twin album of anomalies, titled Curiosity (Killing the Cat): Cure Anomalies 1977–1984.

Track listing

Tracks written by Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst, except as noted.

1. "Shake Dog Shake" (Smith) - 4:14
2. "Primary" - 3:29
3. "Charlotte Sometimes" - 4:06
4. "The Hanging Garden" - 4:05
5. "Give Me It" (Smith) - 2:49
6. "The Walk" (Smith, Tolhurst) - 3:31
7. "One Hundred Years" - 6:48
8. "A Forest" (Smith, Matthieu Hartley, Gallup, Tolhurst) - 6:46
9. "10:15 Saturday Night" (Smith, Michael Dempsey, Tolhurst) - 3:44
10. "Killing an Arab" (Smith, Dempsey, Tolhurst) - 2:51

Cassette tape edition

The B-side of the cassette tape edition of Concert contained a twin album entitled Curiosity (Killing the Cat): Cure Anomalies 1977–1984, a set of Cure rarities recorded from 1977 to 1984:

1. "Heroin Face" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Three Imaginary Boys)
2. "Boys Don't Cry" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Three Imaginary Boys)
3. "Subway Song" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Three Imaginary Boys)
4. "At Night" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Seventeen Seconds)
5. "In Your House" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Seventeen Seconds)
6. "The Drowning Man" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Faith)
7. "Other Voices" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Faith)
8. "The Funeral Party" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Faith)
9. "All Mine" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered Pornography)
10. "Forever (Version)" (now found on Disc 2 of the remastered The Top)

Personnel

• Robert Smith – vocals, guitar
• Porl Thompson – guitar, saxophone, keyboards
• Andy Anderson – drums
• Phil Thornalley – bass guitar
• Lol Tolhurst – keyboards

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