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Two live albums is a lot of moping, but Robert Smith seems to relish every moment of "Show" and "Paris." For 15 years a totem for trembling teens with high IQs and low self-esteem, Smith is the Cure-ator of a band that has built a museum of pretty misery. Particularly with their keyboard fills, they frame their trance-inducing songs with sharp, angular hooks; at pop for depressives, they rule. There's little apparent difference between these two career overviews: Both feature early, somber stuff ("Play for Today"), midperiod catchiness ("Let's Go... Read More to Bed") and recent radio masterstrokes ("Friday I'm in Love"). And in bulk, there's considerable fascination to this work: the faux-Middle Eastern exoticism of their swirling melodies; Smith's acid-muezzin waili
CD Track List
Track List 1 Track List 2
Paris (1993)
1. The Figurehead
2. One Hundred Years
3. At Night
4. Play For Today
5. Apart
6. In Your House
7. Lovesong
8. Catch
9. A Letter To Elise
10. Dressing Up
11. Charlotte Sometimes
12. Close To Me
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