GREATEST HITS

 

 

         

 

 

 

TRACKLIST:

 

Boys don't cry (2:41)

A forest (shortened edit) (4:44)

Let's go to bed (3:34)

The walk (3:31)

The lovecats (3:40)

Inbetween days (2:58)

Close to me (remix) (3:41)

Why can't I be you? (3:14)

Just like heaven (remix) (3:32)

Lullaby (remix) (4:10)

Lovesong (remix) (3:28)

Never enough (4:28)

High (single mix) (3:35)

Friday I'm in love (3:35)

Mint Car (radio mix) (3:29)

Wrong Number (6:01)

Cut here (4:10)

Just say yes (3:29)

 

Total Running Time: 68:06

 

A limited edition CD included “ACOUSTIC HITS”:

 

Boys don't cry (acoustic) (3:03)

A forest (acoustic) (4:52)

Let's go to bed (acoustic) (3:34)

The walk (acoustic) (3:26)

The lovecats (acoustic) (3:48)

Inbetween days (acoustic) (3:01)

Close to me (acoustic) (3:44)

Why can't I be you? (acoustic) (3:29)

Just like heaven (acoustic) (3:35)

Lullaby (acoustic) (4:12)

Lovesong (acoustic) (3:30)

Never enough (acoustic) (4:46)

High (acoustic) (3:41)

Friday I'm in love (acoustic) (3:31)

Mint car (acoustic) (3:27)

Wrong number (acoustic) (5:55)

Cut here (acoustic) (4:13)

Just say yes (acoustic) (3:27)

(Total Running Time: 69:22)

 

The UK and Japanese versions exclude THE WALK but include THE CATERPILLAR (3:41) and

PICTURES OF YOU (REMIX) (4:45) as no.5,12. This is the first album not released on vinyl

 

Release Date:

tape: November 2001 (Europe, North America, Oceania, Indonesia, Chile)

CD: November 2001 (Europe, North America, Oceania, Asia)

2 CD: November 2001 (Europe, North America, Oceania, Asia, Chile)

Digital download: November 2001? (North America, United Kingdom) - July 2003 (Japan, Oceania) -

June 2004 (Europe)

2 CD digital download: November 2001? (United States)

 

BOYS DON’T CRY (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Tolhurst/Dempsey) * Voice/Gtr: Smith * Bass:

Dempsey * Drums: Tolhurst * June 1979 * Produced and mixed by Parry * From the Fiction album “Boys

Don’t Cry”

A FOREST (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Tolhurst/Gallup/Hartley) * Voice/Gtr: Smith * Bass: Gallup

Kbd: Hartley * Drums: Tolhurst * March 1980 * Produced and mixed by Smith/Hedges * From the Fiction

Album “Seventeen Seconds”

LET’S GO TO BED (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Tolhurst) * Voice/Gtr/Bass/Kbd: Smith * Kbd: Tolhurst

Drums: Goulding * November 1982 * Produced and mixed by Parry * From the Fiction album “Japanese

Whispers”

THE WALK (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Tolhurst) * Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * DMC: Tolhurst * June 1983

Produced and mixed by Nye * From the Fiction album “Japanese Whispers”

THE LOVECATS (Words and Music: Smith) * Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Thornalley * Drums:

Anderson * Vibes: Tolhurst * October 1983 * Produced and mixed by Smith/Thornalley/Parry * From the

Fiction album “Japanese Whispers”

INBETWEEN DAYS (Words and Music: Smith) * Voice/Gtr/Bas6/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr/Kbd:

Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: Tolhurst * July 1985 * Produced and mixed by Smith/Allen * From

the Fiction album “The Head On The Door”

CLOSE TO ME (Words and Music: Smith) * Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr/Kbd: Thompson

Drums: Williams * Kbd: Tolhurst * September 1985 * Produced and mixed by Smith/Allen * From the

Fiction album “The Head On The Door”

WHY CAN’T I BE YOU? (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/Tolhurst)

Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr/Kbd: Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: Tolhurst *April 1987

Produced and mixed by Smith/Allen * From the Fiction album “Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me”

JUST LIKE HEAVEN (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/Tolhurst)

Voice/Gtr/Bass6/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr/Kbd: Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: Tolhurst

October 1987 * Produced by Smith/Allen * Mixed by Clearmountain * From the Fiction album “Kiss Me

Kiss Me Kiss Me”

LULLABY (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/O’Donnell/Tolhurst)

Voice/Gtr/Bass6/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: O’Donnell * Other

instrument: Tolhurst * April 1989 * Produced by Smith/Allen * Mixed by Smith/Parry/Saunders * From the

Fiction album “Disintegration”

LOVESONG (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/O’Donnell/Tolhurst)

Voice/Gtr/Kbd:Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: O’Donnell * Other

instrument: Tolhurst * August 1989 * Produced by Smith/Allen * Mixed by Smith/Parry/Saunders

From the Fiction album “Disintegration”

NEVER ENOUGH (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams) Voice/Gtr: Smith * Bass:

Gallup * Gtr: Thompson * Drums: Williams * September 1990 * Produced by Smith/Saunders * Mixed by

Saunders * From the Fiction album “Mixed Up”

HIGH (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/Bamonte) * Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith

Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: Bamonte * March 1992 * Produced by

Allen/The Cure * Mixed by Saunders * From the Fiction album “Wish”

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/Bamonte)

Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Thompson * Drums: Williams * Kbd: Bamonte * May 1992

Produced by Allen/The Cure * Mixed by Saunders * From the Fiction album “Wish”

MINT CAR (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Bamonte/Cooper/O’Donnell) Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith

Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Bamonte * Drums: Cooper * Kbd: O’Donnell * June 1996 * Produced by Smith/Lyon

Mixed by Corkett * From the Fiction album “Wild Mood Swings”

WRONG NUMBER (Words and Music: Smith) * Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * Gtr: Gabrels * Drums: Cooper

October 1997 * Produced by Smith/Plati/Saunders * Mixed by Plati * From the Fiction album “Galore”

CUT HERE (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Bamonte/Cooper/O’Donnell) Voice/Gtr/Bass6/Kbd:

Smith * Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Bamonte * Drums: Cooper * Kbd: O’Donnell * October 2001 * Produced by

Smith/Plati * Mixed by Moulder

JUST SAY YES (Words: Smith * Music: Smith/Gallup/Bamonte/Bamonte/Cooper/O’Donnell)

Voice/Gtr/Kbd: Smith * Other voice: Saffron * Bass: Gallup * Gtr: Bamonte * Drums: Cooper * Kbd:

O’Donnell * 2002 * Produced by Smith/Plati * Mixed by Smith/Walton

 

ACOUSTIC HITS: Voice/Guitars: Robert Smith * Bass: Simon Gallup * Guitars: Perry Bamonte * Drums:

Jason Cooper * Keyboards: Roger O’Donnell * Percussion: Boris Williams * Recorded 13th August 2001

@ Olympic Studios London * Produced by The Cure * Engineered by Keith Uddin * Assisted by Jonathon

Schakhovskoy, Jay Cocks and Philippe Rose * Technical Support by Mark Plati and Niv Adiri * Mixed by

Itself and Robert…

 

Mastered by Tim Young @ Metropolis London

Design, Art Direction and Photography by Stylorouge

 

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albums -- three imaginary boys -- boys don’t cry -- seventeen seconds -- faith -- pornography -- japanese whispers -- the top

concert -- the head on the door -- standing on a beach -- kiss me kiss me kiss me -- disintegration -- mixed up

entreat -- wish -- show -- paris -- wild mood swings -- galore -- bloodflowers -- greatest hits -- join the dots -- the cure -- 4:13 dream