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JUST LIKE HEAVEN
Performed by JOY ZIPPER
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Tabitha Tindale: Vocals
Vincent Cafiso: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Charles Ranoudo: Drums
Produced by Vincent Cafiso
Engineered by Tabitha Tindale
"It wasn't until Kevin Shields played us some of his earliest music that we realized how much of a seminal band the Cure really is. Robert Smith's songwriting is so etheral and yet totally structured. We never would have related the two bands to one another but if you listen through all of My Bloody Valentine's layers the inspiration is clear. Of the long list of bands inspired by MBV, us included, a lot of the credit really needs to go to the Cure." -- Joy Zipper
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THE LOVECATS
Performed by TANYA DONELLY & DYLAN IN THE MOVIES
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Tanya Donelly: Vocals
Brian Sullivan: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Matt Pynn: Electric Guitar, Lapsteel
Dean Fisher: Bass
Melissa Gibbs: Piano
Steve Scully: Drums, Percussion
Produced by Tanya Donelly & Dylan in the Movies
Recorded by Steve Scully
Engineered by Eric Saulnier
Recorded at Mosquito Studios, Watertown, MA
"In The mid-80's, Boston had a local video channel called V66. They played the video for 'In Between Days' about 10 times a day and I fell for the Cure instantly. Suddenly there were these sounds I never heard before and stories I responded to instantly. Perfect music for a misunderstood kid growing up in the all too stifling suburbs. Tanya and I made a list of songs we wanted to cover - a very long list. 'The Lovecats' ended up on both of our lists and we knew we could have a lot of fun with it - and we did!" -- Brian Sullivan (Dylan in the Movies)
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LOVESONG
Performed by THE BRUNETTES
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Jonathan Bree: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Xylophone, Vocals
Heather Mansfield: Vocals
Chelsea Nikkel: Piano
Harry Cundy: Trumpet
Produced by Jonathan Bree
"Disintegration was my first Cure album. All the tracks on that album are pretty special to me. Listening to it reminds me of mornings spraying my hair up before primary school and listening to it on my brand new walkman on the way to and from there. It's funny looking back now but at the time it wasn't welcome on the family stereo because of it's morbid nature and I remember my Dad being horrified at the hot pink poster I had on my bedroom wall of Robert Smith with kiss me kiss me kiss me scrolled around it. 'Love Song' seemed to work ok as a duet so we had a go at that one." -- Jonathan Bree
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IN BETWEEN DAYS
Performed by KITTY KARLYLE
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Mike Henry: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Margo McAdams: Bass, Vocals
David Weeks: Guitar
Sharon Lord Greenspan: Drums, Vocals
Produced by John Perez
"Sometimes we, the members of Kitty Karlyle, try to imagine what it would have been like if we went to high school with Robert Smith. We're not sure if he would have wanted to be our friend, but it's a safe bet we would have sat at the same lunch table. Back in the day, our Cure albums were sacred objects. They taught us to embrace our disaffection, our alienation, our despair. They celebrated everything that was good about everything that was bad. And no song in the Cure catalogue so perfectly typified the light-from-darkness ethos as In Between Days. Robert wanted to die! He shivered like a child! He pleaded with a lost lover to come back, come back, come back to him! And yet... as those synthesizers wrapped their loving arms around you, and the guitars bounced off your bedroom walls, you couldn't help but feel like it was your lucky day. For three perfect minutes, you could stop sobbing into your pillow, and dance on your bed. Excuse us... our mascara is running." -- Kitty Karlyle
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FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE
Performed by DEAN & BRITTA
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Dean Wareham: Guitars, Vocals
Britta Phillips: Bass, Vocals
Anthony LaMarca: Drums
Matt Sumrow: Mellotron
Recorded by Nick Kramer at MicroRiot Studios
Mixed by Britta Phillips at Studio 105
"I suggested we cover Friday I'm In Love, because it was one of the songs on the first mix CD Dean gave me back in 2000. The outro of our version is my favorite part because somehow it ended up sounding like ABBA." -- Britta Phillips
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JUMPING SOMEONE ELSES TRAIN
Performed by LUFF
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Sheila Sobolewski: Vocals, Guitar, Samples
Robin Pickering: Guitar
Terry LaFrazia: Bass
Riff Richards: Drums
Recorded by Jake Giannini
Mixed by Jake Giannini and Sheila Sobolewski
"We all listened to a lot of the Cure while growing up; Robin's favorite memory is seeing them on the Lovesong tour and them playing "10:15 on a Saturday Night" at 10:15, and it was a Saturday night, and as Robert Smith sang "and the tap dripped, drip, drip, drip..." it started to rain. Not to mention that the Cure validated our existence as alterna-teens who didn't fit the mold of "normal" during the pre-Nirvana years. When we revisited the Cure's extensive catalogue to choose a song, we felt that "Jumping Someone Else's Train" was still a very valid song today as social commentary and would be a fun song to interpret in our own style." -- Luff
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BOYS DON'T CRY
Performed by THE SUBMARINES
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Produced and recorded at home by The Submarines
"We chose "Boys Don't Cry" because it's such a great classic pop song -- deceptively simple but masterfully crafted. And it just feels good. We were hoping to bring something a bit different to an often revisited tune, approaching it with elements of old school dub, a sound we hold dear." -- The Submarines
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CLOSE TO ME
Performed by ELK CITY
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Renee LoBue: vocals
Sean Eden: guitars
Ray Ketchem: drums
Carl Baggaley: keyboards
Barbara Endes: bass
Produced by Ray Ketchem
Recorded and mixed at Orange Road Studios Montclair, NJ
"Covering any song by The Cure is intimidating, but choosing to reinterpret "Close to Me" seemed fitting. It forever lingers in the back of one's mind. - A little cobweb, if you will, that just won't get shooed away. Sort of like us." -- Renee LoBue
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THE WALK
Performed by THE ROSEBUDS
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Kelly Crisp: Vocals, Keyboards
Ivan Howard: Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Matt McCaughan: Drums
Brian Weeks: Guitar, Keyboards
Recorded by Ivan Howard with additional recording by Mark Paulson
Produced and Mixed by Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp
"The Cure helped save the both of us from our mundane life in rural NC. They gave us an insight into a world that was strange, different, and magical. The dark swirling music lit up a path for us that was a way out of the tobacco fields and salt marshes." -- The Rosebuds
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PICTURES OF YOU
Performed by ELIZABETH HARPER & THE MATINEE
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Elizabeth Harper: Vocals, Keyboards
Scott Rosenthal: Guitar, Keyboards
Michael Flis: Bass, Keyboards
Andy Zehnal: Drums
Produced & Engineered by Scott Rosenthal at Northside Music
"Every single word in the song rings true. And so when I sang it, the sentiment felt so natural, and it's just framed so perfectly, that it didn't really feel like a cover at all." -- Elizabeth Harper
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LET'S GO TO BED
Performed by CASSETTES WON'T LISTEN
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Performed and produced by Cassettes Won't Listen
"The Cure has always had a big influence on my song writing and production. "Lets Go To Bed" has been one of my favorites for a long time, I chose it because it has one of the strongest hooks I've ever heard come from the band." -- Jason Drake p/k/a Cassettes Won't Listen.
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CATCH
Performed by DEVICS
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Sara Lov: Vocals
Dustin O'Halloran: Guitars, Keyboards
Scott Mercado: Bass
Jimmy LaValle: Drums
Pal Jenkins: Percussion
Produced by Dustin O'Halloran and Pal Jenkins
Recorded live and mixed at Stereo Disguise by Pal Jenkins
"We have always been big fans of The Cure. Catch was always a favorite of ours, as we think it falls somewhere between their obvious pop hits and their moodier pieces. It feels like one of the few real intimate moments of the band and sounds like it was probably recorded live. We tried to keep that spirit alive in our version and recorded it live as well." -- Devics
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A NIGHT LIKE THIS
Performed by JULIE PEEL
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Julie Peel: Vocals, Guitars, Ukulele, Wurlitzer, Cello
Cyrille Catois: Upright Bass
Andreas Dahlback: Drums & Percussion
Recorded at Almost Famous Studio (Paris), The Bathroom Window Studio (Paris), and Valley River Recording (Stockholm)
Produced & Mixed by Julie Peel
"I've been listening to the Cure since I was 12. I loved their live version of 'A Night Like This' on the 'Show' record, it's very haunting and it's always been my favorite song." -- Julie Peel
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10:15 SATURDAY NIGHT
Performed by THE POEMS
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Produced by Gordon Goudie and Robert Hodgens
"This is the first Cure song I ever heard - I always played the b sides first. The drip drip drip line always stuck in my head..." -- Robert Hodgens (The Poems)
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A STRANGE DAY
Performed by GRAND DUCHY (VIOLET CLARK & BLACK FRANCIS)
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Violet "Dunmore" Clark: Vocals, Bass, Synths, Drums
Black Francis: Acoustic and Electric Guitars
Produced by Jason Carter
"The oeuvre of The Cure is, to me, the musical equivalent of the Encyclopedia Britannica -- an amazing reference tool for researching the myriad ways one can approach the task of constructing a flawless, unique, hooky, synth-based pop song, over and over and over. There's the hilariously vibrant, catchy tunes, and then the gorgeous ones that haunt. It's all just so good. Anyone who tells you that Robert Smith is not a complete genius is a stick-in-the-mud." -- Violet Clark
"We chose "A Strange Day" because it's an awesome song, and it's not one of the Hits. It's just obscure enough to have allowed us to come out of left field a bit, and to represent a lesser-known period in the Cure's career for the tribute record. We really had fun reinventing the song and being playful without the self-consciousness one might encounter when messing with the iconic quality of some of the more well-known songs." -- Grand Duchy
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HIGH
Performed by THE WEDDING PRESENT
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David Gedge: Vocals, Guitar, Siren
Christopher McConville: Guitar
Terry de Castro: Bass
Graeme Ramsay: Drums
Produced by The Wedding Present and Glover
Recorded and mixed by Glover at 811 Studios, Cowfold, UK
"The Wedding Present chose High to cover because of it's happy go lucky quality... they felt they could do something very different with a 'Wedding Present' style composition." -- Jessica McMillian (official spokesperson for the band)
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