When ripped into audacity, there's no real dynamic range to speak of; with just a handful of exceptions for intros/outros, all songs come close to flatlining at full volume. Finally, this claims to be a European release but if you live in the US this might be what you're getting nowadays. By ticking the SMS opt in box and submitting this form, I agree to receive text messages from and about The Cure (including prerecorded and/or by autodialer). The disc, titled Acoustic Hits, consists of the eighteen songs from the North American release re-recorded using acoustic instruments.

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I also haven't compared the waveform on this to a pre-remaster copy, so maybe it was always like this?

Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of the recorded work prohibited. The release does not include the content of the Acoustic Hits disc, [8] which was given its own standalone release on standard black vinyl. On 5 July 2019, the album reached a new peak of number 19 in the UK Albums Chart following the Cure's headline set at that year's Glastonbury Festival. In an effort to provide something new for the hardcore fans who owned the previously released songs, Smith arranged for the band and former member Boris Williams to re-record acoustic versions of the Greatest Hits.

The Cure – Greatest Hits (2017, 180 Gram, Vinyl) - Discogs

They rose to fame in the late 70's and early 80's as the post-punk / alternative scene was then blooming, The Cure being at the forefront. surface noise from the picture layer of the disk still stands out during quiet passages but the mastering is good to me for the music part. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. The video track listing mirrors that of the North American audio CD, with the exception of "The Caterpillar", "Pictures of You" and "Close to Me (Closest Mix)" which appear as hidden Easter eggs.Comes with nice antistatic record sleeves alongside "decorative" paper sleeves with liner notes, which is a nice touch. The fact that the Greatest Hits and Disintegration have only the awful remasters in print in any format, including streaming, is a crime. My copy was a Christmas gift so I can't offer specifics, but I am US based and wound up with this pressing.

The Cure – Greatest Hits (2017, 180g, Vinyl) - Discogs

The UK and international editions of the album feature a similar track listing, with the exception of three songs that only appear on one or the other: the international release features " The Walk", while the UK release excludes it in favour of " The Caterpillar" and " Pictures of You". The band also recorded a special studio album released as a bonus disc to some versions of the album. The band's relationship with longtime label Fiction Records came to a close, and the Cure were obliged to release one final album for the label. Greatest Hits features select singles from the Cure's then-25 year history, along with the two new tracks "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes". The Cure’s remasters are particularly horrid with them stripping out all of the high end and/or treble, and it makes no sense why they don’t either just reissue the originals, or do yet another remaster and fix what they broke.For whatever reason it doesn't bother me on this particular record, and from what I can tell they at least kept it from clipping a-la Death Magnetic, but do keep in mind when purchasing that the "remaster" may have lost some dynamics compared to the original release. Lead singer Robert Smith agreed to release a greatest hits album under the condition that he could choose the tracks himself.