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1. So, Billy, Seventeen Seconds is a small portion of what was right with the Eighties and is a small little piece of celluloid that MTV failed to tell you about. Short, smart and artistic, this album is a great way to get to know the Cure without having to buy both Three Imaginary Boys and Boys Don't Cry and not having to reach into their most.

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2. Unlike “Three Imaginary Boys”, Robert Smith has a % say in the sound of The Cure’s albums. The tracklist and artwork for “Three Imaginary Boys” was picked out by Fiction Records without any input from The Cure. Seventeen Seconds was the first Cure album in which Robert Smith would have all of the creative freedom he wanted to.

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3. First a Cure trio of Robert, Simon and Jason performed the Three Imaginary Boys album, then Roger O'Donnell rejoined the band and The Cure quartet played the Seventeen Seconds album, and finally Lol Tolhurst stepped back onstage with the band for the first time in 23 years to perform Faith and assorted B-sides and singles.

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4. Approximately five months after Rhino released the two-disc reissue of Three Imaginary Boys, the label gave Cure albums two through four -- 's Seventeen Seconds, 's Faith, 's Pornography-- similar treatment, with scads of photos, biographical liner notes, and archive ransackings all part of the phomirolidonli.ondepmauvetosotegescisibdada.infoinfo initial bare-bones CD issues of these albums had been sounding increasingly.

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5. Label: Fiction Records - • Format: CD Album, Reissue Silver label • Country: Europe • Genre: Rock • Style: New Wave The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (Silver label, CD) | Discogs Explore.

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6. The Cure's second album was the beginning of the stereotypical Robert Smith "teenage funeral parlor" sound. Standouts include "A Forest," "Play for Today" and "In Your House" - which points the way to the even darker, gloomier -- and more focused -- follow-up album, "Faith.

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8. Editors’ Notes After the sprightly punk-pop of their debut — Three Imaginary Boys in the U.K, Boys Don’t Cry in the U.S. — the Cure returned in with a retooled group and sound. New bassist Simon Gallup and temporary keyboardist Mathieu Hartley recast the group as a smoother, increasingly ambient unit. The emerging Goth movement with its emphasis on sparse, bleak soundscapes and.

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9. the cure seventeen seconds on cd delux edition a very good cd album by a great band its just great music from a band thats been making great music for 40 years and my it continue. Read more Helpful/5().

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