{"product_id":"0075596272629-greatest-hits","title":"Greatest Hits","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEDITORIAL REVIEWS \u003cbr\u003e  Featuring sixteen of the The Cure's essential best, along with 2 new songs, \"Cut Here\" and \"Just Say Yes\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e AMAZON \u003cbr\u003e As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of \"Lovecats\"--reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; they offered a goth-free playtime divergence from some of the weightier studiousness of those early albums. Or, as smudged frontman Robert Smith says of this 18-track collection, \"Songs that are sung with a smile.\" This wasn't always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic \"A Forest,\" the Blair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does is focus attention on the Cure's perennial unpredictability--the breathless claustrophobia of \"Close to Me,\" the New Order-lite of \"The Walk,\" the brass- section embellished thrust of \"Why Can't I Be You.\" Oddly, chart-wise, the Cure's lost weekend began immediately after \"Friday I'm in Love,\" their most ebullient melodic moment and the ultimate \"clocking-off to kick those heels\" anthem. But at least the inclusion of two new songs, \"Cut Here\" and \"Just Say Yes\" (with Saffron from Republica), indicate that the Cure remain a healthy, ongoing concern. --Kevin Maidment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40759593533537,"sku":"0075596272629","price":12.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_672025_2294372_20251013074334.jpg?v=1776693559","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/0075596272629-greatest-hits","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}