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Paris (The Cure album)

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Released
  
26 October 1993

Length
  
57:37

Release date
  
26 October 1993

Recorded
  
19–21 October 1992

Artist
  
The Cure

Label
  
Fiction Records

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Venue
  
Le Zénith de Paris, France

Paris (1993)
  
Wild Mood Swings (1996)

Genres
  
Post-punk, Alternative rock, Gothic rock

Similar
  
The Cure albums, Gothic rock albums

Paris is a live album recorded by The Cure at Le Zénith de Paris, in October 1992 during their Wish tour, but released in October 1993. The band announced the album in July 1993.

Contents

Paris was released at the same time as Show, which was recorded in the United States. The album features more cult classics like "The Figurehead" and "One Hundred Years" than Show, which is generally more single-friendly. A marked feature of the recordings is the ecstatic fervour with which the band are received by the Parisian audience; "Play for Today" is accompanied by the crowd singing along to the keyboard line. This period marked the high-water mark of the band's popularity – and this is notable from the reaction. Paris featured songs of the 80's, the darkest times of The Cure, the rendition of songs is very dark, almost apocalyptic in mood.

50% of the royalties earned by the album were given to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement charities in support of their international relief work.

In mid-1996, Billboard reported that Paris had sold 95,000 copies in the United States by that point, much less than the 213,000 copies of Show sold there by the same point. The magazine described the release of the album "within a few weeks" of Show as exemplifying the "unorthodox career path" that the band had taken.

Michele Kirsch of Vox praised the album's "top shelf sound engineers" and "good editing." Rated the album eight out of ten, he noted "there's nothing here that doesn't work."

The cure at night paris


Track listing

  1. "The Figurehead" (Pornography) – 7:26
  2. "One Hundred Years" (Pornography) – 7:15
  3. "At Night" (Seventeen Seconds) – 6:39
  4. "Play for Today" (Seventeen Seconds) – 3:50
  5. "Apart" (Wish) – 6:37
  6. "In Your House" (Seventeen Seconds) – 3:59
  7. "Lovesong" (Disintegration) – 3:31
  8. "Catch" (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) – 2:41
  9. "A Letter to Elise" (Wish) – 4:50
  10. "Dressing Up" (The Top) – 2:49
  11. "Charlotte Sometimes" (stand-alone single) – 3:58
  12. "Close to Me" (The Head on the Door) – 3:57

Personnel

  • Robert Smith – vocals, guitar
  • Simon Gallup – bass guitar
  • Porl Thompson – guitar
  • Boris Williams – drums
  • Perry Bamonte – keyboard, guitar
  • Songs

    1The Figurehead ( Live Paris Version )7:27
    2One Hundred Years ( Live Paris Version )7:16
    3At Night ( Live Paris Version )6:40

    References

    Paris (The Cure album) Wikipedia