100 Tears: Tribute to the Cure

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B000001JKA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #392,095 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars B+ album; people are being a little hard on this one, April 20, 2000

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Violet Light (Washington, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Tears: Tribute to the Cure (Audio CD)

OK so if you are a die-hard Robert Smith & Co. fan hung up on the nostalgia of classic, unadulterated Cure tunes, then it's true - you probably won't appreciate this album. Especially if you aren't an industrial/goth fan. You'll hate this album as much as you might hate "New Wave Goes to Hell" - another goth cover album a lot of people accuse of "perverting" everybody's favorite 80s hits. Whatever.

THAT being said, if you enjoy losing yourself every now and then in a little Laether Strip, Shroud, Skinny Puppy, Kill Switch...Klick, Christian Death, what have you AND you can approach with an open mind the subject of other bands daring to manipulate the Cure's genius - you'll love it. Sure, the vocalists don't sound like Robert Smith, they AREN'T Robert Smith. And I don't think they're trying to be. This is not an endeavor to "improve" the Cure - just an attempt to pay tribute to them and to have a little fun. I adore this album, it offers up exciting new twists on some classics - most have a darker edge and the addition of some fierce dance beats uncharacteristic of the Cure, but nevertheless exhilarating.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting mix..., January 26, 2004

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Kaenan James 1340 (In Hell, hearing this) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Tears: Tribute to the Cure (Audio CD)

The " Lullabye " cover by Leatherstrip is the best { not better than the original has another reviewer suggested }; perfection would have been achieved by inserting Robert Smith's voive instead of the Leatherstip vocalist, who doesn't have much range.

Nosferatu's cover of " 100 years " is also exceptional,the second best cover here, but with the best vocals going to Nosferatu frontman Dominic LeVay! Personally, I too think people expected a bit too much mch from a Cleopatra tribute album!

Elecrtic Hellfire make their obvius contractual obligation to appear on EVRY SINGLE tribute/complilation album Cleopatra has EVER made with " Killing an Arab " which is well done musically, but the vocals are just too cartoonish and " I wanna be evil "; lacking the elegance to cover a Cure song. I at first despised Razed in Black's cover of Disintergration { and I'm an electronic muscian! } but it's grown on me a little { still not big on the vocals }; it IS an original approcah to the song. { doesn't make me forget the original }. I also like Death Lies Bleeding's industrial/metal approcah to " A Forest " with the creey whispering vocals; it's a uniuqe appoarch to a song too often covered in the goth/industrial underground.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great tribute to a great band, August 15, 2003

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Craig (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Tears: Tribute to the Cure (Audio CD)

I love this tribute to The Cure. The bands paying tribute are all really good industrial/gothic bands. Leaether Strip's version of Lullaby is incredible. There are actually a number of songs from this CD I really enjoyed. 100 Years by Nosferatu, Jumping Someone Else's Train by Kill Switch ... Klick, Sinking by The Shroud (Really good), Let's Go to Bed by Crocodile Shop, Shake Dog Shake by Ex-Voto (exceptional), Pornography by Wreckage, A Night Like This by Test Infection (great), A Forest by Death Lies Bleeding, and Primary by Bell, Book and Candle. That is ten songs on a 13 song CD that I really liked. I can't say much more about how good this disc is than that. This is an industrial classic, and a wonderful and complex tribute to The Cure.