Blue Sunshine [Original recording remastered]

Glove | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 8, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B000GGSM9E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,396 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Blast! An All-Time Favorite . . . + A Note About Robert Smith's Vocals, November 6, 2006

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Rich Latta (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Sunshine (Audio CD)

The Glove - Blue Sunshine (originally released - 1983)

This bizarre, innovative album is simply loads of fun. A side project from Robert Smith (The Cure) and Steve Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees), BLUE SUNSHINE is a must for fans of either of those bands. Years ago in a review of the original album, I refered to it as "sensuous gothic psychedelia" and I still think that's a pretty good description. Some of the tracks are a bit too twee for me if I'm not in the mood for 'em, but everything here is truly great. In particular, the beats are really unique and even sexy at times, and the songs are loaded with strange sounds. There's even weird little musical segueways between each track. Jeanette Landry, girlfriend of S&B drummer Budgie at the time, has a cool, unusual voice. She does most of the vocals on the original album except for 2 sung by Robert Smith.

About Disk 2:

The other reviewers here are correct: Robert Smith recorded vocals onto these demo versions recently, probably this year, 2006. The packaging is indeed deceptive; it's not entirely truthful to refer to these demos as "16 period rarities." However, Smith did give himself an out as he is quoted in the liner notes as saying " . . . singing songs that stayed in a drawer for 23 years . . ." BLUE SUNSHINE was released in 1983 - plus 23 years is 2006.

But the results are surprisingly great. Rhino should've just been honest about tacking new Smith vocals onto the original demos (singing onto the finished tracks would've been even better, but maybe that couldn't be done for legal reasons anyway). The demos themselves sound close to completion and they're actually very good (so good in fact that I suspect they received a modern update as well). The overall effect is an alternate BLUE SUNSHINE album or even some alternate reality Cure album, your imagination permitting. I especially like "Relax" (the original being one of the most hypnotically trippy tracks of all time). Robert adds some strange vocals that give it a much more unsettling effect.

The extra-album tracks are well worth the extra bucks for any fan, even if you have the original CD. The rare pictures are cool and the essay about the Glove is enlightening. Highly recommended!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strange Music, September 30, 2006

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Loverboy (California!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Sunshine (Audio CD)

OK...This is my favorite album of all time. There is nothing like it. NOTHING!!! I think Robert Smith is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Steve Severin is also great, of course. I have every album from the Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees...BUT...this is still my favorite. Acid had a good effect on these two. Extreme psychedelia at it's finest. I love 60s psychedelia, too.. but this is better. I listen to it every day. So original with excellent sounds! When i first heard the female vocals on this album, i was disappointed because it wasn't Robert Smith, but they grew on me. I would have liked to hear Robert's 80s voice on these tracks. That would be a 10. He sounds a little worn out these days. I like the extra instrumental tracks on the 2nd CD. I always wished they were tracks of their own, and now i have them. The new RS vocals suck, but I'm elated with the improved main CD. I have to give it 5 stars because it's so good!!! If you want to enter a new dimension, listen to this. If you only like standard pop sounds, forget it.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Robert *did* in fact re-record vocals on disc 2, August 12, 2006

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Billy Infinity - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blue Sunshine (Audio CD)

There is no mention of it in the liner notes, but if you listen to Robert's voice on the second disc, you will realize that he re-recorded the vocals... it's his modern-day voice (around 1996-present).... any true Cure fan has already figured this out. This re-release is less than a week old, so you'll start to hear reports about this soon enough. There's nothing wrong with Robert re-recording the vocals, but he undoubtedly did, and to a small extent it's misleading in that it's making Cure fans believe that this is the "lost Cure album from 1983".

Demos can be rough and unfinished... in this case they are and honestly that's fine and charming... but Robert's vocals on the second disc are all brand new. He clearly sounds much older on the second disc than his 24-year-old self on the first disc.

Also, the recording quality of his voice is vastly superior on the second disc than it is on the two tracks he sings on the original album. This is not the "lost" Cure album Robert and Rhino Records advertising have made it out to be.

Bottom line is: if you enjoyed the Glove's one and only album back in 1983, then this re-release (original album on Disc 1) sounds amazing. The artwork is on par with all of the other Rhino reissues of late (Cure and Depeche Mode included).

However, if you are going into this thinking that Robert recorded guide vocals for Jeanette Landry in 1983, and released it on this set, then you may be disappointed.