Way of Curve [Import, Limited Edition]

Curve | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Sony Bmg Europe
• ASIN: B0001ZMBVK
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,074 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ten Little Girls

2. Coast Is Clear

3. Clipped

4. Die Like A Dog

5. Horror Head

6. Fait Accompli

7. Missing Link

8. Superblaster

9. Pink Girl With The Blues

10. Recovery

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. On The Wheel

2. Triumph

3. Arms Out

4. Sigh

5. Mission From God

6. Today Is Not The Day

7. Low And Behold

8. Nothing Without Me

9. What A Waste

10. Falling Free Aphex Twin Mix

See all 15 tracks on this disc

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Curve: going for the jugular, September 1, 2004

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H. R. Aeschbacher "TheExecutor" (Chicago,IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Way of Curve (Audio CD)

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised and happy to get my Import of Curve's The Way Of Curve 1990/2004. I have spent the last few weeks listening to this CD on my i-pod and have logged it as the most listened too tracks on my i-tunes. I have been a long time fan of Curve since my friend Diana from High School made me a tape of them in 1992. I immediately went and got Doppelganger their first full length US release.

Enough dilly-dallying on with my review: If you are a first time listener of Curve this is a good CD to start with and take advantage of. In a nut shell this two CD set is a great starting point for people who liked Gift and Chinese Burn. The first CD is Basically a Best of and the second CD is a Rare B-side and Best of remixes! If you are a long time fan and have all of Curve's CD's and CD Singles and downloaded Music this CD is a Cornucopia of rare and hard to find gems like In Disguise and Coming Up Roses the Kevin Shields Mix. But for those who are new and not too familiar with Curve this is also a treasure trove of great music by the band.

You will find that much of the music is uncategorizeable is it Rock, is it Dance, is it Electro, or is it Goth? It's hard to tell you what curve is like if you have never really heard them before. Some of you may have caught a sonic glimpse of the band in Movies and in television commercials for Cars and Motorcycles. Trust me when I say that if you are a fan of Guitar pulsing, rhythmic Drums (machine made or human made) you will be. I feel Curve was never given there chance and they always seem on the verge of making it in the states but just seem to never get a good foot hold. Every chance I get to talk about music I bring up Curve and people are so surprised that they have heard the band but never knew what they were hearing.

Tracks of note on the two CD's are:

Ten Little Girls:(Originally off of Blindfold 1992) with a hypnotic sound and a guitar rift that Garbage and Marlin Mansion would use in songs that would not come out for another four or five years. Probably the most stolen sound of the 90's!

Horror Head: (Originally off of Doppelganger 1992) with its haunting vocals and sense of strange urgency that seems to make you feel like you are spinning.

Pink Girls With the Blues: (Originally off of Pink Girls With the Blues EP 1996) this song has a furry that is raw and feels like it is about to come off like a scab on your knee. The Drums and bass are exceptional on this track and are truly a sonic treat.

I could go on but to say many of the tracks are layered and complex and are full of melody. Curve can only be described as a Kung Fu fighter going for the jugular and ripping it out and showing it to you before you die. (Nice analogy Hum?) Sonically sound, electronically sound and mesmerizing.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best UK band ever. Period., June 2, 2004

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D. Whiting "djdust" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Way of Curve (Audio CD)

Ignore the first rather hysterical (and elitist) review on these pages. This is not a collection that's been released solely for the benefit of die-hard fans. This double-CD set attempts the envious task of summing up the last 12 years of a band who have never once compromised their art for extra sales, while attempting to appeal to both old and potential new listeners alike.

Even if you ARE a die-hard Curve fanatic, there is plenty here for you. All the tracks have been newly mastered and sound better than ever before. The presence of all three tracks from the super-rare German-only "Superblaster" single (a CD that fetches three-figure sums on Ebay!) are worth the money alone. And new track "In Disguise" is utterly sublime and proves that Curve are still pushing frontiers and are not the one-dimensional has-beens that the moronic UK press mostly continues to brand them.

To newcomers (or old fans who thought Curve had dropped off the radar in 1994), if you're unsure whether to purchase this or not then do yourself a favour and hunt down a cheap copy of the incredible "Gift" from 2001 (that you lucky US peeps got months before us in the UK!). Then come back and re-apply here. You will not regret it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Worth The Price., February 2, 2005

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Jarrod Leda (Tarentum, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Way of Curve (Audio CD)

Well this review will be slightly biased, as I was one of the fans that helped pick the track selection via Curves website. All that aside, its a well chosen look back from the first singles untill now. Curve always wore thier influences well, part of the 'shoegazing' sound alongside bands like 'My Bloody Valentine' and 'Slowdive' , part of the etheric tone of 'Cocteau Twins' , and full of the discovery that was electronic music in the 90's. They were also more than the sum of thier parts, creating a sound that fit into none of the genres that spawned them.
Though I wish that a few more of the tracks from 'Cuckoo' had made it, I feel that was the high water mark , and 'Unreadable Communication' should have made this collection. The second disc includes b-sides from the singles that have been hard to find, but does not include the original 'Falling Free' or all of the 'Blackertracker 3' b-sides. But its a great retrospective for new fans, and worth it even if you have it all just to hear the better mastering of the old tracks(less hiss, better high end eq). And some of it sounds just as fresh and innovative as the first time I heard it in 1991. How many bands can you say that for 14 years later?