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Q: How do you stop a rhino from charging?

A: Take away his credit card!

Q: How do you stop Rhino from reissuing Cure albums and causing you to max out your credit cards?

A: You don't!

Rhino Records has just announced the latest round of remastered Cure and Cure-related reissues, all dolled up in hyper-deluxe two-disc packages with fancy-schmancy booklets and more bonus demos than Robert Smith has had bad hair days.

The latest round-up arrives August 8 and includes Cure albums nos. five, six, and seven-- The Top (1984), The Head on the Door (1985), and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987)-- as well as 1983's Blue Sunshine, the lone record by the Glove, the side project of Smith and Siouxsie & the Banshees bassist Steve Severin. Mega-hits and fan favorites like "In Between Days", "Why Can't I Be You?", "Just Like Heaven", and "Close to Me" were spawned during this storied era in Cure history.

As you may recall, last year Rhino graced us with expanded, remastered reissues of Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and the much-loved Pornography. At this rate we can expect a d-lux remaster of that lukewarm 2004 self-titled record by 2008. Oh boy.

Tracklists:

The Top:

Disc 1:

01 Shake Dog Shake
02 Birdmad Girl
03 Wailing Wall
04 Give Me It
05 Dressing Up
06 The Caterpillar
07 Piggy in the Mirror
08 The Empty World
09 Bananafishbones
10 The Top

Disc 2 (Rarities):

01 You Stayed... (Robert Smith Home Demo)
02 Ariel (Robert Smith Home Demo)
03 A Hand Inside My Mouth (Studio Demo)
04 Sadacic (Robert Smith Studio Demo)
05 Shake Dog Shake (Studio Demo)
06 Piggy in the Mirror (Studio Demo)
07 Birdmad Girl (Studio Demo)
08 Give Me It (Studio Demo)
09 Throw Your Foot (Studio Demo)
10 Happy the Man (Studio Demo)
11 The Caterpillar (Studio Demo)
12 Dressing Up (Studio Alt. Mix)
13 Wailing Wall (Studio Alt. Mix)
14 The Empty World (Live Bootleg)
15 Bananafish Bones (Live Bootleg)
16 The Top (Live Bootleg)
17 Forever (Version) (Live Bootleg)

The Head on the Door:

Disc 1:

01 In Between Days
02 Kyoto Song
03 The Blood
04 Six Different Ways
05 Push
06 The Baby Screams
07 Close to Me
08 A Night Like This
09 Screw
10 Sinking

Disc 2 (Rarities):

01 In Between Days (Robert Smith Home Demo)
02 Inwood (Robert Smith Home Demo)
03 Push (Robert Smith Home Demo)
04 Innsbruck (Robert Smith Home Demo)
05 Stop Dead (Studio Demo)
06 Mansolidgone (Studio Demo)
07 Screw (Studio Demo)
08 Lime Time (Studio Demo)
09 Kyoto Song (Studio Demo)
10 A Few Hours After This... (Studio Demo)
11 Six Different Ways (Studio Demo)
12 A Man Inside My Mouth (Studio Demo)
13 A Night Like This (Studio Demo)
14 The Exploding Boy (Studio Demo)
15 Close to Me (Studio Demo)
16 The Baby Screams (Live Bootleg)
17 The Blood (Live Bootleg)
18 Sinking (Live Bootleg)

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me:

Disc 1:

01 The Kiss
02 Catch
03 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
04 Why Can't I Be You?
05 How Beautiful You Are...
06 Snakepit
07 Hey You!
08 Just Like Heaven
09 All I Want
10 Hot Hot Hot!!!
11 One More Time
12 Like Cockatoos
13 Icing Sugar
14 The Perfect Girl
15 A Thousand Hours
16 Shiver and Shake
17 Fight

Disc 2 (Rarities):

01 The Kiss (Robert Smith Home Demo)
02 The Perfect Girl (Studio Demo)
03 Like Cockatoos (Studio Demo)
04 All I Want (Studio Demo)
05 Hot Hot Hot!!! (Studio Demo)
06 Shiver and Shake (Studio Demo)
07 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (Studio Demo)
08 Just Like Heaven (Studio Demo)
09 Hey You! (Studio Demo)
10 A Thousand Hours (Studio Alt. Mix)
11 Icing Sugar (Studio Alt. Mix)
12 One More Time (Studio Alt. Mix)
13 How Beautiful You Are (Live Bootleg)
14 The Snakepit (Live Bootleg)
15 Catch (Live Bootleg)
16 Torture (Live Bootleg)
17 Fight (Live Bootleg)
18 Why Can't I Be You? (Live Bootleg)

The Glove: Blue Sunshine:

Disc 1:

01 Like an Animal
02 Looking Glass Girl
03 Sex-Eye-Make-Up
04 Mr. Alphabet Says
05 A Blues in Drag
06 Punish Me With Kisses
07 This Green City
08 Orgy
09 Perfect Murder
10 Relax

Bonus tracks:

11 The Man From Nowhere (Original Instrumental Mix)
12 Mouth to Mouth (Landray Vocal Mix)
13 Punish Me With Kisses (Mike Hedges Mix)
14 The Tightrope (Original Instrumental Mix)
15 Like an Animal (12" Club What Club? Mix)

Disc 2 (Rarities):

01 Like an Animal (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
02 Looking Glass Girl (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
03 Sex-Eye-Make-Up (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
04 Mr. Alphabet Says (Alt. Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
05 A Blues in Drag (Alt. Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
06 Punish Me With Kisses (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
07 This Green City (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
08 Orgy (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
09 Perfect Murder (Alt. Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
10 Relax (Alt. Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
11 The Man From Nowhere (Alt. Instrumental Mix)
12 Mouth to Mouth (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
13 Opened the Box (A Waltz) (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
14 The Tightrope (Almost Time) (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)
15 And All Around Us the Mermaids Sang (aka Torment)
16 Holiday 80 (Original Instrumental Mix)

If you are reading this here line down here, you, my friend, are a ridiculously devout Cure fan. My hat goes off to you.