The Cure - 1981-11-25 Sheffield [TORRENT](flac)

[romuald]

cure1981-11-25.aud.flac16
Info hash 0b437ed27063829fadd073aea6a83a70754fbd27
Description Date: 1981-11-25
Location: Sheffield, England, UK - Lyceum
Source: AUD
Quality: 6/10
Generation: unknown
Lineage: unknown equipment > Master CS > ... > CS > Audacity (uploader1900's rip + 10% speed-up) > 1-trk FLAC > TPB > WAV > CD Wave 1.97 (doublec's edit) > TLH 2.4.1.160 (sector boundaries alignment/level 8 compression) > FLAC
Taped by: unknown
Ripped by: uploader1900
Edited by: doublec
Seeded by: doublec @ PPTT-ForeverDrowning in torrent on 2009-01-30
Reseeded by: doublec @ DIME on 2009-02-13

Based on a torrent originally seeded by: uploader1900 @ TPB (The Pirate Bay) on 2008-05-12

Mainset:
01. The Drowning Man - 7:07
02. Splintered In Her Head - 4:48
03. In Your House - 4:06
04. The Funeral Party - 4:50
05. The Holy Hour - 4:36
06. Primary - 4:01
07. Charlotte Sometimes - 3:55
08. Other Voices - 4:46
09. All Cats Are Grey - 4:02
10. At Night - 6:33
11. The Hanging Garden - 5:51
12. M - 3:41
13. Play For Today - 3:29
14. A Forest - 6:28
15. Forever - 8:19

Encore:
16. The Figurehead - 2:50

Total: 1:19:29
File size: 417 MB (FLAC)
Wasted segments: 2 MB (FLAC)

Line up:
Simon Gallup : bass and piano
Robert Smith : vocal, piano and guitar
Laurence Tolhurst : drum

Story:
Complete recording. The sound is poor (muffled and hissy) but anyway an enjoyable recording with no audience talking.
Tape-flip likely between All Cats Are Grey and At Night.
"01. The Drowning Man" misses very first seconds
"09. All Cats Are Grey" suffers a tape issue at 2:51 and is faded-out
"11. The Hanging Garden" is an early version with different lyrics
"16. The Figurehead" is an early version with different lyrics and is cut
Thanks to the original seeder on TPB (uploader1900).
The original torrent was a 1-trk FLAC, so I have edited it tracking properly and wasting useless empty or duplicated segments.
I have added in a separate folder the wasted segments and the cue-sheet I have produced.
I have also created frequency analysis (FA) and spectral view (SV) of the first track that show that the recording is clearly lossless.
Curiosity 1: no TIB-era tracks (a very dark show!!!)
Curiosity 2: it is debated if The Figurehead was actually played. The question arises from the fact that the quality of the last track is different from the rest of the recording.
My opinion is that it is possible/reasonable that The Figurehead is not a fake track because you can hear in the third wasted segment a duplicated part of the end of trk 15 with the same quality of trk 16 (just put again in order).
So the different quality of The Figurehead is not a sufficient reason to exclude that it was actually played as an encore; maybe something wrong occurred during an inaccurate duplication of the master or low gen cassette.

More info:

http://www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/1981-11-25.php
(it lists 1 audience recording)

http://www.foreverdrowning.net/setlist.php?date=411
(it lists 1 audience recording)
Info file View Info file (2.91 KB)
Category Alternate
Last seeder Last activity 1:41 ago
Size 420.19 MB (440,602,922 bytes)
Added Fri 13th Feb, 2009 14:11 GMT
Views 155
Hits 43
Snatched 18 time(s)
Upped by doublec
Num files
[See full list] 28 files
Peers
[See full list] 17 seeder(s), 8 leecher(s) = 25 peer(s) total

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=236098