The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]

The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]
by Nick Wickham

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Actor: Jason Cooper, Perry Bamonte, Robert Smith, Roger O'Donnell, Simon Gallup
Director: Nick Wickham
Producer: Robert Smith
Editor: Mark 'Reg' Wrench
Producer: Daryl Bamonte
Producer: Emer Patten
Producer: Geoff Kempin
Producer: Terry Shand
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Live, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 223 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent

DVD Reviews of The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Encore Alone is Worth the Price of Admission
Summary: 5 Stars

The Kiss is one of my favorite Cure songs so I was excited that it was included in the encore. It didn't disappoint. As for the three main sets, I enjoyed Pornography the best (that album continues to find ways to surprise and astonish me) but Disintegration and Bloodflowers were also top-notch.

Essential just for the experience of having all three albums together and the price is extremely reasonable.

DVD Review: Better than expected
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great DVD and it is well worth the price I paid for it. The performances really do justice to the Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers albums,and the sound quality is great. The purchase is worth it just for the Bloodflowers set, but the whole thing is entertaining. The band is not off key, as some reviewers have said, but rather it's a live performance, which usually sounds a little different from the album tracks. Anyway, if you watch the bonus interviews with the band (which are worthwhile), you will learn that The Cure played all three of the "trilogy" albums in their entirety on two separate dates in Berlin. Only the better of the two performances of each song (as judged by Robert Smith) were included on the DVD. Therefore, even if something may have been off key in the concert, which is doubtful, it wouldn't have happened two nights in a row on the same song, and therefore would not have made it onto the DVD. That said, I am completely satisfied with this video and really $10 for a brand new two disc DVD (over 3 hours of concert footage) isn't really splurging, especially for a fan of The Cure.

DVD Review: The Joy of Melancholy (eat your heart out Keats)
Summary: 4 Stars

Everything works here: sound quality; video quality; production values; and of course foremost, the performance. While I missed some of the more upbeat songs of some of their other (newer) albums, this disc is a definitive Cure performance. I would hope that additional live performances of other Cure albums could be made...it would be an awesome collection! Ah, the joy of melancholy....the melancholy in joy....!

DVD Review: Highly recommended!
Summary: 5 Stars

Nothing much to say, this is the first music blu-ray I've bought, and the first item from The Cure. Loving it through and through! :)

DVD Review: great concert
Summary: 5 Stars

This concert is really great. bluray video quality was pretty good , sound quality was also very good. A must have concert for any CURE fan.

Description of The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]

Out of all the bands that emerged in the immediate aftermath of punk rock in the late `70s,THE CURE was one of the most enduring and popular. Led through numerous incarnations by guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith,the band became notorious for their slow,gloomy dirges and Smith's ghoulish appearance. But the public image often hid the diversity of the Cure's music.

This Blu-ray is a TRILOGY of CURE albums, PORNOGRAPHY, DISINTIGRATION and BLOODFLOWERS,that were performed in three successive night in 2002. All tracks reflect the original release. Now CURE Fans can experience, what not to long ago was just heard and imagined,the full CURE.

TRACKLISTING PORNOGRAPHY 1. One Hundred Years 2. A Short Term Effect 3. The Hanging Garden 4. Siamese Twins 5. The Figurehead 6. A Strange Day 7. Cold 8. Pornography DISINTEGRATION 1. Plainsong 2. Pictures Of You 3. Closedown 4. Love Song 5. Last Dance 6. Lullaby 7. Fascination Street 8. Prayers For Rain 9. The Same Deep Water As You 10. Disintegration 11. Homesick 12. Untitled BLOODFLOWERS 1. Out Of This World 2. Watching Me Fall 3. Where The Birds Always Sing 4. Maybe Someday 5. The Last Day Of Summer 6. There Is No If... 7. The Loudest Sound 8. 39 9. Bloodflowers ENCORE SET: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep ~ The Kiss

BONUS FOOTAGE: 30 minute interview

An ambitious yet practical idea, Trilogy underscores the tonal and lyrical connections between three of the Cure's darkest albums in the last 20 years. The restless, ever-changing band, fronted by goth-gloomster Robert Smith, took up residence at the Tempodrom Berlin for a couple of nights in late 2002 for the express purpose of playing the group's 1982 Pornography, 1989's Disintegration, and 2000's Bloodflowers live and in their entirety. Whether it was a good idea or not depends on one's point of view. All three sets are long on droning, funereal rhythm sections, thick guitar lines that carry good pop melodies to overstylized destruction, and Smith's own cracked, morose vocals. On the other hand, fine distinctions emerge: The Disintegration portion of the show is lightest on its feet, with lush orchestration on "Plainsong," a hint of swing on "Lovesong," and cinematic tendencies in the stirring "The Same Deep Water as You." The rest of the concert is numbing. --Tom Keogh

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The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]

The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]by Nick Wickham

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DVD Reviews of The Cure: Trilogy - Live In Berlin [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Encore Alone is Worth the Price of AdmissionSummary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: Better than expectedSummary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: The Joy of Melancholy (eat your heart out Keats)Summary: 4 Stars

DVD Review: Highly recommended!Summary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: great concertSummary: 5 Stars