Just imagine if it was like this! Wish would have been right up there with Disintegration and Pornography for me. Wondering whats gone? End, Cut and Wendy Time - they do nothing for me, sorry guys for those that love them.

1.Open
2.High
3.Apart
4.From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
5.Scared As You
6.A Letter To Elise
7.Halo
8.This Twilight Garden
9.Doing The Unstuck
10.Friday I'm In Love
11.Trust
12.The Big Hand
13.A Foolish Arrangement
14.Play
15.To Wish Impossible Things

It would have been a long album and I know would have never materialised this way but I still like to think how it could have been

i dont really like the big hand that much.
but good list there.

sweet list, but i'd trade "High" for "Cut." otherwise, it's awesome!

I think album-wise 'Pornography' and 'Disintegration' are their greatest pieces of work because the B-sides from those distinct and remarkable pieces of work are actually weaker than the brilliance they put on the final albums. Please don't get me wrong, the 'Disintegration' B-sides of '2Late', 'Fear of Ghosts', 'Babble' and 'Out Of Time' are all fantastic songs but they just wouldn't belong on the final tracklisting, in my opinion, and indeed I think they would have tainted or diminished the albums final overall connection and achievement.
However to me it seems that with their other albums The Cure seem to leave the better B-sides out off the final album which is somewhat deflating. I mean, for example, Wish's B-sides are amongst some of their best work, especially 'This Twilight Garden', 'Halo' and 'Play' and how they were deemed less worthy than say 'Wendy Time' is beyond me.
The same goes for 'Wild Mood Swings' - that album for me is pretty weak and it seems to be the general Cure-fan consensus that it is somewhat flawed, especially by Cure standards. Indeed the according B-sides of 'Home', 'A Pink Dream' and particularly the fantastic epic 'It Used To Be Me' are better than most tracks off that entire album and if they were included, with the eradication of the evidently weaker stuff (i.e 'This Is A Lie', 'Strange Attraction', 'Return'), Wild Mood Swings could have been so much rewarding.
Some more examples that come to mind: 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me', the lovely 'Snow In Summer' and 'Chain Of Flowers' - more Cure brilliance resigned to B-side material. And how about 'Spilt Milk' from the Bloodflower-sessions, I know it wasn't a B-side but how that never got onto the final album still baffles me - it was seriously better work than most songs off that album (though I do still love 'Bloodflowers')
I know Robert Smith holds a great respect for the so-called 'B-side' with the notion that they should be as good, if not better, than the A-side single, but why? Wouldn't it be better to put the best stuff on the final album and leave the weaker stuff for the singles? And I understand even though some songs sound great they may simply not fit-in with the overall feeling and direction of that particular album - thats a given for sure and I wholeheartily respect that.

What do you fellow Curonians think - comments?

IS - what do you have against High? - I love that song, especially on the Show CD release it sounds so good! Its one of my favourite Cure singles.

I'm glad to see Halo on there. That is one of my absolute favourite Cure songs ever. Good list!

It seems like I heard that Wish was supposed to be a double album but the record company was against it... Apparently t was supposed to have a dark half and a light half. It's ironic that the Smashing Pumpkins did that very thing with Mellon Collie and it sold really well! Ah, what could've been...

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Yes Amy, that's why I bought the double album-literally...

jonno, nothing really against "High," it just never really clicked with me, so it's the easiest one for me to trade up for "Cut," which I like quite a bit. i do agree with the rest of the "should have been" line up though it wouls have been a much stonger record.