Greetings,

I will be posting the following on thecure.com message board, but I'm so excited about the news I wanted to spread it as much as possible to other Cure fans:


Finally, material not included on the recent remasters series (such as the track "Killing an Arab" and the entire Concert and Japanese Whispers albums) will be available in a digital remastered format soon!!! Thanks to the good folks at Universal Japan, on 19 Mar 2008 there will be a series of 11 Cardboard sleeve reissues from The Cure featuring the latest remastering, bonus tracks, the high-quality SHM-CD format, and cardboard sleeve replica of the original UK LP artwork. Part of an eleven-album The Cure cardboard sleeve reissue series featuring the albums "Three Imaginary Boys," "Seventeen Seconds," "Faith," "Pornography," "Japanese Whispers," "The Top," "Concert-The Cure Live," "The Head on the Door," "Standing on a Beach," "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me," and "Disintegration."

SHM means Super High Material; which -- if I'm correct -- I believe is the Japanese equivalent of SACD (and supposedly also playable on standard CD players too).

More info here: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/list_from_code_banner.html?key=4567 and here: http://www.hmv.co.jp/search/index.asp?target=ARTISTS&artist=cure

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Sorry if I appear to be making an advertisment here, but I'm not trying to earn any money of this post or anything. Just wanted to share my excitement 'bout Japanese Whispers, Concert-The Cure Live and Standing on a Beach (which weren't included in the domestic series of deluxe-edition remasters) being finally available in digitally-remastered format!!

Hopefully it will be great to hear Concert and the "Killing an Arab" single in a sound quality that matches the domestically available deluxe-editions ...