Concert: The Cure Live
Live album by The Cure
Released	26 October 1984[1]
Recorded	The Manor Mobile, live at the Hammersmith Odeon London, 9–10 May 1984, and in Oxford, 5 May 1984
Genre	Gothic rock
Length	42:27
Label	Fiction (UK) Elektra (Canada)
Producer	Dave Allen, The Cure
The Cure chronology
The Top (1984) Concert: The Cure Live (1984) The Head on the Door (1985)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Concert: The Cure Live is the first live album by English rock band the Cure. It was recorded in 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and in Oxford during The Top tour. The cassette tape edition featured, on the B-side, a twin album of anomalies, titled Curiosity (Killing the Cat): Cure Anomalies 1977–1984.

Track listing

Tracks written by Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst, except as noted.

1. "Shake Dog Shake" (Smith) – 4:14
2. "Primary" – 3:29
3. "Charlotte Sometimes" – 4:06
4. "The Hanging Garden" – 4:05
5. "Give Me It" (Smith) – 2:49
6. "The Walk" (Smith, Tolhurst) – 3:31
7. "One Hundred Years" – 6:48
8. "A Forest" (Smith, Matthieu Hartley, Gallup, Tolhurst) – 6:46
9. "10:15 Saturday Night" (Smith, Michael Dempsey, Tolhurst) – 3:44
10. "Killing an Arab" (Smith, Dempsey, Tolhurst) – 2:51

Cassette tape edition

The B-side of the cassette tape edition of Concert contained a twin album titled Curiosity (Killing the Cat): Cure Anomalies 1977–1984, a set of Cure rarities recorded from 1977 to 1984:

1. "Heroin Face" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Three Imaginary Boys)
2. "Boys Don't Cry" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Three Imaginary Boys)
3. "Subway Song" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Three Imaginary Boys)
4. "At Night" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Seventeen Seconds)
5. "In Your House" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Seventeen Seconds)
6. "The Drowning Man" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Faith)
7. "Other Voices" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Faith)
8. "The Funeral Party" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Faith)
9. "All Mine" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered Pornography)
10. "Forever (Version)" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered The Top)

Personnel

• Robert Smith – vocals, guitar
• Porl Thompson – guitar, saxophone, keyboards
• Andy Anderson – drums
• Phil Thornalley – bass guitar
• Lol Tolhurst – keyboards

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