THE CURE – MIXED UP 2LP – Nr MINT A1 UK 1990 ORIG  GOTH PUNK INDIE

The Cure – Mixed Up
(Fiction Records  1990  fixlp18)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1/C1/D2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– a little wear on the edges – original hype sticker top right
Inner Sleeves in Nr MINT condition

Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band’s formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member, though bassist Simon Gallup has been present for all but about three years of the band’s history. Their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), along with several early singles, placed the band at the forefront of the emerging post-punk and new wavemovements that were gaining prominence in the United Kingdom. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith’s stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the goth subculture that eventually formed around the genre.

After the release of the band’s fourth album, Pornography (1982), Smith introduced a greater pop sensibility into the band’s music, and they subsequently garnered worldwide mainstream success. Their singles compilation Standing on a Beach (1986) sold four million copies worldwide by 1989, and they reached their commercial peak with the albums Disintegration (1989) and Wish (1992). The Cure have released 13 studio albums, two EPs, and over 30 singles, and have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Their most recent album, Songs of a Lost World, will be released on November 1, 2024. The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

Mixed Up is a 1990 remix album by The Cure. The songs are remixes of some of their hits, reflecting the popularity of remixing of existing songs and dance culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Most of the songs are extended mixes. Several had been previously released on 12″ singles, but some are completely remade, with Smith recutting vocals due to the original tapes not being available. The record closes with the extended version of a new single, “Never Enough”. The remix of “Pictures of You” was originally released under the title “(Strange Mix)”. In an interview featured on the Trilogy DVD, singer Robert Smith described the remix album as something “fun after the doom and gloom of Disintegration“.

The Cure also released some other new mixes as the b-sides of the singles from Mixed Up: the first single, “Never Enough”, featured a remix of “Let’s Go To Bed”, entitled “Let’s Go To Bed (Milk Mix)” (on the 12″, cassette and CD versions), as well as a new song, “Harold and Joe”, while the second single, “Close to Me (Remix)” contained “Just Like Heaven (Dizzy Mix)” (on all formats) and “Primary (Red Mix)” (on the 12″, CD and cassette versions) as b-sides.

Track listing

Personnel

• Robert Smith – Vocals, Guitar, Six-String Bass, Keyboards
• Simon Gallup – Bass
• Porl Thompson – Guitar, Six-String Bass
• Boris Williams – Drums
• Roger O’Donnell – Keyboards
• Lol Tolhurst – Keyboards on Tracks 2,8,9 and 10