''Concert: The Cure Live'' is the first live album by

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. It was recorded in 1984 at the

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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,

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and Lol Tolhurst, except as noted. #"Shake Dog Shake" (Smith) – 4:14 #" Primary" – 3:29 #" Charlotte Sometimes" – 4:06 #" The Hanging Garden" – 4:05 #"Give Me It" (Smith) – 2:49 #" The Walk" (Smith, Tolhurst) – 3:31 #" One Hundred Years" – 6:48 #"

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" (Smith, Matthieu Hartley, Gallup, Tolhurst) – 6:46 #" 10:15 Saturday Night" (Smith,

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, Tolhurst) – 3:44 #" 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: #"Heroin Face" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''

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'') #"Boys Don't Cry" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''Three Imaginary Boys'') #"Subway Song" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''Three Imaginary Boys'') #"At Night" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''

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'') #"In Your House" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''Seventeen Seconds'') #"The Drowning Man" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''

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'') #"Other Voices" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''Faith'') #"The Funeral Party" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered ''Faith'') #"All Mine" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered '' Pornography'') #"Forever (Version)" (later included on Disc 2 of the remastered '' The Top'')

Personnel

* Robert Smith – vocals, guitar *

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– guitar, saxophone, keyboards * Andy Anderson – drums *

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– bass guitar * Lol Tolhurst – keyboards

References

{{Authority control The Cure live albums 1984 live albums Albums produced by David M. Allen Fiction Records live albums Elektra Records live albums Albums recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo