THE CURE Fading Roots 1980s Rare Live Bootleg

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Fading Roots is a 2-LP bootleg album by The Cure released in 1987, comprising live material from a 1980 concert in Sydney, Australia, and existing material from sessions with John Peel and Kid Jensen.

Some of the session tracks have been cut short. The audio quality of the live tracks is surprisingly good for a bootleg, although they include cue breaks between songs.

The cover photo of Smith was taken in approximately 1984, while the back photo was taken around 1986.

Both albums have been mislabeled. The first LP is listed as being by the artist The MDs and published by Nightingale Music, while the second LP is listed as being by the artist National Health and published by Paradigm. The albums are respectively named Music as Therapy and It's a Sound Modality.

Tracklist

A1 Seventeen Seconds A2 Play For Today A3 Three Imaginary Boys A4 Fire In Cairo A5 In Your House A6 10:15 Saturday Night B1 At Night B2 M B3 Accuracy B4 Boys Don't Cry B5 Plastic Passion B6 Jumping Someone Else's Train / Another Journey By Train C1 Grinding Halt C2 A Forest C3 Three C4 Killing An Arab C5 Subway Song C6 Plastic Passion C7 Grinding Halt C8 Desperate Journalist D1 10:15 Saturday Night D2 Killing An Arab D3 Fire In Cairo D4 Boys Don't Cry D5 Do The Hansa D6 Let's Go To Bed D7 Just One Kiss D8 Ariel

Notes

This album was recorded at a live performance in 1980 in Sydney and from various sessions done for .

Some songs are cut short and have pauses in between tracks making it hard to distinguish what tracks are the concert and what tracks are the John Peel and Kid Jensen sessions.

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