Product Details

• 30th Anniversary Edition of the Cures best-selling, Grammy-nominated album WISH. This deluxe 45 track edition compiled by Robert Smith features 24 previously unreleased tracks & 4 new to CD tracks across three discs.

• CD1 the original album, newly remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.

• CD2 features 21 previously unreleased demos, including four studio vocal demos from 1990 and seventeen instrumental demos from 1991, 9 of which are previously unreleased songs.

• CD3 features the four tracks from the mail-order only cassette Lost Wishes released in 1993, which have never appeared on CD or digitally. Also included are the previously unreleased song A Wendy Band from the 1992 Manor Studio sessions, a previously unheard mix of the epic fan favourite From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, as well as five rare 12 mixes. Finally, closing the set is an unheard live version of End from Paris Bercy in October 1992.

Track Listing

Tracklisting

CD1 Original Album Remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios01: Open (6:51)02: High (3:37)03: Apart (6:38)04: From The Edge of The Green Sea (7:44)05: Wendy Time (5:13)06: Doing The Unstuck (4:24)07: Friday Im In Love (3:38)08: Trust (5:32)09: A Letter To Elise (5:14)10: Cut (5:55)11: To Wish Impossible Things (4:43)12: End (6:45)

CD2 Demos All previously unreleased versions. *Unreleased track.01: The Big Hand [1990 Demo] (4:38) [final version on B-side to A Letter To Elise 7]02: Cut [1990 Demo] aka Away” (3:31) [final version appears on WISH]03: A Letter To Elise [1990 Demo] aka Cut (5:01) [final version appears on WISH]04: Wendy Time [1990 Demo] (5:13) [final version appears on WISH]05: This Twilight Garden [Instrumental Demo] (3:25) [final version on B-side to High 7″]06: Scared As You [Instrumental Demo] (2:33) [final version on B-side to Friday Im In Love 12″]07: To Wish Impossible Things [Instrumental Demo] (3:33) [final version appears on WISH]08: Apart [Instrumental Demo] (3:38) [final version appears on WISH]09: T7 [Instrumental Demo] (2:40) *10: Now Is The Time [Instrumental demo] (2:20) *11: Miss van Gogh [Instrumental demo] (2:48) *12: T6 [Instrumental Demo] (3:14) *13: Play [Instrumental Demo] (2:28) [final version on B-side to High 12″]14: A Foolish Arrangement [Instrumental Demo] (2:28) [final version on B-side to A Letter To Elise 12″]15: Halo [Instrumental Demo] (3:06) [final version on B-side to Friday Im In Love 7″]16: Trust [Instrumental Demo] (4:02) [final version appears on WISH]17: Abetabw [Instrumental Demo] (2:26) *18: T8 [Instrumental Demo] (2:17) *19: Heart Attack [Instrumental Demo] (2:41) *20: Swing Change [Instrumental Demo] (2:10) *21: Frogfish [Instrumental Demo] (2:35) *

CD3: Lost Wishes / Studio Out-Takes / 12 Remixes / Live / Rare / Previously Unreleased.01: Uyea Sound [Dim-D Mix] (5:28 [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]02: Cloudberry [Dim-D Mix] (5:22) [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]03: Off To Sleep [Dim-D Mix] (3:47) [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]04: The Three Sisters [Dim-D Mix] (4:12) [from Lost Wishes MC 1993]05: A Wendy Band [Instrumental] (3:47) *06: From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea [Partscheckruf Mix] (7:36) **07: Open [Fix Mix] (6:51) [B-side to High 12″]08: High [Higher Mix] (7:15) [High 12″]09: Doing The Unstuck [Extended 12 Mix] (5:54)10: Friday Im In Love [Strangelove Mix] (5:29 [Friday Im In Love 12″]11: A Letter To Elise [Blue Mix] (6:36) [A Letter To Elise 12″]12: End [Paris Live 92] (8:38) **

*Unreleased track**Unreleased version