Continuing with the excellent re-release programme of all of The Cure's CD's comes Mixed Up the 1990 release which featured classic Cure songs
remixed, generally to surprisingly good effect.
Not dated at all The Cure songs featured here retain a lot of power. There's a spacious quality to these reworkings that is often absent
on the original versions, almost leisurely in several of the cases, a laid back Jamaican dub version of Picture of You and a sleepy Close To Me.
Although Cure lynchpin Robert Smith was very hands on, remixers included William Orbit on a fantastic Inbetween Days and Paul Okenfold of Hapy Monday's
fame reworks Close To Me.
Other highlights include the rock out Hendrixesque Never Enough and Cure favourite A Forest
(both this and The Walk were completely re-recorded for this album and not remixes as such - the band
had lost the masters to The Walk
apperantly). There's a slight overuse of thinking that simply
extending the songs constitutes a remix but still a welcome addition to the re-issue shelf.
