IN THE STUDIO...


10 OCTOBER 1977 - LONDON, SOUND AND VISION (UK)
#Demos for Hansa Records

1. Meathook
2. Listen (early Pill Box Tales)
3. I Just Need Myself
4. I Want To Be Old
5. See The Children, Fear The Children



15 NOVEMBER 1977 - LONDON, SOUND AND VISION (UK)
#Demos for Hansa Records

1. I'm Cold
2. Killing An Arab (early version)
3. I Saw Her Standing There (cover)
4. Little Girl (cover)
5. Rebel Rebel (cover)



JANUARY 1978 - LONDON, PSL STUDIOS (UK)
#Demos for Hansa Records

1. I Just Need Myself
2. Plastic Passion (early version)
3. Smashed Up
4. Rebel Rebel (cover)



27 MAY 1978 - CHESTNUT STUDIO (Sussex, UK)
#Demos

1. 10:15 Saturday Night
2. Boys Don't Cry
3. It's Not You
4. Fire In Cairo



20 SEPTEMBER 1978 - LONDON, MORGAN STUDIO 4 (UK)
#Three Imaginary Boys recording session #1

1. Three Imaginary Boys
2. 10:15 Saturday Night
3. Fire In Cairo
4. Plastic Passion
5. Killing An Arab

Parts of most tracks (vocals/guitar) would be re-recorded later for the final versions.



12 OCTOBER 1978 - LONDON, MORGAN STUDIO 4 (UK)
#Three Imaginary Boys recording session #2

More songs were recorded for the album :
-Boys Don't Cry
-Meathook
-Grinding Halt
-Object
-Subway Song
-It's Not You
-Winter
-I Don't Know ("Faded Smiles")
-Play With Me
-World War
-The Weedy Burton
...



08-10 JANUARY 1979 - LONDON, MORGAN STUDIO 4 (UK)
#Three Imaginary Boys recording session #3

More songs were recorded for the album (as well as overdubs for other songs):
-Accuracy
-Another Day
-Foxy Lady (cover)
-So What
-Pillbox Tales
-Do The Hansa
...



SEPTEMBER 1979 - LONDON, MORGAN STUDIO 4 (UK)
#Jumping Someone Else's Train single & Cult Hero

-Jumping Someone Else's Train
-I'm Cold
-I'm A Cult Hero (Frank Bell on vocals)
-I Dig You (Frank Bell on vocals)



13-20 JANUARY 1980 - LONDON, MORGAN STUDIO 4 (UK)
#Seventeen Seconds recording session

1. A Reflection
2. Play For Today
3. Secrets
4. In Your House
5. Three
6. The Final Sound
7. A Forest
8. M
9. At Night
10. Seventeen Seconds
11. Another Journey By Train



SEPTEMBER 1980 - LONDON, MORGAN STUDIOS (UK)
#Songs for a new album (all recordings were scrapped)

1. The Holy Hour
2. Primary (early version)
3. All Cats Are Grey
4. Going Home Time
...



FEBRUARY/MARCH 1981 - LONDON : MORGAN STUDIOS, RED BUS STUDIOS, ROUNDHOUSE, TRIDENT STUDIOS, ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS (UK)
#Faith recording session

1. The Holy Hour
2. Primary
3. Other Voices
4. All Cats Are Grey
5. The Funeral Party
6. Doubt
7. The Drowning Man
8. Faith
9. Descent
10. The Violin Song (unfinished)
11. A Normal Story (unfinished)



16 MARCH 1981 - POINT STUDIOS (UK)
#Carnage Visors recording session

1. Carnage Visors



16-17 JULY 1981 - LONDON, CAMDEN TOWN, PLAYGROUND STUDIO (UK)
#Charlotte Sometimes recording session

1. Charlotte Sometimes
2. Splintered In Her Head



DECEMBER 1981/JANUARY 1982 - DORKING, PIPPBROOK MILL STUDIO (SURREY, UK)
#Demos for a new album

1. One Hundred Years
2. The Hanging Garden (early version)
3. The Figurehead
4. Demise
5. Temptation
...

It seems that the complete session included 12 tracks (probably the entire
Pornography album and four other songs).



JANUARY/APRIL 1982 - LONDON, RAK STUDIOS (UK)
#Pornography recording session

1. One Hundred Years
2. A Short Term Effect
3. The Hanging Garden
4. Siamese Twins
5. The Figurehead
6. A Srange Day
7. Cold
8. Pornography
9. Airlock



JULY 1982 - LONDON, GARDEN STUDIOS (UK)
#Lament for Flexipop magazine

1. Lament (flexipop version)
(2. Despair ?)



JULY 1982 - LONDON, CAMDEN TOWN, PLAYGROUND STUDIO (UK)
#Demo for a new single

1. Temptation II (Let's Go To Bed early version)
...



SEPTEMBER 1982 - ISLAND STUDIOS (UK)
#Let's Go To Bed recording session

1. Let's Go To Bed
2. Just One Kiss



MAY 1983 - JAM STUDIO (UK)
#The Walk recording session

1. The Walk
2. The Dream
3. The Upstairs Room
4. Lament



14 AUGUST 1983 - PARIS, STUDIO DES DAMES (FRANCE)
#The Lovecats recording session

1. The Lovecats
2. Speak My Language
3. Mr Pink Eyes
4. A Hand Inside My Mouth



DECEMBER 1983/JANUARY 1984 - LONDON, OLYMPIC STUDIOS/GARDEN STUDIO
+ READING EDEN STUDIOS (UK)
#The Top recording session

1. Sadacic (known as Shout as well)
2. Shake Dog Shake
3. Birdmad Girl
4. Wailing Wall
5. Give Me It
6. Dressing Up
7. The Caterpillar
8. Piggy In The Mirror
9. The Empty World
10. Bananafishbones
11. The Top
12. Happy The Man
13. Throw Your Foot



APRIL 1984 - LONDON, OLYMPIC STUDIOS (UK)
#Tim Pope's I Want To Be A Tree single session

1. New Day

The Cure recorded the music to Tim Pope's songs and while being there, Robert Smith recorded New Day on his own -completely under the influence.



FEBRUARY 1985 - LONDON, FITZ & F2 STUDIOS (UK)
#Demos for The Head On The Door album

1. In Between Days
2. Kyoto Song
3. Six Different Ways
4. Close To Me
5. A Night Like This
6. Screw
7. The Exploding Boy
8. A Few Hours After This
9. A Man Inside My Mouth
10. Stop Dead
11. Mansolidgone
12. Lime Time
...

More songs were most certainly recorded.



MARCH/APRIL 1985 - LONDON, ISLINGTON, ANGEL STUDIOS (UK)
#The Head On The Door recording session

1. In Between Days
2. Kyoto Song
3. The Blood
4. Six Differents Ways
5. Push
6. The Baby Screams
7. Close To Me
8. A Night Like This
9. Screw
10. Sinking
11. The Exploding Boy
12. A Few Hours After This
13. A Man Inside My Mouth
14. Stop Dead



FEBRUARY 1986 - unknown studio (UK)
#Boys Don't Cry remix & resung single

1. Boys Don't Cry (remix & resung)
2. Pillbox Tales (remix & resung)
3. Do The Hansa (remix & resung)



JUNE 1986 - LONDON, BEETHOVEN STUDIOS (UK)
#Instrumental demos for a new album (umbrella title : One Million Virgins)

1. Why Can't I Be You ?
2. All I Want
3. The Perfect Girl
4. Like Cockatoos
5. Hot Hot Hot!!!
...

In total the band demoed 20 tracks.



14 AUGUST 1986/05 SEPTEMBER 1986 - DRAGUIGNAN, JEAN COSTA STUDIO (FRANCE)
#Instrumental demos for a new album

1. Just Like Heaven
2. Shiver And Shake
3. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
4. Hey You!!!
...



06 SEPTEMBER/11 NOVEMBER 1986 - MIRAVAL STUDIO (FRANCE)
#Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me recording session

1. The Kiss
2. Catch
3. Torture
4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
5. Why Can't I Be You ?
6. How Beautiful You Are
7. Snakepit
8. Hey You!!!
9. Just Like Heaven
10. All I Want
11. Hot Hot Hot!!!
12. One More Time
13. Like Cockatoos
14. Icing Sugar
15. The Perfect Girl
16. A Thousand Hours
17. Shiver And Shake
18. Fight
19. A Japanese Dream
20. Breathe
21. A Chain Of Flowers
22. Snow In Summer
23. Sugar Girl
24. To The Sky
25. Eyemou



DECEMBER 1986 - NASSAU, COMPASS POINT STUDIOS (BAHAMAS)
New vocal takes & saxophone on Icing Sugar.



JANUARY 1987 - BRUXELLES, ICP STUDIOS (BELGIUM)
More vocal takes and mixing the Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me album.



SEPTEMBER 1988 - BORIS' HOUSE (DEVON, UK)
#Instrumental demos for Disintegration

1. Plainsong
2. Pictures Of You
3. Closedown
4. Lovesong
5. Fascination Street
6. The Same Deep Water As You
7. Disintegration
8. Homesick
9. 2 Late
10. Fear Of Ghosts
11. Esten
12. Noheart
13. Delirious Night
...

The band demoed 30 tracks.



NOVEMBER 1988 - CHECKENDON, OUTSIDE STUDIO (UK)
#Disintegration recording session

1. Plainsong
2. Pictures Of You
3. Closedown
4. Lovesong
5. Last Dance
6. Lullaby
7. Fascination Street
8. Prayers For Rain
9. The Same Deep Water As You
10. Disintegration
11. Homesick
12. Untitled
13. Babble
14. Out Of Mind
15. 2 Late
16. Fear Of Ghosts
17. Delirious Night



DECEMBER 1989 - unknown studio (while mixing Entreat live album) (UK)
#Elektra 40th anniversary compilation

1. Pirate Ships (cover)

The cover would be left unreleased until 2010 (Disintegration remaster bonus disc).



MAY 1990 - LAUNCESTON, CORNWALL, UK
#Elektra 40th anniversary compilation

1. Hello I Love You
2. Hello I Love You (slight return)
3. Hello I Love You (psychedelic version)



MAY 1990 - Unknown studio, UK
#Attempt at recording electronic music EP

1. Harold And Joe
2. Never Enough
...

The session included other electronic music tracks but were scrapped in favor of
Never Enough and its wall of guitars.



AUGUST 1990 - Unknown studio, UK
#Re-recordings for Mixed Up

1. A Forest
2. The Walk



SEPTEMBER 1991 - SHIPTON ON CHERWELL, MANOR STUDIOS (UK)
#Demos for Wish

1. The Big Hand
2. Wendy Time
3. Heart Attack (studio jam)
4. Old England (studio jam)
5. Sluvy (early Doing The Unstuck)
...


SEPTEMBER 1991/FEBRUARY 1992 - SHIPTON ON CHERWELL, MANOR STUDIOS (UK)
#Wish recording session

1. Open
2. High
3. Apart
4. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
5. Wendy Time
6. Doing The Unstuck
7. Friday I'm In Love
8. Trust
9. A Letter To Elise
10. Cut
11. To Wish Impossible Things
12. End
13. This Twilight Garden
14. Play
15. Halo
16. Scared As You
17. The Big Hand
18. A Foolish Arrangement (early instrumental version)
19. Tape
20. Uyea Sound
21. Cloudberry
22. Off To Sleep...
23. The Three Sisters
...

Apparently the band recorded 25 songs in total.



18 AUGUST 1992 - SYDNEY Unknown studio (AUSTRALIA)
#Remixing A Letter To Elise for a single release.

1. A Foolish Arrangement (vocals and mixing)



APRIL 1993 - Unknown studio UK
#Jimmy Hendrix cover for Virgin 1215 radio

1. Purple Haze (Virgin radio version)



MAY 1993 - LONDON, COMFORT PLACE STUDIOS (UK)
#Jimmy Hendrix tribute album "Stone Free"

1. Purple Haze



DECEMBER 1993 - Unknown studio, UK
#The Crow soundtrack

1. Burn



AUGUST 1994 - Unknown studio (Haremere Hall ?) (UK)
#Demos for a new album

20 tracks were demoed by the band.



NOVEMBER 1994/JANUARY 1995 - ETCHINGHAM, HAREMERE HALL (UK)
#Wild Mood Swings recording session

1. Mint Car (Mark Price on drums)
2. Trap (Mark Price on drums)
3. Treasure (Mark Price on drums)
4. Club America (Louis Pavlou on drums)
5. This Is A Lie (Ronald Austin on drums)



FEBRUARY/AUGUST 1995 - BATH, ST CATHERINE'S COURT (UK)
#Wild Mood Swings recording session

More songs of the album were recorded as well as Dredd Song (soundtrack
to the Judge Dredd movie). Jason Cooper & Roger O'Donnell were part of
the band now.



AUGUST/DECEMBER 1995 - ETCHINGHAM, HAREMERE HALL (UK)
#Wild Mood Swings recording session

Recording more songs and (re)mixing most of the previous recordings.

1. Young Americans (David Bowie cover for 104.9 XFM compilation)
2. Want
3. Club America
4. This Is A Lie
5. The 13th
6. Strange Attraction
7. Mint Car
8. Jupiter Crash
9. Round and Round and Round
10. Gone!
11. Numb
12. Return
13. Trap
14. Treasure
15. Bare
16. It Used To Be Me
17. Ocean
18. Adonais
19. Home
20. Waiting
21. A Pink Dream
22. Patel Shout

Apparently the group recorded 25 songs in total.



15 JULY/ BEGINNING OF AUGUST 1997 - BATTLE, PARKGATE STUDIOS (UK)
#Recording session for a new single

1. Lime Green (early Wrong Number)
2. Ching Chang Chong (early Split Milk)
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?



15/17 AUGUST 1997 - LONDON, WHITFIELD STREET STUDIOS (UK)
#Recording Wrong Number single

1. Wrong Number ('slow groove' version)
2. Wrong Number ('rock' version)

Robert Smith recorded on his own that time with the help of Reeves Gabrels
on guitar for the second version of the song.



05/09 MARCH 1998 - LONDON RAK STUDIOS (UK)
#DM tribute/X-Files soundtrack

1. World In My Eyes
2. More Than This

Both tracks were recorded by Robert Smith on his own.



12/15 MARCH 1998 - CHECKENDON, OUTSIDE STUDIOS (UK)
#Mixing World In My Eyes & More Than This



MAY/JUNE 1998 - BATTLE, PARKGATE STUDIOS (UK)
#Instrumental demos for the Bloodflowers album

1. Where The Birds Always Sing
2. Just Say Yes (early version)
3. Out Of This World
4. Split Milk
5. Watching Me Fall
6. Side By Side
7. 39
8. You're So Happy (You Could Kill Me)
9. Everything Forever
10. There Is No If
11. The Loudest Sound
12. Heavy World
13. Maybe Someday
14. The Last Day Of Summer
15. Bloodflowers
16. Coming Up (?)
17. Possession (?)



SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 1998 - BATH, ST CATHERINE'S COURT (UK)
#Bloodflowers recording session

1. Out Of This World
2. Watching Me Fall
3. Where The Birds Always Sing
4. Maybe Someday
5. The Last Day Of Summer
6. There Is No If
7. The Loudest Sound
8. 39
9. Bloodflowers
10. Coming Up
11. Split Milk
12. Possession
13. Just Say Yes (original version)
...

15 tracks were recorded in total.



JANUARY 1999 - LONDON, RAK STUDIOS (UK)
#Bloodflowers recording session

Robert Smith recorded a bit of additional guitar parts and new vocals.



FEBRUARY/MARCH 1999 - CHIDDINGFOLD, FISHER LANE FARM (UK)
#Bloodflowers recording session

Recording more vocals takes for the album.



AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2001 - LONDON, OLYMPIC STUDIOS (UK)
#Cut Here single and 'acoustic hits' recording session

1. Cut Here
2. Signal To Noise
3. Just Say Yes
4. A Forest (to be remixed by Mark Plati)

1. Boys Don't Cry (acoustic)
2. A Forest (acoustic)
3. Let's Go To Bed (acoustic)
4. The Walk (acoustic)
5. The Lovecats (acoustic)
6. In Between Days (acoustic)
7. Close To Me (acoustic)
8. Why Can't I Be You ? (acoustic)
9. Just Like Heaven (acoustic)
10. Lullaby (acoustic)
11. Lovesong (acoustic)
12. Never Enough (acoustic)
13. High (acoustic)
14. Friday I'm In Love (acoustic)
15. Mint Car (acoustic)
16. Wrong Number (acoustic)
17. Cut Here (acoustic)
18. Just Say Yes (acoustic)
19. A Signal To Noise (acoustic)



OCTOBER 2003 - LONDON, OLYMPIC STUDIOS (UK)
#Instrumental demos for a new album

1. Back On (early Lost)
2. Labyrinth
3. Before Three
4. Jason #3 (Never)
5. Going Nowhere
6. This Morning
7. Fake
...

37 tracks were recorded.



END OF JANUARY/BEGINNING OF MARCH 2004 - LONDON, OLYMPIC STUDIOS (UK)
#Recording session for "The Cure" album.

1. Lost
2. Labyrinth
3. Before Three
4. The End Of The World
5. Anniversary
6. Us Or Them
7. alt.end
8. (I Don't Know What's Going) On
9. Taking Off
10. Never
11. The Promise
12. Going Nowhere
13. Truth Goodness and Beauty
14. This Morning
15. Fake
16. Why Can't I Be Me ?
17. Your God Is Fear
18. Please Come Home
19. Strum
20. A Boy I Never Knew



MAY 2005 - LONDON, WESTSIDE STUDIOS (UK)

1. Love (John Lennon cover for Amnesty International)
2. Three Imaginary Boys
3. Seventeen Seconds
4. Faith
5. Pornography
6. The Figurehead
7. M
8. Fire In Cairo
9. The Drowning Man

Tracks 2 to 5 were recorded for an exclusive Itunes digital EP.
Tracks 6 to 9 were recorded for an online Yahoo! session.



APRIL 2006 - BATTLE, PARKGATE STUDIOS (UK)
#4:13 Dream recording session

In a few months, the band recorded over 30 songs.
Some parts would be re-recorded (and probably re-sung) in 2007.

1. Underneath The Stars
2. The Only One
3. The Reasons Why
4. Freakshow
5. Sirensong
6. The Real Snow White
7. The Hungry Ghost
8. Switch
9. The Perfect Boy
10. This, Here And Now. With You.
11. Sleep When I'm Dead
12. The Scream
13. It's Over
14. NY Trip
15. All Kinds Of Stuff
16. Down Under
17. Without You
18. Lusting Here In Your Mind
19. Please Come Home (new version)
20. A Boy I Never Knew (new version)
...