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First I want to thank a lot for completing the whole Disintegration album by Cure – it’s a dream to have it all in RockBand now.
I really appreciate it!
happy to hear you’re enjoying it! I need to get back into the swing of charting and dig into more of their catalog…
Are there any plans on completing Joshua Tree by U2 this year?
haha, sorry, but considering my deep and thorough dislike of all things U2, you can rest assured that I will have no part in completing Joshua Tree. probably a good idea to see who’s done other stuff from the album and try to talk them into it, or download reaper and give it a shot!
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />grubextrapolate presents… Mixed Cure Pack
Heya folks, I’m back again with the final instalment of our 2019 Cure Project! So far we’ve covered Disintegration and some debut tracks, but there’s so much more to pick from, I had to drop in a few more of my personal favourites from across their career.
Authored by grubextrapolate
After their debut album, the subsequent trio of albums grew increasingly dark, but following Pornography The Cure moved things in a different direction. There was the decidedly poppy Japanese Whispers, and the often wacky The Top, then came 1985’s The Head on the Door. This album has a little bit of everything – which is probably why it’s the most complete album in the DB following Disintegration. The song I’ve chosen here is it’s closing track, Sinking. This one was definitely a darker track, a nod back to albums like Faith and Pornography. As with many other songs I’ve presented, my love for this one starts with its excellent bass part. it may be repetitive, but it keeps you moving and is certainly not boring. The guitar part, while often pretty buried, is pretty much free-form and fun. I spent a lot of time trying to dig it out, but it’s entirely possible I’ve missed bits of this, so if you notice any issues, please let me know. Likewise, the keys… well, I’ve charted the obvious parts, but there’s some sort of random violin noodling buried here and there that i couldn’t make out well enough to chart. Again, help would be welcome.
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From there, we move on to 1987’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. This expansive album is jammed full of great tunes, but I’ve chosen Like Cockatoos. The guitar and bass parts repeat the same (interesting) melody throughout and the keys keep things a little more fluid. I love the layering on this one, and yes, even that repeating bass part.
Authored by grubextrapolate
For our final track of the day, we skip over Disintegration, remixes, and live stuff and on to the next studio album… sort of. I haven’t chosen anything off 1992’s Wish and instead bring you one of my favourite Cure B-sides – from the “A Letter to Elise” single, the lovely The Big Hand. “The Big Hand” was planned as an A-side single early in 1993 but the idea was scrapped, largely due to Boris Williams not wanting the track to appear on the album but having no qualms about it appearing as a B-side. “The Big Hand” is one of the few B-sides to be played live, although very rarely. The bass part on this one isn’t especially notable, but it does have a great guitar part with an excellent solo and a fun drum part.
There’s still one more Cure track that we haven’t quite managed to wrap that’ll see the light of day soon, but not in time for the Chart-a-thon, so you have that to look forward to in the near future… and I think I’m just gonna keep chipping away at the discography from there. If you’re a Cure fan and you’d like to collaborate on anything, let me know! By my count we’ve got about 150 songs left to cover the studio discography and some notable singles/b-sides, plus a ton of remixes, live, and other tracks beyond. I hope you’ve enjoyed this blast of customs from my all time favourite band. I’ve certainly had fun putting them together!
These songs are a part of Chart-a-thon. If you download these songs, or if you enjoy my content, please consider making a donation at http://chartathon.com. All proceeds are donated directly to the American Cancer Society.
SONG COUNT: 377
Next up, MrPrezident returns with a couple of rock and roll classics!
another Chart-a-Thon release!
The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night
vocals: MrPrezidentgrubextrapolate and MrPrezident present… The Cure – Early Cure Pack
Hey gang, it’s me again. I’ve been a part of bringing you guys tracks from several of the “middle” Cure, but today we’re going back to the beginning for songs from their debut. Three Imaginary Boys was released on 8 May 1979 by Fiction Records. It was later released in the United States, Canada, and Australia with a different track listing as Boys Don’t Cry. We’ve got some of my favourites from both. These early tracks differ a fair bit from their later material, many in the punk vein, with amazing bass parts (which is part of why I love ’em) and some fun guitar solos – quite a contrast to where they’d be a few years later.
First up, the album opener, 10:15 Saturday Night. According to interviews in the booklet for the Deluxe Edition of Three Imaginary Boys, the demo of this song is what caught Chris Parry’s attention in 1978 and led him to sign the band to his newly founded record company, Fiction. The track was written by Robert Smith at the age of 16 one evening while sitting at the kitchen table feeling “utterly morose” watching the tap dripping and drinking his dad’s homemade beer. It was first performed as part of sets performed by Easy Cure at gigs around the band’s local area of Crawley. This one is on the slower side but still pretty fun, and has a great guitar solo. (Note: this one was previously available as a partial custom by naginalJJ and has been redone from scratch with his blessing).
The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night
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Next up is a nice fast one with one of my favourite Cure bass parts, Object. This one comes with a bit of controversy: The record company decided which songs were put on the album, as well as the cover artwork, without Robert Smith’s consent. Smith has stated that “songs like ‘Object’ … were [Chris Parry’s] choice”. The bass part will keep you moving pretty well on this one.
Authored by grubextrapolate
Coming from the other version of their debut “Boys Don’t Cry”, another contender for “best Cure bass part” has to be Jumping Someone Else’s Train. This song flies by at a pretty blistering pace and will definitely keep you on your toes on pretty much all instruments.
The Cure – Jumping Someone Else’s Train
Authored by grubextrapolate
The fourth and final song in this pack… well it’s a little behind schedule, but don’t fear, we’ll have it for you soon!
I hope you enjoy these classic Cure tunes. I’ll see you again at least once more before this event is done…
These songs are a part of Chart-a-thon. If you download these songs, or if you enjoy my content, please consider making a donation at http://chartathon.com. All proceeds are donated directly to the American Cancer Society.
SONG COUNT: 272
Next up, yaniv297 and ejthedj bring you a big pack from an American icon.
It’s finally here! Yes!
glad to hear i’m not the only one who loves Matthew Good!
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />more Chart-a-thon goodness! Buster66 helped me out with the keys on this one, a personal favourite from a spectacular album.
Matthew Good – House of Smoke and Mirrors
more of this album to come in the future…
Required Canadian Content – Part 2
grubextrapolate and Buster66 present… Matthew Good – House of Smoke and Mirrors
When I posted the completion of Disintegration, I hinted that although Disintegration is my favourite album, there’s another close contender. That album is 2003’s solo debut by Matthew Good, Avalanche.
Following the breakup of Matthew Good Band at the end of 2001, Matthew Good returned to the studio with long-time MGB producer Warne Livesey to work on what would become Avalanche. This record was a creative departure from previous albums with Matthew Good Band and features the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on several tracks. The album received high praise from both critics and fans alike, debuting at #2 on the Canadian Album Charts and being certified Gold only 2 months after release. The first single, Weapon (charted by MrPrezident) also won the Juno award for Video of the Year in 2003.
But we’re here to talk about my favourite track from the album and probably my favourite Matthew Good song overall: House of Smoke and Mirrors. The closing track on this stellar album, some might see this song as flawed – the squeaking of the strings on the acoustic guitar as it starts, the minimalistic piano, the crackle of the amp as the song builds – but thats all part of what makes it so brilliant to me. It’s raw and has such a great built to it. If you don’t know it, check it out. I hope you’ll come to love it as I do.
Matthew Good – House of Smoke and Mirrors
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I definitely plan on getting the rest of this excellent album into Rock Band some day… and I’ll see you again in a few days…
Atruejedi presents… Sum 41 – Dave’s Possessed Hair / It’s What We’re All About / Ride the Chariot to the Devil
“If your life was a book, your story would be fiction…”
Looking at my releases, you probably wouldn’t realize that my tastes tend to gravitate toward thoughtful and depressing lyrics. Happy and upbeat are not a typical part of my rotation. But sometimes a song is so fun and has such swagger that you can’t help but be charmed, even if it’s juvenile. Fortunately for you, when I make a song for Rock Band, I always ask myself, “Will this be a dope-ass tune for an alcohol-fueled party?” The answer is always yes, but it’s resounding in this case.
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This Rock Band 3 custom song, Dave’s Possessed Hair / It’s What We’re All About / Ride the Chariot to the Devil by Sum 41, is my forty-seventh release, not infrequently requested on the forums. I’m proud to bring to the community as a part of Chart-a-thon. If you download this song, please consider making a donation at chartathon.com. All proceeds are donated directly to the American Cancer Society. And you sons of guns who requested it damn well better pay up! If you’re able, of course.
Your haircut will be embarrassing in 20 years, too, motherfucker.
My first experience with this song was hearing the reworked and re-recorded version featured on the Spider-Man soundtrack from 2002. I used to really like that cut, back when I didn’t understand hip-hop nor have a basis of comparison to what was good and what was the opposite of that. But after hearing the original from their 2000 EP Half Hour of Power (which I still consider their first album, but whatever), I couldn’t really enjoy the Spider-Man version anymore. Many will disagree, but I think that while the original has less lyrics, those lyrics hold up better than the less-than-stellar filler from the expanded version. Plus, this version is a fucking medley.
[gameplay video]
Features:
Fully custom venue from scratch
Vocal chart from scratch
Dryvox lip sync for all three vocal parts
Vocal tonic note
Reductions for all instruments
Numeric ID for Wii leaderboards (Song ID 649200047)
Drums by Chainsaw Octopus
Special thanks to grubextrapolate
Not only do you get to play the original version of It’s What We’re All About as two white boys and an Indo-Guyanese dreamboat doing their best impressions of the Beastie Boys, but you get to enjoy its pitched predecessor, Dave’s Possessed Hair, and the instrumental outro Ride the Chariot to the Devil. I’ll let the gameplay video speak for itself, but I obviously have to thank Chainsaw Octopus for the work he put not only into the drums chart, but for the extra effort he gave in helping me finalize the bass part, which was rapid and buried because of the insane drumming. We went back-and-forth debating what we heard, but we finally came to an agreement and I’m very proud of what we’ve made.
The guitar has a similar story. I pitched it all as a vocals part, then converted the melody of that to a five-gem guitar chart. But it lacked chords because I’m awful at chords. So I recruited a true Canadian, grubextrapolate, who fleshed it out and turned my basic work into something much more developed and immersive. Thank you, my friend.
If you’d like to contribute improvements or animations or if you have suggestions for how I can do better, please contact me. Rock is what we’re all about. Help others live for it as well by donating at chartathon.com.
Atruejedi
These songs are a part of Chart-a-thon. If you download these songs, or if you enjoy my content, please consider making a donation at http://chartathon.com. All proceeds are donated directly to the American Cancer Society.
SONG COUNT: 249
Next up, MrPrezident returns to wrap up your Required Canadian Content.