Curve - Faît Accompli [12"]

Romanesco is a vegetable that you don't see that often in shops or at markets, at least not over here in Holland, so the first time i saw it somewhere i thought "hey, that's what's on the FAÎT ACCOMPLI single's cover!". Back in the days i only owned the cd-maxi of this CURVE song, and i honestly thought the artwork was a microscopic detail of some kind of sea plant or so. Funny. Anyway, only recently i got my hands on this 12". The single is one of Curve's best songs as far as i'm concerned. It's from the Doppelgänger album, and that period was definitely their heyday. Arms Out and Sigh are non-album tracks that can only be found on this maxi, and they're pretty good actually.

Label: Anxious Records

Cat.nr.: ANXT 36

Year of release: 1992

SIDE A:

01. Faît Accompli

SIDE B:

01. Arms Out

02. Sigh

Curve - Ten Little Girls [7", Picture Disc]

I came across this funny little thing at the record fair in Utrecht in November, and even though i already have the Blindfold EP which includes both songs on this TEN LITTLE GIRLS picture disc i couldn't resist buying it. Just because you can't have enough CURVE releases in your collection - right? 

Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANX P 27
Year of release: 1991

SIDE A:
01. Ten Little Girls

SIDE B:
01. Blindfold

Curve - Blackerthreetrackertwo EP [12", Promo]

The BLACKERTHREETRACKERTWO EP by CURVE features the opening track for the Cuckoo album, Missing Link, in an industrial remixed version by Flood and Trent Reznor. The other two songs are remixes as well. The Headspace mix of Rising is a triphop version by Future Sound Of London, while the Honey Tongue Mix of Half The Time is a house tune, done by Drum Club. I have no idea where the original versions of these last two songs can be found actually: perhaps they even don't exist.
This is the alternative edition of the regular Blackerthreetracker EP by the way, which has the album version of Missing Link and two other songs. I don't have that one (yet). I'm never a really big fan of remixes and this is no exception to that really, but it's nice to have this EP just to add to my Curve collection.

Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANX T DJ 142
Year of release: 1993

SIDE A:
01. Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix)

SIDE B:
01. Rising (Headspace Mix)
02. Half The Time (Honey Tongue Mix)

Curve - Cherry EP [10"]

Despite already owning the 12" edition of this EP, i thought it  would be cool to have this limited 10" edition as well. It's handnumbered (my copy is #1779), limited to 2000 copies, and comes in a plain silver sleeve with a sticker. Besides, it has one extra track compared to that 12" version. So when i found it in Utrecht in April for a fair price of course i had to buy it.

Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANX X 35
Year of release: 1991

SIDE A:
01. Clipped
02. Die Like A Dog

SIDE B:
01. Galaxy
02. Cherry
03. I Speak Your Every Word (with JC 001)

Curve - Cuckoo [12", LP]

CUCKOO is CURVE's second full length, and their last good album as far as i'm concerned. I'm not too impressed by what they released after 1993. I used to only have this on tape, and since i don't have a cassette player anymore and threw away all my tapes some years ago, i wasn't able to play this album for a very long time. Until recently, when i came across this LP in a second-hand recordstore in Göteborg, Sweden. Almost forgot how good it actually is.So i'm kind of rediscovering it now :)


Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANXLP 81
Year of release: 1993

SIDE A:
01. Missing Link
02. Crystal
03. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
04. All Of One
05. Unreadable Communication

SIDE B:
01. Turkey Crossing
02. Super Blaster
03. Left Of Mother
04. Sweetest Pie
05. Cuckoo

Curve - Cherry EP [12"]

Clipped, the single from this CHERRY EP by CURVE was the first song i ever heard of this band. And i still think it's one of their best tracks they ever made as well. I bought the CD maxi version at the time, but i recently came across the 12" so i couldn't resist buying it. Perfect production by Alan Moulder by the way, who would marry Curve singer Toni Halliday later on.


Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANX T 35
Year of release: 1991

SIDE A:
01. Clipped
02. Die Like A Dog

SIDE B:
01. Galaxy
02. Cherry

Curve - Blindfold EP [12"]

One of my crate-digging finds at the Utrecht record fair a few weeks ago. Not an EP i'd been particularly looking for, but it wasn't very expensive and while i have most CURVE releases on CD as well, this BLINDFOLD EP i don't. Well spent money for that matter.

Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANX T 27
Year of release: 1991

SIDE A:
01. Ten Little Girls
02. I Speak Your Every Word

SIDE B:
01. Blindfold
02. No Escape From Heaven

Curve - Frozen [12", EP]

A great 12" by CURVE. Toni Halliday was in those days without doubt one of the sexiest women in indie rock. Coast Is Clear, which just like the rest of this EP was not featured on their debut album Doppelgänger, is still one of my favourite Curve songs.

Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANX T 30
Year of release: 1991

SIDE A:
01. Coast Is Clear
02. The Colour Hurts

SIDE B:
01. Frozen
02. Zoo

Curve - Doppelgänger [12", LP]

CURVE's debut album DOPPELGÄNGER is still my favourite one of this band. Ever since i saw the Clipped video on MTV's 120 Minutes, i was hooked. That song came from the Cherry EP which was released a year earlier, so when this album came out i bought it immediately. On CD that is; this LP i bought at Nostalgipalatset in Stockholm some years ago.

Label: Anxious Records
Cat.nr.: ANXLP 77
Year of release: 1992

SIDE A:
01. Already Yours
02. Horror Head
03. Wish You Dead
04. Doppelgänger
05. Lillies Dying

SIDE B:
01. Ice That Melts The Tips
02. Split Into Fractions
03. Think And Act
04. Faît Accompli
05. Sandpit