The Cure in 2019 - Stats & Figures

welcome back sir!

some number crunching until the next show thanks a lot!

The greatest hits is actually reaching higher chart placement than when it was originally released, the power of glasto!

I always found the tracklisting on it strange. I understand why just say yes is on it as an unreleased track to get fans to buy album.

But If it's the "greatest hits" rather than a best of, I don't understand why some of their biggest hits are not on it.

Catch, The Hanging Garden, A Letter to Elise and The 13th were a lot bigger hits than some of the tracks on the album.

So I modelled the set lists as "Process Flows" i.e. song 1 is followed by song 2 etc etc, by assigning a timestamp to each song. Then in theory, I can look for patterns in the set list. However, given the back catalogue available, you can tell from this there the flow is all over the place, despite what we may think of as predictable set lists. Obviously this factors in the 5 Sydney shows, plus R&RHoF.

great works statsman!
some interesting things. I thought they played burn at every show these days, but they missed a few. and there was actually a show where either fascination street, lullaby or pictures of you weren't played?? that's a real shocker!

oh I realize now that it was the RnR HOF show that missed those songs!