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(1991 – 2005)
Curve was a British music group formed in 1991 chiefly around the collaboration of Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia. Halliday is a singer/songwriter who sang with The Uncles and Bonk in the early 80’s. Guitarist and Producer Garcia played bass guitar on Eurythmics’ “Touch” and “Be Yourself Tonight” albums, and the two were introduced to each other by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics.
Halliday and Garcia briefly formed the group State of Play in the late 1980s before parting ways. Halliday attempted a solo career in the late 80’s, releasing the album “Hearts & Handshakes” in 1989. The album was produced by Halliday and Alan Moulder, who also produced music for Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and My Bloody Valentine, to name a few. Halliday then reunited with Garcia to form Curve. Their alchemy the second time around created sonically charged music, setting heavy beats and Garcia’s densely-layered guitar tracks and feedback against Halliday’s airy vocalization of lyrics that frequently explore such topics as alienation, addiction and love on the wane.
Curve made an impact in the early 90’s “Shoegazer” scene, along with other bands Lush, Pale Saints, Slowdive and the ground-breaking My Bloody Valentine. They released 3 albums in the early 90’s: Doppelganger (1992), Pubic Fruit (1992), which compiled their first 4 EP’s, and Cuckoo (1993).
Halliday and Garcia briefly formed the group State of Play in the late 1980s before parting ways. Halliday attempted a solo career in the late 80’s, releasing the album “Hearts & Handshakes” in 1989. The album was produced by Halliday and Alan Moulder, who also produced music for Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and My Bloody Valentine, to name a few. Halliday then reunited with Garcia to form Curve. Their alchemy the second time around created sonically charged music, setting heavy beats and Garcia’s densely-layered guitar tracks and feedback against Halliday’s airy vocalization of lyrics that frequently explore such topics as alienation, addiction and love on the wane.
Curve made an impact in the early 90’s “Shoegazer” scene, along with other bands Lush, Pale Saints, Slowdive and the ground-breaking My Bloody Valentine. They released 3 albums in the early 90’s: Doppelganger (1992), Pubic Fruit (1992), which compiled their first 4 EP’s, and Cuckoo (1993).
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Doppelgänger
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Come Clean
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Gift
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Bozfly wrote:
When Curve write a song as good as Queer (not to mention as bigger hit) then you can all complain about Garbage.
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alin1 wrote:
Strange... how people talk about OTHER band on this band' shoutbox. A band not even on main similar artists. Free advertising? :-)
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DesireeGomez wrote:
curve is better than garbage. i honestly don't see a connection with the two. i still have cuckoo in a very low digital quality with 1000o scratches. i played the hell out of that cd.
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alin1 wrote:
@mellohippo: that's right! And by the way without Moulder, Curve' sound would be much much lighter...
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mellohippo wrote:
Lol, Moulder & Toni are married? What a cool couple.. =)
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PawnSacrifice wrote:
Most underrated band of the nineties. Die like a dog is my personal fave.
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medevac9000 wrote:
lilies dying : ) best song ever!
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aura_kafka wrote:
oh, my pretty childhood band...
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alin1 wrote:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: listen to this fantastic song, "Lady With the Spinning Head" (Extended Dance Remix) by U2. The original song was remixed by Alan Moulder and sounds like the best Curve song never released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rG7yBe_eI8 Just in case: Alan Moulder was a long term Curve collaborator/producer and unofficial 3rd member; Toni Halliday is his wife
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alin1 wrote:
"Gift" is my fave Curve album. I like every track
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longball2no1 wrote:
I am looking forward to Toni's solo project "Chatelaine". For me, the essential Curve cds are the early ep collection (P Fruit), Doppelganger, Cuckoo and Gift.
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flintxxx wrote:
miss you
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fylopastry wrote:
OK, fait accompli has something, but if you've got 2 (and im being generous here) curve songs you dont need to hear any more. they could have done with a little ..ahem.. diversity to say the least.
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-langb- wrote:
i love curve and i love garbage. but i hate both of their 'similar' artists :(
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man-called-adam wrote:
What does it matter, they both sound dated now.
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ChancesThree wrote:
I don't see the connection between Curve and Garbage, mostly because Curve are good, whereas Garbage are pretty fucking shitty.
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Bozfly wrote:
Har har!! I always thought it was weird that Curve fans compare Garbage and Curve because only Come Clean and Version 2.0 are similar sounding, and find it quite strange because Garbage were playing heavy bass electronic songs during their debut like Subhuman and Trip My Wire before Curve ventured into the same grungy techno sound.
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Goatsemen wrote:
Garbage is garbage
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alin1 wrote:
I wonder why Fait Accompli is not on Top 15...
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RichardD wrote:
Curve made some awfully great music.
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amodelofcontrol wrote about Curve – Cuckoo in Tuesday Twenty: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.05a: 40 to 21. Tuesday afternoon
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