The Cure

My 100% synth version of the 1980 hit.

Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
While you can
Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes
I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees
Into the trees
Suddenly I stop
But I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again...


A Forest (Lignum version) (The Cure cover)

Had some fun finding a synth for each part, especially a stand-in for Robert Smith's vocals.


Boys Don't Cry (Plucking Robert Version)(The Cure Cover)

Just realised that the song really lent itself to this sort of version, and had a lot of fun arranging the orchestra.

In Between Days (Symphonic Version) (The Cure Cover)

Tesla Girls (OMD Cover)

My all-synth version of the almost all-synth 1986 hit. The difference is my synths cover decades and are ... weirder. (This was actually a pretty mainstream track for OMD - have a listen to something like Red Frame / White Light).

If You Leave (Fuschia Version) (OMD cover)

My all-synth Gadgetised version of the 1980 track.

The chance to change has nearly gone
The alternative is only one
The final source of energy
Solar electricity

Electricity (240V RMS AC 50Hz Version) (OMD cover)

My all-synth version of the 1983 hit.

We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up near the fire
Get up for a while
It's the grooviest thing
It's the perfect dream

The Love Cats (1933 Version) (The Cure cover)

My all-synth version of the 1992 hit.

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday I'm in love

Friday I’m in Love (Anxiety Abates Version) (The Cure cover)

My all-synth version of the 1980 track.

Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play they're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's eight fifteen and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give, it's never going to fade away

Enola Gay (EMP-Hardened Version) (OMD cover)

My all-synth version of the 1984 track.

Ha ha ha
Wake up in the dark
The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more
And scrape my skin with razor blades

And make up in the new blood
And try to look so good
Follow me
Make up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Ha ha ha

As stale and selfish as a sick dog
Spurning sex like an animal of god
I'll tear your red hair by the roots
And hold you blazing
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light

Your face
I'll never see you this way again
I captured it so perfectly
As if I knew you'd disappear away

Shake shake shake shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake dog shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake dog shake

Shake Dog Shake (Undercoat Version) (The Cure cover)

My all-synth version of the 1991 hit. When I was doing this, the music itself said ‘go retro’.

You say that love will capture me
Not unless you give it free.
You're sailing on the seven seas
Sister Rae is on TV.
The light above, it shines so bright
That the F.B.I. won't sleep tonight
'Cause I'm so in awe of you
That I don't know what to do
And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue.
Sick and tired, I don't know why
Skin and bones, touch the sky
Sex and lies, can't bring me down
'Cause I sold my soul
All over town.
People try to drag us down
So we learn to swim before we drown.

Sailing on the Seven Seas (Bermuda Triangle Version) (OMD cover)

I make obnoxious synth covers of previously fine songs. All done with Korg Gadget.

A Forest (Lignum version) (The Cure cover)

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