The Cure – Splintered In Her Head (Live Video)

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The Cure – Splintered In Her Head
Salle Europa
Metz, France
10/17/81

Faith era Cure is by far my favorite. Footage from that tour is fairly scarce, but this concert from 1981 in France was put up on DAD a couple of months ago. It’s fairly crummy black and white footage, but it’s still great.

Download: The Cure – Splintered In Her Head (Live Video)

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boilingboy says:

October 2, 2007 at 10:13 am

This song is one of the great unheralded Cure tracks. It\’s just frightening. People who love Disintegration so much are usually put off by Faith…to intense for them, though it is the superior album.

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