The Cure and The Who DVDs Get Blu-Ray Treatment

01/13/2009
. (Kayos) Eagle Rock Entertainment will release two major Blu-ray events next month when Trilogy by The Cure hits streets February 3 and The Who's Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 lands February 24.

As one of the most enduring and popular bands of the post-punk era, The Cure, led by eccentric visionary singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Smith, excelled at the art of the slow burn. Their doom'n'gloom affectations, exacerbated by Smith's ghoulish public persona, hipped a whole generation to the ironic stance of positive negativism, pre-dating emo by over a decade.

Trilogy is just that: three classic Cure albums—Pornography (released 1982), Disintegration (released 1989) and Bloodflowers (released 2000)—all performed in their entirety on three straight nights in 2002. Bonus footage includes a 30-minute interview with the entire band and a special two-song encore set consists of "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and "The Kiss." Total running time for this Blu-ray DVD is approximately 223 minutes.

The Who's classic set at the Isle Of Wight Festival, as originally filmed by Academy Award-winning director Murray Lerner, has been relived a number of times due to their brutal and shocking extremes. Nobody played as hard, as fast or as heavy and with as much violence as The Who!

Now, for the first time, on Blu-Ray, one can relive this most dramatic moment in the history of hard rock in newly restored visuals, remixed sound and exclusive new bonus extras. This Blu-ray includes two songs—"Substitute" and "Naked Eye"—not seen in the original movie. It also includes a new 40-minute interview with guitarist/composer Pete Townshend [total running time 134 minutes].

The Cure Track Listing:
Pornography:
1. One Hundred Years
2. A Short Term Effect
3. The Hanging Garden
4. Siamese Twins
5. The Figurehead
6. A Strange Day
7. Cold
8. Pornography

Disintegration:
1. Plainsong
2. Pictures of Songs
3. Closedown
4. Love Song
5. Last Dance
6. Lullaby
7. Fascination Street
8. Prayers For Rain
9. The Same Deep Water As You
10. Disintegration
11. Homesick
12. Untitled

Bloodflowers:
1. Out Of This World
2. Watching Me Fall
3. Where The Birds Always Sing
4. Maybe Someday
5. The Last Day Of Summer
6. There Is No If…
7. The Loudest Sound
8. 39
9. Bloodflowers

The Who Track Listing:
1. Heaven And Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. Young Man Blues
4. I Don't Even Know Myself
5. Water
6. Medley: Shakin' All Over/Spoonful/Twist And Shout
7. Summertime Blues
8. My Generation
9. Magic Bus (From "Tommy)
10. Overture
11. It's A Boy
12. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
13. Christmas
14. The Acid Queen
15. Pinball Wizard
16. Do You Think It's Alright
17. Fiddle About
18. Go To The Mirror
19. Miracle Cure
20. I'm Free
21. We're Not Gonna Take It
22. See Me Feel Me/Listening To You
23. Tommy Can You Hear Me?

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