Seventeen Second

Seventeen Second is the second album studio of the English group The Cure, left in 1980.

During the recording the group was composed of two original members, Robert Smith (guitar, song) and Lol Tolhurst (battery), of Simon Gallup, substitute Michael Dempsey with low, as of a fourth musician who will belong to The Cure during a few months only, the clavierist Matthieu Hartley.

The sessions began at the end of 1979 with the studios Morgan, located at Willesden in the north of London. They were directed by the young producer Mike Hedges, who had already worked as a sound engineer on the first album of Cure, Three Imaginary Boys , produced by Chris Parry, owner of the Fiction label.

The recording of Seventeen Second made it possible Mike Hedges to launch out in some experiments, but with a range of sound effects limited, mainly reverb (echo) and delay (delay effect), no numerical effect not being available at the time. The recording and the mixing were buckled in the one week space.

The disc left in April 1980 and reached the 20th place of the classification of the best sales of albums in the United Kingdom. Individual the has Forest was classified 31ème making him this song the first Hit of the group in its country, and becoming thereafter traditional of The Cure and one of the favorites of the public at the time of the concerts.

List titles

  1. has Reflection (instrumental)
  2. Play For Today
  3. Secrets
  4. In Your House
  5. Three
  6. The Final Sound (instrumental)
  7. has Forest
  8. M
  9. At Night
  10. Seventeen Second

Individual

  • has Forest/Another Journey By Train - April 1980

Album following studio : Faith .

External bonds

  • Article of the Sound magazine one Sound devoted to the recording of '' Seventeen Second ''

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