Entreat

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Entreat
Live album by
Released25 March 1991
RecordedJuly 1989
VenueWembley Arena (London)
GenreGothic rock
Length47:09 (1991)
69:26 (2010)
LabelFiction
ProducerThe Cure
The Cure chronology
Mixed Up
(1990)
Entreat
(1991)
Wish
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Record Mirror7/10[2]
Sounds[3]

Entreat is a live album by English rock band the Cure, recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989. It consists entirely of songs performed from the band's 1989 record Disintegration; while they were on their international Prayer tour. Initially, Entreat was distributed exclusively in France as a promotional tool in 1989 and then was given away free by HMV stores in the UK and Ireland to customers who purchased two CDs from the band's back catalogue in May 1990. It was then given a full commercial release in March 1991.

The last two tracks were released in 1989 as B-sides to the US version of "Lullaby". "Fascination Street", "Last Dance", "Prayers For Rain", and "Disintegration" were also included as B-sides on the "Pictures of You" CD single.

The re-release of Disintegration in 2010 featured a remastered and remixed version of Entreat, entitled Entreat Plus because it featured all twelve songs from the album, including the four excluded from the original. It was the first time the album was released worldwide, though it had already been released on CD before.

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Pictures of You" – 7:08
  2. "Closedown" – 4:23
  3. "Last Dance" – 4:41
  4. "Fascination Street" – 5:20
  5. "Prayers for Rain" – 4:49
  6. "Disintegration" – 7:41
  7. "Homesick" – 6:49
  8. "Untitled" – 6:33

Entreat Plus[edit]

  1. "Plainsong" – 5:19
  2. "Pictures of You" – 7:04
  3. "Closedown" – 4:22
  4. "Lovesong" – 3:24
  5. "Last Dance" – 4:37
  6. "Lullaby" – 4:14
  7. "Fascination Street" – 5:10
  8. "Prayers for Rain" – 4:50
  9. "The Same Deep Water as You" – 10:03
  10. "Disintegration" – 7:54
  11. "Homesick" – 6:47
  12. "Untitled" – 6:45

Personnel[edit]

Charts[edit]

Chart performance for Entreat
Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 25
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[5] 19
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[6] 88
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[7] 29
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[9] 8
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[10] 31
UK Albums (OCC)[11] 10

References[edit]

  1. ^ Entreat at AllMusic
  2. ^ Crook, Darren (6 April 1991). "The Cure: Entreat". Record Mirror. p. 16.
  3. ^ Peacock, Tim (30 March 1991). "Time to Kill". Sounds. p. 40.
  4. ^ "Australiancharts.com – The Cure – Entreat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Austriancharts.at – The Cure – Entreat" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Cure – Entreat" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  7. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "The Cure". Sisältää hitin – Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish) (2nd ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 55. ISBN 978-952-7460-01-6.
  8. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Cure – Entreat" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Charts.nz – The Cure – Entreat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Swisscharts.com – The Cure – Entreat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 December 2023.