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Paris
Live album by The Cure
Released	25 October 1993
Recorded	19–21 October 1992
Venue	Le Zénith de Paris, France
Length	57:37
Label	Fiction Elektra
The Cure chronology
Show (1993) Paris (1993) Wild Mood Swings (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Calgary Herald	B+
Hot Press	(favourable)
Rolling Stone	(favourable)
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Vox	8/10

Paris is a live album recorded by The Cure at Le Zénith de Paris, in October 1992 during their Wish tour, but released in October 1993. The band announced the album in July 1993.

Paris was released at the same time as Show, which was recorded in the United States. The album features more cult classics like "The Figurehead" and "One Hundred Years" than Show, which is generally more single-friendly.

50% of the royalties earned by the album were given to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement charities in support of their international relief work.

In mid-1996, Billboard reported that Paris had sold 95,000 copies in the United States by that point, much less than the 213,000 copies of Show sold there by the same point. The magazine described the release of the album "within a few weeks" of Show as exemplifying the "unorthodox career path" that the band had taken.

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised the album, observing "Show featured mostly hit singles; Paris features the songs that built their cult, including "Close to Me" and "Letter to Elise." Consequently, most fans will find this the more interesting of the two live albums, and, out of the two records, it is the more consistent and satisfying."

Patrick Brennan of Hot Press was also positive on the song choices and felt it was "for die-hard Cure fans it's a gorgeous treat and for other acolytes of the lukewarm or lapsed variety it might well re-recruit them back into Bob Smith's sometimes wacky, ofttimes gloomy and always idiosyncratic world."

Michele Kirsch of Vox praised the album's "top shelf sound engineers" and "good editing". Rating the album eight out of ten, he noted "there's nothing here that doesn't work."

Track listing

Paris - 1992 Original Release

1. "The Figurehead" (Pornography) – 7:26
2. "One Hundred Years" (Pornography) – 7:15
3. "At Night" (Seventeen Seconds) – 6:39
4. "Play for Today" (Seventeen Seconds) – 3:50
5. "Apart" (Wish) – 6:37
6. "In Your House" (Seventeen Seconds) – 3:59
7. "Lovesong" (Disintegration) – 3:31
8. "Catch" (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) – 2:41
9. "A Letter to Elise" (Wish) – 4:50
10. "Dressing Up" (The Top) – 2:49
11. "Charlotte Sometimes" (stand-alone single) – 3:58
12. "Close to Me" (The Head on the Door) – 3:57

Paris - 30th Anniversary Edition

LP Side A

1. "Shake Dog Shake" (The Top) – 5:05
2. "The Figurehead" (Pornography) – 7:26
3. "Play for Today" (Seventeen Seconds) – 3:50
4. "At Night" (Seventeen Seconds) – 6:39
5. "In Your House" (Seventeen Seconds) – 3:59
6. "One Hundred Years" (Pornography) – 7:15

LP Side B

1. "Apart" (Wish) – 6:37
2. "Lovesong" (Disintegration) – 3:31
3. "A Letter to Elise" (Wish) – 4:50
4. "Catch" (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) – 2:41
5. "Charlotte Sometimes" (stand-alone single) – 3:58
6. "Dressing Up" (The Top) – 2:49
7. "Close to Me" (The Head on the Door) – 3:57
8. "Hot Hot Hot!!!" (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) – 3:53

Personnel

• Robert Smith – vocals, guitar
• Simon Gallup – bass guitar
• Porl Thompson – guitar
• Boris Williams – drums
• Perry Bamonte – keyboard, guitar

Production

• Robbie Williams – production manager
• Howard Hopkins – stage manager
• Tom Wilson – keyboard tech and backstage coordinator

Charts

References

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