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Poll: The Cure's Top 98 songs of all time, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs' readers

Poll: The Cure’s Top 98 songs of all time, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers

The deeply mournful ‘Same Deep Water As You’ — the centerpiece of the new ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ — is not just Slicing Up Eyeballs readers’ favorite song off that classic 1989 album, it’s their No. 1 all-time song by The Cure, according to our informal poll that wraps up ‘Disintegration’ Week.

Vintage Video: New Order re-writes 'Blue Monday' for Sunkist soda TV commercial

Vintage Video: New Order re-writes ‘Blue Monday’ for Sunkist soda TV commercial

For $200,000, New Order re-recorded ‘Blue Monday’ — allegedly the best-selling 12-inch of all time — for a Sunkist TV commercial (which also uses footage from the band’s Kathryn Bigelow-directed video for ‘Touched By the Hand of God’).

Video + free download: The Shins' James Mercer covers Squeeze's 'Goodbye Girl'

Video + free download: The Shins’ James Mercer covers Squeeze’s ‘Goodbye Girl’

In this clip recorded for Levi’s ‘Pioneer Sessions,’ James Mercer — leader of The Shins and one-half of Broken Bells — throws down a solo-acoustic cover of Squeeze’s classic ‘Goodbye Girl,’ which also is available as a free download.

The Vaselines unveil new album 'Sex With An X,' offer download of 'I Hate the '80s'

The Vaselines unveil new album ‘Sex With An X,’ offer download of ‘I Hate the ’80s’

Reunited Scottish indie-pop faves The Vaselines today announced they’ll release a new album called ‘Sex With An X’ — only their second ever, the follow-up to 1989’s ‘Dum-Dum’ — in September, and are previewing it with a free download of the track ‘I Hate the ’80s.’ Plus, they’ll mount a 10-date tour of the U.K. this fall.

Readers poll: The Cure's Top 10 B-sides

Readers poll: The Cure’s Top 10 B-sides

For Day 3 of our ‘Disintegration’ Week — in which we toast the North American release of The Cure’s eagerly anticipated ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ — we flip those singles over, running down the band’s Top 10 B-sides, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers.

Vintage Video: Ministry’s Al Jourgensen, Gary Numan sing early-’80s soda pop jingles

Could it be? Is that Ministry’s Al Jourgensen singing ‘don’t give me that so-so soda/that same old cola’ in this 1983 commercial for Shasta? And here’s a purported 1982 7UP jingle sung by Gary Numan, too.

Free download: Lou Barlow + Missingmen's 'Losercore' off new '= Sentridoh III' EP

Free download: Lou Barlow + Missingmen’s ‘Losercore’ off new ‘= Sentridoh III’ EP

Taking a pause from the ongoing Dinosaur Jr reunion, Lou Barlow this week released a new digital EP called ‘= Sentridoh III’ — recorded with his current backing band, The Missingmen — and announced two rounds of North American summer dates.