Fascination Street (Version 1)
Transcribed by: Winston Campbell
From: The Cure - Dream and Silence (http://web.tiscalinet.it/thecure)

I am actually transcribing the extended version of Fascination Street that
appears on -Mixed Up-.  Although I like the original version, I find this
version more fun to play around with.  I have not put anything in order, 
all I did was to transcribe the millions of riffs there are to this song.
I have not transcribed the solo, though.  The chords are mainly Cm, Ab, Gm,
which is played during the verses by that clean guitar.  Here are the riffs
though:

This is the riff that opens up the song and appears near the end of the
song:

E ------------------------------------
B -----4-------4------4------1---3----
G -2-3-----2-3----2-3----2-3--------3-
D ------------------------------------
A ------------------------------------
E ------------------------------------


After this riff is played three times, the keyboard riff that appears is:

E -------3--------3----------------------3--------3--6--6-6-6--4--3--
B -4--6-----4--6-----4--1--1--1--4-4--6-----4--6---------------------
G -------------------------------------------------------------------
D -------------------------------------------------------------------
A -------------------------------------------------------------------
E -------------------------------------------------------------------


This is played two times, then the drums come in and then a weird effect
appears, I think it is harmonics played like:

E -----------------------------------------
B --7-7--7--7-7--7-7---5--5-5--5--5--5-5-5- <--play the 5 repeatedly for
G -----------------------------------------    six times then play, on 
D -----------------------------------------    the high E string a fifth
A -----------------------------------------    fret harmonic repeatedly.
E -----------------------------------------


This appear throughout the song, also with a staccato C note played on
the fifth fret of the G string, during the song.

The main part of the song, is mainly the bass riff which repeats itself
over and over again for eight minutes of the song.  If you don't know
already s indicates a slide, p indicates a pull-off and ~ indicates
tremolo.  Here is the bassline:

G ------------------------------------------------------
D ------------------------------------------------------
A -3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-s-6-6-6--3-3--3-3-3-3-3-3-s-5-5-5-
E ------------------------------------------------------

G -----------------------------------------------------------
D -----------------------------------------------------------
A -----------------------------------------------------------
E -4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4-s-13-13-13--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-s-6-6-6-


Another riff that appears in the song comes after the bassline initially
plays two times, this riff is:

E -8---------
B ---10------
G ------8----  This riff is also played when the drum track kicks out
D --------10-  for un momento.
A -----------
E -----------


After that play a C5 chord.  The next riff is that almost -solo- type riff
but it's not.  This is it:

E --------------------------------------------------
B ----------4--3---------------------1-------6------
G -------5-------3-3--------------1-------3---------
D ----5--------------3-----3p1--1-------3-----------
A -3------------------------------------------------
E -----------------------------------------------3--


Now, before Smith comes in with his vocals, that guitar line is (I am not
sure if I play it an octave higher but here it is):

E -6~-----------6-6--4-4--3----4----1-
B ------------------------------------
G ------------------------------------
D ------------------------------------
A ------------------------------------
E ------------------------------------


After that a keyboard plays  E --6--4--3-, then Smith starts singing.
While he is singing, there is that freaky guitar line, played with delay,
that goes like:

E -8--11--10--8--8--11--10--8-----11--10--8-----10--11--13-
B -----------------------------9-------------8-------------
G ---------------------------------------------------------
D ---------------------------------------------------------
A ---------------------------------------------------------
E ---------------------------------------------------------


This is played two times then that whole barrage of riffs come in, the 
solo also appears but I have not transcribed that.  These are the basic
riffs for the song.