According to wikipedia, The Cure have released 41 singles from Killing An Arab in 1978 to The Perfect Boy exactly 30 years later. But I would never have guessed that Lullaby was the one that performed the best in the UK singles chart when it crawled its way up to #5 in 1989.I would have put a fair amount of money that The Lovecats was the holder of that title, but it only scratched its way to #7 in 1983, although I'm guessing that it in fact outsold Lullaby.
And even if you told me that the biggest success wasn't The Lovecats, I'd have then place whatever was left of my cash on Friday I'm In Love, but this only swooned its way to #6 in 1992.
So the best performing 45 turns out to be the one about the creepy and haunting tale of an eight-legged creature that frightened Robert Smith is in his nightmares as a youngster. Or, is in fact the song, as has been suggested in some places, really about drug addiction and dependency but written in such a way that it gets past the censors at the BBC for the all important airplay?
Either way, I think its one of the most inventive arrangements to feature on any record by The Cure, and I've dug out the 12" single from the cupboard for you all to enjoy once more along with two rather decent b-sides:-
mp3 : The Cure - Lullaby (extended mix)
mp3 : The Cure - Babble
mp3 : The Cure - Out Of Mind
And here's the very memorable promo:-
Happy Listening
4 comments:
*CLAPPING* one of my favs too. The mix on this is so much better than the album. Crisp, clean and creepy=)
Ahhhhh...coming up to a year since yu published my piece on the parent album Disintegration on your blog. A great song, a remix that quite possibly improves on the original, and as you say, two rather fine b-sides.
Great video as well. No wonder they're still my favourite band ever!
Simply class.
Hmm somewhere I have the pink vinyl version of this :) Great song
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