The Cure make fantastic pop singles. Their first grerat hits album is choc full of radio friendly tunes. All slightly off kilter but full of pop and fizz. Personally I'm no fan of some of their other stuff which is mostly dirge like to these ears. This came out quickly after their first single Killing An Arab and and it was like the beginnings of Indie pop.
Somewhere there is a video of me miming to this song at Murphy Street in South Yarra. My school had bought a newvideo camera and since I was in charge of AV I took it home to test it out and spent the weekend making videos of me and my friends. The first thing I learned was to put the sound from the stereo straight into the camera so I began taping people singing along to pop tunes. It started with me and then my girlfriend at the time came round so I filmed her miming. Then I bumped in Michael P down the shops and brought him up. And so on. One big pop video. As I said, I covered Boys Don't Cry.
Big song on the radio and destinied to be played at all the clubs I worked at over the next 20 years. Everyone loves this song. Put it on the turntable and the dance floor fills up. A great big singalong.
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