Killing an Arab
The Cure's debut single, a short retelling of Camus's The Stranger.
"Killing an Arab" is the Cure's first single. It was recorded alongside Three Imaginary Boys (1979) but left off that album, then included on the band's first US album, Boys Don't Cry (1980).
Quick Facts
- Artist
- the Cure
- Album
- Boys Don't Cry
- B-side
- 10:15 Saturday Night
- Released
- 22 December 1978
- Recorded
- 20 September 1978
- Genre
- Post-punk
- Length
- 2:21
- Label
- Small Wonder, Fiction
Lore & Background
Robert Smith described it as a brief poetic take on key moments of Albert Camus's 1942 novel The Stranger, in which Meursault shoots an Arab on a beach. Melody Maker heard a link to Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Hong Kong Garden", with a Moorish-sounding guitar figure in place of that song's Oriental riff.
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