Mint Car
The 1996 single Robert Smith rated above "Friday I'm in Love".
"Mint Car" is the second single from the Cure's tenth album, Wild Mood Swings, released on 17 June 1996. It peaked at No. 31 in the UK and No. 14 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, and made the top 20 in Finland and Iceland.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- the Cure
- Album
- Wild Mood Swings
- B-side
- "Home"
- "Waiting"
- "A Pink Dream"
- Released
- 17 June 1996
- Genre
- Jangle pop
- Length
- 3:29
- Label
- Fiction; Elektra
- Composer
- Robert Smith
- Simon Gallup
- Perry Bamonte
- Jason Cooper
- Roger O'Donnell
Lore & Background
Robert Smith has said he thought it a better song than the top-10 hit "Friday I'm in Love", and that its failure taught him there is a tipping point: when the zeitgeist is not with you, "there's nothing you can do about it".
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