The Love Cats
The jazzy 1983 single that gave the Cure their first UK top 10.
"The Love Cats" (also written "The Lovecats") is a stand-alone single the Cure released in October 1983. It was the band's first UK top 10 hit, reaching No. 7, and reached No. 6 in Australia in early 1984. It was later collected on Japanese Whispers in December 1983.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- the Cure
- B-side
- "Speak My Language", "Mr. Pink Eyes"
- Released
- 21 October 1983
- Recorded
- August 1983
- Genre
- Jazz
- new wave
- pop
- Length
- 3:33
- Label
- Fiction
- Writer
- Robert Smith
Lore & Background
It was recorded in Paris at Studio des Dames in August 1983, after a one-off concert in Brittany, in the same jazz-tinged sessions as the B-sides "Speak My Language" and "Mr. Pink Eyes". Some fans link the song to Patrick White's novel The Vivisector, in which a sack of stray cats is drowned, though that story is hard to confirm.
Did You Know?
- In the video a large lampshade falls on the head of bassist Phil Thornalley.
- The line-up on the record was Smith, Lol Tolhurst on vibraphone, Thornalley on double bass and Andy Anderson on drums.
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