The Vinyl Countdown # 1757

The Cure, Standing On A Beach * The Singles (1986)

I was a fan of The Cure at high school. But only just. I’d heard Seventeen Seconds and liked it a lot. And some of Pornography. And obviously I knew a bunch of the singles – playing out like jingles: Love Cats, Boys Don’t Cry etc. And then what really sold me on the band was getting hold of this. And it…