“Cut Here” by The Cure

"Cut Here" was the single The Cure pulled from their 2001 Greatest Hits, out that October, and it's a eulogy wearing a pop song's clothes. Robert Smith wrote it in memory of his friend Billy Mackenzie, the Associates singer who took his own life in 1997, and the title has nothing to do with the words: it's an anagram of the band's name. AllMusic heard early Madchester in the way it rises, and The Cure produced it themselves.

It was a goodbye of another kind too, the band's last release for Fiction, and it scraped to number 54 in the UK. Later that year they cut it again for Acoustic Hits, the limited bonus disc that came with the compilation, eighteen old songs re-recorded on acoustic guitars.

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