“Give me it” by The Cure

"Give Me It" sits on The Top, the Cure's fifth album, which Fiction put out in May 1984, and Robert Smith wrote every word and note of it himself before producing it with David M. Allen and Chris Parry. Porl Thompson gets the credit for the saxophone on this one, one more voice in the racket.

The record came out of a crowded stretch for Smith. After the Glove's psychedelic one-off Blue Sunshine in the summer of 1983, he spent the rest of the year writing The Top while also working on Siouxsie and the Banshees' Hyæna, a band that still counted him as its official guitarist. Back in the Cure camp, co-founder Lol Tolhurst had swapped his drums for keyboards, and Andy Anderson, who had drummed on the hit "The Lovecats", took over the kit.

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