“In Between Days” by The Cure

"In Between Days" was the first single from The Head on the Door, the Cure's sixth album, released in the summer of 1985, and it's Robert Smith writing a pop song you could skip down the street to. It became the band's fourth straight UK Top 20 hit and their first ever entry on the US Hot 100, if only just, at No. 99, and it went Top 20 in Australia and New Zealand.

Smith wrote it alone and sings it, and he produced and mixed it with David M. Allen. It runs on a bright, bouncing strum and Boris Williams' galloping beat, with Simon Gallup on bass and Porl Thompson and Lol Tolhurst adding guitar and keyboards. Jangly, breathless and sweet on the surface, it keeps a knot of heartache in the middle of the sunshine.

Tim Pope shot the video at Fulham Studios in London in June 1985, all swooping 360-degree shots and brightly coloured socks drawn over the footage, with cameras hung on cables that Smith and Thompson could push away and pull back as they played.

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