“Jumping Someone Else's Train” by The Cure

The Cure put out "Jumping Someone Else's Train" in November 1979 as a single on its own, apart from any album, and it later turned up on the American compilation Boys Don't Cry. Chris Parry produced it, and it's the early lineup at their wiry best: Robert Smith's scratchy guitar and clipped vocal, Michael Dempsey's nimble bass and Lol Tolhurst's tight, rattling drums, all racing along like the train in the title.

On stage in 1979 and 1980 the band would often roll straight from it into the instrumental "Another Journey by Train", and sometimes into "Grinding Halt". The B-side, "I'm Cold", had Siouxsie Sioux on backing vocals, and the video was simply a sped-up view from a train driver's cab running from London Victoria to Brighton.

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