“Open” by The Cure

"Open" comes from Wish, the Cure's ninth studio album, released in April 1992 on Fiction in the UK and Elektra in the US, and all five players share the music credit: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams and Perry Bamonte, with Smith writing the words and singing them. The guitars run three deep, Smith, Thompson and Bamonte, and Williams handles drums and percussion.

That lineup was about to change: Wish was the first Cure album with Bamonte, once a roadie for the band, the last studio album with Williams, and the last with Thompson for 16 years. David M. Allen produced it with the band over sessions that began in September 1991 and ran about six months, and Mark Saunders mixed. The album kept a streak of gothic gloom but leaned toward brighter, broader guitar rock, and it became the biggest seller of their career.

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