“Strange Attraction” by The Cure

"Strange Attraction" followed "Mint Car" as the third single from Wild Mood Swings, the Cure's tenth album, and Elektra released it only in the US and Australia, in October 1996. Robert Smith wrote the words, sings lead and plays guitar, and shares the music credit with Simon Gallup on bass, Jason Cooper on drums, and Perry Bamonte and Roger O'Donnell on keyboards. Smith produced it with Steve Lyon, who engineered and mixed it with Adrian Sherwood.

It's the only Cure single without a video, leaving aside the original mix of "Boys Don't Cry", supposedly because Smith hadn't liked how the last US-only clip, for "Fascination Street", turned out. Critics split: Chris Gerard of Metro Weekly wrote it off as a weak stab at a pop hit, while Trouser Press found subtle, believable feeling in its tale of a romance with a fan who writes letters.

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