“Torture” by The Cure

"Torture" is tucked into the sprawl of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, the Cure's seventh album, a double record cut at Studio Miraval in Correns, France, and released on Fiction in 1987. Robert Smith pitched it as two albums in one: half a scrapbook of everything the band had done that he liked, half things they had never tried before. It was also the one that pulled them into the American mainstream.

The music is credited to the whole band, Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst and Boris Williams, with Smith alone on the words. Smith sings and plays guitar and keyboards, Thompson doubles on both, Tolhurst adds keyboards, Gallup plays bass and Williams handles drums and percussion. Smith produced it with David M. Allen.

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