Song · The Cure
“Trap” by The Cure
From the album Wild Mood Swings (1996)
“Trap” by The Cure appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1996 on the album Wild Mood Swings. Its best result is #1794 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,960 alternative song of all time.
"Trap" comes from Wild Mood Swings, the Cure's tenth studio album, released by Fiction Records on 6 May 1996. Robert Smith wrote the words and sings it, and the music is credited to Smith with Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper, Simon Gallup and Roger O'Donnell. Mark Price plays the drums, Steve Lyon engineered, and Tom Lord-Alge mixed.
It's one piece of a scattershot record. Smith named the album for how much ground it covered, and it veers from jangle pop to jazz to mariachi, with bright, poppy tunes shoved right up against darker, more inward-looking ones, so that NME likened the running order to a compilation. The album went on to sell worse than any Cure record in 12 years, the start of a slide in their album sales.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1794 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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