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The Cure's Wish album: the stories behind all the songs

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Robert Smith and co's ninth studio album from 1992 has had a reissue for its 30th anniversary... here are some of the inspirations behind the music.

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As the 1980s turned to the 1990s, Britain's biggest alternative rock band, The Cure , were at the top of their game.

Having spent the previous decade transforming form the gloomy cult band that made albums like Faith (1981), frontman Robert Smith led the group and its ever-changing line-up into the pop chart thanks to singles like The Love Cats and In Between Days , plus the eclectic albums The Head On The Door (1985) and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987).

Because of their new-found status as an international pop act, the dark sounds and introspective lyrics of 1989's Disintegration caused some concern (mainly among the bosses at The Cure's record label), In fact, the album was the group's most commercially successful to date.

The follow-up was released on Robert Smith's 33rd birthday, 21st April 1992. Wish initially seemed like a lighter collection of songs than its predecessor, but the influence of US grunge bands and the UK's then-popular shoegaze scene was evident in the record's dense, layered guitar sound.

For its 30th anniversary, Wish has been given deluxe-CD reissue which includes 24 previously-unreleased tracks of demos, outtakes and live recordings. The album will be available on vinyl for the first time in three decades, and there's even a picture-disc edition released for Black Friday on 25th November.

The album sessions - which had the working titles Higher and Swell - produced a number of songs that almost appeared as an instrumental album called Music For Dreams. Ultimately, they were offered as a limited edition cassette in 1994 called Lost Wishes , and the tracks have finally resurfaced on the new reissue.

Here, from the archives, are some of the stories behind the songs on what has been, to date, The Cure's only Number 1 album in the UK...

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"I really don't know what I'm doing here / I really think I should've gone to bed tonight."

Guitar-fuelled opener which sees Robert Smith involved in what sounds like the worst "meet and greet" of all time. The line "And the way the rain comes down hard / That's how I feel inside" is a quotation from one of tragic poet Sylvia Plath's Letters From Home.

"The immediate inspiration for that song was derived from a lot of what we do," Robert Smith told Vox in May 1992. "Which is that you're asked to meet a lot of people. It's easy to say yes and afterwards you regret it. I've certainly used drinking to get through some of those things."

Released as a single on 16th March 1992, this was The Cure's first new song to reach the public since Never Enough eighteen months earlier. The unveiling was a huge marketing event, with fans being offered the chance to hear the track on an 0891 phone number and director Tim Pope 's glorious video premiered on release day at HMV stores around the country.

The Cure - High (Official Music Video)

Smith later revealed that the scene where he is attached to a kite and flown across the sky was rather painful. "At one point I really wished I hadn't thought of it." he told Select in May 1992. "It was really uncomfortable, I was sat on a bicycle seat suspended in the air for a few hours and at first I felt really dizzy - I was meant to look euphoric and I looked dreadful."

A delicate, heart-breaking song about a failing relationship, from the point of view of an observer. "I'm not emotionally involved at all in this song," Smith explained in a promotional interview for Wish in February 1992. "I'm just singing it quite dispassionately, but trying to get involved with the two protagonists in the song and singing each of their point of view."

From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea

A song that came out of the band playing live in the studio and became a turning point in the recording of Wish. After recording this epic track, which sees Smith play all the guitar parts, "We sort of looked back at what we'd done over the first month and realised that a lot of it wasn't really up to standard," he told Guitar Player magazine in September 1992. "The atmosphere hadn't built up at that point Some of the songs we re-recorded two or three times just to get the feel right."

The lyrics - which tell the story of a substance-fuelled night of passion on a clifftop that ends in remorse, is the darker side to the joyous Just Like Heaven, which also takes place by the sea, most probably the South Coast of England, which borders Smith's hometown of West Sussex.

"Wendy Time is this indefinable time," Robert Smith noted in the promo interview that went out with Wish in April 1992. "The title actually hasn't got very much to do with the song, although the idea of Wendy Time is sort of crystallised in my mind as being a certain feeling at a certain moment, like when someone leaves the room and you sort of heave a sigh of relief."

Doing The Unstuck

"Let's get happy!" "Doing The Unstuck is a pretty sort of throw your hands in the air, let's get happy kind of record," Smith said of this exuberant tune in February 1992. This track was intended to be the third single from Wish, an honour that instead went to A Letter From Elise. "It's one of our best pop songs," Smith said in the sleeve-notes to 2004's Join The Dots set. "I was so happy when I sang this in the studio that it still makes me laugh when I hear it today."

Friday I'm In Love

"I remember driving home one Friday afternoon to have the weekend off," Robert Smith told Guitar World in 2004. "I started to think of this really great chord sequence. So I turned around and went back. We actually recorded it that Friday night. So from then on it was always just called 'Friday'."

The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

"Then, when I came to do the words for it, I thought, why don't I do a song about that Friday feeling? It's a thing you have at school, and lots of people work at jobs they don't really enjoy. So that Friday afternoon feeling is something you look forward to."

The song was the second single to be released from Wish, on 15th May 1992, but had been heavily promoted during the initial round of press for the album. The single made Number 6 in the UK charts.

An elegant piano-led track, which is still occasionally played live by The Cure to this day. "I think you have to trust, even if you know it's going to be abused," Robert told Request magazine in May 1992. "Sometimes you're trusted for parts of yourself which are unstable, and you're a bit unsure of them yourself. Then you have to become something that you're not, or abuse someone else's trust."

A Letter To Elise

"I used the name Elise because it's the name of the girl in Les Enfants Terribles by [Jean] Cocteau," Robert explained in February 1992. "The song isn't about her but the name has overtones for me, a kind of symbolic name."

The Cure - A Letter To Elise (Official Music Video)

In another literary connection, "Letters To Felice" is a compilation of letters to Felice Bauer by her fiancé Franz Kafka, an old favourite of Smith's. This was the third and final single to be taken from Wish, issued in October 1992 and making Number 28.

Originally titled Away, this song was originally premiered at The Cure's "secret" show in January 1991 at London's T&C2 (now known as The Garage). The song was originally quite downbeat, but the vicious studio version really plays up the theme of a "longstanding relationship that was suddenly and unexpectedly starting to fracture", as Smith says in the sleeve-notes for the new reissue of Wish.

To Wish Impossible Things

Smith told Melody Maker in December 1992 that this intricate song is "about relationships. The notion of three wishes, all through history, has this aspect where if you wish for selfish things, it backfires. But wishes never seem to take in the notion of wishing for other people. In all relationships, there are always aching holes, and that's where the impossible wishes come into it."

This swirling, grunge-influenced track almost gave the album its title. "I'd gone home one weekend and came back with the idea for End," Robert told RCD magazine in May 1992. "It got faster and faster and swelled to an excellent, cacophonous conclusion. So I had it in my mind that the title would be Swell and it would be the last track on the album, which would also be called Swell."

The refrain "Stop loving me, I am none of these things," seems to point to the fan adoration that the frontman was now receiving. "It's probably a feeling that people understand when they're put in a position whereby they are liked or loved or thought of and they are almost becoming a caricature of themselves and wish that they could change but they haven't the courage to." (Wish promo interview, February 1992)

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The trouble with a masterpiece like Disintegration is that at some point you have to follow it up. Released on Robert Smith’s 33rd birthday – April 21, 1992 – Wish turned out to be the perfect mix of light and shade. Any gloomier and The Cure would have been accused of milking the misery when there wasn’t much around – Disintegration had been wildly successful, establishing them as a stadium act around the world, despite Smith’s best intentions – and they’d already let their hair down with 1990’s irreverent (and prescient) remix collection Mixed Up . Indeed, it was while recording Mixed Up ’s lead single “Never Enough” , slathered in Porl Thompson’s guitar, that Smith remembered how much fun playing together as a band could be, especially now Lol Tolhurst was out of the picture.

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In this blithe spirit, and armed with 18 months’ worth of ideas, the band headed to studios in Cornwall and the Cotswolds where they demoed around 40 songs, before settling in at Richard Branson’s Manor Studio in Oxfordshire in September 1991 to record the material that would make up Wish and its excellent B-sides. Smith had intended to make two albums, a poppier one called Higher and a slower, atmospheric and purely instrumental one titled Music For Dreams . At the Manor, this coalesced into the dozen tracks that form Wish , an album that stylistically nods more to Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me than  Disintegration in its diversity, yet perhaps inevitably lacks the exotic allure or sense of danger of the 1987 LP.

By 1992 The Cure had become part of the establishment, to Smith’s horror and amusement, winning Brits in ’91 for best British group and best video, and Wish was received accordingly, reaching No1 in the UK and 2 in the US to become their bestselling album. To make matters worse, the giddy rush of “Friday I’m In Love” became a colossal hit just as their biggest world tour began – but when the Wish campaign ended, things were never really the same again for The Cure . The momentum slowed, perhaps they’d peaked, and Smith , while not running out of ideas, struggled to connect on 1996’s Wild Mood Swings while Britpop ran riot.

Wish, their ninth album, is generally regarded as the final instalment of their imperial phase, an untouchable run that starts with 1980’s Seventeen Seconds and sees Smith reinventing The Cure in wonderful ways with each new release as their fanbase swells. What makes this 30th-anniversary edition so interesting is that it includes 24 unreleased demos, all instrumentals – as well as the four mixed songs previously released on Lost Wishes , a rare, fans-only 1993 cassette – which give some idea of the direction the band could have taken at the time, or finished off for a follow-up in ’93 or ’94, had the cards been stacked differently. Significantly, these are, we assume, the last recordings from that golden ’80s era by the classic Cure lineup of Smith , Thompson , bassist Simon Gallup , drummer Boris Williams and keyboardist Perry Bamonte , and even though these are demos, it’s still a thrill to hear them playing these songs together.

Referring to this reissue earlier in the year, Smith mentioned the number of Gallup demos which remained instrumentals “purely because I couldn’t think of any words for them. That’s really sad, as some of them were really great.” Given the prominence of Gallup’s bass, it seems the sugary swirl of “Now Is The Time” and “Miss Van Gogh” are his, while “Abetabw” , a kind of The Top -style mystic groove, is crying out for Smith’s howl. “Frogfish” is goofy, throwaway funk with sax and synth-flute, “Heart Attack” could be another “Never Enough” , invigorated by Thompson’s playing. The three “T” tracks – “T6” , “T7” , “T8” – hint at a more succinct version of Wish studded with Smith’s signature spiralling power-pop.

On the other hand, three songs from Lost Wishes – “Uyea Sound” , “Cloudberry” and “Off To Sleep…” – lean towards Disintegration ’s enveloping sound palette in their meandering melancholy and sense of blissful yearning, while the fourth from that tape, “The Three Sisters” , barrels down “Fascination Street” , all white-knuckle guitars and prowling bass. Again, you wish Smith had found time to write words for them. There are also early versions of “Halo” , “A Foolish Arrangement” , “Scared As You” and “The Big Hand” , songs used as B-sides which could easily hold their own on Wish ; has there been a better B-sides band than The Cure ?

At some point, midway through the third disc, you hit the padding: the “Partscheckruf Mix” of “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea” doesn’t shed much new light on the Wish centrepiece, and an instrumental called “A Wendy Band” is a ponderous affair. Cure fans will already own the various mixes of “High” , “Open” , “A Letter To Elise” and “Friday I’m In Love” , but these are sympathetic versions and chime with Smith’s fascination at the time with the remix as a form of art. A visceral, nine-minute grind through “End” , live from Paris in 1992, closes proceedings and reminds you that when they go back to basics, there’s still nothing that sounds quite like The Cure .

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Wish was The Cure’s 9th studio album, released on April 21, 1992 It became the band’s best selling album, reaching No. 1 in the UK and No.2 in the US, where it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Album category. The album yielded three hit singles, with “High” in March 1992, which reached No. 8 in the UK, the evergreen “Friday I’m In Love” in May 1992 and “A Letter To Elise” which was released in October 1992. That year’s ‘Wish’ tour would be the Cure’s most extensive, with 111 shows in 21 countries.

The new deluxe 3CD 45 track edition of Wish includes 24 previously unreleased tracks 4 more that are new to CD and digital. CD1 contains the original Wish album newly remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The second disc features 21 previously unreleased demos, including four studio vocal demos from 1990 and seventeen instrumental demos from 1991, 9 of which are previously unreleased songs. The third CD in the set features the four tracks from the mail order only cassette ‘Lost Wishes’ released in 1993, which have never appeared on CD or digitally. “Uyea Sound” from that cassette can be heard as a digital single now .

Also included are the previously unreleased song “A Wendy Band” from the 1992 Manor Studio sessions, a previously unheard mix of the epic live favourite “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea”, as well as five rare 12” mixes. Finally, closing the set is an unheard live version of “End” from Paris Bercy in October 1992.

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The prolific period of recording Wish began with demo sessions at The Live House in Cornwall and continued at Farmyard Studios in the Cotswolds. “We got around forty songs put down during those two sessions”, recalls Robert Smith, “we were on fire!”

On arrival at The Manor, a residential studio in Oxfordshire, in September 1991, the band all bought bicycles. Robert Smith: “There was a pub down the nearby canal path, and most early evenings we’d cycle down there for a livener or two. I was the only one ‘un cool’ enough to have a bike with lights, so I was always at the back on the way there, and always at the front on the way back… I still can’t believe we never ended up in the water.”

From the start of the recording, Smith h ad a clear vision of what Wish should be. The overall sound was in my head from the start. We used a pretty small palette of sounds, as we did with Disintegration , but managed to create a lot of different kinds of song with it. I think Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss  was more of a reference than Disintegration .”

Listening back to the album in 2022, Smith has said, “There’s a side to the album which I had kind of forgotten, a very gentle, yearning thing which is quite beautiful. “Trust” is one of the best things we’ve ever done I think, it’s played with great feeling, and “To Wish Impossible Things” is another gorgeous, melancholic piece… in fact it could well be my favourite song on the record.”

When Wish was completed, Smith felt that they had achieved everything they had set out to do, but there was a glitch In the studio control room. “It all sounded excellent, but I got too busy sorting out our upcoming concerts to properly oversee the mastering. It was too late to do anything about it; the album was out, and we were off around the world again. It has really bugged for me for a very long time Remastering the album earlier this year has finally given Smith the chance to address this It has taken 30 years, but finally, finally my Wish has come true.”

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Wish : CD1 Original Album Remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios: “Open” “High” “Apart” “From The Edge of The Green Sea” “Wendy Time” “Doing The Unstuck” “Friday I’m In Love” “Trust” “A Letter To Elise” “Cut” “To Wish Impossible Things” “End”

CD2 Demos – All previously unreleased versions. (*Unreleased track) “The Big Hand” [1990 Demo][final version on B-side to A Letter To Elise 7”] “Cut” [1990 Demo] aka “Away” [final version appears on WISH] “A Letter To Elise” [1990 Demo] aka “Cut” [final version appears on WISH] “Wendy Time” [1990 Demo] [final version appears on WISH] “This Twilight Garden” [Instrumental Demo] [final version on B-side to High 7″] “Scared As You” [Instrumental Demo] [final version on B-side to Friday I’m In Love 12″] “To Wish Impossible Things” [Instrumental Demo] [final version appears on WISH] “Apart” [Instrumental Demo] [final version appears on WISH] “T72” [Instrumental Demo]* “Now Is The Time” [Instrumental demo]* “Miss van Gogh” [Instrumental demo]* “T6” [Instrumental Demo]* “Play” [Instrumental Demo] [final version on B-side to High 12″] “A Foolish Arrangement” [Instrumental Demo] [final version on B-side to A Letter To Elise 12″] “Halo” [Instrumental Demo] [final version on B-side to Friday I’m In Love 7″] “Trust” [Instrumental Demo] [final version appears on WISH] “Abetabw” [Instrumental Demo]* “T8” [Instrumental Demo]* “Heart Attack” [Instrumental Demo]* “Swing Change” [Instrumental Demo]* “Frogfish” [Instrumental Demo]*

CD3: ’Lost Wishes’ / Studio Out-Takes / 12” Remixes / Live / Rare / Previously Unreleased. (*Unreleased track **Unreleased version) “Uyea Sound” [Dim-D Mix] [from Lost Wishes MC 1993] “Cloudberry” [Dim-D Mix] [from Lost Wishes MC 1993] “Off To Sleep…” [Dim-D Mix] [from Lost Wishes MC 1993] “The Three Sisters” [Dim-D Mix] [from Lost Wishes MC 1993] “A Wendy Band [Instrumental]* “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea”[Partscheckruf Mix]** “Open [Fix Mix]” [B-side to High 12″] “High [Higher Mix]” [High 12″] “Doing The Unstuck” [Extended 12” Mix] “Friday I’m In Love” [Strangelove Mix] [Friday I’m In Love 12″] “A Letter To Elise” [Blue Mix] [A Letter To Elise 12″] “End” [Paris Live 92]**

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The Cure to Reissue Wish With 24 Unreleased Tracks for 30th Anniversary

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The Cure have announced the long-awaited reissue of their 1992 album, Wish . Remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Robert Smith and Miles Showell, the album will be appended with dozens of bonus tracks including 24 that have not officially been released, four of which are full demos from 1990. The rest are mostly instrumental demoes like “Miss van Gogh” and “Now Is the Time”; the Lost Wishes EP had been available only as a mail-order cassette and will come to CD and streaming for the first time. The set is out on 3xCD, double LP, single CD, and digitally on October 7. Check out the full tracklist of the 3xCD set below, along with the Dim-D mix of “Uyea Sound.”

The tracklist also includes the unreleased Partscheckruf mix of “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” and a live version of “End” recorded in Paris in 1992. It’s out via UMC , Fiction , and Polydor . Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of Wish .

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Wish (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) :

01 Open (2022 Remaster) 02 High (2022 Remaster) 03 Apart (2022 Remaster) 04 From the Edge of the Green Sea (2022 Remaster) 05 Wendy Time (2022 Remaster) 06 Doing the Unstuck (2022 Remaster) 07 Friday I’m in Love (2022 Remaster) 08 Trust (2022 Remaster) 09 A Letter to Elise (2022 Remaster) 10 Cut (2022 Remaster) 11 To Wish Impossible Things (2022 Remaster) 12 End (2022 Remaster)

01 The Big Hand (1990 Demo) (2022 Remaster) 02 Cut (1990 Demo) 03 A Letter to Elise (1990 Demo) (2022 Remaster) 04 Wendy Time (1990 Demo) (2022 Remaster) 05 This Twilight Garden (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 06 Scared as You (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 07 To Wish Impossible Things (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 08 Apart (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 09 T7 (Instrumental Demo) 10 Now Is the Time (Instrumental Demo) 11 Miss van Gogh (Instrumental Demo) 12 T6 (Instrumental Demo) 13 Play (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 14 A Foolish Arrangement (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 15 Halo (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 16 Trust (Instrumental Demo) (2022 Remaster) 17 Abetabw (Instrumental Demo) 18 T8 (Instrumental Demo) 19 Heart Attack (Instrumental Demo) 20 Swing Change (Instrumental Demo) 21 Frogfish (Instrumental Demo)

01 Uyea Sound (Dim-D Mix) 02 Cloudberry (Dim-D Mix) 03 Off to Sleep... (Dim-D Mix) 04 The Three Sisters (Dim-D Mix) 05 A Wendy Band (Instrumental) 06 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (Partscheckruf Mix) (2022 Remaster) 07 Open (Fix Mix) (2022 Remaster) 08 High (Higher Mix) (2022 Remaster) 09 Doing the Unstuck (Extended 12" Mix) 10 Friday I’m in Love (Strangelove Mix) (2022 Remaster) 11 A Letter to Elise (Blue Mix) (2022 Remaster) 12 End (Live in Paris, 1992)

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