"A NIGHT LIKE THIS" THE CURE (1985)

Today I’ve got the 80’s in my head. There are saxophone solos floating in there, just so I’m absolutely clear. I’ll put a quarter in for “A Night Like This”. Now, a sax solo isn’t the kind of instrumentation that the band is known for. But this is still vintage Cure. A Head on the Door had bigger hits and bigger anthems than “A Night Like This”. But for me, this is the one track that captured the times while also serving as a foreshadowing to Disintegration, the most important era for the band.

“Say goodbye on a night like this. If it's the last thing we ever do. You never looked as lost as this. Sometimes it doesn't even look like you. It goes dark. It goes darker still. Please stay, but I watch you like I'm made of stone as you walk away.”