1. 10.15 Saturday Night

Nails the nervy horror of sitting by a phone that never rings.

2. A Forest

Cursed by dark magic

3. The Drowning Man

One of the Cure’s murkiest scores, all icy splashes of noise and the hiss of snaky guitars.

4. One Hundred Years

A song thick with frenzied fear that’s made for the end of days.

5. A Strange Day

Smith peers far into the future and brings back dreadful tales of the world’s end.

6. In Between Days

Warm and bittersweet, streaked with regret and remorse and lost love.

7. Just Like Heaven

Smith, far from playing the doom-mongering prophet, comes on like a lovesick hobbledehoy.

8. The Same Deep Water as You

For nearly 10 treacherous minutes Smith slides deeper into a treacherous love affair until he slowly slips under the surface.

9. Fascination Street

Like much of Disintegration, it comes from a dark place, inspired by Smith’s fatigue at the prospect of a night out on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street.

10. This Twilight Garden

A tantalising glimpse of a sound that the Cure could have followed further: dreamy and delicate, with echoey guitars and soft pillows of rippling noise.

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The Cure: 10 of the best