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"10:15 Saturday Night" is a song by British post-punk band The Cure. It was the B-side to their December 1978 single "Killing an Arab" as well as the opening track of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys. It was also released in France as a single, with the track "Accuracy" as the B-side. It has been performed live during most of their shows since its release, and was included in their live album Concert.
| "10:15 Saturday Night" | |
|---|---|
 Cover of the French single[1] | |
| Song by The Cure | |
| from the album Three Imaginary Boys | |
| Released | June 1979 |
| Genre | Pop-punk[2] |
| Length | 3:42 |
| Label | Fiction Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, Lol Tolhurst |
| Producer(s) | Chris Parry |
| Official audio | |
| "10:15 Saturday Night" on YouTube | |
A promotional video, directed by Piers Bedford, was the band's first.[3][a]
According to interviews in the booklet for the Deluxe Edition of Three Imaginary Boys, the demo of the song is what caught Chris Parry's attention in 1978 and led him to sign the band to his newly founded record company, Fiction. The track was written by Robert Smith at the age of 16 one evening while sitting at the kitchen table feeling "utterly morose" watching the tap dripping and drinking his dad's homemade beer. It was first performed as part of sets performed by Easy Cure at gigs around the band's local area of Crawley.
"10:15 Saturday Night" is widely regarded as one of the Cure's best songs. In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number ten on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs,[5] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number five on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs.[6]
The song was sampled by Massive Attack on their cover of "Man Next Door" from their 1998 album Mezzanine.[7] It was also covered by The Living End on their EP It's for Your Own Good.
References
editNotes
edit- ^ Piers had directed a number of previous films and the following year would direct the video for Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Happy House".[4]
Citations
edit- ^ https://www.45cat.com/record/2059230
- ^ Bradley, Larry (4 November 2014). "The 1970s: The Cure - "10.15 Saturday Night". The Alternative Jukebox. Cassell. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-84403-789-6.
- ^ "The Cure | Boys Don't Cry". Post-Punk. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Piers Bedford". Archived from the original on 29 July 2016.
- ^ Unterberger, Andrew (29 March 2019). "The Cure's 40 Best Songs: Critic's Picks". Billboard. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "The Cure's 30 Greatest Songs Ranked". Mojo. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Massive Attack @ the Hollywood Paladium". larecord.com. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
Other sources
edit- Apter, Jeff. (2006). Never Enough: The Story of the Cure. Omnibus Press. ISBN 1-84449-827-1 p. 63
External links
edit- 10:15 Saturday Night at Discogs (list of releases)
- "Killing An Arab" / "10.15 Saturday Night" at 45cat.com