Wild Mood Swings

Notes:

Release date May 7, 1996.

Highest position in the Charts:

I am very satisfied, it became much better than I would have imagined. On the other hand it is also quite the opposite if what I had in mind. When we first got together for this album I had very clear ideas about what I wanted the group to do. I wanted to make something very acoustic and melancholic. The album would have been called "Bare" and I wanted it to have an atmosphere that could be expressed with a string quartet and a piano. But as the record developed, I realized that I was holding back the group and it felt more and more stupid and unpleasant. So finally we decided to just do what we wanted to do. Then all of sudden, songs with totally different moods started to transform. And it feels incredibly good that "Wild Mood Swings" is the result of a group that makes songs together and not by my overblown ego.

Of the 25 songs I've written..., around 15 can't be traced back to things I've sung about before, and that I'm really proud of. I never used to be interested in things outside of my own life, but there are actually two or three songs on this LP where I'm observing things, so I suppose I must have changed.

Band Members:

Robert Smith.....Voices & Guitars & 6-String Bass
Simon Gallup.....Basses
Perry Bamonte....Guitars & 6-String Bass
Roger O'Donnell..Keyboards
Jason Cooper......Drums & Percussion

Drums on Mint Car/Trap/Treasure - Mark Price
This is a Lie - Ronald Austin
Club America - Louis Pavlou

Credits:

All Songs Written By: Smith/Gallup/Bamonte/Cooper/O'Donnell
Produced by Robert Smith and Steve Lyon
Engineered by Steve Lyon
Mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis, London
Artwork by Andy Vella and The Cure

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time...

La Rouchefoucald

Catalogue Numbers: 
LP	UK FIXLP 28 5317931
LP 	US 61744-1
CD	UK FIXCD 28	5317932
CD	FR hors commerce 6322 (promo)
CD	AU 0630150102
CD	JP Polydor (Pocp-7130) (w/ it used to be me)
CD	BR Polydor 5317932
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74
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19
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18
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23
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33
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50
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74
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125
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98
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217
Average:
7.24
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