My Top 1000 Songs #74: In Between Days

The perfect pop song, 1980s edition.

When I arrived at college and first came across the Cure--one of the many bands I was shocked to discover already had a rich body of music yet had completely failed to penetrate my high school suburban bubble--I thought of them as primarily a dark, Joy Division-influenced goth band. Early 80s records like Pornography and Faith were hardly finger-snapping bundles of fun, right? But when The Head Of The Door dropped in summer '85, and especially lead-off single ...