In the interest of not turning this blog entirely into a catalogue of Cure songs we have... ostensibly a bit of an odd one, actually. The Exploding Hearts' Guitar Romantic is a cheeky, fun, frustrated and unmistakably young record, but a tragic gravitas is given to it by what happened next. Shortly after its release, three of of the bands four members were killed in a car crash, lending the album, but especially this song, an unexpected, unintended but intense poignancy. Unlike anything else I would have chosen, this song breaks your heart precisely because it was never supposed to.
RIP, boys.
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