the live version is EXCELLENT!!!!!

Nice one! I still own the 7 inch of which I love the cover art. Like someone else said this one was often paired live with the instrumental Another Journey By Train, which has a more hurried and downbeat vibe. It’s one of my favorite instrumentals by the band. Of the bonus tracks I hope you’ll also concider reacting to the instrumental song as mentioned, Play With Me, I’m Cold (with Siouxsie on backing vocals) and Winter (a song that I will always be mad about at the band for not having released it properly at the time- a true hidden gem in their early catalogue).

According to Robert Smith, "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is about fashion, particularly about the ‘mod’ revival of the time (1978/79). In 1989, Robert Smith told to a Belgian magazine his inspiration behind “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”: "I loath the snobbism and elitism of it all: ‘I was already acid-house when you were still new wave’ - that stuff. In fact it’s all as small as the ska revival where I wrote an angry song about: Jumping Someone Else’s Train. Now I read articles everywhere about the new ska revival. Despicable. At this rate, we’re having 5 revivals every year. I’m probably old fashioned, but I like music that’s not limited to a certain time." By the way, "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is not from the Three Imaginary Boys sessions. It was a non-album single (with the B-side "I'm Cold") recorded in September 1979 and released in November 1979. It was also the last track recorded with bassist Michael Dempsey. Jumping Someone Else's Train" can be found on the US compilation Boys Don't Cry, released in early 1980. That same year, when they played live, The Cure used to link "Jumping Someone Else's Train" with the instrumental "Another Journey by Train" (B-side to "A Forest"). Train stories in a row.... ! 😉

Matt, 10:15 Saturday Night is a 💎

Robert is well known for wearing sleeves. I am surprised you didn't know that.

To me this one has always sounded a bit more well rounded than many of the album tracks chosen for the standard release. The lyrics seem to present you with someone who lives their life by the title phrase and becoming happy when the 'trend' seems to catch on in wider society.

Great insight and reaction as always! If you could react to “On a Day Like Today” by Keane off their first album that would be amazing - I’m a huge fan and this is my current favourite song of theirs!

Well, I love this. ❤ I hadn't heard it for years and in my head I was mixing this one and A Forest a bit, so maybe there is really some similarity between the two, as Solo says. 😉 I really liked your comments about the vocal delivery being sort a-rhythmic and how Robert "stretches" the lines "beyond where they normally should be". A good description to me! And I enjoy that peculiarity, too. The bass, that's probably one of the elements that attract me so much in The Cure's music, though I wouldn't be able to say for sure. 😜 The guitar work and Robert's vocals are also very compelling to me. Whatever it is, they are undoubtedly one of my top favourite bands.

Very similar to A Forest.