The Cure - Staring at the Sea: The Singles

Staring at the Sea: The Singles collects all of the Cure's biggest U.K. hits and best-known songs from the late '70s and early '80s. Spanning from "Killing an Arab" and "Boys Don't Cry," to "The Lovecats," "In Between Days," and "Close to Me," Staring at the Sea captures some of the finest -- and most influential -- post-punk music. At their best, the Cure were nervy, intellectual, catchy, and foreboding, all at once. No matter how carefully crafted the Cure's individual albums were, their finest moments occurred on singles like these, when they distilled their essence into surprisingly catchy, but decidedly left-of-center, pop singles. Staring at the Sea not only selects highlights from their uneven early albums, it collects many of the group's terrific non-LP singles. It's a definitive retrospective of the Cure and is one of the finest albums of the '80s. [The cassette version of Staring at the Sea was titled Standing on a Beach and included several B-sides.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Name Credits Andy Anderson Drums Boris Williams Drums Chris Parry Producer Dave Allen Producer Dempsey Bass Goulding Drums Hartley Keyboards Laurence Tolhurst Drums, Keyboards Mathieu Hartley Keyboards Michael Dempsey Bass Mike Hedges Producer Nye Producer Phil Thornalley Producer Robert Smith Guitar, Violin, Vocals, Producer, Keyboards The Cure Producer Thompson Keyboards