Let's Go to Bed

Okay this is going to be kind of long, but I think an interesting piece of Cure history. Here are a few things that Smith has said about "Let's Go To Bed":

"‘Let's Go To Bed’ is not my favourite Cure song, by a long way, but I realize what it did for us. And I can think back and remember the feeling I had when it was getting radio play, and things were changing. It was an experiment, and it was working. And I remember really being kind of enthused by that. Thinking, "I can actually do something really different and it will work." And it gave me a lot of confidence. “At the time, '82, it came off the back of us doing "17 Seconds," "Faith" and "Pornography." And we were kind of on an ever-downward spiral, and I was in a pretty bad mental state. ["Let's Go to Bed"] was kind of a road-to-Damascus sort of experience for me. I thought I would do something I would completely hate and that I would be totally opposed to--at the time, I wanted to take a holiday from myself, really. That's why I did that song. “I found it easy. I thought, "I've got this mental block about lots of different things," and in that song and in the accompanying video, just laying myself open to ridicule was a great experience for me. It made me grow up. In a funny way, it was one of the most childish things we've ever done, and yet I thought it was the most grown-up thing we'd done to that point. “I've never been a fan of irony. I thought, "I've got to throw myself into this." And I thought most pop songs are about "Let's Go To Bed"--that's the bottom line pretty much--so I thought, "I'll just do that. I'll be very up front." ... It summed up the idiot pop side I'd been fighting against."

and

"It was because I wanted the group - I didn't want to be 'Robert Smith, ex-Cure,' so the only way I thought to escape that was to keep the vehicle of the Cure moving. I thought the best way to do that was to write the most extreme song, the most anti - Pornography type of song, with the most banal elements, and that was Lets Go To Bed. And once we'd done that, it sort of cracked the whole thing open, and people no longer thought of us as very gloomy."

and

"A nonsense set of words to complement what I then considered to be a hideous piese of 'commercial' pap... but it grew on me...!!!"

and

"It's a foolish title and the lyrics don't mean a thing. Musically, I mixed in everything bad I'd heard for years but even when we'd recorded it, I still didn't think it was horrible enough. So Bill remixed it and there it was!"

Whew! I know...I hate reading the long posts too. But, if you're interested, there you go.