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The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib

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Love Cats by Robert Smith

Robert Smith's imagination is squirming proof that through TV radio and most especially video, the past now plays as active apart in the present as the present itself. Love Cats is a post-modernist's dream of a nightmare. In November of 83, the cure goes on top of the Pops and Robert forgets the words to love cats,. But for once, this does not tank the single on the charts. Dear Prudence becomes the hugest Banshees hit to date.

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