10:15 Saturday Night

July 2020 10:15 Saturday Night 10 15 saturday night cover.jpeg Cover of the French single single the Cure Three Imaginary Boys Killing an Arab June 1979 Pop-punk The Alternative Jukebox Larry Bradley November 4, 2014 The 1970s: The Cure – "10.15 Saturday Night 111 Cassell 978-1-84403-789-6 https://books.google.com/books?id=w_phoAEACAAJ 3:42 Fiction Robert Smith Michael Dempsey Lol Tolhurst Chris Parry Official audio 9saQnQQApVM "10:15 Saturday Night" "10:15 Saturday Night" is a song by the English rock band the Cure. It was the B-side to their December 1978 single "Killing an Arab" as well as the opening track of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys. It was also released in France as a single, with the track "Accuracy" as the B-side. It has been performed live during most of their shows since its release, and was included on their 1984 album Concert: The Cure Live. A promotional video, directed by Piers Bedford, was the band's first music video.The Cure Boys Don't Cry https://www.post-punk.com/the-cure-boys-dont-cry/ Post-Punk 5 February 2016 30 August 2019Piers had directed a number of previous films and the following year would direct the video for Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Happy House".https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba06c7124 https://web.archive.org/web/20160729211023/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba06c7124 dead 29 July 2016 Piers Bedford Background According to interviews in the booklet for the Deluxe Edition of Three Imaginary Boys, the demo of the song is what caught Chris Parry's attention in 1978 and led him to sign the band to his newly founded record company, Fiction. The track was written by Robert Smith at the age of 16 one evening while sitting at the kitchen table feeling "utterly morose" watching the tap dripping and drinking his dad's homemade beer. It was first performed as part of sets performed by Easy Cure at gigs around the band's local area of Crawley.August 2025 Critical reception In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Bill Janovitz compared the song's sound to the bands Gun Club, Wire, and Gang of Four, citing its "stark and edgy blasts of guitars, a country-blues drum beat, stark dynamics, and Robert Smith's vocal approach." He wrote that song's percussion mirrors the sound of a clock ticking, noting that its "music magnifies the narrator's dilemma from mere melancholy loneliness to a maddening desperation."Janovitz Bill 10:15 Saturday Night - The Cure https://www.allmusic.com/song/10-15-saturday-night-mt0011881810 18 August 2025 AllMusic "10:15 Saturday Night" is widely regarded as one of the Cure's best songs. In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number ten on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs,https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/the-cure-best-songs-hits-list-8504417/ The Cure's 40 Best Songs: Critic's Picks Andrew Unterberger Billboard March 29, 2019 December 1, 2023 and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number five on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs.https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/the-mojo-list/the-cures-30-greatest-songs/ The Cure's 30 Greatest Songs Ranked Mojo November 14, 2023 December 1, 2023 Samples and cover versions The song was sampled by Massive Attack on their cover of "Man Next Door" from their 1998 album Mezzanine.https://larecord.com/photos/2019/09/06/massive-attack-the-hollywood-palladium Massive Attack @ the Hollywood Paladium 6 September 2019 larecord.com 31 August 2021 It was also covered by the Living End on their EP It's for Your Own Good.Lewis Jonathan It's for Your Own Good – The Living End https://www.allmusic.com/album/its-for-your-own-good-mw0000777988 AllMusic 20 December 2024 Other uses The song will be the opening of the 2026 anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-07-03/cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-anime-reveals-theme-songs-by-the-cure-watson/.239278 Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 Anime Reveals Theme Songs by The Cure, Petite Meller Mateo Alex Anime News Network July 26, 2026 July 4, 2026 References Notes Citations Other sources Apter, Jeff. (2006). Never Enough: The Story of the Cure. Omnibus Press. 1-84449-827-1 p. 63 External links 341267 single "Killing an Arab" / "10.15 Saturday Night" at 45cat.com Category:1978 songs Category:1979 singles Category:The Cure songs Category:British pop punk songs Category:Songs written by Robert Smith (musician) Category:Songs written by Michael Dempsey Category:Songs written by Lol Tolhurst