Primary (song)

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"Primary"
"Primary" cover
Single by The Cure
from the album Faith
Released March 17, 1981
Format 7", 12"
Genre Post-punk
Length 3:39
Label Fiction Records
Producer(s) Mike Hedges
Robert Smith
Chart positions
  • #43 (UK)
The Cure singles chronology
"A Forest"
(1980)
"Primary"
(1981)
"Charlotte Sometimes"
(1981)

"Primary" is a song by The Cure, released in 1981. It was the first single from their album Faith.

[edit] History

The song has been played live often throughout the years and, like the album's title song, has become a fan favorite.

"Primary" was first played mid-1980 on the tour for Seventeen Seconds under the name "Cold Colours" with completely different lyrics (aside from the chorus) and a slightly different bassline. Towards the end of the year, the song was renamed "Primary". A studio demo of this early version, dating from September 1980, is featured on the Deluxe Edition of Faith.

[edit] Track listing

7" single

  1. "Primary"
  2. "Descent"

12" single

  1. "Primary" - extended version
  2. "Descent"

[edit] Personnel


The Cure
Robert Smith | Porl Thompson | Simon Gallup | Jason Cooper
The Cure personnel
Discography
Studio albums: Three Imaginary Boys | Seventeen Seconds | Faith | Pornography | The Top | The Head on the Door | Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me | Disintegration | Wish | Wild Mood Swings | Bloodflowers | The Cure
Live albums: Concert | Entreat | Paris | Show | Trilogy
Compilations: Boys Don't Cry | Japanese Whispers | Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea | Mixed Up | Galore | Greatest Hits | Join the Dots
EPs: Half an Octopuss & Quadpus | Lost Wishes | Five Swing Live
Singles: "Killing an Arab" | "Boys Don't Cry" | "Jumping Someone Else's Train" | "A Forest" | "Primary" | "Charlotte Sometimes" | "A Single" | "Let's Go to Bed" | "The Walk" | "The Lovecats" | "The Caterpillar" | "In Between Days" | "Close to Me" | "Why Can't I Be You?" | "Catch" | "Just Like Heaven" | "Hot Hot Hot!!!" | "Fascination Street" | "Lullaby" | "Lovesong" | "Pictures of You" | "Never Enough" | "Close to Me (remix)" | "High" | "Friday I'm in Love" | "A Letter to Elise" | "The 13th" | "Mint Car" | "Gone!" | "Strange Attraction" | "Wrong Number" | "Cut Here" | "End of the World" | "Taking Off" & "alt.end"
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