In Between Days

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"In Between Days"

Single by The Cure
from the album The Head on the Door
Released	July 9, 1985
Format	7", 12"
Recorded	Angel Studios, London, 1985
Genre	Rock
Length	2:57
Label	Fiction Records
Producer(s)	Robert Smith Dave Allen
Chart positions
#15 (UK) #16 (AUS) #39 (Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play US) #23 (France) #45 (Germany) #40 (Italy)
The Cure singles chronology
"The Caterpillar" (1984)	"In Between Days" (1985)	"Close to Me" (1985)

"In Between Days" (sometimes listed as "Inbetween Days" or "In-Between Days") is the name of a successful 1985 single by The Cure from their album of the same year, The Head on the Door. In the UK, it was the band's ninth chart single and their fourth consecutive Top 20 hit; while in the US it was their first single to hit the Hot 100, peaking at #99. It was an Australian Top 20 hit (#16) and also charted in several European countries, increasing the popularity of the band.

1 Title
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Cover versions
5 Trivia
6 Sample

[edit] Title

The title of this song is widely disputed, as it varies between "In Between Days" and "Inbetween Days" on many official Cure releases. The single used "In Between Days", whereas the album The Head on the Door uses "Inbetween Days". However, the CD release of the album also uses "In Between Days" on the actual disc. The 1986 singles compilation "Standing on a Beach" uses both "In Between Days" and "In-Between Days", whereas the 1990 remix album Mixed Up, the 1993 live album Show, the 2001 Greatest Hits collection and the 2004 b-sides compilation Join the Dots each use "Inbetween Days". The 2006 re-release of The Head on the Door uses "Inbetween Days" on the back of the box and the tracklisting in the booklet, but uses "In Between Days" as the title in the lyrical portion of the book.

[edit] Track listing

UK 7" single

"In Between Days" (Robert Smith)
"The Exploding Boy"

UK 12" single

"In Between Days"
"The Exploding Boy"
"A Few Hours After This"

US 7" single

"In Between Days"
"Stop Dead"

Canadian 12" single

"In Between Days"
"In Between Days" (Extended version)
"Stop Dead"

[edit] Personnel

Robert Smith - vocals, guitars, keyboards
Laurence Tolhurst - keyboards
Porl Thompson - guitars, keyboards
Simon Gallup - basses
Boris Williams - drums, percussion

[edit] Cover versions

Ben Folds included a cover version of the song on his 2005 EP Speed Graphic and the 2006 LP Supersunnyspeedgraphic. The song is first in the track listing of both.
La Portuaria included a cover version of the song on his 2005 LP "Rio". The song is the seventh in the track listing.
The song was re-recorded in 1996 by punk band Face to Face for the Vagrant Records compilation Before You Were Punk.
This song was performed on Korn's MTV Unplugged album by Robert Smith and Jonathan Davis along with Korn's "Make Me Bad."

[edit] Trivia

There was a website named after the song called "In Between Days" but this fan site was unexpectedly dedicated to Joy Division rather than The Cure: another small connection between the two bands.