The Caterpillar (song)

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"The Caterpillar"
"The Caterpillar" cover
Single by The Cure
from the album The Top
Released May 8, 1984
Format 7", 12"
Genre Rock
Length 3:40
Label Fiction Records
Producer(s) Robert Smith
Chris Parry
Dave Allen
Chart positions
  • #14 (UK)
  • #51 (AUS)
The Cure singles chronology
"The Lovecats"
(1983)		 "The Caterpillar"
(1984)		 "In Between Days"
(1985)

The Caterpillar is the name of a 1984 single by The Cure from their album The Top. When played live, Robert Smith would jokingly introduce it as an old Japanese song.

[edit] Track listing

7" Single

  1. "The Caterpillar"
  2. "Happy The Man"

12" single

  1. "The Caterpillar"
  2. "Happy The Man"
  3. "Throw Your Foot"

[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 | Festival 2005
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 (Closest Mix)" | "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"
Cult Hero: "I'm a Cult Hero"
Related bands: Malice | Easy Cure | The Glove | Fools Dance | Presence | Babacar
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