That was my introduction to The Cure. My friends and I were bar hopping around Georgetown DC in 1983, and wandered into a place called Poseurs. This video was on a giant wall screen. Great memory.
Wikipedia (cont.): Smith said of the video: "'The Love Cats' is far from being my favorite song: composed drunk, video filmed drunk, promotion made drunk. It was a joke." The video features an early rough mix of the song done in Paris which is different from the one released on vinyl.
Wikipedia: Per his fans, Smith was inspired after reading novel The Vivisector. The novel's protagonist is appalled when his lover's husband drowns a sack of stray cats. The cats symbolize the most innocent and vulnerable members of society, and the casual cruelty they sometimes meet their fate.
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