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This article refers to the musical group. The Glove is also the nickname of NBA player Gary Payton.

In music, The Glove is the name of the supergroup that was a side-project of Robert Smith (from British alt-rock band The Cure) and Steven Severin (from British gothic rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees). They recorded only one album, Blue Sunshine (1983), considered by many an overlooked jewel.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Discography 3 Track listing 4 Personnel 5 External links

Overview

The Glove project was founded in 1983 as a diversion when both Smith and Severin were under heavy stress in their respective bands. Smith was on the verge of breakdown, drained from production of The Cure's bleakest album, 1982's Pornography, and its exhausting tour, from substance abuse, and from band infighting that had led to a member's departure. Smith and Severin had already worked together when Smith filled in as guitarist with the Banshees, and they knew each other well.

The band's name refers to the Glove in The Beatles' 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine (itself made at a time The Beatles were breaking apart), and the album's title refers to a little-known eponymous horror film in which people who took the so-called "Blue Sunshine" strain of LSD became murderers ten years later.

The Glove recorded only one album, 1983's Blue Sunshine, from which two singles were released. Since Robert Smith was contractually prohibited from singing with another band (one of the reasons he cited for the recent split from The Cure's longtime label), former dancer Jeanette Landray (Severin's then girlfriend) was recruited as the lead singer. Her performance is considered by some a weak point of the album; others consider her vocals perfect for this one-off project. Smith sings on two of the songs, "Mr. Alphabet Says" and "Perfect Murder."

Musically, the album's dark psychedelia is both consistent and eclectic, being quite varied and semi-experimental: there is little in common between standout tracks such as the ironically paranoid "Mr. Alphabet Says" with piano and violin à la Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", the dreamy intrumental piano "A Blues In Drag", the David Lynch-weird "Sex-Eye-Make-Up", the hypnotic looped samples of "Relax", the goth rock of "This Green City", the oriental psychedelism of "Orgy", or the strange pop of "Punish Me With Kisses" and "Like An Animal". Many of the songs were said to be inspired by sleep deprivation and drug use.

Discography

• (1983) Blue Sunshine

Track listing

(1983) Blue Sunshine

1. (04:44) "Like An Animal"
2. (04:56) "Looking Glass Girl"
3. (04:24) "Sex-Eye-Make-Up"
4. (03:50) "Mr. Alphabet Says"
5. (03:12) "A Blues in Drag"
6. (03:12) "Punish Me With Kisses"
7. (04:34) "This Green City"
8. (03:19) "Orgy"
9. (04:28) "Perfect Murder"
10. (06:03) "Relax"
    Bonus tracks on the 1990 CD reissue:
11. (05:35) "Mouth To Mouth" - single's B-side
12. (03:12) "The Tightrope" - single's B-side
13. (06:36) "Like An Animal (Club? What club?)" - remix

Personnel

(1983) Blue Sunshine

All tracks: lyrics and music written, arranged, played by Steven Severin and Robert Smith.

• Steve, Severin - bass
• Robert Smith - guitar, vocals on #4,9
• Jeanette Landray - vocals on #1-3,6-8,11,13
• Martin McCarrick - keyboards, real strings (later joined Siouxsie and the Banshees)
• Ginny Heyes - real strings
• Anne Stephenson - real strings
• Andy Anderson - real drums
• The Man From Nowhere - musical interludes between tracks

External links

• Blue Sunshine's lyrics
• Influences for the tracks lyrics
• The Cure / The Glove - Livejournal Community
• All vinyl, cassette, CD versions
• A Pink Dream - International Forum

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