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This is the last studio album featuring [[Boris Williams]] and the first featuring [[Perry Bamonte]], as well as being the last album featuring [[Porl Thompson]] for sixteen years. Special guest Kate Wilkinson plays the viola on the track "To Wish Impossible Things."
This is the last studio album featuring [[Boris Williams]] and the first featuring [[Perry Bamonte]], as well as being the last album featuring [[Porl Thompson]] for sixteen years. Special guest Kate Wilkinson plays the viola on the track "To Wish Impossible Things."


Although the album was not as well-received by critics as ''[[Disintegration]]'' (1989), but ''Wish'' it is the band's most commercially successful given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold 1.2 million copies.
Although not as well-received by critics as ''[[Disintegration]]'' (1989), ''Wish'' is the band's most commercially successful album, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold 1.2 million copies.


The album's second single, "[[Friday I'm in Love]]", quickly became one of the band's most popular songs (number six in the UK, number seventeen in the US). It hit number one on the South African charts (at that stage was run by [[5FM]]).
The album's second single, "[[Friday I'm in Love]]", quickly became one of the band's most popular songs (number six in the UK, number seventeen in the US). It hit number one on the South African charts (at that stage was run by [[5FM]]).

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Wish is the ninth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1992.

This is the last studio album featuring Boris Williams and the first featuring Perry Bamonte, as well as being the last album featuring Porl Thompson for sixteen years. Special guest Kate Wilkinson plays the viola on the track "To Wish Impossible Things."

Although not as well-received by critics as Disintegration (1989), Wish is the band's most commercially successful album, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold 1.2 million copies.

The album's second single, "Friday I'm in Love", quickly became one of the band's most popular songs (number six in the UK, number seventeen in the US). It hit number one on the South African charts (at that stage was run by 5FM).

Track listing

All songs by The Cure (Bamonte, Gallup, Smith, Thompson, Williams).

  1. "Open" – 6:51
  2. "High" – 3:37
  3. "Apart" – 6:40
  4. "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" – 7:44
  5. "Wendy Time" – 5:13
  6. "Doing the Unstuck" – 4:24
  7. "Friday I'm in Love" – 3:39
  8. "Trust" – 5:33
  9. "A Letter to Elise" – 5:14
  10. "Cut" – 5:55
  11. "To Wish Impossible Things" – 4:43
  12. "End" – 6:46

Extra tracks

Lost Wishes E.P.

Personnel

Production

  • Producers: Dave Allen, The Cure
  • Engineers: Dave Allen, Steve Whitfield
  • Assistant engineer: Chris Bandy
  • Mixing: Mark Saunders
  • Mixing assistants: Andy Baker, William Parry, Danton Supple, Mark Warner
  • Album Cover: Parched Art (Porl Thompson and Andy Vella)

Singles

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1992 US Billboard 200 2
Year Chart Position
1992 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1992 "Friday I'm in Love" Hot Dance Music/Club Play 32
1992 "Friday I'm in Love" Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 29
1992 "Friday I'm in Love" Mainstream Rock Tracks 21
1992 "Friday I'm in Love" Modern Rock Tracks 1
1992 "Friday I'm in Love" The Billboard Hot 100 18
1992 "High" Hot Dance Music/Club Play 22
1992 "High" Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 27
1992 "High" Modern Rock Tracks 1
1992 "High" The Billboard Hot 100 42
1992 "A Letter to Elise" Modern Rock Tracks 2
Preceded by UK number one album
2 May 1992 – 8 May 1992 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
10 May - 16 May 1992 		Succeeded by
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