Fascination Street
"Fascination Street" is a 1989 North-American-only single by the English rock band The Cure from their album Disintegration.
Their American record company refused the band's original choice "Lullaby" as the first single (it was the lead single in the UK and was released in the U.S. later) and used "Fascination Street" instead. The song is notable for its extended bass introduction.
The song became the band's first number-one single on Billboard's then-newly created Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed on top for seven weeks.
An extended mix, notable for its lengthy 4:00 instrumental introduction, was produced by Robert Smith, Chris Parry and Mark Saunders and released as the lead track on the 12" vinyl and CD maxi-singles.  A shorter, radio-friendly edit of the remix was used for the 7" vinyl and cassette single releases.  (The extended mix was also later included on The Cure's 1990 remix album Mixed Up and the short remix has since been released worldwide on 1997's Galore (The Singles 1987-1997)). The song was featured in the 2010 video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

Background
"Fascination Street" was inspired by an alcoholic night in New Orleans.

Track listing
7": Elektra / 7 69300 (US)
"Fascination Street" [Remix] (4:17)
"Babble" (4:16)also available on cassette 9 469300

12": Elektra / 96 67040 (CDN)
"Fascination Street" [Extended Remix] (8:48)
"Babble" (4:16)
"Out of Mind" (3:51)

12": Elektra / 0-66704 (US)
"Fascination Street" [Extended Remix] (8:48)
"Babble" (4:16)
"Out of Mind" (3:51)

CD: Elektra / 66702-2 (US)
"Fascination Street" [Remix] (4:17)
"Babble" (4:16)
"Out of Mind" (3:51)
"Fascination Street" [Extended Remix] (8:48)

Personnel
Band
Simon Gallup – bass guitar
Robert Smith – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals, producer, engineer
Porl Thompson – guitar
Boris Williams – drums
Roger O'Donnell – keyboards
Lol Tolhurst – other instruments

Production
Mark Saunders – remix
Robert Smith – remix, producer, engineer
Chris Parry – remix
David M. Allen – producer, engineer

Charts
See also
List of Billboard number-one alternative singles of the 1980s


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