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'"Punish Me with Kisses"' is the second single by English post-punk band the Glove from their album 'Blue Sunshine'.[ released in 1983 by Wonderland Records/Polydor. The Glove were a side project for Robert Smith of the Cure and Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees. The song was recorded in 1983 while Smith was also a member of the Banshees,][ and also featured future Banshees keyboardist Martin McCarrick and new Cure drummer Andy Anderson.
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The band performed the song on the British TV show 'Riverside'.[
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The release of the single went largely unnoticed at the time, because both the Cure and the Banshees had just released their most successful singles to date.[
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The song was co-written by Smith and Severin.[
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Reception
In a review for the 'Blue Sunshine' album for the Spanish-language magazine 'Muzikalia', critic Manuel Pinazo described this song and "Like an Animal" as having echoes of Syd Barrett.,[ while 'Toronto Star', critic Ben Rayner described the song as a "more straightforward post-punk cut".][ In a review of the 2006 reissue of the 'Blue Sunshine' album, which included a remix of the song, 'PopMatters' editor Adam Besenyodi said that the depth of the album version "is lost on the Mike Hedges mix, where the full orchestration is supplanted with a tinnier sound".][
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Track listing
7"# "Punish Me with Kisses" (Mike Hedges Mix) (3:30)
# "The Tightrope" (3:12)
Personnel
:* Steven Severin - bass
:* Robert Smith - guitar
:* Jeanette Landray - vocals
:* Martin McCarrick - keyboards, strings
:* Ginny Hewes - strings
:* Anne Stephenson - strings
:* Andy Anderson - drums
References
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