"to get that us-against-the-world feeling, we actually slept on the studio floor under news-papers! seventeen seconds is a very personal record, and it's also when i felt the cure really started, because we did it on our own and everything about it was exactly what i wanted. i produced it, although they said i wasn't capable. then we jumped on a plane to new zealand and australia, and i realised that the world was a very small place because all the people we met were empathising with us. it was reassuring at that juncture because i was getting lots of flak for following a melancholy strain after 'boy's don't cry'. since we made that album, the number 17 keeps coming up as an arbitrary figure. very weird...."
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