Mint Car

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"Mint Car"
TheCureMintCarUKDisc1.jpg
CD1 single cover
Single by the Cure
from the album Wild Mood Swings
B-side
  • "Home"
  • "Waiting"
  • "A Pink Dream"
Released17 June 1996 (1996-06-17)
Genre Jangle pop [1]
Length3:29
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
The Cure singles chronology
"The 13th"
(1996)		"Mint Car"
(1996)		"Strange Attraction"
(1996)
Alternative covers
TheCureMintCarUKDisc2.jpg
CD2 single cover

Personnel

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United States27 May 1996 Alternative radio [22]
United Kingdom17 June 1996
  • CD
  • cassette
Fiction [3]
United States18 June 1996 Contemporary hit radio
  • Fiction
  • Elektra
 [23]

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