The Cure were also up for it but it's less about the quality of music in the UK and more the poor quality of the BRITs and their decision making. Biggest selling albums win, not the best quality-wise.

Ahead of his interview at Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure at the Sugar Club, Dublin on 11 April, the band's biographer Simon Price rounds up his choice of the finest Cure B-sides "The first thing I ...