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Primary" is the only single from
The Cure's third studio album
Faith, released in 1981 on
Fiction Records. It was the first song by The Cure to be remixed as a separate extended mix for release on
12" single (and not co-released on other formats, in the way the 12" version of
A Forest was also the album version appearing on
Seventeen Seconds, for example). In fact, the original 12" extended mix is, to this day, still only available on the original 12" single, which has never been reproduced on any other album, making it quite a rare item. The main difference between the 7" mix (also the album mix), and 12" mix is that the extended mix lengthens the instrumental introductions to the song's verses.