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Track Listings
| 1. In Between Days |
| 2. Kyoto Song |
| 3. The Blood |
| 4. Six Different Ways |
| 5. Push |
| 6. The Baby Screams |
| 7. Close To Me |
| 8. A Night Like This |
| 9. Screw |
| 10. Sinking |
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This is the Cure album to start with. Robert Smith and company's best and most coherent statement, The Head on the Door is a successful, if schizophrenic, synthesis of the best of '80s rock, boasting danceable Eurobeat anthems ("In Between Days"), world-music-flavored exotica ("Kyoto Song," the Latin-tinged "The Blood"), and more sullen statements of post-modern angst from the band that gave you such downer epics as Faith and Pornography. More than any other Cure album, Head rewards those who don't subscribe to the darker side of the group's ethos. The use of Spanish guitar and other colorful arrangement touches help to create a rich dynamic. The softer, more introspective cuts (like the claustrophobic "Close to Me," Smith's confessional classic) are also far more effective for them. --Don Harrison
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Universal UK pressing features the same content as the Rhino/US version, though packaged in the standard Universal 'Deluxe Edition' slipcase. Two CD set compiled by Robert Smith and digitally remastered from the original master tapes. This album was originally released in 1985.
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By Michael
Format:Audio CD
Wow, hard to believe. I grew up with this album.
The new album "The Cure" has me breaking out my Cure collection. This album is a masterpiece of pop songcraft, and still has enough of an edge to keep it intriguing all these years. The production sounds a bit dated and tinny, but that should be fixed real soon as The Cure get ready to release the re-masters later in 2004.
There's not a bad song on this album. It's a great place to start if you are interested in getting into The Cure. This is the album that they splashed big with in the US. Then you could work your way backwards and forwards to fill in the gaps. I would give it 5 stars, if not for what was to come in the future...
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
An upbeat solid work, all the songs are memorable, if you only want one CD from The Cure, this is it.
By C. Mackey
Format:Audio CD
This isn't the best Cure album by any means, but boy is it good. It's one of those RARE albums where every track is listenable (and re-listenable). I disagree with those who say THOTD is incoherent, part of it's charm is the fact that it takes you to different places. However, this is an exceptionally short affair, and when the final track "Sinking" closes out, it leaves you wanting more. Just listen to "Push", "The Blood", or "The Baby Screams" and realize that you will never be that creative. Best songs are all of them, end of story. If you don't own THOTD, you should!
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EXACTLY THE SAME CLEAN ROOM, EXACTLY THE SAME CLEAN BED
This is quite possibly the height of how creative the Cure got, while i wouldnt call it their *best* album (that title belongs to 'Disintegration') i would call it their most... Read more
Published on Mar 31 2004 by Pearl Jams lion
5.0 out of 5 stars
solid gold cure
Back in my goth days of the late 1980's I kinda scorned this album, I loved The Cure of course but thought that this was just a bit too poppy and chirpy for it's own good. Read more
Published on Mar 15 2004 by Tim Knight
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sensational Cure
this Cure album, to me, is one of the most complete recordings in the entire Cure catalogue. i remember back in '85 when i first heard this album, and it quickly became a classic... Read more
Published on Dec 21 2003 by Christopher R. Cicatelli
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Cure for musical ennui
Whenever I'm mourning the death of our old friend, Good Music, I just slap any Cure CD onto the disc player. The Cure is the definitive "80s and beyond" band. Read more
Published on Nov 9 2003 by Alison Ross
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of The Cure's Finest
For The Cure, the instrumentation on this album is surprisingly upbeat with lots of new-wave/synth/europop beats, but the music contrasts starkly to the darkness and angst of... Read more
Published on Sep 11 2003 by Vilbs
5.0 out of 5 stars
10 perfect pop songs
The Cure's discography can be divided in half with a thick, black line into two halves. On one side, are the dark albums (Pornography, Disintegration, Bloodflowers, Faith), where... Read more
Published on Aug 25 2003 by MaratsBathing
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Head on the Door
A good album to start with the Cure. It isn't dark and gloomy like a lot of their stuff. I think the best of Robert Smith's songwriting comes through when he concentrates on... Read more
Published on Aug 20 2003 by Richard Cunningham
5.0 out of 5 stars
WOnderful MEmoRies!
Lately I've been feeling the old pull of certain music from my past and this is definitely one of them. Read more
Published on July 26 2003 by Shannon B. Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars
Missing Songs
This is an excellent album so I was going to replace it with the CD but it appears to be incomplete. Read more
Published on April 7 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
Six different ways inside my heart
This has so many great songs! I remember when I saw The Cure live a couple of years ago and didn't know a single song, when I heard 'Push' from 'The Head On The Door', I was like... Read more
Published on Jun 7 2002 by Lison
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