The Head on the Door - The Cure

8.4	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Elektra / Wea
Release date : 25 October 1990
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0075596043526
UPC : 075596043526

(2), New Wave (1), Synth-pop (1), LP (1), 03 (1), 30 Minutes (1), (vinyl) (1), *saipal (1), Rock (1), Pop Rock (1), 80s (1), Alternative (1), 1982 (1)

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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 stat ... (more)

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The Cure

Track listing

1. In Between Days
2. Kyoto Song
3. Blood
4. Six Different Ways
5. Push
6. Baby Screams
7. Close to Me
8. Night Like This
9. Screw
10. Sinking

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8.4/10
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The Head on the Door

Posted : 1 month ago at Oct 21 16:02

The Cure’s The Head on the Door album picks right up where Japanese Whispers– an assortment of non-album singles and b-sides – left off. Which is to say that the Cure were experimenting with dance music and shiny pop hooks, but never losing their identity as gloomy existentialist New Wavers. On this they added a hint of Latin rhythm (“The Blood”), invented shoegazing (“Push”), and got in touch with the gloriously beautiful Gothic pop sonic landscapes they would develop even further on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and Disintegration (“Six Different Ways”), The Head on the Door shouldn’t work, at all really, but it’s a beautiful slice of British New Wave. There’s even a quick exploration of a semi-hard rock sound (“Push”). “The Baby Screams” marries their alt...Read more

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