The Cure
The Head on the Door
Label:  Elektra 
Date:  8/1985
Length:  0:00
Format:  LP
Genre:  Rock; Gothic Rock
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      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