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The Cure - The Head on the Door Audio CD

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The Cure Band: The Cure
Title: The Head on the Door
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Release Date: 2006-08-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Inbetween Days [Disc 1] 2: Kyoto Song [Disc 1] 3: 10. Sinking [Disc 1] 4: Disc 2 5: 1. Inbetween Days (RS Home demo) [Disc 2] 6: Inwood (RS Home demo) [Disc 2] 7: Push (RS Home demo) [Disc 2] 8: . Innsbruck (RS Home demo) [Disc 2] 9: Stop Dead (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 10: Mansolidgone (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 11: Screw (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 12: Lime Time (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 13: Kyoto Song (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 14: A Few Hours After This... (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 15: Six Different Ways (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 16: A Man Inside My Mouth (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 17: A Night Like This (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 18: The Exploding Boy (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 19: Close To Me (Studio demo) [Disc 2] 20: The Baby Screams (live bootleg) [Disc 2] 21: The Blood (live bootleg) [Disc 2] 22: Sinking (live bootleg) [Disc 2]

Good, fun experimental album
Not their best. . but love it. The Blood is my favorite song on it. Has the classic Close to Me on it, although my favorite version of the song is not on the album.


THE BEST CURE SONG EVER : LIME TIME

Also includes stop dead another rare track. The best song ever a non album track, smith calls it a just
miss album track-he saids its a demo but is a full track. Smith is so
unpredictable thats what makes him so magical.


My first Cure album reminds me of a violent night
Buenos Aires, 1986, fresh out of high school. This was the first record of The Cure I ever bought. I had listened In Between Days on the radio and like it, read praise on the band on some magazines, so I decided to buy the album. I was really surprised by it, songs like Kyoto Song, Close to Me, A Night like This were delicate, sophisticated pop, I have seldom listened to it before (the whole sound would be later appropiated by many indie rock bands). The next year, in 1987, I would be in the famously violent performance Cure did in Buenos Aires, in Ferro Stadium, to present this album. Argentina was a terra incognita for international rock bands back then, and the organizers have underestimated The Cure's appeal, putting the popular tickets in stands that were very far from the stage, and with the view obstructed by one of the light towers. I was in those stands, of course, and before the band even started playing, the people broke the fence and entered the field. What happened afterwards was a pandemonium, in which there were generalized fights, young women were attacked, and some police' dogs were murdered by the irate fans (I didn't see the later, however). The sound was horrible, by the way, which added to the fans fury. Overall, a night one would not forget. And a very good album.


A good, but not great Cure album
Kyoto Song and The Blood are the only two tracks that excite me. Though I love this album, it's not one of my favorites. As far as the bonus disc is concerned, Innsbruck alone is the standout cut, a worthwhile listen. It's the one tune on that disc I never seem to tire of. It sounds like a definite throwback to the Faith-era Cure-very mysterious and haunting. It's really kind of out-of-step with the rest of the material. A good album, but not one I'd recommend to a novice Cure listener.


The Cure for musical ennui
The Cure is the definitive "80s and beyond" band. Whenever I'm mourning the death of our old friend, Good Music, I just slap any Cure CD onto the disc player. Their mercurial pop melodies mingled with singer Robert Smith's Poe-meets-Rimbaud-meets-Dr. Seuss lyrical musings and plaintive wail make The Cure a truly mesmerizing presence. All of its albums are stunningly solid efforts, including the recent "The Cure" and "Bloodflowers," but 1985's "Head on the Door" is its most intriguingly layered offering, serving up an experimental foray into various musical styles; bits of flamenco, Japanese new wave, funk, hard rock, and even jazz sneak their way onto this magical album. The best part is, the Cure manages all the musical genre-melding without surrendering its trademark surrealistic sound.


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