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The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by English rock band The Cure.It was released on 30 August 1985 by Fiction Records.Preceded by the single "In Between Days" which had reached No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart, [5] The Head on the Door was described by Melody Maker as "a collection of pop songs". [6]
With its glowering guitars and thumping beerhall piano, “A Night Like This” represented the precise midpoint between The Cure’s pop and mood-rock personas, making it a cornerstone of their ...
Formed in 1976, [1] [2] [3] the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure [4] before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith, drummer Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and bassist Michael ...
The Cure’s lineup remained in flux for years as Smith shifted the band’s sound from post-punk to goth to tuneful pop/rock, eventually writing massive Top 40 hits like 1987’s “Just Like ...
A Night Like This, a 1993 album by Rebecka Törnqvist "A Night Like This" (song) , a 2009 song by Caro Emerald "A Night Like This", a song from the album The Head on the Door by The Cure
The vinyl edition is a collection of all 13 of the Cure's commercially released singles up to that point in chronological order. "10:15 Saturday Night" was dropped though, possibly because it was only released in France. The CD edition features the same tracks as the vinyl edition, but also includes an extra track from four of the band's albums.
The authors note: "Like the album's cover art, which is little more than an abstract blur, the bleak, minimalist sound of Seventeen Seconds-era Cure is subtly suggestive." Attention is drawn to the "beguiling bleakness, both in its brief instrumentals and the more pop-oriented tracks (such as the sharp, hook-laden 'Play for Today') that hark ...
"In Between Days" is widely regarded as one of the Cure's best songs. In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number three on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [11] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number two on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs.