The Cure - Top
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Track List: Top
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Disc 1:
- Shake Dog ShakeDownload & Buy
- Birdmad GirlDownload & Buy
- Wailing WallDownload & Buy
- Give Me ItDownload & Buy
- Dressing UpDownload & Buy
- The CaterpillerDownload & Buy
- Piggy In The MirrorDownload & Buy
- The Empty WorldDownload & Buy
- BananafishbonesDownload & Buy
- The TopDownload & Buy
Disc 2:
- You Stayed (Robert Smith Home Demo)
- Ariel (Robert Smith Home Demo)
- A Hand Inside My Mouth (Studio Demo)
- Sadacic (Robert Smith Studio Demo)
- Shake Dog Shake (Studio Demo)
- Piggy In The Mirror (Studio Demo)
- Birdmad Girl (Studio Demo)
- Give Me It (Studio Demo)
- Throw Your Foot (Studio Demo)
- Happy The Man (Studio Demo)
- The Caterpillar (Studio Demo)
- Dressing Up (Studio Alt Mix)
- Wailing Wall (Studio Alt Mix)
- The Empty World (Live Bootleg)
- Bananafish Bones (Live Bootleg)
- The Top (Live Bootleg)
- Forever (Version) (Live Bootleg)
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Album Details: Top
- Release Date:
- 02/14/1989
- Label:
- Rhino / Wea
- UPC:
- 081227475123
User Reviews: Top
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The Original Cure
, October 17, 2003Reviewer: popsucksrockkid69 - See all popsucksrockkid69's reviews -
Like a polar bear
, June 26, 2003Reviewer: Melissa O - See all Melissa O's reviewsFun and danceable. I recomend it to all die hard fans of the cure.
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Pro Reviews: Top
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Recorded in the midst of Robert Smith's tenuous tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Top is arguably the most hedonistic record the Cure ever produced. Essentially Smith and Lol Tolhurst working with studio musicians (this being the period when the Cure's lineup was never assured), it's an album obviously recorded under stress, drink, and drugs. More wildly experimental musically than anything before it, it laid the foundations for the Cure's pattern of unpigeonholable albums that were to erase their reputation built by Pornography and eventually culminating in Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. That said, it's still very much a Cure record. Heavy on the percussion and quaint keyboard effects that were so big in the '80s, the melodies ("The Caterpillar," "Shake Dog Shake") are unmistakably Robert Smith. The big change this time around is his ability to fuse the paranoia and neuroses of former work (Pornography) with his newfound use of pop melody and outside influences (i.e., world travels, sounds, instruments) to moderate success ("Wailing Wall," "Piggy in the Mirror"). A more psychedelic descent than Pornography, The Top is a transition, never really feeling like a fulllength release, but it does meld all former phases of Rob and company, which would fully gel on The Head on the Door. At best an imperfect record, The Top is a necessary step in the evolution of the band. - Chris True, All Music Guide |
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Out of all the bands that emerged in the immediate aftermath of punk rock in the late '70s, the Cure was one of the most enduring and popular. Led through numerous incarnations by guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith (b. April 21, 1959), the band became n...Full The Cure Biography
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Pros: dark gloom-doom music
Cons: not the greatest effort with vocals
This is a great Cure album full of dark songs that will ring in your nightmares. It may not be quite as good as pornography, but it is the cure at its most gloomy, and uncommercial. Anyone who doesn't like this album does not truly know the original Cure.