The Top (The Cure album)
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The Top (The Cure album)
The Top is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band the Cure, released on 30 April 1984 by record label Fiction. It entered the UK Albums Chart at N°10 on 12 May. Shortly after its release, the Cure embarked on a major UK tour culminating with a three-night residency at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
August 25, 2004. The Top (1984), however, is not that Cure. Yes, "The Caterpillar" is on here, and "Dressing Up" has a sexy pop-song elegance that's certainly new. But this full-length is the sound of a rock band stretching out in a much less controlled and occasionally bitter way: . . . .
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AllMusic
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.
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PopMatters
March 27, 2016. The Top will never be considered the Cure's greatest release, but it's far better than its reputation suggests and is ripe for a thorough reevaluation by fans and critics alike.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
December 14, 2018. If it wasn't for the slinky "The Caterpillar," the Cure's fifth album would be their worst. It's certainly the most forgettable of all the early records.
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Rhino
April 30, 2014. Less goth than psychedelia, The Top proved to be a top-10 hit in the UK and, perhaps more surprisingly, was the first Cure album to enter the Billboard Top 200 album chart, making it to #180.
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Mark Prindle
Well, it certainly sounds like The Cure but, like I mentioned earlier, the entire appeal of this band is "melody." Well, mood too, but mainly melody. And most of these melodies could not be duller.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
. . . 'The Top' is a decent Cure album to pick out, a good starting point if you want a starting point that is an utterly middle Cure release in the grand scale of things.
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Hard Rock
Apirl 21, 2017. “The Caterpillar” offers some of the eccentric playfulness that they would eventually reach on later albums but the entire album lacks any discernible cohesiveness.
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Louder
April 23, 2019. . . . a candy-striped feast of nursery-rhyme lyrics and light-headed arrangements. The standout track is The Caterpillar, a semi-acoustic skiffle awash with squeaks, honks and love-drunk euphoria.
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Stereogum
August 15, 2012. The strangest album in a catalog full of strange albums, The Top came together from the chaos of a massive reboot of sound, lineup, and intent.
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George Starostin's Reviews
The one and only fact that is obvious about the album is that it both wants and doesn't want to sound like Pornography: the atmosphere and the desperation have to be preserved, but the musical means have to be more diverse, even if that involves mystifying the population. It's not so dense-sounding, either, with lighter production and vocals that are a little bit more down to earth than usual.
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