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The Top is not a very great album. The album is very clearly the bands transitional phase out from the typical gothic rock. The album experiments with different styles such as in Track 3 Wailing Wall where the bands plays around with middle-eastern influence while also having a neo-psychedelic sound. Track 4 Dressing Up also plays with the neo-psychedelic sound. The only single off the album, Track 6 Caterpillar was a very clear indication of where the band was going by taking a more pop ... read more

Japanese Whispers does not feel like a proper album. Technically it's considered a compilation as the album really feels like 3 singles and then filler. The 3 main singles off this are Let's Go To Bed, The Walk and Lovecats. Personally speaking, Lovecats has the greatest appeal as the band play around with a more jazz-pop oriented experience. After coming off their work with Pornography, the album just doesn't hit the same. The band took a very different approach to their music and it shows. I ... read more

Pornography is seriously a hard album to listen to yet irresistible to turn away from. With the Robert Smith being a suicidal, drug and booze fuelled shell, the music reflects this feeling. The opening track, One Hundred Years gives a dark look into what is to come for the rest of the album. Track 2, A Short Term Effect continues the feel from the first track. Track 3, The Hanging Garden makes use of a tribal-esc drum pattern. This creates a cool atmospheric feeling. Track 4, Siamese Twins ... read more

Boys Don't Cry is essentially a better version of the bands first album, Three Imaginary Boys. The compilation albums title track serves as one of my personal favourite songs by the Cure. Track 6, Jumping Someone Else's Train is a fun and jumpy track to get down with. Track 8, Killing an Arab is a Bassists dream, with Bass reminiscent of the early 70's. The weakest new track, Plastic Passion still is a fun and groovy. Overall the compilation serves as a better version of the first album.