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After recording one of their darkest albums, 1983's The Top, the Cure regrouped and
shuffled their lineup in 1984 and ended up changing their musical direction rather radically.
While the band always had a pop element in their sound and even recorded one of the lightest songs
of the '80s, "The Lovecats," The Head on the Door is where they become a hitmaking machine. The shiny,
sleek production and laser-sharp melodies of "Inbetween Days" and "Close to Me" helped them become
modern rock radio staples and the inspired videos had them in heavy rotation on MTV. The rest of the
record didn't suffer for hooks and inventive arrangements either, making even the gloomiest songs like
"Screw" and "Kyoto Song" sound radio-ready, and the inventive arrangements (the flamenco guitars and
castanets of "The Blood," the lengthy and majestic intro to "Push," the swirling vocals on "The Baby
Screams") give the album a musical depth previous efforts lacked