Best of: The Head on The Door

[KingOfSomeIsland]

Inbetween Days, this and Plainsong were the songs that made me fall in love with the band

[Trust...]

PUSH

Powerful, great, I just love it 

[turnpike74]

Has to be Push. It took me seeing it live to aprreciate it, but its definetly powerful.

[OnniHopeDream]

Voted for Push! Easily best song on album, actually just one of my all time Cure favs ;p (Sinking would be 2nd tho)

[Lostflowerboy]

Every song except "Screw" is one of my favourites. The perfect album?

[mint car]

I love each song on this album. I think that it is one of the greatest albums of 1985 year 

[revolt]

Every song except "Screw" is one of my favourites. The perfect album?

If you don't like 'Screw' how can you say HotD is the PERFECT album?

[Lostflowerboy]

9 out of 10 is as close as it get's to perfection. "Screw" isn't bad either, it's just the one mediocre (but still interesting) song amongst 9 perfect ones, that's got to be there to make the others appear even more perfect. 

Oh, time for a list again:

1. Head on the door
2. KMKMKM
3. Disintegration
4. Pornography
5. Seventeen Seconds
6. Bloodflowers
7. Faith
8. Wish
9. Three imaginary boys
10.The Top
11. Wild Mood Swings
12. The Cure

[revolt]

9 out of 10 is as close as it get's to perfection. "Screw" isn't bad either, it's just the one mediocre (but still interesting) song amongst 9 perfect ones, that's got to be there to make the others appear even more perfect. 

Oh, time for a list again:

1. Head on the door
2. KMKMKM
3. Disintegration
4. Pornography
5. Seventeen Seconds
6. Bloodflowers
7. Faith
8. Wish
9. Three imaginary boys
10.The Top
11. Wild Mood Swings
12. The Cure

Well, although THOTD is indeed very well conceived and has quite a few songs that I really like, I don´t think it represents well what The Cure are about. It's too poppy and too concerned with pleasing the crowds... There's no edge to it, it's actually the only Cure album in the 80's where The Cure take absolutely no risks!

Many songs have disposable lyrics and the ultra-polished production doesn't always work: a rock song like 'The Baby Screams' loses much of its power, for example.
Then "Push" is somehow recorded in a rawer way, but there's something about it that doesn't work for me (could it just be the lazy lyrics?)...

'Six Different Ways' is no masterpiece either, although it sounds fairly better here than it sounds live.

[KingOfSomeIsland]

They shouldve replaced Screw with A Few Hours After This... or A Man Inside My Mouth.

[revolt]

They shouldve replaced Screw with A Few Hours After This... or A Man Inside My Mouth.

Well, I think that would hardly make it better... those are no great songs, either, at least for me. And even if AFHAT has a melody that kind of gets stuck in your head, the whole thing is produced in a way that would make it an out-of-place track in the album. It's almost only keyboards and voice, and the keyboards have a sound to them that could be described as 'cheap'...

[Lostflowerboy]

Yes, the final version of "A few hours..." sounds cheap, they really should've worked out the demo version that can be found on the Deluxe version (btw: the best bonus disc of all remasters beside Faith in my oppinion).

[Whiskers]

I don't understand the general dislike for the song Screw; it's one of my favorites on the album.

[ExplicitMoment]

I defied convention and voted for "Close To Me" - I just have fond memories of that song.

Although Push is a close second 

[revolt]

I defied convention and voted for "Close To Me" - I just have fond memories of that song.

Hey, you're not alone on that one! I voted for "Close To Me" too. Just one of The Cure's best STUDIO pop songs ever.