The Cure - The Top

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. Read More