Round 12: Album Survivor Game (ends Friday 6th September)

JTD. 1 good disc spread out over 4. Can't listen to packaging!

are people ignoring "the top" on this? it was the WMS of it's day. just saying....

You take that back!

That's true, during the 80's, The Top was the only Cure album that received criticism and was dismissed as their one self indulgent bad album. Well until 96 when WMS came along to take its place as the whipping boy of the band.

But to a certain portion of curefans, myself included, it felt like The Top was our secret album. This psychedelic sprawl of rarely played diverse songs with totally crazy lyrics, off the wall melodies, extreme vocal styles and instrumentation. Totally pure cure from the mind of Robert Smith.
Ten completely different deranged songs but somehow seemed to flow well as an album, sequenced perfectly.

Even Robert dismissed the album at some point but nowadays it's reappraised as an experimental success leading the way to The Head on the Door. Robert seems to appreciate it now, choosing to play it in full at the Hammersmith 2014 shows.

Maybe at the time in 1984 it just came over as too whacky and weird but you can't deny the very high songwriting qualities of tracks like shake dog shake, birdmad girl, dressing up, caterpillar, piggy in the mirror, bananafishbones, the top.

all of you just need to get off of my lawn, right now! getting this surly old man thing down....+ throwing a spanner in the works is always good fun!

A sigh for Paris. An even bigger sigh for Join the Dots. How can you?... Not a studio album but what gems gathered together!

My vote goes for Three Imaginary Boys again. I will vote with my heart and number, I mean the number of songs on an album I can't imagine living without.

10:15 Saturday Night, Three Imaginary Boys and Meathook. Those are the three songs I listen to and I usually listen to the live versions. And on occasion Grinding Halt  but it's mostly annoying. The rest? Meh.