This album has the very first track by The Cure I remember hearing,Close To Me. The albm was released a year before I was born but I remember the first time I saw the video to Close To Me. I was in awe, and yes I did believe for many years that The Cure would be in my wardrobe every single time I opened it. Some believe in Narnia, I chose The Cure.

The Head On The Door saw the return of Simon Gallup, and personally this is why I feel this album is bloody brilliant. I have a few t-shirts of The Cure, and one of them is the artwork of this record. It’s just awesome. I love how trippy the artwork is, much like the album.

The Head On The Door has an extremely dreamy feel to it, 6 albums in and the band are just as strong as ever on this record. With previous album the tone was dark; musically and lyrically. With this record, the lyric matter may have been dark but musically it just sent you off in a dream world. You felt spaced out and quite happy. This record is the one you can fall in love with someone to. This is the album that fulls your bones full of love and joy. There’s just something about the record that brings you so much joy. I can listen to certain songs by The Cure and just smile like a mental bugger, and they are mainly found on this record. If I was to fall in love, I’d probably associate this album with that person. However, that would only be if they were a fan of The Cure and a decent person.

Just listening to songs such as Six Different Ways, it’s hard to see why anyone couldn’t love The Cure. There’s so much going on in one song. There’s so much love and pain in the songs; but the joyful music disguises it so well. It masks the pain in sucha clever way. I could easily turn this into how people do it with their feelings, but I’d bore you even more and I’d just rant like a nutter so I shall spare you.

Push is a beauty of a song. It’s about Robert Smith wearing a dress on a train. I’d love to see Robert Smith on a train, or a bus even. There’s hints of rejection in the song, that is just so painfully yet beautifully written. “A smile to hide the fear away.” You don’t have to be  man wearing a dress on a train to fully feel that line at all. Anyone can.

You can associate any feeling possible to each album by The Cure. I associate happiness with this record, how could you not? Okay so the lyrics may be dark, they always are I suppose but the music just lifts up your spirits and makes you feel less shite about life. It’s just a brilliant record that you could easily argue as being the best album by The Cure. The Cure defined my childhood, teenage years and adulthood; and it all started with Close To Me.