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| name = The Top | type = studio | artist = The Cure | cover = The Cure - The Top.jpg | alt = | released = 30 April 1984 | recorded = 1983–1984 | venue = | studio = Genetic, Garden Studios and Trident | genre = {{flatlist|
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}} | prev_title = Japanese Whispers | prev_year = 1983 | next_title = The Head on the Door | next_year = 1985 | misc = {{Singles | name = The Top | type = studio | single1 = The Caterpillar | single1date = 26 March 1984 }} }} The Top is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band the Cure, released on 30 April 1984 by record label Fiction. It entered the UK Albums Chart at N°10 on 12 May.[1] Shortly after its release, the Cure embarked on a major UK tour culminating with a three-night residency at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Background and recordingAfter recording psychedelic album Blue Sunshine for the one-off project the Glove during summer 1983, Robert Smith finished off the year composing and working on two other studio albums at the same time: The Top for the Cure and Hyæna for Siouxsie and the Banshees. Smith was still the official guitarist of the Banshees while he wrote The Top. For The Top, Smith teamed up with another Cure founding member, Lol Tolhurst, who had given up drums for keyboards, and new drummer Andy Anderson, who had previously performed on the UK top 10 single "The Lovecats". Porl Thompson was credited for playing saxophone on "Give Me It". All the songs are credited to Smith bar three tracks co-written with Tolhurst: "The Caterpillar", "Bird Mad Girl" and "Piggy in the Mirror". ContentThe album's style is eclectic, with Smith using various instruments including violin and flute. "Bird Mad Girl" is in a Spanish style, while "The Wailing Wall" contains Middle Eastern undertones. Sounds critic Jack Barron described the opening track "Shake Dog Shake" as "urbane metal".[2] Release and reception{{album ratings| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}[2] | rev2 = The Austin Chronicle | rev2Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[3] | rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music | rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}[4] | rev4 = The Guardian | rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}[5] | rev5 = Pitchfork | rev5Score = 6.9/10[6] | rev6 = Q | rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}[7] | rev7 = Record Mirror | rev7score = 3.5/5[8] | rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | rev8Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[9] | rev9 = Sounds | rev9Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[10] | rev10 = Uncut | rev10Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[11] }} The Top was released on 30 April 1984 by record label Fiction. It was a commercial success in the UK, peaking at No. 10 on the UK Albums Chart. "The Caterpillar" was the sole single released from the album. Upon its release, the reaction in the British press was mostly positive. Steve Sutherland of Melody Maker praised the album for its "psychedelia that can't be dated",[12] while Andy Strike of Record Mirror called it "a record of wicked originality and wit".[8] In contrast, Barron at Sounds noted that The Top is "too often not the true bottom line in reflected experience to be indisposable", but nevertheless prophesied, "In 20 years time, when the next generation blush with excitement about the word psychedelic, it'll be regarded as a classic".[10] On a more skeptical note, NME reviewer Danny Kelly considered it self-indulgent, qualifying it as "a ambitious difficult record".[13] In a retrospective review, Q writer Tom Doyle dismissed The Top as a "transitional record of forgettable songs".[7] Thomas Inkeep of Stylus Magazine wrote that The Top "may well be the nadir of their catalog", concluding he would "call it a transitional album and leave it at that, for what came subsequently was an honest-to-goodness marvel".[14] Chris True of AllMusic noted that while it is "an album obviously recorded under stress, drink, and drugs", Smith's ability "to fuse the paranoia and neuroses of former work with his newfound use of pop melody and outside influences" makes the record "a necessary step in the evolution of the band".[2] ReissueThe album was re-released August 8, 2006 in the U.S. and August 14 in the UK. The second disc included four previously unreleased tracks ("You Stayed"; "Ariel"; "A Hand Inside My Mouth", lyrics from which were eventually used in "Inbetween Days" and "Six Different Ways"; and "Sadacic", parts of which were re-used in "New Day" and "Prayers for Rain"), three live performances, and studio outtakes/demos of nine of the 10 songs on the original album (and of "Happy the Man" and "Throw Your Foot", final versions of which were released as B-sides on the single "The Caterpillar"). Track listingAll songs written by Robert Smith, except where noted. Side A
| collapsed = yes | headline = 2006 Deluxe Edition bonus disc | title1 = You Stayed ... (Robert Smith Home Demo 8/82) | length1 = 2:21 | title2 = Ariel (Robert Smith Home Demo 8/82) | length2 = 2:58 | title3 = A Hand Inside My Mouth (Des Dames Studio Demo 8/83) | length3 = 3:40 | title4 = Sadacic (Olympic Studio Robert Smith Demo 12/83) | length4 = 4:17 | title5 = Shake Dog Shake (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length5 = 4:56 | title6 = Piggy in the Mirror (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length6 = 3:40 | title7 = Birdmad Girl (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length7 = 3:36 | title8 = Give Me It (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length8 = 3:43 | title9 = Throw Your Foot (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length9 = 3:31 | title10 = Happy the Man (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length10 = 2:46 | title11 = The Caterpillar (Garden/Eden Studios Robert Smith and Andy Anderson Demo 12/83) | length11 = 4:17 | title12 = Dressing Up (Genetic Studio Guide Vocal/Rough Mix 2/84) | length12 = 2:14 | title13 = Wailing Wall (Genetic Studio Rough Mix 2/84) | length13 = 4:59 | title14 = The Empty World (Live Bootleg – Hammersmith Odeon 5/84) | length14 = 2:47 | title15 = Bananafishbones (Live Bootleg – Hammersmith Odeon 5/84) | length15 = 2:57 | title16 = The Top (Live Bootleg – Hammersmith Odeon 5/84) | length16 = 7:13 | title17 = Forever (version) (Live Bootleg – Zenith Paris 5/84) | length17 = 4:58 }} PersonnelThe Cure
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/the-top/ |title=The Top |publisher=officialchart.com |accessdate=7 January 2018}} 2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-top-mw0000650043 |title=The Top – The Cure |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=27 June 2013 |last=True |first=Chris}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2006-08-25/397706/ |title=Depeche Mode, the Cure, and the Jesus & Mary Chain |work=The Austin Chronicle |date=25 August 2006 |accessdate=12 June 2016 |last=Gray |first=Christopher}} 4. ^{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |last=Larkin |first=Colin |authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer) |isbn=0-85712-595-8}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/aug/11/popandrock.shopping4 |title=The Cure, The Top |work=The Guardian |date=11 August 2006 |accessdate=27 June 2013 |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11887-the-top-the-head-on-the-door-kiss-me-kiss-me-kiss-me-blue-sunshine/ |title=The Cure / Robert Smith: The Top / The Head on the Door / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me / Blue Sunshine |work=Pitchfork |date=25 August 2006 |accessdate=8 January 2016 |last=Abebe |first=Nitsuh}} 7. ^1 {{cite journal |title=Born Again |work=Q |issue=242 |date=September 2006 |last=Doyle |first=Tom |page=118}} 8. ^1 {{cite journal |title='Pillar Talk |work=Record Mirror |date=5 May 1984 |last=Strike |first=Andy}} 9. ^{{cite book |chapter=The Cure |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |authorlink=Rob Sheffield |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=205–06}} 10. ^1 2 {{cite journal |title=The Cure: The Top |work=Sounds |date=5 May 1984 |last=Barron |first=Jack}} 11. ^{{cite journal |title=From Meltdown to Megastardom |work=Uncut |issue=112 |date=September 2006 |last=Martin |first=Piers |page=102}} 12. ^{{cite journal |title=Topsy-Turvy |work=Melody Maker |date=5 May 1984 |last=Sutherland |first=Steve}} 13. ^{{cite |first=Dany |last=Kelly |title=Topspin falls flat [The Top -album review] |work=NME |date=5 May 1984}} 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-cure/the-top-the-head-on-the-door-kiss-me-kiss-me-kiss-me.htm |title=The Cure – The Top / The Head on the Door / Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me – Review |work=Stylus Magazine |date=20 November 2006 |accessdate=8 January 2016 |last=Inskeep |first=Thomas |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125194036/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-cure/the-top-the-head-on-the-door-kiss-me-kiss-me-kiss-me.htm |archivedate=25 January 2007}} External links
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