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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelEA, Warner Music Group
UPC0081227944063
eBay Product ID (ePID)10046055743
Product Key Features
Release Year2016
FormatRecord
GenreRock
ArtistCure
Release TitleThe Top
Dimensions
Item Height0.21 in
Item Weight0.64 lb
Item Length12.43 in
Item Width12.41 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Shake Dog Shake 1.2 Birdmad Girl 1.3 Wailing Wall 1.4 Give Me It 1.5 Dressing Up 2.1 The Caterpillar 2.2 Piggy in the Mirror 2.3 The Empty World 2.4 Bananafishbones 2.5 The Top
Number of Discs1
NotesLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Top is the fifth studio album by English rock band The Cure, released on 30 April 1984. The Top contains different styles, from Spanish to Middle-Eastern and also metallic for the most violent songs. After recording a psychedelic album Blue Sunshine for the one-off project The Glove during the 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 Siouxsie and 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 member 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 by Smith bar three tracks co-written with Tolhurst, "The Caterpillar", "Bird Mad Girl" and "Piggy in the Mirror".