The Cure “The Head on the Door” released 35 years ago today, August 26th, 1985. I got this copy pretty soon after its release in the fall of ‘85 and played the sh*t out of it that year – it still remains one of my favorites. It marks an evolution in The Cure’s pivot toward more of a pop sound but still retains a lot of the post-punk goth darkness and exotica from their earlier album releases. The Head on the Door went to #7 in the UK and cracked respectably into the US market, going to #59. I love every moment of the record but my favorite songs include the highly danceable lead single “In Between Days” (#15 UK, #99 US), the exotic duo “Kyoto Song” and “The Blood,” the sweetly lilting “Six Different Ways,” the new wave dance floor tracks “Push” and “The Baby Screams,” the moodily beautiful “A Night Like This” (“Your trust the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world”) and the bass heavy industrial-ish “Screw.”  OK I pretty much just listed every track on the record. My least favorite track (I do like it, just not as much) is their second and final single, the feverishly claustrophobic hand-clappy “Close To Me” which went to #24 in the UK. Its remix went to #97 in ‘91.