The Cure The Head On The Door (1985) FLAC LOSSLESS 24bit-96kHz PBTHAL Vinyl Rip

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After recording one of their darkest albums, 1984's The Top, the Cure regrouped and shuffled their lineup, which changed their musical direction rather radically. While the band always had a pop element in their sound and even recorded one of the lightest songs of the '80s, "The Lovecats," The Head on the Door is where they become a hitmaking machine. The shiny, sleek production and laser-sharp melodies of "Inbetween Days" and "Close to Me" helped them become modern rock radio staples and the inspired videos had them in heavy rotation on MTV. The rest of the record didn't suffer for hooks and inventive arrangements either, making even the gloomiest songs like "Screw" and "Kyoto Song" sound radio-ready, and the inventive arrangements (the flamenco guitars and castanets of "The Blood," the lengthy and majestic intro to "Push," the swirling vocals on "The Baby Screams") give the album a musical depth previous efforts lacked. All without sacrificing an ounce of the emotion of the past, which songs as quietly desperate as "A Night Like This" and "Sinking" illustrate. With The Head on the Door, Robert Smith figured out how to make gloom and doom danceable and popular to both alternative and mainstream rock audiences. It was a feat the band managed to pull off for many years afterward, but never as concisely or as impressively as they did here.

foobar2000 1.4.3 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2021-04-12 20:28:32

Analyzed: The Cure / The Head On The Door

DR Peak RMS Duration Track

DR11 -1.00 dB -15.02 dB 2:58 01-In Between Days DR12 -4.12 dB -18.40 dB 4:16 02-Kyoto Song DR13 -3.15 dB -17.90 dB 3:43 03-The Blood DR13 -3.70 dB -18.91 dB 3:19 04-Six Different Ways DR13 -3.51 dB -18.11 dB 4:32 05-Push DR13 -1.00 dB -17.26 dB 3:45 06-The Baby Screams DR13 -4.23 dB -18.94 dB 3:23 07-Close To Me DR12 -1.57 dB -17.34 dB 4:17 08-A Night Like This DR14 -2.57 dB -18.24 dB 2:38 09-Screw DR11 -4.42 dB -18.41 dB 4:52 10-Sinking

Number of tracks: 10 Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 96000 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 2773 kbps Codec: FLAC

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