Another that it's taken me a while to work back to. For some reason, The Head on the Door is the one 'old school' (which I define very loosely here to mean everything up to and including Wish, the last album on which the band could plausibly be argued to have been relevant to anything at all except for itself and its own back catalogue) Cure album that I never got round to buying (apart from a brief ownership of a secondhand vinyl copy, which turned out to skip or get stuck or something and was duly returned, a few years back) - I didn't particularly avoid it, but somehow it just always slipped through the cracks, even though I always liked the offcentre pop joys of its three singles, "In Between Days", "A Night Like This" and, of course, "Close To Me".
So anyhow, it turns out to be quite good (and probably a lot easier for me to get into, so long after the time of my proper Cure infatuation, than if I'd left, say, Faith or Pornography out instead and then had to rediscover one of them out of that Cure-lovin' context in which they made so much sense). It is basically a quirky pop album, and it's good with it - the singles are pretty ace, and there are a couple of other nice moments (the Church-esque "Push" comes to mind).
