“Kyoto Song” by The Cure

"Kyoto Song" is Robert Smith's song through and through, words and music, and it comes from The Head on the Door, the Cure's sixth album, released by Fiction in 1985, the first Cure record on which he composed every song alone. Smith sings it and co-produced it with Howard Gray and David M. Allen, who also engineered.

The rhythm section tells the story of a band regrouping: Boris Williams, new to the Cure on this album, plays drums and percussion, and Simon Gallup, back after several years away, is on bass. The Head on the Door roamed across a lot of styles, which helped carry the band to wider audiences in Europe and North America, and in Britain it became their most successful album yet.

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