“Six Different ways” by The Cure

"Six Different Ways" sits on The Head on the Door, the sixth studio album from the Cure, which Fiction Records put out in 1985. Robert Smith wrote it alone, words and music, as he did every song on that record, the first Cure album where nobody else had a hand in the writing. He sings it and shares the production with David M. Allen, who engineered it too.

The rhythm section tells the story of a band regrouping: Simon Gallup, back on bass after several years away, and Boris Williams, on drums and percussion for his first Cure album. Melody Maker called the record a collection of pop songs, and its magpie spread of styles won the band new listeners across Europe and North America.

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