“The Baby Screams” by The Cure

"The Baby Screams" comes off The Head on the Door, the Cure's sixth album, issued by Fiction in 1985, the first of their records on which Robert Smith wrote every song by himself. He wrote this one words and music, sings it, and co-produced it with David M. Allen, who engineered it too.

It also catches a band freshly reshuffled. Simon Gallup, back in the fold after several years away, plays bass, and Boris Williams, the drummer who made his debut with the group on this album, handles drums and percussion. Melody Maker heard the album as a set of pop songs, and its spread of styles brought the Cure new listeners across Europe and North America; in Britain nothing they had released before did better.

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