The Top

There's rumors that they're breaking up.

How can I get these boys back together in the studio? make something that the people people will want to listen to so he convinces them that the solution is for the band to reinvent themselves moving more towards pop sensibilities and away from their more atmospheric earlier work so in 1982 and 1983 the band releases three singles including their first top 10 hit the love cats which peaked at number seven in the uk Then in 1984, The Cure releases their next album, The Top, which saw the return of Paul Thompson to the band.

This is a pretty psychedelic album whose lone single titled The Caterpillar peaked at number 14 in the UK.

The Top was a top 10 hit in the UK, became the band's first album to crack the Billboard 200 in the US, reaching number 180.

Melody Maker also praised the album while pondering, I've yet to meet anyone who can tell me why The Cure are having hits now

of all time.

Gallop and Smith had made amends, and Smith was ecstatic about Gallop's return, saying, it's a group again.

But Andy Anderson is the new drummer for