Edited sentence: After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight.All three were poppy and upbeat, the complete opposite of everything they've done in the three albums prior.As such, this is closer to a Robert Smith solo album than any other album in the band's history.Following this was "The Walk", and then "The Lovecats".However, other fans do consider it to be an underrated transitional album, and in addition to this, it was The Cure's first studio album to chart in the U.Just months after the bleak and angsty Pornography, the band released the single "Let's Go to Bed" which just featured Smith, Lol Tolhurst and session drummer Steve Goulding.Smith then took a radical shift in his music.Smith wrote almost all of the music himself, and did almost all the music (Except the drums).The Top is the first album to follow this new side of The Cure.The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography