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It starts off with ‘The Kiss’, the first 4 minutes are instrumental and by the time Robert starts singing the lyrics, almost everything has already been said. It is a very dramatic and powerful song, mainly because of the mood portrayed by the guitar and drums. The second ... Read review
Advantages: lots of different styles Disadvantages: a few weak links
This album by The Cure was released in 1987 and it sits comfortably between ‘The Head on the Door’ and ‘Disintegration’. No songs on the album totally demand your attention, but if listened to properly, the album is a journey through a wide range if emotions and scenarios. What the songs are about I do not remember very well, but Robert has on several occasions explained what he was thinking, ( mainly drugs!), so I suggest ... .../>
It starts off with ‘The Kiss’, the first 4 minutes are instrumental and by the time Robert starts singing the lyrics, almost everything has already been said. It is a very dramatic and powerful song, mainly because of the mood portrayed by the guitar and drums. The second song is like a breather, because after the onslaught of the first song, ‘Catch’ feels like a relief and is softly sweet, if only because of its portrayal ... more
This album by The Cure was released in 1987 and it sits comfortably between ‘The Head on the Door’ and ‘Disintegration’. No songs on the album totally demand your attention, but if listened to properly, the album is a journey through a wide range if emotions and scenarios. What the songs are about I do not remember very well, but Robert has on several occasions explained what he was thinking, ( mainly drugs!), so I suggest you try to find one of those articles.
It starts off with ‘The Kiss’, the first 4 minutes are instrumental and by the time Robert starts singing the lyrics, almost everything has already been said. It is a very dramatic and powerful song, mainly because of the mood portrayed by the guitar and drums. The second song is like a breather, because after the onslaught of the first song, ‘Catch’ feels like a relief and is softly sweet, if only because of its portrayal of sad innocence. ‘Torture’ brings us back to painful experiences and moody music. ‘If Only Tonight We Could Sleep’ is soft, light and thoughtful. ‘Why Can’t I Be You?’ is a cheerful song much in the spirit which created the later ‘Friday I’m in Love’ but is done with a lot more taste. ‘How Beautiful You Are’ has the lyrics clashing with the innocent music. How beautiful you are, indeed. ‘Snakepit’ is slightly more mysterious musically and has a good arrangement. ‘Just like Heaven’ is a song that is so sweet I have overdosed on it, but it made a good single. ‘All I Want’, about drugs again, if I remember correctly. It has a very good tune. ‘Hot Hot Hot’, again that more fun-loving spirit. Great fun. ‘One More Time’ is the quietest song on the album and in feeling it has a twin in a beautiful song not on any album,‘Breathe’. It is thoughtful and sad. ‘Like Cockatoos’ is strange and in my opinion one of the album’s weak links. “Icing Sugar’ is the other weak link, I find it a bit boring. “The Perfect Girl’ brings us back to the funny-ish side of the album. ‘A Thousand Hours’ is another quiet song full of melancholy. I like the music in particular. ‘Shiver and Shake’ goes with ‘Fight’, my favourite on the album, to first drain you of anger and then lift you up. Clever if intentional.
I have this album on CD, which means that the track 'Hey You' has been omitted. I have heard it, but I do not remember it well so I will not comment on it. All in all, the music is somewhere in between pop and rock and the quieter and the more cheerful songs still don’t go anywhere near proper pop music.
This album will stay in my record collection forever, but I do not listen to it very often. It is very good, but most of the songs I find I can live without for long periods of time. However, this does not mean that it does not have any moments, it does. I just think that several of their other albums carry more emotion and feeling and that is what The Cure is usually about.
Advantages: Innovative, Challenging, Highly Original Disadvantages: Schizophrenic Mood Changes
, The Cure?s fifth studio album is a daringly expansive, and at times wonderfully executed, experiment. The stylistically polar opposites Rober Smith deploys set the tone for the equally flawed, yet brilliant ?KissMeKissMeKissMe? album and some latter day Cure output. However, in its own right, ?The Top? is a captivatingly intense, if perplexingly moody Long-Player. (*8)
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Advantages: Several good tracks/ Good atmosphere is kept through the album Disadvantages: Obviously Not To Everybody's Taste
a self - titled album.
While having a discussion with a friend about 'TheCure', my friend mentioned that he thought newest album was their weakest. I took his word for it as he knows much more about 'TheCure' than me; however, I never asked him why he thought it was. So, once at home, I decided to log online, and locate some samples of this song to listen to. I wasn't taken by a few of these samples, they didn't sound like anything really worth hearing. The story obviously doesn't end there though, a week or so later I decided to try again, I located a couple of the songs online and downloaded them. 'Lost', 'I Don't Know What's Going On', 'Never' and 'alt.End'. I gave them all a brief listen but to no avail, I thought my friend was right, the new album was pitiful. However, I accidentally left one song on loop - 'I Don't Know What ...
Product Information for "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - Cure (The)" »
Product details
Title
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Performer
Cure (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Gothic
Release Date
28/02/2000
Recomended Retail Price
13.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1987
Label / Distributor
Fiction / Universal Music
Engineer
Dave Allen
Producer
Dave M. Allen; Robert Smith
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
42283213029
Catalogue Number
8321302
SPAR code
ADD
Additional notes
Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD. The Cure: Robert Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Porl Thompson (guitar, saxophone, keyboards); Lawrence Tolhurst (keyboards); Simon Gallup (bass); Boris Williams (drums, percussion). This hefty double album often sounds more like a compilation than a coherent whole, with musical ideas bouncing frantically back and forth. Nevertheless, in typical Cure style, KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME successfully combines catchy pop with bitter despair. Through 17 immensely sensual songs, Robert Smith is at his most poetic ("strange as angels, dancing in the deepest ocean, twisting in the water, you're just like a dream") and vitriolic ("get your fucking voice out of my head...I never wanted any of this, I wish you were dead"). The joyous pop of "Just Like Heaven" and "The Perfect Girl" still delights, and the frisson provided by "Shiver And Shake" reinforces the physical nature of this collection.
Album Reviews
Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Glossy, even sexy, here the excesses of that decade finally caught up with Smith, which he twisted into stunning pop..." CMJ (1/5/04, p.20) - Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1987"
Titles on disc 1
1.
Kiss
2.
Catch
3.
Torture
4.
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
5.
Why Can't I Be You
6.
How Beautiful You Are...
7.
Snakepit
8.
Just Like Heaven
9.
Hot Hot Hot
10.
All I Want
11.
One More Time
12.
Like Cockatoos
13.
Icing Sugar Smooth
14.
Perfect Girl
15.
Thousand Hours
16.
Shiver And Shake
17.
Fight
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