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Track Listing
KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME:
1. Kiss, The
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, The
8. Just Like Heaven
9. All I Want
10. Hot Hot Hot!!!
11. One More Time
12. Like Cockatoos
13. Icing Sugar
14. Perfect Girl, The
15. Thousand Hours, A
16. Shiver and Shake
17. Fight
Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD.
The Cure: Robert Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Porl Thompson (guitar, saxophone, keyboards); Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards); Simon Gallup (bass guitar); Boris Williams (drums).
Recording information: 1987.
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.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #3 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1987
CMJ (01/05/2004)
Smith pens the prettiest pop, unleashes seven minutes of sitar-driven stonerdom, uses accordions to punctuate Parisian travelogues, plays with psychedelic Hendrixian guitar textures and -- as always -- lets bassist Simon Gallup have all the best riffs and melodies.
[With] the heartfelt 'Just Like Heaven,' one of the classic alt-rock singles of the 1980s.
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...
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