Pornography

While The Cure conjure an impressive sound thats bleak, heavy, and even dreadful, I can’t bring myself to enjoy it much more than admiring it from afar. I often hate reading reviews on here about albums I like which boil down to “yeah this just isn’t my cup of tea”. But this just isn’t my cup of tea. I can hear the goodness, I have a hard time getting into it 2/5

2/5

Not for me. Distorted and depressing, I recognized the quality but could not make myself enjoy it.

Hmm not a fan. low larynx but not classical or theatrical. Too casual although it is on purpose. I’d prefer something more in tune.

not that ive listened to a ton of The Cure, but after this album i can fairly say im a fan of their more poppy music. this album was a sad one for sure, and it wasn't really resonating with me

I guess every other day of the week I'm depressed.

Oh no, I had no clue how much I really didn't care for Robert Smith's vocals. Or at the very least, how much I don't care for them here. I think there are some songs by The Cure out there that I do like, but they are inarguably poppier than this. I don't want to take any importance away from this albums themes, but as a listening experience I just can't get on board. The instrumentals are fine, I love the kicking drums, the sparse but foreboding strings, and the occasional organ. But every time Robert Smith opens his mouth here I start to wince. Even without the heavily leaned on reverb, his range is not very large, and it's a droning style that just doesn't ever sit with me. Lyrically, it's dense and wandering in a style that is not dissimilar from a lot of alt rock I've listened to. It's somebody's bag, but not mine. Highlight: Cold (Or at least the first minute of it) Lowlight: Siamese Twins

Слишком мрачный

почти никакие песни не понравились

i like the cure but didn’t really like this

This was awful. His voice does not go with this type of music. I actually like the dark vibe the rest of the band are creating but his vocals, as if someone just wandered off the street and started waiiling to themselves

Incredibly ANNOYING music. This is bad in inexplicable levels.

Bueno, creo que The Cure no me gusta mucho

1. biiiien long, sympa sans + 2. sympa mais tjrs pas exceptionnel 3. mieux!! bons drums, bonne énergie 4. retour sur un cure guitare, sympa mid 5. ok 6. meilleur son jusqu’à la 7. ok 8. pas trop d’intérêt Sur l’ensemble pas trop fan, ça se ressemble bcp, sans vrais moments de haut appart le 6. qu’est cool. 2.5-/5

2/5

I had heard of the Cure, but I hadn’t gone out of my way to listen to them. This album wasn’t for me, but it’s cool to expand your music knowledge.

Yeahhh, I don't think The Cure is for me. I don't really like Smith's vocal style. I have nothing against depressing nihilistic lyrics but I'm left wondering why the band is even here; this album would be better served with just Smith doing spoken word poetry backed by weird ambient synth noises. There's just no variance to the songs either. It's a very monotone noisy album with a one track mind about suffering through life. I guess that's the point and helps drive the narrative home, but jeez. Its hard to imagine the band getting more "poppy" and mainstream after this album. Must be terrible. Standout tracks are "One Hundred Years" and "The Hanging Garden" - easy to see why this was the only single off the album, the bassline actually kicks pretty hard in this one. It's a weird self-portrait of depression with a couple redeeming qualities, so it's a 2/5 for me, but wouldn't listen again.

A kind of classic rock vibe that is dark and unpleasant. Vocals leave me wanting. The instrumentals were pretty cool but several songs had intense dissonance that I found pretty unpleasant.

I just don't like the cure-type music that much..

This is a band I don't get the hype about. They aren't awful but it is so electronic and distorted I can't really hear what they are saying. Its got its own sound and is a little different but I don't really enjoy it. Sorry Cure, you are just meh to me.

It's not terrible, but none of the songs made much of an impression on me.

Too messy, loose and vague and didn't really stick.

Overlong despite the 44 minute album length. Cool to see its influence on other bands but far from my preference.

Beetje dramatische muziek allemaal. Wel kort album, had ook beetje weinig tijd dus niet super uitgebreid geluisterd.

The goth thing doesn't really speak to me, it just feels boring and samey. Maybe I'm not depressed enough

hate the cure. i liked the very end of this because it doesnt sound like the cure

Intresdsante Musik, gefaäält mir nicht so ganz den die Stimme ist nicht meines

The Cure is not for me and this album proved it!

I was so bored 😴

The Cure for insomnia, maybe! this one is a Robert Smiss! the last time i consumed Pornography this bad i called for a wellness check on the performers! at least when they named the first two tracks One Hundred Years and A Short Term Effect they accurately described how long it'd feel and how long it'd stick in my brain, respectively!

mid

The hanging garden is my pick of the album

Good

I think I’m too happy and whimsical to enjoy this album. I’ll try again when I’m spiraling

I could get into The Cure if it weren’t for his voice. It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me. I just hate it. The music is cool… they vary their sound a bit and they’re good musicians. Just that voice.

I didn't like this at all. It was kind of like one ling, poorly recorded song that played for 40 minutes or so.

Hey man. I gave Disintegration a 5 and would have given it a 6 if the scale I went that high. I also would give their newest album Songs of a Lost World 5 if it were on here. This album kinda sucks, assuming you're not pretty depressed. I like other early Cure but not this. Monotonous and just uninteresting. I suppose that opens me to accusations of not being a real Cure fan, but I can handle it. I've handled worse.

Matige plaat, sowieso weinig met The Cure en deze helpt daar absoluut niet bij.

*long, weary sigh*

Not their best effort

у готического рока от кьюр не было шансов зайти) но хотя бы не так ужасно как я ожидала! не одна звезда!

A plodding dark new wave rock sound. Some of it sticks with me but mostly feels too dark and slow, you have to be in the right mindset for it. Not something I would typically find myself saying but I think I prefer their pop sound more. There’s hints of that sound here and there throughout the album, and it’s better for it.

Some good moments of ambience and angst, but the songs drag on with no development or interest.

Really meh album that wasn't to my liking. Songs felt dull and too long or dull and short. The album did get better towards the end. Favorite track was Cold.

This "music" does absolutely nothing for me. The drum beats are dull and uninteresting, generally just matching the rhythm of the bass "riff" - which rarely extends beyond about 2-3 notes. Yes, there's a lot of sound happening at once, I can understand what people mean when they talk about the layers/soundscape/atmosphere etc., it's just that it all sounds shit. You can add fuzz/blur to a picture of dogshit, but it's still a picture of dogshit. You can add a fruity fragrance to a bottle of bleach but I'm still not going to drink it, as much as this album might tempt me. The only thing vaguely musical going on in basically any track is the odd guitar part, but these are still pretty droll. The vocals are absolutely dire, they're somehow monotonously whiny. Literally the same through the whole album. I could somewhat understand the use of vocals like this for short segments or individual tracks, but surely they lose any impact when it's just the way he sings throughout? Oh and the last track (the title track) does the cringe trope of playing stuff in reverse to sound "creepy". Highlights: - "A Strange Day" - only really because it actually did something different briefly Not going to listen to any of it again, though I think some of it could work as the background to a game or film (without the shit vocals). Low 2.

Hmmmm jeetje normaal vind ik The Cure echt wel nice. Maar een heel album zijn stem aanhoren… ja sorry. Het zingen klinkt een beetje als zeuren, en de muziek is redelijk eentonig. Niet mijn favoriete album

2/5 One or two tracks had instrumentals that I found interesting, but overall there were too many elements that didn’t fit my tastes all that much.

I definitely prefer the smiths but it was in by no means a bad album, maybe just a little samey and mopey for my liking

Pas vraiment ce que j'aime. Festival du flanger.

Unsure what to rate this. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. Unsure if I liked it. Feel like being ungenerous. Soz! Songs added to playlist: - One Hundred Years - The Hanging Garden

da gits bessers.

A noisy nightmare of an album, and not in a good way. Very muddy and dark, with very little variation from track to track. Feels like just an amorphous blob of music. I did like some of the moments but this was not overall for me. 2/5

Many better Cure albums, in my opinion.

2/5

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Ouvi enquanto fazia outra coisa tmb, não prestei muita atenção e nem me chamou muito a atenção 😬

Man these songs are long and depressing

Few good tracks but overall too much of the same monotonous stuff

2.7 if i could

I enjoyed the last The Cure album. This one just drones and is very repetitive. At first I thought it was me cause I was driving. So I listened to it again at the house with headphones. It was better when I was concentrating on driving.

I expected to like it more and it could have just been the day but I've enjoyed other albums more.

Sonically this is adjacent to some music I enjoy. If The Figurehead or Strange Day were instrumental tracks I'd like them a lot more. The vocals are distracting and overpowering the the tracks. So much New Wave.

Much darker than Seventeen Seconds. It is definitely goth rock, but I have to say I think Sisters of Mercy did it better. To be honest it's just kind of maudlin and very one-note. Almost monotone. Did not really like it.

This works when you're in that angsty, existential-dreading mood. If you're not, then not so much. I like this (in fact, I own it), but I really must (once again) point out the fallacy in the album selection. This list doesn't need BOTH 'Pornography' and 'Seventeen Seconds'. One or the other would be more than enough to get a taste of what The Cure was doing at this point in their careers. Instead, drop one of these and (if you simply MUST have another album by The Cure) replace it with 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' or 'Wish' (which are, frankly, better albums, anyway). This will give the listener exposure to both phases of the band rather than burdening them with two albums of dark miasma. Again, I do like this album, but I just don't think it's readily accessible nor worthy of the "must hear" label. My personal preference would be to give it a 3 or 4 (depending on how well it's resonating with my mood at the time), but I'm going to go with the protest vote today.

I didn’t find this bad. It’s just not for me.

It was whatever

Conveniently, already in my search history

Nice

De har ju verkligen en egen stil vilket de ska ha, men 80-tals produktionen blir tröttsam efter ett tag, texterna är inte bra och instrumentationen känns väldigt same-same. Har också insett att jag inte gillar Smith som sångare alls.

I like other The Cure albums better.

No lo sé, the cure sonando a the cure todo en tono the cure. Sentí que no pasábamos de track

It's ok not my favorite

didn't finish. apologies. all albums getting very samey

Another one that I’m familiar with the artist but haven’t sat down to process this full album. It’s also another short one. Kind of shocked this is The Cure album chosen for this list, I would’ve thought maybe Disintegration would be the more popular choice but that may be me being biased. Started off thinking my heart just wasn’t really in this. The songs kind of dragged to me which makes me kinda sad cause I do love The Cure, maybe if I revisit it’ll grow on me. The lyricism was beautiful though, there’s just so many lyrics. Only stand out tracks to me were The Hanging Garden and A Strange Day. I like the title track but that intro is sooo long. This lead me into listening to The Head On The Door and I actually really liked that one, so silver lining.

No thank you

Broody

I think this would've been a lot more enjoyable for me at a different time of my life, but today, it just felt monotonous. Very much a mood piece to sit in, when you're in the mood to sit in it.

no, ts aint even alt rock its a disgrace

This album didn’t really speak to me. I would like to listen to more of The Cure as I’m not familiar with the discography, but this wasn’t it.

This wasn't the first time I've been disappointed in Pornagraphy. In seriousness though, this was an album absolute chock full of self-loathing, and while I struggled to understand a lot of the lyrics, it had unmistakable tones of suicide in my opinion. It ended up sounding a lot less like an album, and more like someone tragically venting through music. It was almost sad to hear when actually paying attention. As someone who loves listening to angst-y sad emo rock when sad, I can understand the catharsis though. The songs however melded together with their very similar sounds for me, differentiating only through their differently sad lyrics. While I enjoy the cathartic scream your feelings out process, and the first song sounded pretty good. I never got anything else from the album, and none of the individual songs really stand out to me. I'm sure if I looked up the lyrics to the songs and delved deeper, there could be a lot here lyrically. But as a first pass (and there won't be another pass from me), I just didn't get the connection I want from my angst-y rock. 2/5

A little too dark and dreary for me. I am a little familiar with The Cure's hit songs and there wasn't much on this album that had that level of playing. It's just not for me. 2.5/5 Probably won't listen again

Not a fan of this. Felt rather bleak.

A sound solidly stuck in the 80s - tinny drums, grating affected vocals, cheesy synths bathed lavishly in reverb.

Oof, feels like the 1001st entry. Couldn't tell when it changed songs other than the titled album and wow was the whole thing underwhelming.

I kinda like The Cure, but this was not my cup of tea. I don't see myself returning to this one.

So goth. Like a murky wall of sound

every time i would get into a riff the singers stupid voice would ruin it. lowkey rlly didn’t like it. i looked on this is the cure spotify radio and it looks like none of the songs on this album are popular. i liked figurehead mostly because the pain in the riffs. i’ll be saving that for a cry later. other than that singer’s voice is annoying.

No lo escuche

Definitely one of their darker albums at least for me. Or very tortured sounding. None of it is bad but it doesn't have anything that a different record I think does better like disintegration or kiss me kiss me kiss me

Not really my style

Lots of hypnotic instrumentals on this project which meshes well with the title. This reminds me of an angrier version of 'Unknown Pleasures' by Joy Division. Favorite Track: Cold Least Favorite Track: A Short Term Effect

2.50

Don't like dark cure

Sad slop

Well, I guess I got a chance to re-confirm that I don't really love the Cure.

Não me identifico com a estética sonora da banda nem muito menos com o vocal que remete à prostração/ desistência/ desânimo/ depressão, de Smith. Um disco "baseado em padrões repetidos de baixo e bateria" que não acontece, não progride.

Love them at their best but their albums are a bit slow and emo for me..

Very boring album, Very repetative Sounds like its trying to be edgy Very mid album 2.5

Hardly shop worn, but hardly entertaining, either. About the time I started liking a bit, there'd be a bunch of cacophany and dissonance.

Dark, yet delightfully whiny. Depressed, but also self-loathing.

Erm, guys. I think I’m gonna like this one (Tamir Omari sound effects). I didn’t. Awful! Sorry. It was all too long and too droning and needlessly transgressive.

Admittedly, there should be a Cure album in here, and I am not qualified to pick the appropriate turd. It's influential, depressing as hell, and offers just the tiniest spark of originality to the new wave/post-punk onslaught from the 80's. Inspiration 3? Hits 2. Quality 2. Intangibles 2. This sucks 1.

Very gloomy and dark. There isn't much movement or variety to this album, it seems. Similarly distorted songs back to back and very simple backing. There isn't much substance to it, for me, but it does effectively convey a certain darkness. Favorite track (although I didn't really enjoy any of them): Cold 3/10, 2/5

Could be brut

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I didn't much like the vocals and found the drums too excited and loud. Over all a fair album.

Not for me

Again underwhelmed. Give me poppier Cure for sure.

kinda drags sorry robert smith

Nor here or there. I didn't hate listening to it but at the same time there was nothing for me to get excited about.

The whole album sounds identical. Of course they would pick the least popular Cure album. Ugh.

Nothing really thrilled me on the album Best for me was The Figurehead.

Not my favorite from The Cure but I still liked it.

Not my thing.

Mag die Stimme nicht

Sounded like Halloween music. Could not even finish the whole album. I’m sorry

Not for me. I found the lead singers voice to be constantly distorted with an echo oraybe reverb affect which comes across as like listening to a mouse or a screaming cat.

I've always kind of wished I could have gotten into the Cure but after multiple attempts I am starting to see where Morrissey was coming from: (from Google) Morrissey made famously harsh comments about The Cure, calling their frontman Robert Smith a "whingebag" and claiming the band "adds a new dimension to the word 'crap'"

The music is great. Immediately upon starting the first song One Hundred Years I was drawn in and interested in what the album had to offer. Then, the excitement just faded away. I just don't think that, on the day I listened to it, I was super down for all the nihilism and depressing lyrics. Goth rock is a genre I'm not too into either solely based on lack of exposure to it. It was alright, I just think I would've liked it perhaps a bit more on a different day. I may revisit this down the line & update my rating but today it is a 2.

Noise. Just a shit ton of noise. I honestly didn't know what to make of this album. I know I didn't really enjoy it for the most part, but I don't even think I "get" it. Like I can dislike something and still "get" it. But I neither like this nor "get" it. For one, the super whiny Brit Pop voice shows up again and I simply cannot stand that sound (look at "One Hundred Years" or "A Short Term Effect" for early examples of what I mean). I have a hard time imagining a record executive or a producer hearing that and thinking "Yup, that sounds great!" It makes me want to cover my ears and never uncover them. I will give it this - this is far from the pop rock sound I know they eventually adopted as the 80's went on. This is original, uncompromising, and at least feels like an honest and genuine attempt at something different, something bold. But it really just wasn't for me. Like, at all. It didn't cure my distaste for this era of British rock. Two stars. Standout Track: The Hanging Garden

I don’t understand this music

Another album by The Cure in the same week? Honestly not looking forward to this. I was fairly unimpressed with Disintegration. And this album might have a touch more energy to it, but it sounds just as repetitive and one note. I literally can’t tell when one track ends and another starts. I’ve never gone through a gloomy goth phase so maybe that’s the issue for me. Overall this album sounds really whiney and it got on my nerves. 2/5

I'm a fan of later The Cure for sure, but I have never listened to this album. Wasn't my favorite.

Textural guitar work is pretty interesting. Sad-sack vocals drive me up the wall. Still can't get into The Cure. 2 stars.

Generally, not the biggest fan of The Cure; this didn’t really do much to persuade me.

It's just not for me by any measure.

Couldn’t get into this. Just seems slightly discordant

I would loved it if I was still a teenager

Vocals suck. Not for me.

I should like it but I don't. Too much of a dirge. You couldn't even put it on as background music as it is too depressing.

not a fan of "atmospheric" music

Sad but good

Yhtä ja samaa kappaletta läpi koko albumin. ⭐️⭐️

Decent enough. I don't recall spending much time on this record and have probably focused more on their later 80s and 90s work. Still that signature sound. High 2s.

Ehh

Would not buy.

Not really into this type of music but mad respect

Langweilig

Oh man, The Cure never disappoint! I went in expecting boring goth crap, and they delivered!! Nice.

Not for me, though I didn't hate it like I assumed. 80's alt/pop/rock stuff aint for me.

When you hear 80s Cure, you know its 80s Cure.

Homeopathic cure doesn't do shit

Such a downer. Did not enjoy.

Loads of echoey chorus guitar effect slathered over virtually every track. Bit bloated.

A bit too ominous for me. Some songs were okay and others I wasn't a big fan of.

I felt that this was sort of departure from what they usually do. I'm not the biggest Cure fan, but I do like some of their songs. This one seemed to not have the same atmospheric feel as some of their other stuff

For a Cure album, I found the first few tracks shockingly inoffensive. Then expectations were restored and it turned into a slog. The "gothic rock" stuff was fine and had some fun bass guitar; the "slow sad shit" was slow sad shit. I love plenty of sad music, and I know The Cure is often cited as influential for some of the emo music I love, but this ain't it. 1.9

The Cure for what? This was miserable. I liked the drums on occasion. Scrapes a 2.

okay perfect soundtrack for a vampire the masquerade game is what i walked away with. confirmed for me that goth music is not my vein! strikes me as no surprise that the faster paced songs were the ones i enjoyed. I dislike the kind of "cloud" of noise that makes up the majority of this album. liked: the hanging garden

Bland and uninteresting sound from The Cure

This is so background music, I had to hear some songs again because they kept fading into the background. And wtf was the title track, that made no sense. Best song: The Hanging Garden

I did not like this

Maybe there’s a time and place I’d enjoy this album but it’s not right now.

I am sure that this album is somehow important in the evolution of The Cure, and likely had an impact on the music of the time, but it's not a great album to listen to. There's not a single song on this album that is in their top 10 best songs. Pitchfork: 8.4 Rolling Stone: n/a Best Songs

Disappointing

Listened to the deluxe version. Didn't care for the sound, especially vocals. Because I didn't care about the vocals I didn't pay attention to the lyrics. I recognize the significance of this album. Maybe I would have been into it in the 80s.

Not my thing

OK, I get it. He's hyper-depressed and all in his head. The album cover tells the story, as concerned friends look through the haze at him as he fades from existence. Very heavy and challenging. Very different from their pop tunes like Friday I'm in Love or Like Heaven. I guess 'The Cure' was to put all of this melancholy in a record, freeing him to pursue joy on the other side. Thematically (not musically), it reminds me of The Wall, except that that tells a story, whereas this is just a funereal slog, start to finish.

A little too whiney for me.

Not for me but it wasn’t horrible.

"Pornography" is a foundational goth album, yes; but it's just too depressing.

No standouts Downer of an album

Dark brooding, no idea if good or sucks. Might need to relisten.

Can definitely tell there's something to these lyrics. Superficially, pondering our own mortality and some degree of nihilism comes through - but I can't properly appreciate the message of this album through 1.5 listens. The sound is not for me, not much at all. Maybe on the fifth listen I'd love this album, but for now I think I kind of have to leave it at a 2. Would be a 2.5 if I could. Title track isn't necessarily my favorite, but was certainly one that stood out on an album I couldn't seem to pay attention to for more than a few minutes.

not my jam,

Can’t say I was thrilled to get another Cure album, but let’s see how we go… Urrggghhh. Just be quiet please and turn down your intensity and increase your joy. Struggling with this one and the SMACKING intensity just makes it more unbearable. I don’t know if it’s just my mood, but this is really grating on me. Unskilled, droney, basic and so lacking. Couldn’t wait for it to end.

This is not my first try to appreciate The Cure. I know they are often cited as hugely influential and a big piece in the evolution of modern / rock music. However they just don't do it for me. I felt like this album was just dreary, a bit whiny and boring. I know that's not a hot take as dreary is probably exactly what they are going for.. I just feel like if I criticised them any more it would come of as bullying the emo kid... Truth is I like all sorts of "emo" music, the cure just present the genre in a way that almost gets on my nerves a bit. I will still give them the respect they deserve but feel confident I won't be finding any sort of epiphany of appreciation for their music anytime soon.

Disappointing. One or two good tracks.

Just didn't do much

2 Maybe I wasn't in the right place listening to this but it was very average and every song sounded the same

Monotonous.

I thought the cure had chill music, this was weird demonic stuff

Like classic rock, but not really anything.

Not really for me.

Always the overrated band

Was initally really excited for a The Cure record, but kind of letdown due to the repetitiveness. Guess Disintegration would rather be my cup of tea.

The second of three Cure albums on this list. Two too many if you ask me.

Just did nothing for me.

Batman at Glastonbury or when your in THAT mood something to cry over

Never liked The Cure. Trying not to be prejudiced but this jangly mess is not helping.

Dit is een soort vage gothische rockopera? Heel duister album met een zanger die huilt over de gitaren en drums. Is het een lekker meezingalbum? Ik hoop het niet voor je, maar het luistert opzich best prima weg. Ik had eigenlijk niet door dat het album nog aan stond, is dat positief of juist heel erg negatief? Het is echt sadbois het album, en ik denk gewoon niet dat ik op het moment zo depri ben dat ik er goed naar kan luisteren. Ik kan er verder ook erg weinig over zeggen. Het is depri, het is The Cure, maar hun andere album was echt een stukje beter nog FAVO: The Hanging Garden, The Figurehead

“Rahhh maaaaa laaa baaa ta ta wahhh” Fuck the 80s man.

Not a fan

What an awful album. Not quite a 1, but 2 feels too high. I'll say 1.5 and round up.

Not my fav

meh

Honestly pretty forgettable. I like its sort of smoky allure and the instrumentation is often great but idk man. I can't really make out the vocals half the time and I just don't see myself revisiting it

Depressing as hell. Wasn't really that into it.

It wasn’t like completely terrible or anything but I just did not vibe with it at all.

It's okay, not what expected from Cure. Never listened them before. I really like the cover art. Maybe I don't like the singing that much. Yeah, I don't think I would listen to this that often haha And also, I'm on the last song and I have the feeling I was just listening to one same song for 40 min, and now only that last one changed. Would love it if it was a bit more diverse.

I like Robert Smith’s voice on hits like Friday I’m in Love and Lovesong, but not on most of these tracks — seems whiny to me and gets old quick. We still have their album Disintegration to do. So that should be more to my liking.

Very rompiche quand même

Honestly, I am not feeling this at all. So many more tuneful and memorable cute songs. This feels like a malaise of their most reverberous and muted sounds. I respect the project for the sounds it defined, but the cure hit their stride later in their career.

I like newer Cure, but this album didn't do it for me

Not really for me. To slow and the singer isnt my favorite. Won't listen again.

Day 2. So boring

I've never quite understood The Cure, and this album really exemplifies the ways in which they confuse me. I listened to it, and while there were moments when I was humming along and enjoying the pleasant groove, most of the time I was just kinda unaffected by the whole thing. It was alright, I guess, but I just can't figure out how I'm supposed to react to this music. I see a lot of people saying the The Cure albums are their all-time favorites, and this one is on this list, so _someone_ must really love it, but I just can't figure out why anyone would be so interested in what I hear as perfectly mediocre sounds. The last track, Airlock: The Soundtrack, was just 13 minutes of infuriatingly distressing noises, and I absolutely hated it. It took all of my willpower not to just close the tab in rage. Two stars.

Not the biggest fan of cure anyway, couple of decent tracks, not an album I'll revisit

They say they've got the cure, but I don't have a disease

It's definitely The Cure. Not their best album by a longshot though.

I don’t HATE this but I don’t understand how it’s special. I would love to hear someone else sing to see if I liked it better

After the pleasure of hearing "Disintegration" on this project, I'm back to the Cure I know and don't like very much. Dude screaming rather than singing while the band wallows in the distance.

I like the Cure but this album didn't deliver.

Reminds of Joy Division a bit. Not a huge fan of Joy Division.

Pretty underwhelming all the songs feel the same to me without any standout songs.

2.5

Like having your head held under water by a wailing, depressive.

So, I love 80s alt, but this is just a little too much. When Robert Smith is angsty it comes off to me as whiny and too high-pitched. One song wouldn’t be bad but a whole album of it was too much. I really love the drums. I also really liked one track-A Strange Day. I’ll still listen to The Cure‘s later stuff.

They're angry about something, hard to tell from the lyrics what it is. Really good bass lines and some nice guitar, but the Oh so spooky lyrics are distracting

I'd already completely forgotten about this album by this morning. There was nothing for me here.

This is a “listen more than once” kind of album. I’m wasn’t a huge fan on first listen. But for some reason I want to listen to it again? I like the moodiness of it, but I disliked the repetitiveness. Maybe it’s just the vibe I enjoyed but overall the songs were meh.

Not their best. Not very accessible songs here. No radio hits. Self obsessed

I like the Cure but this album was boring unfortunately

Not their best album

I can’t. I’m sorry. Don’t hate me.

The birth of emo? I’ll be honest. The cure are not my favorite. His pleading / whining / singing is something I can take in doses but not for a full album. I know people love this band. I am not one of those people

Found myself wanting this to end long before it did. Sad boy music

The first 10 seconds got my hope up, but then he started singing.

Just finished this and already forgotten it

Never been a big fan of The Cure and still not.

Final Cure album. I'm nearly a fifth of the way through this list, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I'm reaching the end of the line for many multi-album inductees. Still, it's strange. I thought I would have more time to know of these artists before bidding them farewell. Anyways, the album. It's more of The Cure. Very gloomy and macabre, with some artistic choices that I respect. The signature "heavy" production is back in full swing and more engrossing than ever. The synth is quite good - especially on Cold. I don't remember such a sound being prominent on the previous albums, so it does a good job of distinguishing Pornography from the rest of their discography. It's also very well-suited to the dark atmosphere of the album, as are the synths on Joy Division's Closer. The garbled, distorted guitars and occasional reverb are other aspects that I like, especially with regards to the title track. My biggest gripe with this album has been my biggest gripe with all of The Cure's albums - the vocals. They're tolerable when they're on the more straight-laced, focused songs like One Hundred Years, though the songs where his vocals are more "atmospheric" and strained do not work for me, like on The Figurehead and A Strange Day. I admit that Robert Smith's vocal stylings weren't as over-exuberant and intolerable on this album as I remembered them being on Disintegration. Maybe he's growing on me. Another aspect of this album which I disliked was the extreme length of the songs. These songs are all competent and have some good ideas, but they just fail to hold my attention due to being much longer than they needed to be. It's a sombre feeling to bid farewell to the first artist I listened to through this list (it's not really, but go along with it, mmkay?) Disintegration was the first album in my journey of 1089. I've honestly thought of revisiting it sometime in the future as I do remember there being aspects of the album which I liked. In any such case, I will give this album a proper sendoff by paraphrasing from the book. "best and darkest of all the early Cure records". I guess I can agree - I greatly preferred this album to Seventeen seconds. "perfect soundtrack for any aspiring goth". I know the vocalist of this band hates the comparison of The Cure to the goth subculture, so up yours, Robert Smith. "The Hanging Garden" was the only successful single of the album. I can't fault the inclusion of this album if it really is the best of their early discography, though I was expecting to be sold on it more with how critically acclaimed the band is.

En lidt mørk omgang rock, lidt punket

I can understand the appeal of this album and I enjoy it more than ones when the Cure moved towards a more new wave sound. That said I did not enjoy it on its own and not based against the bands later albums.

Some parts felt like very easy listening.

Pa volim tu i tamo poslušati koju pjesmu i ima dobrih i tu, ali cijeli album mi je malo too much jer imaju specifičan sound i vokal. Zbog toga 2/5, 4/10

Uff this is depressing for a Friday (and "Friday im in love" is not included here...) 2/5

This album is a tight musical metaphor for profound, clinical depression. Its flattened affect lacks dynamic range. Each track consists primarily of Robert Smith's tuneless, depairing bellow, over a confused swirl of guitars and synths, backed by a seemingly disaffected rhythm section who sound like they were mic'd from the wrong end of a disused warehouse. The album only finally gets interesting on the title track; its last six minutes only serving to accentuate the indistinguishable mire of the previous 37. I'm sure this album must be a soothing listen if you're depressed. Unfortunately, I was enjoying life today, so it didn't do much for me.

I found it boring honestly. Expected a lot more.

idk wasn’t really my vibe at the moment. to depressing

This album isn’t sad or depressing or dark, it’s just a grown British man whining the word “died” a bunch

The drums are all sounding the same which makes me think the songs sound the same.

One Hundred Years isn't bad; reminds me of The Killers. The rest is all quite samey and overdramatic, except for The Figurehead which is pretty good.

Yeah, this is a boring as I remember it. I could never get into The Cure; never liked their sound. But I feel like I'm betraying my generation.

Album 763 of 1089 The Cure - Pornography (1982) Rating : 2.5 / 5 An intense bleakness. Kind of depressing with a nightmarish, claustrophobic feeling. An overwhelming gloom.

Didn’t finish it. Got a little annoying for my tastes. I can appreciate what they’re doing but it just doesn’t appeal to me

I like Robert Smith, but hard for me to stomach a full album of him.

Songs all sound the same

Tough one to get through. Not a happy listen, and although there were some musical high notes (emphasis on some), this wasn’t a very enjoyable listen for me at all. Pretty much waited for the end, which is also what The Cure sounded like they were doing during this album.

The guitar is phenomenal but I only found myself liking 3 of the 8 songs. I normally like The Cure but I'd say this album fell sorta short for me

Mid

This is not close to my favorite Cure album. It maybe I just want in the mood today, I dunno.

Definitely my least favorite of their albums on here. I feel like the overall sound was droned out and not very enjoyable.

oof i expected to like this as a pornography enjoyer, but too weird (and not in an interesting way) for me

An almost 45 minute, mostly empty and meaningless, grind that ended end up way less satisfying than initially anticipated. Might be the most appropriately titled album ever.

Eh

Not all experiments yield great immediate results. I didn’t like really anything on here although I believe it led to better music. I can be enamored by risks taking like PILs Flowers of Romance but this is not music I need to hear again.

Lots of mewling and moaning over echoing soundscapes. Fairly unique, but not very impressive.

I only know the singles so it was interesting to hear properly gloomy Cure stuff. I kind of liked it but it all seemed to merge into one song. I imagine it probably benefits from relistens, but it's a 2 for now

This was decent. I want to like The Cure more than I do, but I don't think I'm super in to Robert Smith's voice. There are some cool moments in the songs. I found myself enjoying A Strange Day and Pornography a fair amount.

2.5....rounding down because it seemed more depressing than Disintegration

No.

Well played, but very repetitive. The vocal is not good.

2 slow

Not my jam. I like maybe two songs by The Cure. Neither were on this album...

While I am a big fan of lots of The Cure’s music, this album didn’t do it for me.

Тоска зеленая

Man, I didn't like this at all. A big surprise tbh. 2/5

Not super familiar with The Cure, save a couple of their hits, which I do quite like. I certainly knew that they were post-punk (which I generally love) and gothic, so I was looking forward to this. Unfortunately, I didn't particularly enjoy this. The album feels emotionally one-note throughout. The opening track, "One Hundred Years", I actually found to be quite annoying. I was really kind of expecting something more like Joy Division. Something catchy, even if discordant. It's all atmosphere here, but the atmosphere puts me to sleep. It isn't completely awful, though. I love the driving bass on "A Short Term Effect". And those ridiculous horror-movie synths actually gives "Cold" this great vibe. Fav tracks: A Short Term Effect, The Hanging Garden, Cold

Sometimes the Cure really does it for me, sometimes not so much. This was very interesting if not a bit monotonous. This was a very passive listen for me and not much else.

Nothing like a Cure album to turn a sunny day grey.

2 stars. I liked the synths on most songs but the singing was really grating after the second song.

I appreciate The Cure in the right mood but this album was not for me.

I like the cure though I must admit this record struck me as a bit of a downer today.

Sounded like they were still trying to figure out what they wanted to be.

Don't know if I like this phase of the cure, too emo and aggravating on a Friday. 2*

I don't like his voice

Er svært skuffet. Virkelig langsomt, røvsygt og whiny. Man er næsten fristet til at give bundkarakter, men den der sprøde metalliske guitarlyd post-punk redder den fra bunden, men også kun lige præcis. Så snart Robert Smith ikke synger er det næsten fedt nok

I wonder if the word "cure" in The Cure a noun or a verb? That's the most inspiring thought I had listening to this dark wave noise. There are some The Cure songs I like, they just aren't found within this brooding Halloween soundtrack.

Ei itseä varten tämäkään albumi, sen saundi.

Never really enjoyed The Cure. To dreary for me. There are some fantastic singles on their greatest hits album but not this one

I was excited to see a Cure album pop up as the album for today but that excitement was short lived. This album was a bit of a downer. It is clear that there was a lot going on behind the scenes that subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, left a dark stamp on the tracks. A bit too dark for my tastes.

Just not a band/style of music that I enjoy.

The music feels suffocating, like a heavy fog. It lingers, cold and unrelenting. There’s a darkness, but it doesn’t unfold like Nick Cave’s work—it just sits there. It’s relentless but not always compelling. There’s something missing, maybe hope, maybe a spark?

As much as I enjoyed the last couple Cure albums, this one was the most drab and dull. It might be more emo than the other ones (Disintegration, Seventeen Seconds), but not in a way I really enjoyed. No overly weird songs either, like Lullaby. Every song is also 45-75 seconds too long. If I'm picking a favorite song, it's going to be Siamese Twins.

More like ‘Snorenography’. It starts off quite menacing and nicely evil sounding but that song and every one after it just turns out to be super repetitive, droning and tedious. Not a whole lot of, or rather, any melodies to be found here and Robert Smith yelp singing is way more annoying that it usually is. Some cool wiry guitar lines that are basically copied and pasted from Joy Division Closer.

Sounded like they were still trying to figure out what they wanted to be.

Never heard the entire album before. Not much of a Cure fan anyway, but this doesn't resonate with me.

I love the Cure but I just can't jive with their darker, mopey stuff. I like them here, but I appreciated the band more as they evolved into a more poppy sound (sorry). So for skill, 4 but a 2.5 for sound. When we get to Head on the Door I'm all in!

Really nothing remarkable for me. 1,5

Nope. Dark, monotonous, a tedious listen.....but not terrrrrrrrible, in an odd way.

Found this harder going than I expected. It's very Joy Division-y but with a, let's say, more distinct singer. Very echo-y. Lots of icy atmosphere. I liked the songs with the sort of tribal drums, especially Hanging Garden but overall I think I prefer the happy, upbeat The Cure of Love Cats and Friday I'm In Love...

boring ... drums play the same rhythm through each song (although different for each), could be a drum machine. Voice characterless and instrumentation boring. Nothing to bring me back here.

I used to hate the cure. I referred to them, childishly, as the Disease. Suddenly, I began to really enjoy their music. My best friend in high school in college was a fan and I began to like them as a result. All these years later, and I have to think that they’re kind of in the middle for me. This album is definitely not my favorite. I’d love to give them at least three, but I just can’t do it.

Alright last song a bit revolution 9

I'm no a fan of music like this. Not a lot going on here it's just a bunch of reverb to me. Lots of TENSION but the output is very sad.

To dark and gloomy for me.

I did find it a little samey. Got distracted and couldn't really tell I had heard most of the album. Didn't really keep me interested

I'm disappointed, but I suspect I might need to revisit this one eventually. I feel as if I missed a lot of the nuance.

🎧2 stars might be a bit harsh for this, but it’s about as dreary and dark as they come so you really gotta be in the right mood to vibe with it. Favorite track: A Strange Day

Great band but so dark and depressing....all the time. And I always hated Robert Smith's voice. Sounds like screaming from a distance in a tunnel. Not a fan.

Might get better on a relisten

Who doesn’t like the cure? Lol. Idk if I was THIS into them.

2.5 ok samey sounding

bit of a droner

Wieder so ein 80er-Sound, den ich nicht mag.

da hatte ich mir dann doch mehr erwartet

I can't 100% remember how I've rated every other goth album my group's come across, but I think it's here I wanna firmly put this genre into the "not my thing" box. Like, lemme just stop saying "If I were goth...," y'know? 'Cuz this album in particular, this album was very "in one ear, out the other; can't recall nuffin'" for me. Normally I'd attribute that to undiagnosed ADHD, or a general "if I had more time to spin it," but here, with this kinda soundscape, it does nothing for me. And I'm not particularly clamoring to remember, either. There's not even any one element I can shrug at to justify bumping it an extra star. So, all the goths of the world out there, I like your fashion, and I like your girls with the big tiddy, but your music? I jus' gotta be honest with myself here and stop giving the benefit. Maybe down the line I'll find out that appeals more to my sensibilities, but for sure it's not here.

Some interesting sound scapes, but not an album for me. I can see why people would like this album, but I don’t think I will come back to it. Again, it did have some really cool sounds to it

mm weiss ich nich digga...

Depressing