Pornography

This isn't my favourite era of the cure. The industrial snare throughout made it all very samey

Not that into this...

The last song is just flailing around making annoying sounds like they think they're Pink Floyd or some shit. Overall I just didn't find it very interesting, and on top of that some songs were unpleasant to listen to. Like a 4 or a 5.

4

Viele Leute, die um mich herum The Cure gut fanden, kamen von diesem Album und der Disintegration. Vor Goths hatte ich so bisschen Angst immer, die waren mir zu fremd. Ähnlich mit der Musik, so richtig was mit dieser Düsternis (so fühlte sich das an) anfangen konnte ich nicht. Das liegt, wie hier so oft, am Sound, der mir immer noch nicht gefällt. Dieses Räumliche bei allen Instrumenten, der Hall auf der Stimme, lässt alles so weit weg und ungreifbar sein sein, ich will aber Nähe und Dichte. Deshalb bin ich eher bei den frühen Cure und den etwas späteren (wobei Disintegration schon okay ist), da ist der Sound eher meins. Aber auch das Songwriting finde ich hier nicht so gelungen.

Similar to Swamp Thing (The Chameleons). A bit boring to listen as a full album.

Not for me. Prefer my new wave to be a bit quicker pace.

"revered by Cureheads as a masterstroke", while noting that "normal listeners will probably find it impenetrable"

Sombrío, triste, aburrido.

mmmm meh

Not great. Was like a more boring version of The Cure that I'm aware of

I listened to half of this. So droning with the guitar riffs. No wonder i never got into the cure

Podría ser peor: más largo o con menos sentido. La verdad es que sé que tiene partes defendibles en cuanto a estructura y calidad sonora, sin embargo es demasiado pesado y negativo y me cuesta trabajo darle más crédito. Si bien, la historia detrás le da un poco de valor al pensar que un tipo al borde del suicidio (seguramente por millonésima vez) supo volcar todo eso en este disco, y que además es el mismo tipo que compusó y cantó cosas como 'Friday I'm In Love' o 'Mint Car'.

I like other tracks better from The Cure, like Friday I'm In Love, Close To Me and A Forest. Which I have added to my playlist.

Not to my taste.

A bit boring, not really my thing

puuuuuuuuuuke

seriously. what. is. the. criteria? -1

Good "The Cure" style and as such is so depressing...

Every song sounded the same and the ending was awful.

1/5 I hated it… the song had no interesting melodies and consisted of an annoying whiney depressed British man who clearly needs help. The drum patterns all sounded similar and didn’t change throughout the song. They also got very annoying to me. The chord progressions or bass lines were never all that interesting and there was always a moody synth. Seriously, what is the appeal of this album? One Hundred Years 2.25/5: song has an interesting dark mood, very repetitive I wish the song went somewhere else A Short Term Effect 2.5/5 : interesting eerie sounds again but pretty boring, the vocal delay effect was interesting. I find this singing annoying. The drums beat gets old. The tempo shift was cool. The Hanging Garden 1.5/5 : cool drum pattern and into, but god I hate the singing. Once again, the song doesn’t develop and gets very boring fast. Siamese Twins 0.5/5: incredibly boring bass line and drum. I didn’t think the album would get worse but it did. Depressing lyrics again, what a surprise. Ughhhhhhhh. The song ends with “is it always like this”. That’s how I feel about the album. Is it always repetitive, whiny, and boring like this in the album. The Figurehead 1/5 : more of the same boring shit. I genuinely don’t understand how people enjoy this music. I guess if you are depressed. The instrumental part where the guitars change up a bit is the only reason I like this song more than the previous A Strange Day 0.8/1: the synths to start the song were cool and the same boring familiar formula starts again, a repeating drum loop and some minor chords with a moody synth and an annoying whiney British dude talking about how he’s sad Cold 1.5/5: I liked the cello sounding instrument, finally something sounds a bit different. But this is really pissing me off this is considered a top 1000 album. None of these songs have any sort of development. Pornography 1.25/5 : glad to be done with the album almost… interesting buildup at the beginning of the song with all those voices in the background. But wait this is the whole song and it develops into nothing.

The Cure have produced some really good songs across their career, unfortunately none are present here. It all just sounds like pointless noise. The songs dont go anywhere Robert aSmith may as well just be crying in despair. The doom ridden synth of Cold at least offered something slightly different, but ultimately still doesn't develop and eventually Smith arrived to mumble sing his despair. Pornography sees Smith moved lower in the mix and makes drums the main player…..doesn’t help.

I gave the last Cure album 3/5 and that one had bonafide hits on it. This one, unsurprisingly, was not as good, particularly the last song which was shit. I like Robert Smith's voice quite a lot, but I'm just not a fan of the actual music most of the time. Post punk/new wave really hasn't been my thing so far during this 1001 album project... and this hasn't changed that. It's really a 1.5 but it's getting a: 1/5

I have an extensive The Cure playlist, but nome of the songs is from this album.

These guys should stick to making shallow happy music.

Distortions in instrumentals giving me a really bad headache

It feels like a hundred years...a hundred years...a hundred years...since I started the first track of this fucking album.

There are quite a few people who consider The Cure’s “Pornography” to be the dark masterpiece of the 1980s, a high point in the discography of a great band. And then there are those like me, who have always considered The Cure to be grossly overrated and who couldn’t relate at all to the band’s dark, depressive and sometimes morbid style, even going so far as to regard it as a caricature. Let’s put it this way: “Pornography” is not a Cure album (unlike, for example, its successor “Japanese Whispers” or the later “Disintegration”) that can convert a Cure sceptic like me. All the preconceptions I have about The Cure are confirmed here: a contrived gloomy atmosphere, whiny vocals, depressive lyrics, mindless post-punk with the same old chord progressions and unimaginative arrangements. The album really isn’t for me.

eh thikai

This whole journey and the third Cure album I had to listen to has taught me that they really suck.

Without ever listening to a cure album I’m not a fan. So with this being the first album of theirs for me to listen to fully I wasn’t expecting much. And this confirms why I’m not a fan. It’s just so dull and dreary. What I have learned is; if that’s all it takes to be a drummer in a band, sign me up

Disco muy monótono, estuve escuchando todo el disco y no se cuando acaba una canción y empieza otra, me aburrió mucho

all songs sound the same disappointing and boring

I liked the Hanging Garden a lot but otherwise really did not like this.

Not for me

Is repulsive, evil, and the main reason why there is an increase in misogyny, particularly in the digital age.

Not available

Medio rarete tbh. Ya no pegó tan hard como Disintegration. Corto y eso lo hizo bearable, pero no rescaté un solo tema, lo gótico definitivamente no es lo mio.

Garbage

I don’t dislike the cure but this dark depressive album genuinely sucks. So goth, like chill out. The production is also just incredibly boring. Last and titular track is completely unlistenable. Great to listen to when you wanna kill yourself.

When to listen: In a dark, dark depressive hole. It's a tough listen, no song stood out they just kinda mushed together, and it was simply not my style... so it's hard to rate yet here we are

Didn’t really like any of the songs.

Spooky Scary Halloween Punk!?!? :0 Oyf. This was bad. Never have I ever heard such basic, boring, pathetic drumming put on display for an entire album. Jesus Christ, I thought the glam rock bands were bad. Holy Uninspired. Also Smith's vocals sound like they were recorded while he was pushing out a monster on the pot. So guttural. I did not enjoy this. Fave track: - A Short Term Effect

Not my fav. Probably just not in the right mood for this.

Sounds really raw and real but not in a good way. It’s like the production was done in a garage with a.m single mic. The sound of the record is horrible. Every single song sounds similar. The drums are flat and are just a bouncing rhythm section. His voice is overwhelming.

My god the caterwauling. That album had no point.

Ig I don't like The Cure

Oh damn I really dislike this. Noise at best

Το Πιο καταθλιπτικο album που εχω ακουσει, μοιαζει σαν ποιηση πανω απο μελαγχολικη μουσικη. Πολυ βαρυ και δε νομιζω πως θα το ξανα ακουγα. Ωστοσο σε ορισμενα σημεια μου αρεσε το dark vibe του (αν και πολυ επαναλαμβανομενο)

Idk, really just nothing to say. There's some ok riffs but they never feel like they go anywhere. A Strange Day kind of does and is probably the best thing here, but even then it was just ok. I think there maybe was some similarities between Hanging Garden and Pornography? At one point I could hear the former in the latter. The title of the album made me think of this which I got more out of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7xhYyQr_NI

I truly thought I would like every single album but this one was definitely not my cup of tea. My “favorite” would probably be Cold, but even that’s stretching it. It was so psychologically weird and it makes sense that I didn’t like it, but I was still hoping for more from me. I was washing the dishes while I listened to this and it made me want to wash the dishes more than listen to this.

The cure is one of those bands i just don't get but everbody love. The singer has a horrible voice (with the exception of one song that was with cryustal castle), it might be why i disslike them.

Meh

It was dark and gross and I hated it.

The Cure-Pornography...I like The Cure, haven't often listened to an album of theirs-front to back. Great song writer, on this album I felt a lot of focus on a catchy song start, but 35-45 seconds in...every song seems to have the same feel, vibe and tone. Some clever starts and grooves, not a lot of overall substance for my taste/liking. Wanted to skip to next-around half way through most songs.

meh. so many better cure albums. I’m not sure why this one was picked. I did a little research on the side and apparently this one is considered a forerunner for Goth. But clearly there would’ve been better choices to include in this list for the cure.

Hanging garden was ok. Not the cure’s best album

The Cure have produced some good songs but none of them are on this album. Dreary.

Couldn't finish.

Not a Cure fan before listening to this. NOT a cure fan now!

Too emo, not interesting melodically or lyrically for me. Did not like.

So all the bands American and Millenial music critics associate with the Cure - I like. They played at the Indie Disco when I was a teen, and most of my friends like them. I like many of their singles. I have seen them live 6 times over 30 years apart. They seem nice people. And I've never liked one of their albums. This one sounds dense but lacks depth. Bob whitters away over the top semmingly without anything meaningful to say just evocative words. There are good moments in most songs - the opening riff, the squall of title track until Bob starts up for a starter. The scoreing on this site is a bit mean on records like this. 1 star covers everything between 0 stars and 2 stars. This is probably 1.5 to 1.75 star LP.

I never want to hear this album again

Chore to get though. Did not enjoy really any of these tracks.

Not my vibe at ALL

I'm an old fan of the Cure, but I guess I prefer it when they do proper pop songs such as Just like heaven. I have zero time for this in my life.

Har aldrig varit min grej. Intressant att höra det som sen blev MBV, Slowdive etc.

Trash

A title created to serve as a vehicle to attract publicity. Nothing else of note here unless you like whinging and self self self.

This album is terrible. Nobody needs to hear this one. The Cure are capable of good tunes, but clearly were in a mood on this one.

When I hear The Cure, I imagine a guy who has a super goth appearance - black nails, eye shadow, spiked leather, the whole nine - but instead of being dark and broody, he's really dramatic and whines about everything making sure everyone in the room can hear him. People avoid eye contact with him for fear that he'll regale them with his latest persecution at the hands of "the man". This is how I feel about The Cure. In typical Cure fashion, this album plods along with all the enthusiasm of a teen asked to clean the garage. If not for a moment of silence between tracks, I don't know if I could tell where one lamenting dirge ends and the next begins. Instead of releasing albums, this guy should have sought therapy.

I did not like this at all. Tough listen early in the am on the drive to work. My day was completely ruined after listening to this. Will never listen again

I love this list because it gives me the opportunity to discover bands/artists that I missed over the years. It's a revelation when I discover I like one of those albums. Unfortunately, too often I find that I was right to dismiss an artist/band/album without a listen. This is one of the latter. This is boring, depressing and just bad music.

The musical version of moaning at the smell of your own farts.

Spooky Halloween Sound Effects CD behind PSA about the dangers of eating meat.

I had a hard time enduring the whining and finishing this repetitive and boring album. I guess their 3 songs I know/like are from a later period. 3/10

Well shite. I knew before hand I don't care for cure. This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I didn't enjoy it particularly either. Smith's voice and style of singing is just too whiney for me!

Nope

Terrible album by an awful band.

Ah, day 365... My 1st anniversary... Lo! A third Cure album. How lucky am I? I genuinely don't know how I've made it this far. There has been some absolute crap over the last year... I won't lie, I'm wavering a bit if the next few weeks don't pick up I can see this project being dead by Halloween.

Fucking emo-rock. Sucked living through this crap in the 90s, being reminded of it 30 years later is painful. Music to suicide by.

Damn, I really hated that.

It's basically what I expect from The Cure. I understand the impact on the genre, but it's just not for me. The entire album felt like I could easily find anything to distract me that would be more interesting. 1/5 is harsh, but if there ever was going to be a 1 on this journey then it's surely something like this.

What did I just listen to? This was absolute trash.

i'm not even usually a cure hater but NO....every song was 40 mins long and took double that time off of my life

i cannot believe this exists.

Don't like The Cure

Bland 1980s studio pop trying to be edgy. Marginally better than the other Cure album I had to listen to but just as monotonous.

anyways...

niets voor mij

Monday was definitely blue when Robert Smith wrote this.

The music is adequately dark and sombre, making the mood all gothy and moody. And then Robert Smith comes in with his non-singing and completely ruins the mood. And through the whole thing there's no poppy relief to let you out of the mood. So it's all dark and gloomy, and now I want to forget I ever listened to this album. No. Don't listen to this album My Rating: 1/5

anguished, and dreary

nope

What a depressing slog. I’ll never listen to a single song from that album ever again

Not a fan of this album at all. Especially since there are better The Cure albums

Rating: 1.3 “So, should we build off our first album? I know we had some really good pop songs on there but we didn’t have a lot of commerical success.” “No, I think we’re gonna do some weirdo stuff now and it’s going to suck ass.”

1. hundred - 1.5 2. zhort - 1.5 3. garden - 1.5 4. tuuinz - 1.5 5. figure - 1.5 6. ztrange - 1.5 7. cold - 2 8. porno - 1

The second early Cure album in a week. I think I preferred Seventeen Seconds, but only just. A challenging listen, not for me

Early New Wave Cure kinda sucks. I'm thirty seconds in, maybe it gets better. It's not really getting better. These songs all sound very similar. This is more "The Cure" than Seventeen Seconds was, you can hear their sound more and more clearly as the album goes on. Kicking off the final song with some recorded distortion and old audio and backwards tape...who told bands this was a good creative direction to take over and over again?

Best Song: One Hundred Years Worst Song: Pornography Added: 1/8

I... Really do not get the Cure. Didn't especially like Disintegration and this was no different, but somehow it was more meandering and dull

Love the cure but this album is just terrible

Going off my brother Alex’s rating. Favorite Track: N/A

Hmm..

Why, oh why do you keep sending us ‘The Cure’ Mr 1001? Dante would have something to say about it, I’m certain of that - 3rd circle to date. How many more albums do these guys have?!

Make it stop. No more cure.

Thank god that’s over. A very difficult listen. Not a fan of the genre, but the music was just not interesting at all

Spooky vibes. Appropriate for _a_ mood, but not sure if/when I would be in that mood. I really juuuuust got through it.

Nope

Wow this was not for me. Just nothing to connect with anywhere, and I think I’m a pretty generous listener.

Dire

gross sounding

Dziwne. Nie podoba się mnie

This wasn't for me

Not my times, not my music. Apart from The Figurehead I failed to make any connection with this music.

couldnft finish it. Guitar pedals made every song like im tripping on acid

Ponderous shite

Well that was a bummer. I feel like I need a hug and some Lexapro.

Non fa per me

The Cure just isn’t for me. Before this whole thing started, I felt like I liked them more than this but these albums are a struggle to get through.

Depressing, even by The Cure standards. A bit on the noisy side as well. Thanks, but no thanks.

This music makes me anxious

Genuine hate for this one. I don't get it. I love my fair share of sad and depressing songs to enhance my depression, but this was far from my taste.

Not their best.

Are these guys ok?

postpunk ssie jaja murzynowi

1/5

Why does this sound so terrible?

Meh. I love other albums, but not this one.

What a steaming pile of shit...

Nooe

Not for me. 1/5

p488. 1982. 1 star. The Cure make great singles, but this is a self indulgent mess of noise. Avoid.

Muutama erittäin mielenkiintoinen ääni joka johdattaa sisään porttoon... Suureen babyloniin.. Iljetysten äiti.... shitty place man...

Pretty heavy going and noisy, no bangers

DNL

Meh

Man I thought i liked the Cure, but this was terrible

Still no Bob Seger

Ich mag The Cure aber diese Songs sollte man nur in gefestigter Stimmung konsumieren. Sonst drohen suizidale Gedanken. Und klingt das nur bei mir wie eine Monoaufnahme hinter dicken Vorhängen? Grausam.

I like shoegaze, this is a precursor - not for me

Slow, understated and melancholy. Maybe a better book of poetry than an album. I'm happy for the people who like it, but for me: a snore. I love melancholy but not in this flavour I guess.

The Cure. An acquired taste I just cannot get myself to acquire, try as I might.

Not for me.

Did not enjoy, did not finish

Listened because I had to. Won't be repeating the experience ever again.

Monotonous

[Seems odd...2 Cure albums in my 1st 20 listens. Clearly, I have somehow offended the gods of random music selection.] I genuinely dislike Robert Smith's whining I-Feel-Life-Too-Deeply-I-Am-A-Victim voice. The theme of this album is "Hey - let's all take a shitload of downers, fuck around in the studio, and RECORD IT! Then we'll hire somebody to convince the children that this is art." Having a hard time deciding if this gets ⭐ or ⭐⭐. "Pornography" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Sorry, Robert Smith: ⭐ When I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I pray to God this isn't the soundtrack. __________________________________ 🎧 # of LPs reviewed: 20 🎧 # of LPs left to review: 981 🎧 # of LPs I found great/relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 4 🎧 # of LPs I *might* include in my own list: 8 🎧 # of LPs I will certainly *not* include in mine: 5

Painfully boring. Sounds like Duran Duran at 0.5x speed

Not a fan. I didn't care for the vocals, or the lyrics.

That was a tough listen. Scraping nails on a chalkboard come to mind. Can see why edge lord teenagers "discover" this band and feel like they are so cool and that everything else is lame. Maybe cool for a Halloween/ haunted house theme playlist.

I don’t really like the cure, depressing and nihilistic … not the vibe I’m seeking out for listening enjoyment. I only got through 3 songs

I don't care that this is considered the birth of Gothic rock or whatever. It's boring, whiny, and 1 dimensional. It makes me sad in the way that seeing your houseplants slowly die does. Not real sadness, just general melancholy and annoyance that I'll have to clean up the dirt I spill taking it out to compost later.

Hate the voice of Smith and has such an influence on the music that I can't enjoy any of the instrumental parts.

Overrated AF

I can't understand how anyone likes The Cure. The instrumentation can be good in parts but it is mostly cheesy, boring, typical 80s stuff. The lyrics are awful and his voice is worse. Gets a half a star for the occasional moments when there was a cool guitar or keyboard but this is ultimately pointless and not worth listening to. 1.5 stars

Bloody racket - not a fan.

I wonder sometimes why the cure was as popular as they were.

Musica de quem ta com dor de barriga

Zero

Meh

1.5

Question. How many different flavours of misery must we tasted to get your music passport stamped by these wretches of no taste? The Cure's mastery is undeniably evocative across the whole realm of Melancholia, so, having honed their considerable talents and a signature sound, they really channel all their misery to make the musical equivalent of the Slough of Despond [*footnote]. Listening brings me both psychological and physical pain, and evokes teen misery, self loathing alienation, and disorientation as opposed to the self compassion, self care or meaningful connection we all need. It is psychological kryptonite. I do much prefer when The Cure when they can get happy like on "Friday I'm in love", “love cats” and “Just like heaven” Alas. None of that fun on this black hole - a kind of horrible perfection to be admired and avoided. 1 star so I am not tempted to go near it again. Best pointed at from a tourist bus maybe. Foot note - explaining *Slough of Despond; a PLACE described in John Bunyan's book “A Pilgrim's Progress” (1678); also known referred to in Wuthering Heights and the game DOOM: (my paraphrase) On inescapable swamp and where the guilty are exiled; a depression in the land into which scum and toxic sludge continually drains, a place for sinner to endure self loathing in the mud. Here you gain an acute appreciation of your own utter abandoned and complete alienation, thus evoking further fears, doubts, and fresh dread, moods which engulf and swirl throughout the place, making it a place so completely horrible... OR, THE ORIGINAL TEXT This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of Despond: for still as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place; and this is the reason of the badness of this ground.

I can't even make it through an album by The cure because this guy's voice is so fucking annoying.

this ain't it chief

This was a chore to get through. The Cure might be a time and place band. No beat variation and no hits. Not sure why this is in the list.

The Cure is one those bands, for me, that I do not like too many of their songs, but the ones I do like, I like a lot. Let's just say, this album did not do it for me on any song. Just found the entire album to be one big, meh. Will not attempt to listen again. Solid 1

The sound is so harsh, so intense for me.

The singing voice didnt do it for me at all and I couldnt wait to get it over with

Did not like

Not it for me

Tears for Fears sounding, British Goth Punk, dread and angst mixed into it. Drolling sounding voice, much to the expected sound of the genre. Nothing outstanding, but make their mark on the genre for sure.

Nope! If only they had a different singer.

Malísimo, raro, repetitivo

It's possible I might enjoy the rudimentary New Orderliness of their rhythms, but there's no chance of that while they're so insistent on this pathetic forced despair. I've rarely taken against a vocalist so quickly.

Not my style of musiz

Booooooo

Just a mess. Sounds bad, the vocals are annoying, the songs are all the same.

Too goth to be emo and too maudlin for maudlin's sake. The Cure have a minimum of 12 great songs and not a one of them is anywhere near this album. This album allegedly spoke to a lot of depressed youth and (unfortunately) inspired the Robert Smith look. I'm glad that at least the band went in a better direction after this grease fire.

can't say i've been loving this one. all of the songs kind of sound the same, and though i love a more chill rock album, i find myself a little bored listening to each track.

Why does every band from the 80s sing in the same way.

Thanks I hate it

Listened to as a part of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. I've heard a little bit of The Cure in the past and enjoyed the odd songs I listened to. This album was a complete let-down for me, personally. I thought that some of the instrumental arrangements were fantastic, especially the drums, but other than that, I didn't really enjoy many of the songs here. Songs I liked: A Strange Day. Cold.

???

Not like that kind of music

Not my cup of tea but can recognize how others may like it. Not a fan of the vocals but the style is cool and interesting.

Didn't open

Not that great. Lacking vocals and boring tunes.

Not available in my country

The Cure have some good songs, but not on this album. Oof.

drab, bland

(Trying not to make a pun)