Pornography

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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)