Pornography

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

I tried to take it seriously and I couldn’t get into it. So then I tried to treat it with the same indulgent affection that I’d treat a 13 year old cousin in his goth phase and I enjoyed it much more. It’s not a nuanced or comprehensive look at the human experience but it certainly captures a mood.

Pretty good. Definitely the Cure being the Cure. Not poppy or full of hits which is not a bad thing IMHO. If you like later Cure you might like this. If you don't, you surely won't. Three stars.

Freakcore

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?

Why does this sound so terrible?

A pretty good album, I liked Siamese Twins and The Figurehead the most.

Interesting sound, alternative music for the 80’s, makes me want to listen to more albums from this band.

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.

This was a cool album. It's pretty intense for the Cure, which I think of as being a more sort of lilting, sadboy band (though perhaps I'm mistaken about them). Really solid early goth album 4/5

Suspiciously drum heavy effort from these pioneers of Scottish samba funk. I liked this better than the last Cure album we got, but still waiting for the really good stuff. 3.65

“Pornography” by The Cure became a landmark album in shaping the goth scene that emerged in the 1980s. The album’s layered, echoing production style also left a mark on shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine, who embraced similarly dense, immersive soundscapes. Furthermore, Pornography influenced artists across genres who sought to capture emotional rawness and existential themes. Many alternative and indie rock bands in the 1990s and 2000s, from Placebo to Interpol, drew on its themes of alienation and desolation. In many ways, Pornography helped define the darker aesthetic that would characterise much of post-punk and goth rock, establishing The Cure as pioneers of emotionally driven, atmospheric music.

There are 3 albums from The Cure on this list, and that already feels a little like overkill, but I’d definitely trade this one or Seventeen Seconds for Wish in a heartbeat. I guess I understand why this is on the list, and it’s not terrible, but I feel like there are better albums from The Cure than this. But, I mean, rating the list as it is, this one is middling. “A Strange Day” and “Pornography” were pretty good. Nothing else really stood out. Overall this was fine.

One of their very best. 4.5/5, will round it up to 5 on the site.

I wanted to like this so much.. Especially since it really kinda feels like a sibling album to what Siouxsie & The Banshees were doing at the time. Although there are striking elements I can point out as sounding cool (especially the guitar work), there's an overall drone to the album that didn't really doo much for me. Also Roberts perpetually whining singing which has always been a problem for me, I think work with the droning, but is not something I really care to listen to. (6.7) ★★★

Very dark and gothic, but with interesting textures. 4 stars

Super awesome goth rock that's one of 1982's finest albums. 4.5 stars.

4.5

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.

When I was given this for Christmas at 15 I'd heard the Boys Don't Cry comp, The Top and The Head on the Door. None of which prepared me for this black pit of a record. At first I recoiled like from a first ever nibble of a brussel sprout. But I persevered because it felt like the grown up thing to do and my body was telling me I needed some greens as well as chocolate... um I mean my moody teenage self felt the draw of Pornography's gloomy black heart and it soon became a favourite. Ho! Ho! Ho!

This holds up well in comparison with newer stuff I think. Definitely not a pop Cure album.

Creo que tienen mejores discos y mejores canciones. ¿Por qué está aquí? La verdad es que el sonido me ha parecido como arquetípico del sonido "siniestro", las percusiones, los teclados, etc. En ese aspectos es una buenas muestra. Me guardo «The Hanging Garden» y «A Strange Day».

Decent album

Ok. Mjög sundurlaus hlustun af minni hálfu. En góðir sprettir og tengsl við gleðisveitina. Ég get ekki farið hærra en 3,5.

The darkest album I’ve ever heard. When I listened to it for the first time, I was inspired to write three poems. I still remember that evening in December, alone in my room, crying and writing. It was an unforgettable experience

I wasn't familiar with this Cure album - I respect the intention and the sound they acheived

The first few minutes I thought it would be a too early 80s sounding album for my taste, which I don't like. But the more I listened the more I loved it. It's dark, haunging and depressive, just like this November day and my mood tonight.

This will be my second album by The Cure to review, after Seventeen Seconds, which I thought was fine. I know a handful of songs by The Cure, but most of their songs that I know are from later in their career, when their songs didn’t have such a dark tone. I’m hoping that I’ll enjoy this album a bit more than Seventeen Seconds. This album was really good. It’s exactly what I wanted from an album by The Cure’s early days, when their sound was more driven by post-punk. The mood and sound that permeates the whole album is fantastic, and I love how big the sound is. That big sound creates a really unique atmosphere, and it’s one of my favorite things about The Cure’s darker music. The drumming and bass playing were particularly great across the album, and I felt like this really set this album apart from some of my favorite post-punk albums from this era. I enjoyed Robert Smith’s vocals as well, and his lyrics were very well written, albeit incredibly dark in subject matter. A few parts of the album dragged a bit for me, but as a whole work, the album really excels. “One Hundred Years” and “Cold” were my favorite songs on the album. They both had haunting melodies that I really loved, and the keyboard parts on both of them were excellent. I enjoyed listening to this, and I’m excited for when I’ll finally get to listen to Disintegration.

There were a few early songs by The Cure that I used to enjoy, like "A Forest" for example, which used to get a lot of play in goth clubs back in the 80s. But I never really clicked with their albums, and by the time they were singing about "Love Cats" I had totally lost any interest I might have once had. But I always has a sneaky suspicion I was missing out on something, and when I got "Disintegration" a while back, I actually quite enjoyed it. But it still didn't click with me. I think I gave it 4 stars and planned to listen to it again, but never got around to it. I wish I had listened to this album first, as this was finally the missing piece of the puzzle. After playing this through twice back-to-back, I went and listened to Disintegration again, and this time everything fell into place. Seems this is a 5-star album for me, even though it's derivative in places, and the start feels a bit weaker than the end.

Great goth album for Halloween

One Hundred Years 3 A Short Term Effect 3.1 The Hanging Garden 3.2 Siamese Twins 3 The Figurehead 3.1 A Strange Day 3.3 Cold 3.2 Pornography 3 Score: 3.1125

Disintegration is better

Very Cure.

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.

#75 - It didn't speak to me but I feel it has the potential to do so after a few more listens.

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!

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

I understand why this was not one of my faves growing up. Not an easy record. Not so much depressing as just dark and a bit difficult. Save maybe The Hanging Garden - nothing ventures anywhere near the pop sensibilities that shine through on pretty much every Cure album. But I understand this as a valuable building block for where they were headed. The bears - an underappreciated aspect of the band - are generally excellent if a bit menacing. They guitars are bigger. Just not one to pull out too often.

Was not sure if it's a 3 or 4. Would have given a 3.5 if possible. Nice album but not really a 4.

not my favorite Cure album. maybe a 3 tops

What a steaming pile of shit...

Really nothing remarkable for me. 1,5

La depressione c’è tutta ma onestamente mi ha un po’ annoiato. Le canzoni draggano e capisco che nel contesto oscuro la cosa ha senso, però mi aspettavo di più. The Cure, sono certo che ci rivedrete più avanti, io sarò pronto a darvi un’altra chance

dal sito: "The sessions saw the band on the brink of collapse, with heavy drug use, band in-fighting, and frontman Robert Smith's depression fueling the album's musical and lyrical content". allegria. non molto indicato per un ascolto in un giorno qualsiasi mentre stai facendo la spesa, ma se stai passando la settimana più merdosa della tua vita probabilmente sarebbe un buon sottofondo (se non si hanno tendenze suicide, altrimenti sarebbe la proverbiale goccia che fa traboccare il vaso). nonostante la depressione comunque non è per niente pesante e non ho fatto per niente fatica ad arrivare alla fine, a differenza di moltissime altre volte. questo è secondo me perchè sono i Cure, una band di un certo calibro, non come tutte le millemila band sconosciute anche alle loro madri che sono finite su questo sito solo perchè evidentemente hanno fatto un servizietto all'autore.

kiváló ez még mindig.

Yes

It started good but didn't like it after a certain point

This sounds like the sort of album that gets better with each subsequent listen. Started off with an absolute cracker in One Hundred Years before falling off slightly. A low 4, but possibly rising with future listens.

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...

Albumi #80, 16.10.2024 The Curen neljäs studioalbumi julkaistiin vuonna 1982. Pornography on The Curen synkin albumi sekä sanoituksiltaan että musiikillisesti. Albumi on kaikkineen hieno teos, mutta päällekäyvän synkkyytensä takia tätä ei pysty kuuntelemaan kuin yksittäisinä kuuntelukertoina harvakseltaan.

I can appreciate that this album impacted music and that the Cure is a well known band. Overall I thought it was an okay album. There are definitely worse albums we have gotten as well as much better ones. Probably a 2.5 with half stars.

Enjoyed. Nothing to write home about, though.

I like elements of this album, but as with Disintegration it is quite oppressive overall and does wear on you over time. I do really like the oppressive, droney opening on this. It really sets the mood. Some of the guitars feel like they're actually dripping in sorrow, and the atmospheric drums and moody vocal echoes work really well also. But then it does just become a drag over time. His singing in particular is quite one-note. This is the kind of album that you should probably listen to as a whole, but then so much in one go is also quite hard work. By the end you realise you've hunched all the way over as this album has been weighing on you for the past 43 minutes.

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.

Fine - dark driving vibe. Never really makes anything happen though.

I think I liked the other cure a little better but this was still awesome

good ass rock. angsty and dark, music that I would walk down the stairway to hell with

I enjoyed this album, I am not a huge cure fan but have listened to this a few times in the past.

Really really good Not my favourite 3 cure albums but gloomy depressing and beautiful Fouuuur

Second half is better but this isn't the best album of The Cure

Nooe

i am of the opinion this is a step back in The Cure's progression...a stab at darkness they wouldn't reconcile with their knack for shiny melodies until Disintegration (and x100 in the 90s)...so like, it's okay ig 6/10

The Cure is a favorite of mine and this album is no exception.

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.

4.0

kind of one note

I enjoyed this. Very different from their more popular sound.

Not quite the level of Disintegration but a lovely moody vibe nonetheless

Not my favorite, but I do like the band

Incredible!

Alright last song a bit revolution 9

Stone cold classic

I love the cure and this is an album I've tried to listen to a few times previously but this is a hard listen.

Enjoyed thuis more than I thought I would. I remember it being darker I must just be older and more depressed to enjoy it more lol

The cure at their lowest ebb manage to make some of their best music.

My favorite kind of depressing. 4.0

The first in the the really depressing trilogy. Robert Smith had to start making poppy songs for a bit after this one

Very dark, but so deep

I dig the gloomy Soundwave of this but after a while it all sound the same.

The Hanging Garden

This is my first The Cure album I've listened to. Very emo, very angsty. This has a unique gothic rock sound that I really like. I think I'm going to make a playlist for songs that have a Halloween feel just so I can put some of these songs on it. The Vibe: You just saw a scary movie at the theater and now you're walking home by yourself in the middle of the night and you're not sure if those are footsteps behind you or if it's just in your head.

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.

The Cure’s clunky but iconic monotony reaches some emotional peaks here (in songs such as ‘A Strange Day’).

As a Smiths fan, I tried to dig The Cure. But be it Disintegration, Wish, and well, Pornography, it all sounded the same: dreary and soulless.

You’re a gothic rock band in the 1980’s, about to open your fourth album. How to make your audience know you still mean business? Opt for the opening line of “It doesn’t matter if we all die”, and follow it up with forty-odd minutes of gloom from the void. The result is either completely perfect or utterly tedious, depending on one’s feelings towards The Cure and all they represent. “Pornography” supposedly represents the final album in the band’s first phase, before bassist Simon Gallup departed and they began to churn out excellent pop-rock-goth classics like “The Lovecats”, “Inbetween Days”, “Just Like Heaven”, “Close to Me”, “Pictures of You”, “Lovesong”, etc. etc. There’s nothing so accessible on “Pornography”: lead single “The Hanging Gardens” is a thunderstorm of toms, ultra-flangey guitars and cryptically bleak lyrics (in Smith’s words, “something about the purity and hate of animals fucking”.) In all likelihood, they just went with the track with the highest BPM. Incongruous single aside, “Pornography” is a series of dreary dreamlike images. Death, despair, doom, hopelessness, rendered in real-time by Smith’s perfectly suited vocal. The lyrics are strong in their own impressionistic way, but it’s the music which really helps them get under the skin. Heavy reverse delay, gated drums, ringing drones and tones, relentless basslines, flange and flange and flange on the guitars. It’s top marks for atmosphere, but less so for the songs: all too often the lyrics, performances and definition are lost in extensive reverb. This is partly the point: in Smith’s own words, they wanted to emulate the sound of “Phil Spector in Hell”, an idea we can all get behind for more reasons than one. For me, the two songs which emerge as the strongest are “A Strange Day” and “Cold”, because they feel the most vast in scope (huge sound! Huge chorus!). While the rest doesn’t always move me, I can appreciate the band had a vision here, and went hell-for-leather in committing to it. If it doesn’t matter that we all die, it certainly doesn’t matter that I’m going to rate this perhaps less than it deserves.

Yup, I very much enjoyed it.

I was not tracking with everyone’s general take that this album was depressing until the last song. It tipped me over the edge, but on the whole, I would say dark and heavy more than depressing. I’d throw in impressive as well.

Ponderous, plodding, repetitive, yet for some reason this didn’t seduce me! I like the elements, though I tired of hearing Robert sing from the vast hall next door, and the drums began to sound too flat, tired.

All the songs sound the same, but it's a great song! "Charlotte Sometimes" and "The Hanging Garden" are probably the best examples, both on the singles collection.

To dark and gloomy for me.

Well, considering I started rewatching What We Do In The Shadows on the same day I was given the best Gothic Rock album, I’d say we’re well in out way to spooky season in style. Pornography is just a masterpiece, a dense, claustrophobic and expansive sounding mixture of tribal pounding drums, thunderous bass and knotted twisting guitar lines. I mentioned that in my Disintegration review that that album is very urban sounding, the Gothic liminal spaces of empty office buildings and suburban streets lit by dim street lamps and neon. In contrast, Pornography is Gothic in a more traditional sense, bringing to mind the isolation of desolate moors, dense forest or, scariest of all, the recesses of your own mind. Ooh, I am going to have a fun autumn

i listened to this a couple times but could never form a definite opinion. it's nice to listen to, i guess

Didn’t really get into it. Nothing stood out to me.

Gloomy, and I liked it. My inner goth would be happy, if it could feel happiness. 4/5

Not for me. 1/5

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

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

Cool sounds and very menacing, would probs not listen again tho

I do love the Cure, this album was average though

Pretty good

Love the Cure. But this isn’t my favorite. Definitely dark and gloomy. A few stand outs. 3.5

Like their later stuff better

Pornography was the album I left out back in the days. I had Faith and The Top, but for some, now unknown reason, not Pornography. I remember The Hanging Garden, but the rest of the album sounds now a bit repetitive. I know that the older albums featured a similar problem and were in parts equally dark and depressing, so this should come as no surprise.

Cool

This album has grown a lot on me since the first listen. Some songs sound like the Cure parodying themselves. You can hear the early roots that eventually blossomed into Disintegration, which is an all time album, on this album. The more I listen to the Cure, the more I like and appreciate them. They have a ton of versatility over their discography and kind of do it all on the pop/rock/post punk spectrum.

i had a good time

The Cure has many great songs but the collection here starts to similar and stays this way.

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

Atmosphere creates More than anyone, The Cure; Emotions second. Fabulous album. I rocked the singles more, but this album smashed. Listened to the last few after watching Altman’s 3 Women. An experience.

The style of this one just washes over me. A template for 'thing that was kinda cool from the 80s but doesn't do much for you'. The chorus effects etc. on everything sounds like hedging bets, though I know that sound is a very intentional choice. I think the Cure's reputation as the cool alternative band of the 80s put me off of discovering the music I really like in my teens. Thought there was something in the air that produced that 80s pop sound. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Just like the last one by the Cure, I liked this quite a lot. There’s something earnest and touching about the over commitment to being a spooky weirdo, I think the knowledge that Robert Smith is still Like That really goes a long way for me.

dark and gloomy. robert smith’s signature vocals and the catchy bass lines make this album a very listenable experience.

I like the Cure but this sounded kinda stock compared to their other, later, more polished stuff.

gonna tell my whole family about how much I love pornography 10/10

Second Cure album on this list so far (seventeen seconds was the first). I don't think either one was special in the least.

Very cool

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.

Ekki besta plata Cure, en samt drullu gott sound.

Mjög góð plata. Engir hittarar en hrikalega sterk plata í heild. Vissulega dáldið þung.

Always found it hard to get into Pornography (and Faith) for some reason. Appreciate them both more the last few years as I have watched many live concerts on YouTube from the last tour, and live is where the indulgent magic happens with The Cure - especially for these songs.

First half 3 stars, maybe 2.5. Second half 4

Might get better on a relisten

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

Nothing stood out to me. Ok as background music while I worked.

Cool haunting and depressing atmosphere that sucks you in, even if there’s no immediate carchiness to the songs. If only all songs were as good as One Hundred Years and The Hanging Garden! Of the 8 tracks, half of them are excellent, 3 are okay, and the final track is so unlistenable that I almost considered handling out 3 stars. Almost. And I start thinking of the goth kids in South Park when listening to the album. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not

I love the cure

Great band, genre and album!

The Cure is one of my favorite groups. This album is perfect.

2.5 ok samey sounding

Need to listen a few more times to digest, but liked it!

I loved this album. It’s so dramatic and haunting, but heavy at the same time. Lyrically it’s dark and interesting all the way through. I’ll absolutely be listening again…many times.

This is probably their most consistent album. Starts great, good almost until the end. It's the dark sound they're still associated with today, more than their later pop sound. The singing is flat a lot of the time, but it doesn't really bother me. There's enough space in the production so it doesn't clash with anything too bad. Favorite song: a short term effect

Haunting, alluring, and resplendent.... What delightful album. Sold 4 almost 5.

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

I think the only thing that kept me from being Goth in college was the music.

bit of a droner

Pretty heavy going and noisy, no bangers

Okay The Cure! Okay spooky scary skeleton opening to “One Hundred Years”! I think my problem with the cure is a lot of their songs do tend to sound the same.. but some of them are really good! I just haven’t heard the ones on this album. I like the guitar solo in “A Strange Day.” This is tough because I just let this one wash over me and wasn’t very into it… feels illegal to rank The Cure at 3 but… here we go.

I don’t know if I expected this to be better but i wasn’t exactly blown away. It was fine and it was good but it wasn’t the bay thing I’ve ever heard. Figurehead and cold were my two favourite songs but everything else sounded a bit similarish

1982 fue el año de Thriller. Pero hubo discos realmente buenos ese año y entre ellos destacan este de Pornogaphy de the Cure, 1999 y Avalon, o Nebraska. También los debuts de Felt, Coucteau Twins, Laurie Anderson o Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Otros realmente buenos también fueron New gold dream, Glassworks, The days of wine and roses, Too Rye Ay, The lexicon of love, The Dreaming, Rit it up... Un álbum oscuro, denso y frío que cierra su trilogía gótica comenzada con Seventeen Seconds y Faith. No es su obra cumbre (Disintegration) pero se le acerca. Su mejor canción es sin duda Strange days. Con sonidos angustiosos y depresivos: muerte y la autodestrucción. El título hace referencia precisamente al público y seguidores que disfrutaban viendo a la banda (sobre todo a su líder) sumido en semejante estado, existencialismo adolescente que criticaron algunas mentes cortas de miras. Imprescindible para conocer la evolución del Punk al Post-punk y de de este al rock gótico que seguirán Siouxsie entre otros.

This isn't something I'd seek out. It's a bit dark and not especially my kind of thing but this was alright. I'm thinking a 2.5/5 but I'll round up to a 3.

Listening to this is like traveling through time, back to my freshman year of high school. It’s 1984 and I’m riding the BART train into San Francisco with my friends, listening to this cassette tape on my Walkman. My best friend lent it to me, told me I have to check out this cool band. It changed me, changed who I thought I was and made me something different. It shaped the way I thought about music and opened new doors, brought new friends, made my heart beat different.

DNL

OK album. This has the dark, moodiness of The Cure but with less of the poppy-ness. I'm not a diehard fan (but I loved Disintegration), so this album does not resonate as much with me. The music is always interesting nonetheless. ***

Fuck yes, finally something good. The Cure are simply fantastic and this is easily one of their best. It's so dark and moody, yet also has such a sense of intensity and urgency, while still being super sad and emotional, like much of The Cure's music is.

I didn’t expect to come out of this project liking the Cure, but here we are.

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

good music for the suicidal probably personally not suicidal yet but i guess it was alright 2.9/5

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.

Gothic rock at its finest.

You know, I think I’m at a 3.5 that I just can’t round up. This album is ultimately good; in terms of the soundscape, it achieves the atmosphere it was looking for throughout, it has a decent progression in its lyrics from start to finish, and vocally, I think it does just enough for me to feel the intended emotion throughout the whole record. I just wasn’t that into it. For everything this album does right, I just think the overall vision here doesn’t align with my musical tastes as much as I would’ve liked. That’s a bit selfish to say, yes, but it’s just kind of how I feel. I think the overall structure of the album is a bit loose; there are songs where the soundscape could’ve been tightened up a bit more for me, with a lot of empty little gaps of nothing but the drums and guitar that slowly add up to me in a way that doesn’t make the album experience feel great. I think lyrically, while it gets the progression right, a lot of what’s here is remarkably abstract, and feels very stream of consciousness in a way that diminishes the potent storytelling potential that every song kicks off with – every single intro on this album is fantastic at setting a tone and an atmosphere, but it never managed to keep me hooked from start to finish on most songs until the back half of the album began. Even then, those songs suffer deeply from “first minute is the whole song” in terms of their soundscapes. Vocally… yeah, it could’ve just been better. It feels very spoken word-y throughout, and it kills me, because I can feel moments where the melodies are right there for him to take advantage of and hook onto, but he just never grabs them as tightly as he could have. I really do like this album, but it’s dripping with unmet potential to me. It’s right on the edge of a 4, and with some real outside presence to commercially sort of clean up the rougher edges of the album, I really do think this could’ve hit as high as a 5 for me… but that’s for me. I can easily recognize that this style, the way it is now, is gonna absolutely connect to someone better than it did for me. It just wasn’t fully there for my tastes, so I’m gonna disappointingly give this album a 3.

Meh

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

Still no Bob Seger

What does it mean if it made me smile?

It's a good album- very dark and atmospheric, a bit too consistent. If there was a little bit of light to shine through the clouds, it could be a masterpiece.

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

Solid album with an interesting/unique sound. I enjoyed this a fair amount. No real standout tracks but solid nonetheless.

Hanging Garden is a classic. But also this whole album is a mood and I love the Cure, this them at their most goth… I’m just going 4.5+ with it as an old fan.

The things I’d go to be a scene kid in the 80’s. Holy banger opener. What a fucking atmosphere and mood to set right off the rip. I definitely think it should have been shorter, but fire none the less. This is as just as haunting and depressing of an album as I was expecting. Super goth and emo, and I’m guessing this album was a trailblazer for that sound when it came out in 82. Far from the best I’ve heard of the cure thus far, but I fucking love this band. Cold is still one of my favorite tracks by them, and I loved Strange Day and Siamese Twins as well. Solid 6.5/10.

The Cure at their spookiest yet. They were experimenting for a depressing sound, and this is a bit too dark for me. The vocals take a backseat to the drone of the guitar and Bass unlike how lead with guitars as time went on. Robert Smith sings more like a poet here than an actually singer. between a 3-4

mm weiss ich nich digga...

pne juandred years. er singt schono geil. ich kenn glaub keis lied uf dem album. ultra darke scheiss. geil. aber gad chli sehr depri. a short term effect sehr moody d gitarre schwimmt sochli imne teppich ume. hanging garden isch sehr cool mega flanger überall aber da ganze isch seeehr "mir gohts scheisse" musig. bin gad bi the figurehead und ich checks immerno aber han gad nöd sone gueti ziit? gohts mir au scheisse ?? aso song slappt. pornography isch au meh verstörend als irgendwie cool. weiss gad nöd wasi söll mit dem album afange.

hahahah mite lyrics "it doesn't matter if we all die" es album ahfange powermove find drums sehr sehr geil und spannend rhe hanging garden git echli meh gäse sini weinerluchi stimmpasst extrem zude ganze atmosphäre siamese twins hetmer glaub bis jz am beste gfalle, de sehr primitivi drum beat und langsam gitarre allgemein uhh the figurehead mega schòni "bridge" I guess? au wennis sehr spannend und au cool find, merki wie die lieder alli chli.glich töned für mich s solo bi strange day hani gad sehr geil gfunde ja s isch echli smaey worde aber seeehr geil

3.5

This album has a much more dark and sinister feel than the Cure songs I’m familiar with. Subtly complex, decent hooks. Songs blended together a bit, didn’t really love the drum sound with the echo, made everything feel much muddier than it really was. 3.25/5

Depressing

I was not enjoying the other "The cure" albums from the list so much since they are too strange for me, but this one was wow! I think I finally got it, and now I should re-listen the two other ones that I rated with 3 stars. 5 stars to compensate. The essence of what I can understand as post-punk.

8/10

the cure is certainly a darker alternative rock group, and this album is probably the most gothic i've ever listened to in terms of that. it's haunting. the kind of music to listen to when you're wearing a top hat, cane, and ghastly pale makeup. it's solid all the way through, but sometimes it gets pretty morbid.

Probably one of the best Goth Rock albums I've ever heard. One Hundred Year and The Hanging Garden top most playlists and compilations of the genre. A curious fact is that I had never heard this entire album from start to finish in the sequence of tracks in which it was released. However, I already knew all the songs, precisely because they appear on all Goth Rock playlists. And in fact: they work much better together and in this sequence. Excellent Album!

No Party Album. Intense, deep, listen loud.

Kind of weird and slow.

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.

Pillars of gothic rock. Gets boring real quick. 2 stars

I feel better now.

"Phils Spector in hell" quite on point. Absolute sonic drift

Just didn’t really enjoy this

- Difficult for me to separate The Cure away from the vibe of their biggest pop hits, especially with the distinct nature of Robert Smith's voice. I appreciate the dark sentiment of this album, but his vocals often take me out of it. - "The Hanging Garden" and "Siamese Twins" both stand out, especially with the heaviness of the bass and percussion. I believe the latter to be the best track. - "Pornography," the final track is an interesting, avante-garde mood piece.

The right music for a sad day. I hope you don't often feel like listening to it.

I like the cure, but it turns out it's their poppier, later stuff. This was fine. Like a less tuneful Joy Division.

"One Hundred Years" and "Pornography" are just awesome. The others are also pretty amazing. Robert Smith is a great singer-songwriter, along with everyone else. I thought The Cure would be one of those overrated 80s bands. This is really modern for 1982. 4 stars for this classic album.

Could listen to again

Goth, dark, good ambience for certain times.

2.5

I like the Cure, overall, but nothing really wowed me here. except - it was my 200th album

Okay, I highly doubt that this was intentional, but I got this album on the anniversary of the album releasing! That is just insane, assuming that it is a coincidence. It's kind of eerie, just like this album. I've heard great things about The Cure, so I was excited going into this album. Fortunately, unlike other highly praised bands with dark slow sounds (I'll understand you eventually, My Bloody Valentine), I immediately see the appeal of this album. This album has been considered post-punk, but the only thing that reminds me of post-punk at all is the vocals. Even then, Robert Smith's vocals are still different and unique enough to make this album something special. The sound is dark and mysterious, but I like it. I can really feel the atmosphere of what they were going for here. This album is seen as a pioneer of gothic rock, and gothic is definitely a word that describes this whole album. The writing is intriguing as well. There's actually a few common themes that loosely tie into the album's title. Well, okay, the album isn't actually about pornography itself. Rather, there are loose themes of sex and the nature of it sprinkled into a few of the songs. Overall, I like this album. I am very excited to get into this band even more with their 2 other albums on this list. Light 4/5.

I like a lot of The Cure's stuff but not on this album

Ich bin nicht unbedingt ein The Cure Fan. Aber dieses Album hat mich begeistert, obwohl der Titel durchaus für nicht einladend ist. Zwar durchaus deprimierende Texte, aber der Gesang und die Musik Arrangements sind sehr gelungen. Ein schönes Album.

It's dork, not scary dork. Just dork

solid album. 3.6/5

Decent album. I just don't like The Cure. 3/5

new wave, brit. pop, 1982 -> 2

found out today that I do not like the cure

This is so emo. My anguished fourteen-year-old inner poet is like, "Dude. A little much." Depression is a hell of a thing. Proto-emo, though. Hence, we are listening to it now. I'm imagining a post *this* the Cure fan going back into the back catalog and landing on the title track and my same inner fourteen-year-old is giggling uncontrollably.

I found it had decent songs. Not hummable, but one could hear the lyrics. Very depressing lyrics, but that is what the band is all about isn't it?

I liked this one more on this listen than previously. It really is such a depressing album. I think the music is good, it’s just not something I ever feel like putting on with how much of a downer it is. Rating: 3.6

I need to listen to more Cure from this period to really appreciate it I think.

The machine gun-like drums are a cool part of the album, but it doesn’t overtake the sadness at its heart. I’m not sad enough for albums like this. I much prefer The Cure’s radio-friendly pop stuff.

That was a dark one. I do love me some Cure.

Ez

ez anglo list 4 (3.5)

Too depressing and anti-melodic with songs that go on forever. I understand why some would like this but not for me.

Yeaaaa I don’t think this album is for me. Super angsty with a harsher tone

Until Disintegration, this was Cure's best album. Straight from the off, you hear with 100 Years that there is anger and energy in a more focussed direction than on the more whimsical singles that had got Smith & Co to this point. The Hanging Gardens is just sublime as the album builds to a rhythmic crescendo of chaos and anger. Very dark. Very excellent.

Not my favourite Cure album, but still decent

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

Saying this & other Cure albums are depressing is a surface level view and misses the point. They cathartic.

3/5. Pretty average. It didn't do anything good or bad enough to gain or lose any points. *shrugs*

Not my favourite Cure album but you know what you’re getting with them. You either love morose or you don’t. Like a spoonful of peanut butter I find this comforting and recognisable. There’s nothing really catchy but it’s moody and atmospheric and I’m totally on board.

Very lush and macabre.

For all the great Cure songs and albums that contain them, this seems a curious choice to pick out of the group. The album sets a mood, but the songwriting is lackluster, IMO. More like soundscapes. Not a huge fan of the drum sounds (is that a live drummer?).

thanks to my daughter, i've become much more of a fan of goth than i was when i was young, so this really struck a nerve with me. great stuff. the lyrics a bit trite, perhaps. but the music!

This is a winner if only for the guitar and drums on The Hanging Gardens. But I like the whole package.

Not my favourite Cure. Did appreciate the atmosphere

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.

I like this. I've never listened to them but was looking forward to it. It was a little more 80's sounding then I was expected for whatever reason. I can see this growing on me. Will I listen to again: 75%

Cool

not my fav cure but it's good

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

I love The Cure so much 🖤🥀😭 And I don’t even love their goth era as much as their new wave era, but this is still amazing!!!

Gawd, The Cure do self-loathing well, don’t they? I appreciate this, but do not wish to spend any appreciable length of time with it… Hmm…never thought about this before today, but The XX do owe Smith + Co a moral debt (ie, non -enforceable but nevertheless very real)

Definitely heard of the Cure. Never fully listened to an album of theirs. Looking forward to listening to this. I dig this.

Pivotal album the the goth rock era. Can't say it without this album being mentioned in the same sentence. Music is dark, sad, and the lyrics are pained. This is the soundtrack to depression but in a way that's great, shows there are others who feel what you do and you are not alone. This album saved people.

Not for me.

This album exudes such a haunting aura that just can’t be matched. The songs are put together in such an odd way that creates a feeling of uneasiness. Cold is one of if not my favorite Cure song. Just perfection. Easily the band’s best work besides Disintegration

FINALLY CAUGHT UP AND I GET THE CURE LFG! never heard this before, at least i dont think.

Always had a bit of trouble understanding the greatness of The Cure... this album didn't change that feeling. Pretty bland overall, no song that stood out and grabbed me really. Hope they have more exciting albums than this on the list!

It just felt really bland and pretentious. I just don't get it. Maybe sometime I will. Very different from the more upbeat "The Cure" songs i actually know and like ("Lovecats", "Boys Don't Cry" etc etc.)

Great 90’s band. Some great songs. This album, not my favorite.

Was ok with some highlights here and there. 3.5/5

Just an endless moody stonery dirge, but some of the changes are really powerful when they break up the repetition

Ah, the angsty 80s. Very listenable, despite being a bit brooding.

I’m a fan of the Cure and have always loved this album. It was great to listen to it again, however I’m not a moody teen anymore so it’s a different perspective. Disintegration led me to Wish (which remains one of my favorite albums to this day) which led me to try to get my hands on anything the Cure had to offer including this album and I still love it!

Not my favorite by the Cure

Solid album. The Cure always had a very interesting sound to them. Not really my cup of tea, but always an intriguing listen.

I'm so excited for my goth phase. I'm going to be so good at it. I'm thinking I'll have it when I'm in my 60s so I'll really know my stuff.

I just don't get this band. So affected, so dreary, so downbeat. I think it's a post-Bowie case of style over substance to be honest. A band for the girls who wrote poetry all over the covers of their exercise books at school and who thought Morrissey was "sensitive". Dull.

Enjoyed the listen, didn't save any tracks though. A little angsty for my taste but like the cure overall.

Rock gótico de The Cure. Ningún megahit. Ni fu ni fa.

Bien. Sin más.

pre listening notes: i know friday i’m in love and boys don’t cry, but those aren’t on this album. i hope i like it bc the 80s is a challenging music time for me. let’s go! One Hundred Years - immediately, drum machine sounding beat. kinda creepy guitars? synth. 80s. “it doesn’t matter if we all die” is such a strong start to an album. maybe i’m projecting but with the political climate right now, i feel like this song is about knowing a war is going on. something much bigger than yourself but being unable to do anything about it. the hopelessness and being unable to stop thinking about it. dark. A Short Term Effect - reverb going crazy! the floaty guitars make me a little uneasy. the lyrics are poetry. The Hanging Garden - different vibe immediately, driving drums. every song so far has mentioned dying. what drugs were they on while making this? ik it had to be something. i like this one more than the other two tho Siamese Twins - ok who hurt them bc damn. i do like this song tho The Figurehead - y’all this is depressing music. heavy stuff. nothing like friday i’m in love lol. i looked up if the band used drugs and apparently two members left briefly after this album because of the heavy drug use. not to belabor the point it’s just so obvious to me A Strange Day - lots of references to being blind. i guess this song is about the world ending? very similar sound to a short term effect Cold - more synthy! another reference to a mirror. this album feels so introspective. once again, poetic lyrics. sad. Pornography- the title track! the reversed radio clips are the beginning are cool & creepy. the lyrics don’t start until three minutes and thirty seconds in. i did more reading and i guess this album is considered by some to be the final in a dark trilogy, with this being the height. i guess i didn’t know much about the cure before now and although i definitely feel more educated, i can’t say i enjoyed it. this is what the emos of the 80s had i guess lol (jokes!). i’d give this a 3 or 2 out of 5, i didn’t like it very much. in other news, this experience is fucking up my algorithm, Be Somebody from the Kings of Leon album is on my spotify daylist🙄

100 years - sounds like 80s vampire music The hanging garden - this has a fun chorus but I don’t like the dude’s voice. The intense drums create a vibe. The figurehead - ooo this song actually kind of slaps Cold - this song is so bleh Pornography - perhaps my fav on the album bc of how different it is. Reminds me of Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter. The background grunts def made me uncomfy. That was a freaky little song. I was ready to rate this album a 2, but the final song changed all that for me. It was the first song in this process that made me viscerally feel, and then their vision for this album clicked. This is also the first album I’ve immediately gone for a second listen of.

Sama biisi 8 kertaa, mutta koska pidän tästä tunnelmasta, ei haittaa. Ja näissä biiseissä ei ole pelkkää introa, nehän ovat suorastaan oikeita biisejä! Kynttilät palamaan ja punaviini lasiin. Hittivetoavuutta ei kuitenkaan ole, pudottaa yhden tähden.

Huonoa: ei melodiaa, ei rytmiä - vain yhtä massaa - ja kuinka hidasta! Ei B-osia, hätäiset sanat. Hyvää: eka biisi ratsastaa riffillään kiitettäväksi kokemukseksi. Soundi on loppuun saakka viilattu ja ihan pysäyttävä. Toisin sanoen tämä kannattanee kuulla kerran. Ainakin levy on lyhyempi kuin... Disintegration.

Entristece un poco el rock siniestro de esta epoca. He envejecido mal.

Did not enjoy, did not finish

It drones on... there's not really a catchy tune on this LP for me. I prefer the bigger singles myself, one for the die-hard fans!

Very annoying to listen to. Took me two days of revisiting. Definitely not for me. I even saw these guys live like 10 years ago and was bored out of my mind then, still am.

Not in the mood for this kind of music for now

I’ve really enjoyed the other two albums by The Cure that have popped up (Seventeen Seconds and Disintegration), but for whatever reason, this one didn’t click with me as much today. It started to feel too monotonous by the end. Still really solid, though. Somewhere between 3.5 and 4.

I enjoy the sound of this album overall, and the atmosphere it creates, but it doesn't have the magic that Disintegration has. Apart from One Hundred Years and The Hanging Gardens, no real standout tracks for me.

moody dark pastel 80s with moody reverb synth drones. some great ideas, but it kind of all blends together

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

80s to the max

I liked it

Vivid depths of depression, expressed through effects and vocals that make it palpable

Pretty good

Oh man, after the train wreck of the Dion album I had to listen to yesterday, I was so happy to see this in my queue (not that I don't listen to it monthly at a minimum anyway). I'm a Cure stan, so I can't really be objective about this album, but it's incredible. This era of The Cure was part of an insanely prolific period in Robert Smith's life. In a span of 2-3 years he would make this album, become a Banshee, work on side project The Glove with Steve Severin, and release The Top, which is essentially a Smith solo album under The Cure name. To be that prolific he was destroying himself. Too many drugs, nonstop work, no sleep. The end of the Pornography world tour would see the band break up as the powder keg finally exploded. Everyone thought The Cure was finished. (Fun story: They actually tried to quit in the middle of the tour. After Robert and Simon got into a fist fight, they both bailed and went home. Robert's father told him people had paid money for tickets and ordered him to go back and finish the tour.) So, to say that the band, and Robert especially, were not in a great mental space going into this album is an understatement. And it's clear from every aspect of the album. This album is dark and discordant and hopeless in all the best ways. The drums are relentless, as if marching toward death. The guitar and bass parts are dirgy and wailing. The lyrics are a horror show of depression, nihilism, self-hatred, and fear. Robert said he wrote the album to purge his mind of his darkest thoughts so he wouldn't kill himself. And yet, there's still some beauty in it (I think). I know a lot of people find it noisy and unpleasant to listen to, but that's not the case for me. I think there are still great melodies here—The Hanging Garden, Siamese Twins, A Strange Day, Cold, to name a few. There's experimentation with sound and effects (Short Term Effect, Cold, Pornography). The album even ends on a defiantly optimistic note—"I must fight this sickness and find a cure." Sure, it's a little cheesy, but these dudes were barely 21-22 years old at the time and really going through it. This is probably Lol Tolhurst's greatest contribution to The Cure as drummer. Simon Gallup is the coolest bass player there is. And Robert Smith is an iconoclast, a modern-day poet, and a way better guitarist than he gets credit for. Also, shoutout to Phil Thornalley for producing this album—you know, the guy most known for writing "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia! It's tempting to want to downgrade my rating a bit knowing that their magnum opus was still to come (and that Disintegration is still out there lurking in this list somewhere)—but I won't. 5/5 Favorite songs: Siamese Twins, A Strange Day, The Figurehead

love the cure. this was almost too dark and dreary for me; i prefer the cure when robert smith is just in love and having fun because that's the type of loser i am. but the aesthetics of it, the dark jangling distortion of it is so awesome. it's crazy that this album came out in '82. you can hear its influence in sooo much later rock, basically anything goth and anything with a lot of distortion and pedals. 8.5/10, fav tracks: the hanging garden, one hundred years, a strange day

A devastatingly dark and beautifully bleak album. Robert Smith is an incredible, somehow underrated songwriter. These songs paint pictures of internal struggle, depression, addiction. The heaviness of the bass, melancholy melodies of the guitars, and Smith’s yearning vocal performances come together in haunting synergy throughout the record. Famously created with heavy drug consumption, it’s surprising cohesive and rarely indulgent. Like the best albums it’s greater than the sum of its parts: it demands to be listened to front to back. Probably not a record for everyone, but for anyone attracted to the Cure’s musical aesthetic it is incredible, perhaps only bested by Disintegration in their discography.

Dark and phenomenal.

Managed to listen to it—I noticed it was another love or hate selection. I think it sounds like a group of talented lads going thru a sordid phase. Decidedly meh.

A more rough and tumble kind of Cure, not entirely for me, though nice to hear some early influence for this kind of stuff. 2.5 is more accurate for this.

ohhh my god mfmgmnfgn (listened to this in the car a year ago and had to pretend i wasn't going insane, also tbh the experience would've probably been better alone in a dark room but yeah still good)

On first listen, it's dark, rhythmic, but didn't grab me. Thankfully, it looped back around, and it's a real grower. That enveloping darkness, Lol Tolhursts drumming, ooh it's nice.

Quite an intense album. Enjoyed

This era of the Cure sort of bores me. Very few songs have hooks, and rely more on droning synths, creating a dreary sense of dread. It's repetitive and dark and sad. This is the type of music that should be up my alley, but is more "cool" than enjoyable.

5 star!

i’ve never heard an album that successfully created such a dark and disturbing sound like this one. i’ve heard albums where people try, but it usually ends up sounding really stupid and trying too hard to be edgy. the use of organs and timpani’s in the track “cold” is amazing. they were really thinking outside of the box to get the vibe of this album perfect.

Didn’t see the need for another Cure record. Never heard this one so it was good to listen to it. It’s fine, wouldn’t come back to this one.

It has superb guitar work and a stellar aura, but the vocals can be jarring.

A more-or-less one-note trance diving deeper into the depths of depression. Good background music for shooting up, probably. 3/5

A dark, gloomy take on 80's rock, gothic and brooding in it's instrumentation and lyrics. Drums are relentlessly pounding, with lots of eighth-note tom/snare grooves. Bass is dark and picked, guitar is saturated in chorus and overdrive, and synths are 80's and MIDI. The band is almost into New Wave, but still too moody and glum for proper pop. Vocals are whiny and emotional, and lyrics are pretty dark. This album felt very one-note to me, good at what it did but relentless and repetitive in the execution. Stand out tracks include "The Hanging Garden", "The Figurehead", and "Cold".

The Cure at their darkest and most bleak. Loved most of this one. 4.5

Definitely dope

Creepy atmosphere. I guess good gothic rock.

i literally own this album on CD. Listen to Cold if you haven't already.

This was when I loved The Cure, before they became a pop band. Early synths, distorted guitars and Robert Smith's voice it's hard not to think they'd progressed their sound and learnt as they went on from Seventeen Seconds's raw power through Faith's mesmeric rhythms this was a combination and who can argue that One Hundred Years is one of their best tracks but in reality band infighting and drugs had left them seemingly at a dead end. It's a shame what happened afterwards but it's happened with other bands too, their sound, production and mood is so intense something must break. This is an iconic album.

Loved it.

Awesome! Best Tracks: Hanging Garden & Pornography.

Monotonous

Unsettling and desparate, but well done. Stand-out: A Strange Day

God damn, that final trio of songs 'Strange Day' / 'Cold' / 'Pornography' is just unbelieveable. I'm so glad that it's not just albums after this one that are included by The Cure, since this early work of theirs was amazing. Almost unbearbly dark and soul-crushing, but also some of the best post-punk you'll hear.

2.9

An influential masterpiece that needed time to build it's legacy.

Thought it sounded a bit of a mess…

Good album, not amazing. Standout songs: The Hanging Garden A Strange Day

Really nice, love the bass. Robert Smith's voice is a bit annoying though.

First Cure album and this is pretty good. Dark and twisted but with out the context of other albums in their discography i can’t tell if this is my favorite sonic style for them.

Strange choice for the list as there are much better albums.

Such very sad people

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! Devin will love this!🤣 Not my favorite Cure album, but definitely fits their goth template. Hanging Garden is the best song, One Hundred Years is a good opening track. ***

Glad to see another Cure album on here! And such a provocative title. I haven't heard this album before, but it's more Cure goodness. Moody, spooky, and that dungeon music we all love. Figurehead sounded like Enjoy the Silence.

A couple weeks ago, we got that Dinosaur Jr. album with a cover of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven," and it reminded me that Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me isn't on this list. This album is, however, and I think it's the third and final Cure project. This one's alright, only a couple tracks that really grabbed me. I would most certainly hot-swap this album out for Kiss Me, off the strength of one song alone. I like the Cure when they're more in that dreamy, lovelorn bag. This one strikes me as more angsty; not a bad thing, but not my preference as far as their catalog goes. Favorite tracks: The Hanging Garden, The Figurehead. Album art: Really cool, warped image of the band. Looking like some zombies from Carnival of Souls. Definitely a banger. 3/5

It’s The Cure. What more could you want.