1001 Albums Summary

I never really understood jazz ... not as in i find it awful, i do admire the technic it requires, i like the play and the dialogue that it creates between musicians. I just don't feel enjoyment from listening to it.... i do feel the spiritual energy about this album... but it still wouldn't be something i just listen to just like that. musicality : ★★★★★ enjoyment: ★★

The Cure’s Pornography doesn’t just sound dark ... it feels like summer, but not the kind of summer people romanticise. It’s the heavy version: airless, slow, and quietly suffocating. The kind of summer where you return somewhere familiar and it no longer fits the same way, where the days stretch too long and everything feels slightly off. There’s a thickness to the album’s sound. the pounding, repetitive drums and dense production don’t just create gloom, they create pressure. It’s not cold isolation, but heat that lingers, making everything feel sticky, tired, and inescapable. Instead of hiding in shadows, the unease sits fully exposed, like something you can’t avoid under a bright, unrelenting sky. In that way it kinda feels like Pornography becomes something like “sunny spooky”: not darkness creeping in, but light revealing too much. It captures a very specific feeling to me, of being back home in the summer, a little older, a little disconnected, and not entirely sure why everything feels so heavy. It’s not dramatic despair, but a quieter kind of emptiness, one that hangs in the heat and refuses to move.

this album makes me feels this longing for something that i never lived. except its the 80s-90s, it's the summer I'm with my wife and my group of queer friends, we all feel joy despite it all but something in me, like a gut feeling tells me that it's all a dream. so i try my best to stay asleep, stay dreaming, but as i do that I'm being pulled away slowly because I'm waking. and I'm back in reality full of hope for a better future and a 'take me back' feeling.

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moving but also hard to listen fully ?