Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
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Artist: CureEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Kiss
- Catch
- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
- Why Can't I Be You?
- How Beautiful You Are...
- Snakepit
- Hey You!
- Just Like Heaven
- All I Want
- Hot Hot Hot!!!
- One More Time
- Like Cockatoos
- Icing Sugar
- The Perfect Girl
- A Thousand Hours
- Shiver And Shake
- Fight
- The Kiss (RS Home demo)
- The Perfect Girl (studio demo)
- Like Cockatoos (studio demo)
- Hot Hot Hot!!! (studio demo)
- Shiver And Shake (studio demo)
- If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (studio demo)
- Just Like Heaven (studio demo)
- Hey You! (studio demo)
- A Thousand Hours (studio alt mix)
- Icing Sugar (studio alt mix)
- One More Time (studio alt mix)
- How Beautiful You Are... (live bootleg)
- Snakepit (live bootleg)
- Catch (live bootleg)
- Torture (live bootleg)
- Fight (live bootleg)
- Why Can't I Be You? (live bootleg)
Free Music Notes for Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Free Music Review: A superb upgrade for a fantastic record.
Hit: 5 Stars
In my assessment the album where it all finally came together for the Cure, "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" is a triumph-- a double album of startling diversity and quality. While it's best known for it's pop singles (particularly "Just Like Heaven"), there's quite a bit more that this album has to offer.
Noneteless, I'll start by talking about the pop songs-- on "The Head on the Door", rhythm section Simon Gallup (bass) and Boris Williams (drums) provided a deep, pop groove over which textures could be arranged by leader/vocalist/guitarist Robert Smith and guitarist Porl Thomspon (both, as well as Lol Tolhurst, also contributed keyboard performances to the album). And "Just Like Heaven" is the best example of this-- a great beat, a nice, bright bassline hinting at funk, shimmering acoustic guitars, descending keyboard motifs, and a great electric lead guitar hook open the way for Smith's positively ecstatic vocal. It's no surprise it's a hit, it deserves to be, it's a great song. As nice as it is though, it's really overshadowed by the bouncy "Why Can't I Be You?"-- driven by a horn arrangement that in other hands could have been tacky, the piece is filled with energy over a frantic acoustic guitar riff and a superbly bizarre vocal by Smith.
But pop is really only one side of this, this is a band known as a goth band, and opener "The Kiss" reminds us why. Throbbing bass, fierce lead guitars, and an extended opening lead into a vocal assault by Smith among the most potent and confident he's done. Also of note in this vein is morbid droning piece "The Snakepit", with Smith's carefully half-spoken vocal providing a dramatic atmosphere. Again though, the Cure isn't a band just about goth and pop, tackling cooled off '60s psychedelia ("The Catch"), deep funk (the absolutely fantastic "Hot Hot Hot!!!"), world music tinged mood pieces ("If Only Tonight We Could Sleep", "Like Cockatoos") and texture driven punk songs ("Icing Sugar") among others. And remarkably, nothing is subpar-- it's all fantastic stuff.
The deluxe edition only makes things better-- restoring "Hey You!" to the album (deleted from early CD issues due to length considerations on 74 minute CDs) and a second disc of demos, alternate mixes and live tracks. This set of demos proves quite revealing not just to the creative process behind the pieces but the input of the rest of the band other than Robert Smith-- Smith's home demo of "The Kiss" illustrates this nicely-- it's a synth heavy number that benefitted drastically from Thompson's more aggressive guitar stylings. The live tracks are a big add, sonically they are superb (best of anything released so far on the deluxe edition) and the performances are great. The entire package has been remastered and sounds a lot better than the previous CD issue.
"Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" doesn't get quite the acclaim that "Disintegration" or "Wish" gets, but I've always found it to be the stronger album, managing to be both accessible and obscure. Highly recommended.
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Poster
This is The Cure's landmark album, featuring 18 previously unreleased tracks.Released in 1987, at the height of the compact-disc revolution, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the prototypical CD album. Cure architect Robert Smith knew that the newly popular format could handle almost twice as much music as records, and he wasn't about to waste the space. Unfortunately, many of Kiss Me's 17 tracks sound more like B-sides. The cream is certainly worth culling, however; "Catch," "How Beautiful You Are," and the alternative-rock staple "Just Like Heaven" are among the Cure's finest moments. "Hot Hot Hot!!!" and "Why Can't I Be You?" reveal that underneath all the dyed-black hair and glum stares lay a fervent dance band. Who knew? --Bill Crandall
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