Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by Cure (The) (CD, Oct-2006, Elektra)

Album Features
UPC:	081227475024
Artist:	Cure (The)
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2006
Record Label:	Elektra
Genre:	Gothic, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Kiss, The
2. Catch
3. Torture
4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
5. Why Can't I Be You?
6. How Beautiful You Are...
7. Snakepit, The
8. Hey You!
9. Just Like Heaven
10. All I Want
11. Hot Hot Hot!!!
12. One More Time
13. Like Cockatoos
14. Icing Sugar
15. Perfect Girl, The
16. Thousand Hours, A
17. Shiver and Shake
18. Fight

Details
Playing Time:	71 min.
Producer:	Robert Smith, Dave Allen, Robert "Big Bert" Smith, Robert J. Smith
Distributor:	WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	ADD

Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD.The Cure: Robert Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Simon Gallup (bass guitar); Laurence Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams.Personnel: Robert "Big Bert" Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Porl Thompson (guitar, saxophone, keyboards); Andrew Brennen (saxophone); Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards); Boris Williams (drums, percussion).Liner Note Author: Johnny Black.Recording information: 03/1986-12/1987.Photographers: R. Tucci; Paul Cox; Andy Vella; Tom Sheehan.This hefty double album often sounds more like a compilation than a coherent whole, with musical ideas bouncing frantically back and forth. Nevertheless, in typical Cure style, KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME successfully combines catchy pop with bitter despair. Through 17 immensely sensual songs, Robert Smith is at his most poetic ("strange as angels, dancing in the deepest ocean, twisting in the water, you're just like a dream") and vitriolic ("get your f****** voice out of my head...I never wanted any of this, I wish you were dead"). The joyous pop of "Just Like Heaven" and "The Perfect Girl" still delights, and the frisson provided by "Shiver And Shake" reinforces the physical nature of this collection.

Editorial Reviews
Ranked #3 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1987
CMJ (20040105)

Smith pens the prettiest pop, unleashes seven minutes of sitar-driven stonerdom, uses accordions to punctuate Parisian travelogues, plays with psychedelic Hendrixian guitar textures and -- as always -- lets bassist Simon Gallup have all the best riffs and melodies.
Magnet

[With] the heartfelt 'Just Like Heaven,' one of the classic alt-rock singles of the 1980s.
Alternative Press

4 stars out of 5 -- Glossy, even sexy, here the excesses of that decade finally caught up with Smith, which he twisted into stunning pop...
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