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Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Rock · 1987 · 14 tracks

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

The Cure

Seventy minutes of kaleidoscopic excess. A sprawling double album that pivots from abrasive psychedelic noise to some of the brightest pop hooks of the eighties.

May 5, 1987 · Elektra

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An overstuffed, double-album sprawl of sensory overload explodes with a newfound sense of physical scale. The music stretches out into wide, sun-baked desert atmospheres, trading the tight corners of their past for a kaleidoscopic, feedback-drenched playground where absolute romantic devotion sits beside cynical disgust. It is the sound of a band operating at a confident creative peak, effortlessly shifting from massive psychedelic dirges to sugary, brass-led pop.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks
01
The Kiss
6:15
03
Torture
4:18
04
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
4:53
06
How Beautiful You Are…
5:14
07
The Snakepit
6:59
08
Hey You!!!
2:23
10
All I Want
5:23
12
One More Time
4:32
13
Like Cockatoos
3:40
14
Icing Sugar
3:49
15
The Perfect Girl
2:35
16
A Thousand Hours
3:24
17
Shiver and Shake
3:30
18
Fight
4:28
Moments Worth Listening For
01The KissThe opening track 'The Kiss' delays the vocals for over four minutes, building tension through a wall of wah-wah guitar and screaming feedback.
07The SnakepitA heavy, hypnotic rhythm and swirling, eastern-influenced guitar lines on 'The Snakepit' create a slow-burning, hallucinatory atmosphere.
17Shiver and ShakeThe frantic, throat-shredding vocal delivery on 'Shiver and Shake' provides a sharp, aggressive contrast to the album's dreamier pop moments.
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How does Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me sound next to the rest of The Cure's catalogue?

Intense+4.0σ

Intense saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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