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 enlarge | Artist: The Cure
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $7.42
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 48378
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 73351
UPC: 812273351204
EAN: 0081227335120
ASIN: B000ENC74K
Release Date: March 28, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | One Hundred Years | | • | A Short Term Effect | | • | Hanging Garden | | • | Siamese Twins | | • | Figurehead | | • | Strange Day | | • | Cold | | • | Pornography |
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Album Description
Originally a goth-flavored post-punk outfit, The Cure evolved into one of the truly seminal bands of the '80s, and ultimately one of modern rock's most celebrated and influential acts. Guided by creative visionary Robert Smith, The Cure's signature sound balances dreamy pop savvy and poetic lyricism with a dark, brooding intensity. The band's first four groundbreaking albums-newly remastered-are a series of masterpieces that laid the groundwork for their phenomenal and enduring popularity. Fusing superbly crafted songs with charged emotional depth from the very beginning, The Cure's early catalogue, as upgraded by Rhino, is ready to be revisted.
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A Masterpiece of Gothic Despair! January 28, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
There is no question in my mind that Robert Smith's head was in the lowest pit of hell when he wrote this album. The music is filled with anger, hate, sorrow, fear, rage, and despair; all pieces of the darker parts of the human psyche. The listener is taken on a gothic roller-coaster ride through dementia starting with the line "It doesn't matter if we all die" all the way to the vampiric conclusion "I must fight this sickness". Such emotion in this album, and you can't pull away from listening to it. There is something about the way the music is constructed and performed that keeps your ears alert and numbs your mind to the pain that is being expressed. You find yourself understanding the agony of the performers.
This record was way ahead of its time and, until 1989's "Disintigration", was The Cure's greatest achievement in the studio. Every song is great and they flow from one to the next in a perfect order. This album is flawless; a magically written, masterfully performed accomplishment in music.
Pornography of a soul.... June 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This, along with Disintegration, are my favorite Cure albums. I have only a handful of their work, but this one sticks out more than anyone, because of its relentless, overwhelming sense of despair. It is reminiscent of Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Skip Spence's Oar, and Nick Drake's Pink Moon in terms of hearing a soul in torment and a band in deepest depair.
Robert Smith was extremely depressed and doing a ton of drugs when he made this album, and his misery bleeds through every groove. The opener, One Hundred Years, set the tone with "it doesn't matter if we all die", and it sails the seas of blood from there. I really like the songs One Hundred Years, The Hanging Garden (the cheeriest song on the album, which isn't saying much, and not suprisingly, the album's only single), and the title track, which is a great closer. Smith's vocals are especially strong on this one, showing much more emotion than he usually does. I've always found his voice rather flat, but here his despair makes him sing better than he usually does.
The album sounds like a lot of Public Image Limited's early work. The sound is coarse, cacophonous, and edgy, and it really, really works. If I had to take two Cure albums to an island, I would take this one and Disintegration.
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