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| Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Cure
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 3422
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075596073721
EAN: 0075596073721
ASIN: B000002H4Q
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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 An eclectic collection that will quickly grow on you May 15, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
One of my first Cure albums, and I wasn't quite sure what to make of it at first. This album is not as unified musically or thematically as say, Pornography and Disintegration, but it's a great example of The Cure doing punk/pop rock. Of course, Why Can't I Be You, Hot(3x) and Just Like Heaven are radio gold, but this album has much more to offer. Like Cockatoos sounds like something Led Zeppelin might have written; the violin in How Beautiful You Are (my personal favorite on this album) still leaves me in awe, and Catch is absolutely beautiful. The Perfect Girl is as giggly as Robert Smith gets, and it's perfectly followed two tracks later with Shiver and Shake, where the rock gets harder and the spirit more bitter. For a new fan, Galore would be your best bet, but buy Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me before you transition into the band's music from the early 80s (read: Faith, Pornography, 17 Seconds). This album lacks the depth of those albums (and frankly, most of the others as well), but the range is startling on this album that launched the Cure onto a trajectory that made them so popular when they released Disintegration. This is the best Cure album for new fans who have exhausted the Greatest Hits collections.
One of the top ten of all time... August 3, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is one of those CD's that memories and events intertwine with the music and toy with your emotions whenever you listen to it.From the subtle but ferocious guitar in "Snakepit" to the sugarcoated sadness of "Perfect Girl", this one has it all. With it's perfect blending of guitar,synth and bass and the wonderfully sorrowful vocals of Robert Smith, "Just Like Heaven" may be the greatest pop song ever written.While these songs acompanied by "Torture" and "Cockatoos" may represent the more mainstream side of The Cure, they hit their wrist-slitting best with songs like "The Kiss","If Only Tonight.." and the one one that will make you call your girlfriend up and beg her to stay with you forever,"One More Time".Buy this CD.But be very careful where, when and with whom you play it.It has powers only our hearts and souls can see.
I wasn't a big cure fan untill I heard this November 26, 1999
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I remmber them in the 80's when I was a metal rocker and my brother liked them and was a goth. I never really liked the cure all that much in my life but I did have "Disintergration" and loved their song "Burn" on The Crow soundtrack. One day I was in the car and had the radio on and heard "Just Like Heaven" and I thought it was amazing so I searched my record store for this song and finally found this album and bought it. now I can't get enough of the cure and I look back to see that "Disintergration" is an amazing album and probaly their best. If you dont know the cure all that well GET THIS ONE! its a great start then go get "Disintergration" and "Boys dont cry" and the rest.
A Blast!!! March 9, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
How ironic and funny that this group, most known for their own distinctive brand of depression rock, has made some of the most joyous, exuberant, overtly happy music I've ever heard (in particular, "Why Can't I B You?"). On this album, Robert Smith offers his heart on a platter even if it is typically tinged with melancholy. KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME is so fun to explore and really highlights the Cure's eclecticism and wide range of talents. There are so many standout songs for me, but my favorite would have to be "Like Cockatoos" with a tricky, spiraling and masterful vocal from Smith and the bizarre sound of psychedelic birds in flight. Also, if pressed, I would have taken off "Shiver and Shake" which is energetic, frazzled, nasty and angry but a bit of a throwaway while "Hey You!!!," also a bit of a tossed-off tune, finds the Cure in full party mode which is a key aspect of this album. ("Hey You!!!" was removed so this double album could fit on one disc.) Note: as brilliant as the Cure is, the biggest complaint I hear about them from my non-fan friends is Smith's vocals which are admittedly rather thin and crackly. However, if you can get past that, he is a very emotive vocalist and an excellent vocal stylist who can truly do some amazing things with his pipes. I really love his voice, faults and all!
An audial universe on a thin plastic disc. January 26, 2000
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I will be simple.Kiss Me is a superb work of art. It is incredibly rich, lush, deep, raw, refined, heavy, ethereal, divine, and animal. It is the Cure's most diverse album, and along w/ Disintegration is probably their best (but WISH and Faith are ground-breaking, incredible too). This is an awesome record--over 70 mins in length--from one of history's greatest bands. It is edible again and again and can satisfy any mood such is the range of emotional exploration. If you want to begin constructing a quality music library, then buy the following albums from my two favorite bands: Black Celebration, 101, Violator (Depeche Mode); and of course, Disintegration, Wish, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (The Cure). Fabulous. Why are there so few pioneers, bands of true uniqueness and quality, in today's popular music? I'll tell you: b/c of pure f'n commercialism! Corporate fabricated bands are aired on corporate media outlets to a corporatized society. Life stinks eh? My redolent garden, my retreat, is in the music of bands like the Cure, DM, OMD, and 2 music goddesses, Loreena McKennitt and Enya....
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