Description

Simultaneously more accessible and ambitious than any of the Cure's previous albums, the double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me finds Robert Smith expanding his pop vocabulary by tentatively adding bigger guitars, the occasional horn section, lite-funk rhythms, and string sections. It's eclectic, to be sure, but it's also a mess, bouncing from idea to idea and refusing to develop some of the most intriguing detours. Even if Kiss Me doesn't quite gel, its best moments — including the deceptively bouncy "Why Can't I Be You?" and the stately "Just Like Heaven" — are remarkable and help make the album one of the group's very best. This is the original Elektra pressing. It was re-released by Polydor in 2001 Track listing: 1. The Kiss 2. Catch 3. Torture 4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 5. Why Can't I Be You? 6. How Beautiful You Are 7. The Snakepit 8. Just Like Heaven 9. All I Want 10. Hot Hot Hot 11. One More Time 12. Like Cockatoos 13. Icing Sugar 14. The Perfect Girl 15. A Thousand Hours 16. Shiver and Shake 17. Fight