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Track List
01) The Kiss
02) Catch
03) Torture
04) If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
05) Why Can't I Be You?
06) How Beautiful You Are
07) The Snakepit
08) Just Like Heaven
09) 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
01) The Kiss
02) Catch
03) Torture
04) If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
05) Why Can't I Be You?
06) How Beautiful You Are
07) The Snakepit
08) Just Like Heaven
09) 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
6:14
2:44
4:18
4:53
3:14
5:14
6:59
3:32
5:22
3:35
4:32
3:40
3:49
2:35
3:24
3:29
4:27
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First Released
1987
Alternative Rock
Gritty
Rock/Pop
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.
Though a double album, it was released as a single CD, and single cassette. One track, "Hey You!!!", was omitted from the original CD release (due to the 74:33 Red Book time restriction on the CD format at the time) to fit the album on one disc, but was included on all cassette releases. A limited vinyl edition came with an extra six-track 12" (orange vinyl, featuring the songs "Sugar Girl", "Snow In Summer", "Icing Sugar", "A Japanese Dream", "Breathe" and "A Chain Of Flowers").
Robert Smith has stated that he wrote the song "Shiver and Shake" about Lol Tolhurst's diminishing role in the band. This is also the last studio album band member Porl Thompson played keyboards on; he played guitar only on all subsequent studio releases. Special guest Andrew Brennan played the saxophone on "Hey You!!!" and "Icing Sugar."
Kiss Me continues to dominate the band's live set; the 2008 4Tour included performances of "The Kiss", "Torture", "Catch", "Why Can't I Be You?", "How Beautiful You Are", "Just Like Heaven", "Hot Hot Hot!!!", "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep", and "Shiver and Shake" at various shows.
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Originally released in 1987, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me saw The Cure at perhaps their highest point in the public consciousness. The previous year's singles compilation Standing On A Beach had done considerably well for a band many may have considered as a bit of a marginal concern for the misunderstood set, it turned Robert Smith into a Smash Hits pin-up and enabled the band to go forth and unleash a double album. One of only two listenable double albums in 1987 – the other being Prince's seismic Sign O' The Times – it cemented Robert Smith and chums' position. It also led them into the world of arenas and stadiums- a world they comfortably inhabit even now, some 21 years on. Indeed, anyone who saw their Wembley show, had a Value For Money-tastic three and half hours.
Put into context, Kiss Me was the sixth 'proper' Cure album, the follow-up to the spook-pop masterpiece that was 1995's The Head On The Door, and the predecessor to what some consider their finest work – 1989's Disintegration. These were the dressing up years, and such was their cache, Robert Smith entered the fancy dress lexicon with his comedy lipstick and hairdresser nightmare fright-barnet
The band were writing at a huge rate: over 40 songs were initially recorded, with each band member giving them marks out of 20 to see which final 18 would make the cut. Not only does Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me offer Cure fans a taste of everything – wonky funk on Hot Hot Hot!!!, prog wiggery on The Kiss and sheer elegance on If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, weedy violin-led ballads such as the delectable Catch – it also contains one of the greatest singles recorded in the form of the majestic Just Like Heaven.
Now available in an expanded form with bonus tracks and rarities – the original CD omitted a track due to the 80s inability to fit it all on one disc – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is not only an anomaly - a double album you can play all the way through? Even the Beatles were incapable of that – it's also the perfect explain-them-to-Martians Cure album. A true delight.
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.
Though a double album, it was released as a single CD, and single cassette. One track, "Hey You!!!", was omitted from the original CD release (due to the 74:33 Red Book time restriction on the CD format at the time) to fit the album on one disc, but was included on all cassette releases. A limited vinyl edition came with an extra six-track 12" (orange vinyl, featuring the songs "Sugar Girl", "Snow In Summer", "Icing Sugar", "A Japanese Dream", "Breathe" and "A Chain Of Flowers").
Robert Smith has stated that he wrote the song "Shiver and Shake" about Lol Tolhurst's diminishing role in the band. This is also the last studio album band member Porl Thompson played keyboards on; he played guitar only on all subsequent studio releases. Special guest Andrew Brennan played the saxophone on "Hey You!!!" and "Icing Sugar."
Kiss Me continues to dominate the band's live set; the 2008 4Tour included performances of "The Kiss", "Torture", "Catch", "Why Can't I Be You?", "How Beautiful You Are", "Just Like Heaven", "Hot Hot Hot!!!", "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep", and "Shiver and Shake" at various shows.
User Album Review
Originally released in 1987, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me saw The Cure at perhaps their highest point in the public consciousness. The previous year's singles compilation Standing On A Beach had done considerably well for a band many may have considered as a bit of a marginal concern for the misunderstood set, it turned Robert Smith into a Smash Hits pin-up and enabled the band to go forth and unleash a double album. One of only two listenable double albums in 1987 – the other being Prince's seismic Sign O' The Times – it cemented Robert Smith and chums' position. It also led them into the world of arenas and stadiums- a world they comfortably inhabit even now, some 21 years on. Indeed, anyone who saw their Wembley show, had a Value For Money-tastic three and half hours.
Put into context, Kiss Me was the sixth 'proper' Cure album, the follow-up to the spook-pop masterpiece that was 1995's The Head On The Door, and the predecessor to what some consider their finest work – 1989's Disintegration. These were the dressing up years, and such was their cache, Robert Smith entered the fancy dress lexicon with his comedy lipstick and hairdresser nightmare fright-barnet
The band were writing at a huge rate: over 40 songs were initially recorded, with each band member giving them marks out of 20 to see which final 18 would make the cut. Not only does Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me offer Cure fans a taste of everything – wonky funk on Hot Hot Hot!!!, prog wiggery on The Kiss and sheer elegance on If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, weedy violin-led ballads such as the delectable Catch – it also contains one of the greatest singles recorded in the form of the majestic Just Like Heaven.
Now available in an expanded form with bonus tracks and rarities – the original CD omitted a track due to the 80s inability to fit it all on one disc – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is not only an anomaly - a double album you can play all the way through? Even the Beatles were incapable of that – it's also the perfect explain-them-to-Martians Cure album. A true delight.
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