The Cure-Kiss Me,Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

I guess writing about every album by The Cure is getting easier. I mean, it’s not exactly a chore to listen to every album by your favourite band is it. If anything, this making me truly appreciate the band even more than I already do. Every listen just makes me realise how important this band are to me. Maybe I’ll always be some silly lost cause, but The Cure make that burden easier to carry. There is nothing better than discovering different layers to the songs you love, the meanings behind the songs you love and what a band went through with each record.

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is probably the album that launched The Cure into the mainstream. Personally, it should’ve been the first album that did this. However, people are cack at times and they take a while to realise what they have don’t they. The albums opens with the euphoric and fucking gut wrenching The Kiss. If I could see The Cure perform any song live, it would be this one. Oh and of course A Forest. I love how wonderfully dramatic The Kiss is. A fantastic opener to the album. I think if this was the first record someone ever bought, it would just change their life in ways they couldn’t ever imagine. Like, nothing before is better and nothing after would have any worth. It just has that feel to it that cannot be found anywhere else.

One thing that annoyed me about this record is that Hey You was taken off the original release. It was placed on the 2006 edition, but it honestly should’ve been there the first time around. It would’ve just sounded so perfect.

I love how this album just makes you want to grab the person you are fond off and kiss them. However, if I was to do that to the person I like, I think she would probably call me a freak and tell me to fuck off! Oh well. It’s just such a bouncy, happy record. Quite like The Head On The Door, of course you have the dark moments but the music is just so wonderful and uplifting. It gives you that feeling that makes every part of you come alive. That’s what music should do.

One of the saddest things about this record is that it is pretty much the last one without the wonderful Lol Tolhurst. Is that loss evident in the releases after? Well, that’ll be something I’ll have in mind as I write about the albums after.

Everyone loves the tracks such as Catch, Just Like Heaven and Hot!Hot!Hot! but honestly, every single song is worthy of loving as much as those three. Every track is just beautifully astounding. There’s this wonderful atmosphere it posses that is found if you look beyond some of the dark lyrics, but to be honest it is possibly their most upbeat album (lyrically and musically.) When Robert sings “Hey!” Hey! Hey!” on Hot!Hot!Hot! it just fils you up with so much excitement. It’s just a stunning and exciting record from start to finish. You just have to play it over and over again; one listen isn’t enough. It stays with you forever. You build emotions and memories around it.

One song that always stands out for me has to be The Perfect Girl. I may act like a dickhead at times but I’m a stupidly romantic bugger at heart; and this song just sums it all up. I just adore the lines, “You’re such a strange girl. I want to be with you.”  It’s just a beautiful song. My favourite off the album, and one of my favourites by the band. It just makes you think of someone who amazes you, and wanting to be near them. It’s a delicate and happy song. I just love it to pieces.

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is yet again, another album by The Cure that just owns your heart.

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