Classic Albums #9: The Cure's Pornography
 

Brilliant album, awesome cover and great songs. one of the best opening lines.

that album has some great songs. "a strange day" is the best song.

Faith is better I reckon

I agree, always preferred Faith.

Pornography's great but I prefer Faith and Desintegration.

Pornography is my favourite cure album, one hundred years and siamese twins are my favourites. I think charlotte sometimes should have been on this album. It's such a dark album, so much pain, it's hard to be believe what was released several months later.

sorry, king buzzo, i typically agree with you on many many things.

but i hate this album.

the only cure worth listening to is probably 3 imaginary boys/boys don't cry, and even that is grating.

ehhhhhhhhh.

pornography has a song or two that is listenable, but the overly goth bass lines and the silly drum sound just kills it, not to mention the ridiculous casio cathedral organ sheen. just.. i dunno.. though "it doesn't matter if we all die" or however the first line on the album goes did stick with me.

Such an awesome album. I liked it better than disintegration.

I never got into the Cure.

King Buzzo, #9 really belonged to the white album, you know.

whoops, i didnt see it. oh well.

You have to place the record into context, it was the time of electro-pop (everyone was influenced by Kraftwerk). In addition there's a Cabaret voltaire and Throbbing gristle influence to it that I thought would appeal to you, and the guitar in the title track is in my opinion a precursor to noise-rock.

Is it just me or is the strings used in the pornography song very similar to the music in the resident evil mansion? (obviously this isn't the cures fault since they wrote the song 12 years before resident evil).

there are things i dig in it, but as a whole it's just.......... wow... boring.

i didn't really hear any throbbing gristle influences in it, but ..

i dunno. i just have never been in the mood to listen to pornography after listening to it a couple times a while back.... maybe one day.

it doesnt matter if we all die...
greatest opening line of any album anywhere...

its a classic album. the finest cure album ever. the sound of a band being fucked up on life and other shit. its te only cure album i listen to regulary anymore.....

I also think this album was their finest hour, though I also love Faith/Seventeen Seconds/Carnage Visors nearly as much.
Still, this album sounds so original still (I really don't know of anything that sounds quite like it), and in its time it was a pretty bold statement. Heavy, drugged, harsh and desperate. I like the drum sound on this album, even though it dates itself. Bought a deluxe 180g Simply Vinyl reissue a few years back, and it was worth every penny. I'd listened to it literally hundreds of times since the early/mid 80s, and I heard new things in it that I had never noticed before.

Faith tops this.
Shame Robert Smith won't grow up.

does anyone know a good cover of the song "pornography"? this is one song i'd like to be covered by SY. I think they would have fun to do it... are there any other song somebody would like to hear by SY?

I love it. I love head in The Door too

and Kiss Me Kiss me Kiss Me. fucking double amazing album

and disintegration
and boys don;t cry
and
and

abnd

I love Pornography too, but Boys Don't Cry will always be my favorite Cure.