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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. The Kiss | |||
| 2. Catch | |||
| 3. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep | |||
| 4. Why Can't I Be You? | |||
| 5. How Beautiful You Are... | |||
| 6. Snakepit | |||
| 7. Hey You! | |||
| 8. Just Like Heaven | |||
| 9. All I Want | |||
| 10. Hot Hot Hot!!! | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Kiss (RS Home demo) | |||
| 2. The Perfect Girl (studio demo) | |||
| 3. Like Cockatoos (studio demo) | |||
| 4. Hot Hot Hot!!! (studio demo) | |||
| 5. Shiver And Shake (studio demo) | |||
| 6. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (studio demo) | |||
| 7. Just Like Heaven (studio demo) | |||
| 8. Hey You! (studio demo) | |||
| 9. A Thousand Hours (studio alt mix) | |||
| 10. Icing Sugar (studio alt mix) | |||
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Editorial Reviews
2006 digitally remastered two CD edition of this landmark album from 1987. After years of trying, The Cure finally achieved U.S. success with this sprawling musical epic. Disc One features all 18 tracks from the original double LP set on one CD (including 'Hey You' , which has only previously appeared on vinyl and cassette versions). Disc Two features an additional 18 bonus tracks including demos, alternate mixes and live recordings. 36 tracks total including 'Why Can't I Be You', 'Just Like Heaven', 'Catch' and more. Deluxe package contains a 20 page booklet including sleeve notes with rare and previously unseen photographs. WEA.
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The music on this cd has been blasted out of my speakers more than any other in the past thirteen years. And that's saying alot. Around 1989, I got rid of my old blue jam box and upgraded to a cd player. This meant tossing my Cure tape and moving over to the cd. Thus, this is also the first album I have purchased twice. Now, I still put it in my (even newer) stereo, but its not for nostalgic reasons. This is fantastic music and has something to offer everyone.
The Kiss is perhaps the darkest song I've every heard, and is the first one on this album I fell in love with. Like Cockatoos has that bass line that mingles with your blood. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep is so unique and strange that it almost redefines what music is. It's nearly narrative. And Just Like Heaven, as somebody else said in another review, really is the perfect pop song.
The Cure has metamorphosed more times that other bands have albums, but Robert Smith's melancholic voice has always been there, droning about misery or rejoicing in giddiness. This album, though currently not directly centered, serves as the perfect fulcrum to their incredible body of work.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In my assessment the album where it all finally came together for the Cure, "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" is a triumph-- a double album of startling diversity and quality. While it's best known for it's pop singles (particularly "Just Like Heaven"), there's quite a bit more that this album has to offer.
Noneteless, I'll start by talking about the pop songs-- on "The Head on the Door", rhythm section Simon Gallup (bass) and Boris Williams (drums) provided a deep, pop groove over which textures could be arranged by leader/vocalist/guitarist Robert Smith and guitarist Porl Thomspon (both, as well as Lol Tolhurst, also contributed keyboard performances to the album). And "Just Like Heaven" is the best example of this-- a great beat, a nice, bright bassline hinting at funk, shimmering acoustic guitars, descending keyboard motifs, and a great electric lead guitar hook open the way for Smith's positively ecstatic vocal. It's no surprise it's a hit, it deserves to be, it's a great song. As nice as it is though, it's really overshadowed by the bouncy "Why Can't I Be You?"-- driven by a horn arrangement that in other hands could have been tacky, the piece is filled with energy over a frantic acoustic guitar riff and a superbly bizarre vocal by Smith.
But pop is really only one side of this, this is a band known as a goth band, and opener "The Kiss" reminds us why. Throbbing bass, fierce lead guitars, and an extended opening lead into a vocal assault by Smith among the most potent and confident he's done. Also of note in this vein is morbid droning piece "The Snakepit", with Smith's carefully half-spoken vocal providing a dramatic atmosphere. Again though, the Cure isn't a band just about goth and pop, tackling cooled off '60s psychedelia ("The Catch"), deep funk (the absolutely fantastic "Hot Hot Hot!!!"), world music tinged mood pieces ("If Only Tonight We Could Sleep", "Like Cockatoos") and texture driven punk songs ("Icing Sugar") among others. And remarkably, nothing is subpar-- it's all fantastic stuff.
The deluxe edition only makes things better-- restoring "Hey You!" to the album (deleted from early CD issues due to length considerations on 74 minute CDs) and a second disc of demos, alternate mixes and live tracks. This set of demos proves quite revealing not just to the creative process behind the pieces but the input of the rest of the band other than Robert Smith-- Smith's home demo of "The Kiss" illustrates this nicely-- it's a synth heavy number that benefitted drastically from Thompson's more aggressive guitar stylings. The live tracks are a big add, sonically they are superb (best of anything released so far on the deluxe edition) and the performances are great. The entire package has been remastered and sounds a lot better than the previous CD issue.
"Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" doesn't get quite the acclaim that "Disintegration" or "Wish" gets, but I've always found it to be the stronger album, managing to be both accessible and obscure. Highly recommended.
Noneteless, I'll start by talking about the pop songs-- on "The Head on the Door", rhythm section Simon Gallup (bass) and Boris Williams (drums) provided a deep, pop groove over which textures could be arranged by leader/vocalist/guitarist Robert Smith and guitarist Porl Thomspon (both, as well as Lol Tolhurst, also contributed keyboard performances to the album). And "Just Like Heaven" is the best example of this-- a great beat, a nice, bright bassline hinting at funk, shimmering acoustic guitars, descending keyboard motifs, and a great electric lead guitar hook open the way for Smith's positively ecstatic vocal. It's no surprise it's a hit, it deserves to be, it's a great song. As nice as it is though, it's really overshadowed by the bouncy "Why Can't I Be You?"-- driven by a horn arrangement that in other hands could have been tacky, the piece is filled with energy over a frantic acoustic guitar riff and a superbly bizarre vocal by Smith.
But pop is really only one side of this, this is a band known as a goth band, and opener "The Kiss" reminds us why. Throbbing bass, fierce lead guitars, and an extended opening lead into a vocal assault by Smith among the most potent and confident he's done. Also of note in this vein is morbid droning piece "The Snakepit", with Smith's carefully half-spoken vocal providing a dramatic atmosphere. Again though, the Cure isn't a band just about goth and pop, tackling cooled off '60s psychedelia ("The Catch"), deep funk (the absolutely fantastic "Hot Hot Hot!!!"), world music tinged mood pieces ("If Only Tonight We Could Sleep", "Like Cockatoos") and texture driven punk songs ("Icing Sugar") among others. And remarkably, nothing is subpar-- it's all fantastic stuff.
The deluxe edition only makes things better-- restoring "Hey You!" to the album (deleted from early CD issues due to length considerations on 74 minute CDs) and a second disc of demos, alternate mixes and live tracks. This set of demos proves quite revealing not just to the creative process behind the pieces but the input of the rest of the band other than Robert Smith-- Smith's home demo of "The Kiss" illustrates this nicely-- it's a synth heavy number that benefitted drastically from Thompson's more aggressive guitar stylings. The live tracks are a big add, sonically they are superb (best of anything released so far on the deluxe edition) and the performances are great. The entire package has been remastered and sounds a lot better than the previous CD issue.
"Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" doesn't get quite the acclaim that "Disintegration" or "Wish" gets, but I've always found it to be the stronger album, managing to be both accessible and obscure. Highly recommended.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is one of my favorite Cure albums. It's packed with great music and has a discernible atmosphere that distinguishes it from most other alternative music. The Cure was a big part of my teenaged years, and this music sounds as good today as it did back then. Just Like Heaven and Hot Hot Hot!!! are the two tracks most likely to be familiar to the uninitiated, the first song catching the group at one of their more mainstream (yet unique) moments and the latter proving that The Cure could appeal to a wider audience while remaining perfectly and distinctively themselves. My nod for best song on the album, though, would go to Why Can't I Be You? which is actually quite upbeat and danceable (if you're so inclined). This song is one of several that deliver a virtual cacophony of sound, including prominent horns against the familiar background sounds of the band. Catch, How Beautiful You Are, and The Perfect Girl have an infectious, ditty-like quality to them, breaking the music free from the clinging maudlin environment one expects to find front man Robert Smith in much of the time. Of course, melancholia exists among these tracks as well. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep is a slow, sentimental song which sounds wonderful until you get to One More Time, which outdoes it in poignancy. And then you get to A Thousand Hours; if ever a Cure song could be called beautiful, this is the one. Robert Smith says more in a few words than most singers do over the course of an entire album. When Smith sings "For how much longer can I howl into this wind, for how much longer can I cry like this?" I find myself quite moved every time; the vocals are raw and impassioned and seem to incorporate so much anxiety and angst into them that the overall effect is incredible. I don't want you to think that the guys went soft on this album, though: Torture is a release of pent-up feelings, Shiver and Shake tells it like it is, and the final track Fight energizes each past, former, or future Cure addict to be who you are and who you want to be regardless of what others may think of you.
You may actually want to look for the tape rather than the CD of this particular album. While the CD is quite long, extending well over an hour, the tape contains one track not included on the CD: Hey You. It's actually one of my favorite songs on the album, full of bounce and inspiration, even though it isn't very long in duration. There is really more variety to be found on this album than on most other Cure releases, and I think this is the best selection with which to introduce today's generation to the music we thirtysomethings indulged in during our youth. I would still have to name Disintegration as the group's best album, but I really believe Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is their most appealing offering.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Album
I love this album, it has great songs, great energy. It also has very good reviews (5 or 10 stars). This album is from 1987, but I don't think it sounds "80's" adn that's a... Read more
Published 20 days ago by Jaguar XS
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Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
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Published 1 month ago by Bjorn Viberg
4.0 out of 5 stars
lost
roberts most eccentric work. it captures something he could never catch again. maby 1987 was the last good ol american year
Published 3 months ago by michael
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just an okay
Excellent music! A must buy for someone into this type of music but need to jump tracks to get the musical enjoyment.
Published 4 months ago by Nicola Tassiello
5.0 out of 5 stars
cd
this is one of the best albums ever.
order arrived earlier than expected
very pleased with order and with the album.
order arrived earlier than expected
very pleased with order and with the album.
Published 5 months ago by Lupe
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wild and Moody.
This is one of the better Cure record to explore a variety of sounds imo. You have a ton of stuff to go over here and the bonus disc is packed with some goodies and instrumentals. Read more
Published 7 months ago by crank
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Puckering And Unpuckering In Anticipation
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Published 18 months ago by kabalabonga
4.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Cure - Here's the List
This applies to the CD numbered: 9 60737-2.
The following note is provided on the CD cover: "The music on this Compact Disc was originally recorded on analog equipment. Read more
The following note is provided on the CD cover: "The music on this Compact Disc was originally recorded on analog equipment. Read more
Published on March 8, 2011 by Roy F. Johnson
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classic
This album is one of the quintessential 80's album. Not that it is 80s music but it was released in the decade. Read more
Published on August 5, 2010 by J. Boyd
5.0 out of 5 stars
eclectic mix
This is one of The Cure's most varied CDs and is a bargain in the single disc remastered format. Great pop songs include "Just Like Heaven" and "Catch. Read more
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