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Pornography (Remastered) |  | Artist: The Cure
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Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 8985
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 43 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 602498218389
EAN: 0602498218389
ASIN: B000AKSSFE
Release Date: September 5, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | One Hundred Years | | • | A Short Term Effect | | • | The Hanging Garden | | • | Siamese Twins | | • | The Figurehead | | • | A Strange Day | | • | Cold | | • | Pornography |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
The shock of what was new June 6, 2008
Vitamino (London)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
It's a shame in a way that nowadays this album seems to fit in with a vast amount of similarly aggressive and agonising music. On it's release it was the first of it's kind and to describe its impact as harrowing would be a serious understatement.
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br /Seminal it undoubtably was but where other bands strive to achieve the same effect they fail because 'Pornography' is so sincere. Only Nirvana reached the level of outright desperation that brutally stabs out of this recording. But cacophony in itself is not enough. These are really great songs produced by a man who was driving himself way too hard.
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br /In amongst the relentlessly attacking sound, evidence of a great songwriter emerges in moments of astonishing beauty. This is why the Cure's more recent releases fail. Smith was still discovering his ability and wrote as a man in some kind of genuine purgatory. Now, he's wealthy and comfortable and no matter how hard he digs, the well of desparate memories and wondrous revelations have run dry.
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br /So considering it's utterly uncompromising sound it's not surprising that this shocking album didn't sell on release. It left people either stunned (like watching someone having a nervous breakdown at a party) or alienated, after all, it's predecessors were low key and fanciful in comparison.
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br /It marked a change in Smith's life. Although the following album had it's moments of crushing beauty he moved firmly into the land of the 'Lovecats', commercial success and some kind of weird happiness. And unlike Kurt Cobain there really was a happy ending.
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My favourite Cure album November 5, 2006
Ben Leighton (UK)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
"Pornography" by the Cure is definately my favourite album by one of the most inspriational bands to come out of England. This totally redefines "goth" music and is really one of the only Cure albums to really capture a strong picture of the dark side of the band. Most people associate The Cure as a band that writes catchy tuneful pop songs, but for a glimpse of Robert Smith at his darkest i would totally reccomend this. Dont get me wrong, i love the catchy melodies and hooks from songs off latter albums, but I will always hold this album up high as a favourite. It is bleak as sin and dark as hell.
One of the greatest post-punk albums ever October 15, 2008
Mark Edwards
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I never rated the Cure when they first started. All that stuff about jumping other people's trains, killing middle-easterners and not crying 'cos you're a boy didn't do much for me.
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br /However a mate persuaded me to go and see them on the "Faith" tour and I was blown away. Bought "Faith" the next day and, when "Pornography" came out, I just had to have it (made even better by the childish pleasure of asking my parents to buy me "Pornography" for my birthday).
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br /I loved "Faith" and I loved Joy Division, the Banshees, and the rest of the post-punk crowd, but this was something else.
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br /With an opening line of "It doesn't matter if we all die" and a closing line of "I must fight this sickness, find a cure", and a whole range of (un)healthy emotions and obsessions explored inbetween, this was just the thing to listen to for those of us who didn't buy into the emptiness of New Pop and the Thatcher Dream. Lots of people thought it was morbid and depressing - more fool them. It made us feel more alive than ever.
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br /And as for the music ... you'll find no better soundtrack to a slasher movie scripted by William Burroughs and Jean-Paul Sartre than this. Now if only someone would make that movie.
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br /More than 20 years on, I bought it again on CD. It was just as good as before, in fact if anything better for now being out of its historical context.
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br /A timeless record. Now, where's my lipstick and face paint......
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the last blast April 22, 2007
chas mcalindon (outer hebrides)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
coming at a time when punk rock and new wave was being strangled be newglamromantisicko 80s pop crap(spandau ballet, duran duran yuk!), the cure were becoming increasingly black.each album was better, darker, than the previous. this was not 'goth', this was undefinable unique and always uplifting, much in the same way as joy division's 'closer', or killing joke's self named debut. unfortunately this was the last of this particularly brilliant period. 'pornography' and 'faith' gave way to the more sales inspired , though not bland, poptunes like 'lovecats'. i have continued to marvel at this pulsing, mesmerising genius of an album since it was first released, and it is still fresh, and inspiring. this is the cure.
A quality of its own... June 24, 2007
K. K. Jakubczyk (Subversive Surrey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the Cure's best album, there is no denying that; it also their most impenetrable, especially for the casual listener and to those new to the band. If you are coming to the Cure from their later releases - such as "Disintegration", "Kiss me" or even "Head on" - then you might be in for a shock.
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br /It's hardly surprising that this record appealed to me when I was a teenager. It is loud and filled with a superficial layer of anger and angst that suit persons of the teenage disposition. However, when you strip away these superficial references you are left with a piece of work that is infinitly better than the sum of its parts. This is an album with long term appeal.
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br /The multitude of cultural and political references spewed out within the first track, 'One hundred years', are simply overwhelming. The rigid, martial staccato drum patterns (mostly played by Robert Smith, I understand) set the percussive mood for the rest of the record. The many references to the ultimate political tool are surely not coincidental, and are very relevant in our own troubled times.
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br /The tangible insanity contained within 'Short term effect' and 'Siamese twins' is perhaps the most disturbing element within the first side of this record. This has personal resonance.
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br /Side two opens with the exceptional 'Figurehead', the meaning of which continues to intrigue me over twenty years later. Smith has a wonderfull way of capturing my imagination with diverse subject matter; for instance Chinese art and American girls. The gently applied reverb/ echo effect is also noteworthy.
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br /The closing track 'Pornography' deserves special mention. The subject matter remains distrubing and relentless to the very end and is a million miles distant from images of Perrelli calender girls wrestling in body lotion (sic). A very powerful song.
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br /Although I've highlighted Smith's songwriting, and the wonderfully martial quality of the drumming, I should also direct praise towards Simon Gallup's bass playing - brilliant. Smith's guitar playing; a mixture of (Fender) Jaguar barritone and more typical Fender (tones) equally stands out.
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br /If you already own the Cure's more mainstream recordings, I would recommend "Pornography". However, I would caveat my recommendation: you need to give this record time to get under your skin - you will be rewarded.
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