Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Amazon resale double album purchased for £18. Cover creased but still had the shrink wrap on. A brilliant double cure album with some classic tracks. All vinyl flat and noise free. I purchase all my vinyl through resale and obtain lots of bargains.

Classic Cure on a great pressing. Well worth the price being charged for a double album

A great album and lovely pressing! Managed to get it for a good price too!

Certainly one of the Best live albums of the 80's. Certainly The Cure's Best.

This album caused quite a stir within the music media when it was released (1987). Just two years earlier The Cure had finally broken through as a major commercial act, following six years of trying their best not to, and the prospect of a double album (as was the form it's original vinyl release took) from these unexpected megastars got more than a few people quite excited. All their expectations were fulfilled, the album containing 4 bona fide hit singles and 13 other classics, many of which could have been suitable choices for singles. The album kicks off with The Kiss, a heavy wah-wah driven track - the full 6:17 of wild guitar (with few repeating phrases) being performed in one take by vocalist Robert Smith rather than guitarist Porl Thompson, which surprised many given Porl's reputation as the "solo" guitarist out of what was a 2-guitar line up (Smith and Thompson). After this, we move into Catch, a mediterranean style piece of pop which is acknowledged by most Cure fans as being one of their greatest singles. The opening two tracks set the pace for the rest of the album really. The 17 songs pretty much go from rock/sort-of psychedelic to pop back to rock/sort-of psychedelic back to pop, and so on throughout the album. This is a concept that the band employed years later for Wild Mood Swings (1996), however on that particular album it doesn't really work simply because most of the songs just aren't strong enough to carry it off. On Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me it works brilliantly though. Like I said, most of the songs could have been singles, and of the songs that couldn't (i.e. the rockier or sort-of psychedelic stuff) are all absolute classics as well, so there aren't any problems with mixing and matching styles. I think the main reason it works so well is because it was unexpected that they would do this, whereas with Wild Mood Swings they made quite a contrite effort to actively do the same thing, even suggesting in interviews that this was their goal. A quick run through of the songs reveals rocky stuff such as The Kiss, Torture, All I Want, Shiver And Shake and Fight (heavily inspired by Led Zeppelin's Kashmir - blame Porl Thompson who went on to play with Page and Plant !!), the pure guitar pop of Catch, Why Can't I Be You, How Beautiful You Are, Just Like Heaven, Hot Hot Hot, The Perfect Girl, and psychedelic trancey stuff like One More Time, A Thousand Hours, The Snakepit, and the middle-eastern flavoured If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (very Kula Shaker - except about 10 years before they did it!!) This is the album where Smith's lyrics really started to become extremely sharp and polished, and his lyrics have been some of the best in the world from this point onwards (although he sings way too much about relationships for my tastes - his subject matter is ocassionally a bit limited). His voice really started to take on a maturity in that his singing here is the best it had ever been up to this point, although he still manages to put on the weirdest interpretation of a soul singer on Hot Hot Hot (don't worry, it actually works - it's not as bad as it sounds, in fact it's quite good !) This is an absolute classic album and at 17 songs in length (72 minutes running time) is a great value purchase that any self-respecting guitar music fan (of the indie/alternative variety of course) must have in his or her collection. I cannot recommend this album any higher.

The Cure's 2nd best album after 'Disintegration' imho. Sounds great on remastered vinyl. The album itself is as I said a typical double album, in that it would have made a killer single album. Still any album with 'Catch', 'Hot Hot Hot!' and the majestic 'Just Like Heaven' is still top-tier stuff.

Brought for a present

Good.

Quando Robert Smith decide di strizzare l’occhio al pop The Cure danno alla luce “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me". Un variopinto naïf, in cui vengono accantonate le precedenti cupezze ultraterrene dando spazio al caso e alla vastità di ispirazione esplorativa, jazz, psichedelica, rock e dark. Ascoltando le tracce si viene catapultati oltre la mente, l’essenza di questo disco è una penetrazione nell’intimo, un viaggio intenso tra il piacere e una logorante tristezza, emotivamente distorto e discontinuo, testi che parlano di vita affettiva, amore, sesso, tradimenti, rotture, rinascite e paranoiche depressioni che vanno a catturare implorazioni di abbracci toccando tutte le dimensioni dell’amore.

Mitte der 80er hatten The Cure bereits mit einigen Veröffentlichungen auf sich aufmerksam gemacht. Das 1982 erschienene Depri-Epos „Pornography“ (das heute unter Fans und Kritikern sehr hoch gehandelt wird) kam in England unter die Top-Ten und mit dem 1985 veröffentlichten „The Head On The Door“ hatten sie auch Amerika erreicht (wenngleich der große Durchbruch erst später folgte). Das über 70minütige „Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me“ ist derartig abwechslungsreich, sphärisch und vielschichtig, dass es die Briten endgültig auf der internationalen Bühne etablierte. Robert Smiths weißgeschminktes Gesicht (seine groß in Szene gesetzten Lippen zieren das Frontcover) und seine Mischung aus Charisma und Introvertiertheit sprachen die Teenager (und nicht nur die) an, die überdies zu Titeln wie „Just Like Heaven“ ausgelassen tanzen konnten, während „One More Time“ die Hymne für Talgefühlslagen und Abschiedsschmerz schlechthin ist. Zudem sind die Stücke großartig arrangiert und machen das Album zu einem fabelhaften Gesamthörerlebnis, auch wenn das nachfolgende „Disintegration“ (1989) diesbezüglich vielleicht sogar noch eine Spur ausgefuchster wirkt. The Cure waren nicht Mainstream und scherten sich wohl auch nicht sonderlich darum, aber spätestens mit „Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me“ hatten sie ein Massenpublikum für sich gewonnen. Neben den beiden schon erwähnten Songs, die wohl die herausragendsten (vielleicht auch eingängigsten) der Scheibe sind, tummeln sich noch viele weitere Klassetracks: Die bedrohlich-sphärischen Gitarrenklänge vom 6minütigen Opener „The Kiss“ begeistern ebenso, wie das eher sparsam dargebrachte „Catch“, das mit weniger als halb so viel Spielzeit überzeugen kann. „If Only Tonight We Could Sleep“ versetzt den Hörer nahezu in Trance, „Why Can’t It Be You“ und „How Beautiful You Are…“ sowie das fetzige „Hey You!!!“ rocken verzückend und das funkige, sichtlich vom Motwon beeinflusste „Hot Hot Hot!!!“ nimmt bereits Sounds vorweg, mit denen die Red Hot Chili Peppers 4 Jahre später die Welt eroberten. Anders als bei anderen üppigen Werken, kommen sich Kreativität und Harmonie einander nicht unschön in die Quere. Die Platte bietet genug Abwechslung, um aufmerksam zu bleiben und klingt zugleich angenehm flüssig, woraus ein schöner Gesamthörfluss resultiert. „Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me“ ist ein echtes Meisterwerk und gehört zur den besten Alben der 80er-Jahre. In Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz gelangte die LP jeweils unter die Top 5. In Großbritannien wurde die Scheibe mit einem 6. Platz und Goldstatus zur bis dato erfolgreichsten Veröffentlichung der Band. In den USA reichte es sogar für Platin. Noch heute macht die vollkommene Mischung aus schmissiger Leichtigkeit und wehklagendem Schwermut fast süchtig. Man kann „Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me“ also guten Gewissens auch Zeitlosigkeit attestieren. Tipp: Wer vorliegenden Tonträger lieben gelernt hat, der kommt am nachfolgenden „Disintegration“ unmöglich vorbei. ANSPIELTIPPS: - The Kiss - Catch - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep - Why Can’t It Be You? - How Beautiful You Are… - Hey You!!! - Just Like Heaven (!) - Hot Hot Hot!!! - One More Time (!)

Un disco imprescindible para cualquier amante de la música. Buen sonido en una buenaa edición con letras incluidas

Excelente álbum! Nuevo, empacado correctamente y con un excelente sonido. A pesar de que hubo un retraso por ahí, recomiendo la compra, además de que teniendo en cuenta que los formatos físicos, CD, DVD y Blu Ray, van de salida (lamentablemente), por el precio es una oferta inmejorable.

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