2xLP BLACK VINYL

Simultaneously more accessible and ambitious than any of the Cure's previous albums, the double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me finds Robert Smith expanding his pop vocabulary by tentatively adding bigger guitars, the occasional horn section, lite-funk rhythms, and string sections. It's eclectic, to be sure, but it's also a mess, bouncing from idea to idea and refusing to develop some of the most intriguing detours. Even if Kiss Me doesn't quite gel, its best moments -- including the deceptively bouncy "Why Can't I Be You?" and the stately "Just Like Heaven" -- are remarkable and help make the album one of the group's very best.

A1        The Kiss
A2        Catch
A3        Torture
A4        If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
B1        Why Can't I Be You?
B2        How Beautiful You Are...
B3        The Snake Pit
B4        Hey You !!!
C1        Just Like Heaven
C2        All I Want
C3        Hot Hot Hot !!!
C4        One More Time
C5        Like Cockatoos
D1        Icing Sugar
D2        The Perfect Girl
D3        A Thousand Hours
D4        Shiver And Shake
D5        Fight