Later hailed as one of the key goth rock albums of the '80s and considered by many hardcore Cure fans to be the band's best album, Pornography was largely dismissed upon its 1982 release, witheringly reviewed as a leaden slab of whining and moping. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between: Pornography is much better than most mainstream critics of the time thought, but in retrospect, it's not the masterpiece some fans have claimed it to be. The overall sound is thick and murky, but too muddy to be effectively atmospheric in the way that the more dynamic Disintegration managed a few years later. For every powerful track like the doomy opener "One Hundred Years" and the clattering, desolate single "The Hanging Garden," there's a sound-over-substance piece of filler like "The Figurehead," which sounds suitably bleak but doesn't have the musical or emotional heft this sort of music requires. Pornography is an often intriguing listen, but it's just a bit too uneven to be considered a classic.
tonight i popped in The Cure's highly unimpressive eponymous 2004 album and thought: nobody ever thinks of A Strange Day when they think of The Cure. A Strange Day, from the album Pornography, is among my top 10 Cure songs and i do not know of anyone who quite likes it as much as i do.and then it got me pondering all the unpopular (as in less liked) songs i love, by popular artists (as in big e...
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I know a lot of folks over the age of 12 have already dismissed this band years ago. With recent ditties like the banal...well everything from 1990 on, I can certainly see it. But if you've missed the 70-80's cure, do yourself a treat. Get Pornography. (No, not naked pics of the doombilly eating sweets and being spanked by asian girls while the board of directors of Clear Channel get sodomized ...
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The Kettles Chronicles part threehere are parts two and oneBoth are located, close to each other, at the walled temple complex of Angkor Thom.The Baphuon is a three-tiered temple mountain built in the mid-11th century as the state temple of the Hinduist Angkor king Udayadityavarman II to honor the Hindu God Shiva."I chose an eternity of this.Like falling angels, the world disappeared."It was co...
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tonight i popped in The Cure's highly unimpressive eponymous 2004 album and thought: nobody ever thinks of A Strange Day when they think of The Cure. A Strange Day, from the album Pornography, is among my top 10 Cure songs and i do not know of anyone who quite likes it as much as i do.and then it got me pondering all the unpopular (as in less liked) songs i love, by popular artists (as in big e...
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(from my work-in-progress something)she taught me how to play to the necessary audience, among other things. when he tells me i don't fake it so well anymore i think to myself no one is watching, and you my fading love, you no longer matter. this story, though, out of all the others she told me throughout my life has always struck me as odd and inconsistant to my own memories. the ocean has alw...
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I know a lot of folks over the age of 12 have already dismissed this band years ago. With recent ditties like the banal...well everything from 1990 on, I can certainly see it. But if you've missed the 70-80's cure, do yourself a treat. Get Pornography. (No, not naked pics of the doombilly eating sweets and being spanked by asian girls while the board of directors of Clear Channel get sodomized ...
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| 1 One Hundred Years |
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| 2 A Short Term Effect |
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| 3 The Hanging Garden |
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| 4 Siamese Twins |
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| 5 The Figurehead |
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| 6 A Strange Day |
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| 7 Cold |
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| 8 Pornography |
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