CD: 982 183-8
RELEASED: 2005
LABEL: Fiction

01. One Hundred Years
02. A Short Term Effect
03. The Hanging Garden
04. Siamese Twins
05. Figurehead
06. A Strange Day
07. Cold
08. Pornography

Digitally remastered reissue of The Cure's 4th album Pornography from 1981. Pornography remains one of The Cure's heaviest albums, both emotionally and sonically. Features Cure classics 'The Hanging Garden' and 'One Hundred Years.' A bonus disc, Rarities 1981-1982, contains 14 tracks making their CD debut, including the previously unreleased 'Temptation Two' and four live cuts from a 1982 performance at the Hammersmith Odeon. The music on Pornography paints a dark vision with sound layers that create a hypnotizing wall, the structure is both intriguing and maddening at the same time. It is like a slow-paced film populated with fascinating characters, the pacing tries your patience, but the actual content holds you enthralled. The drum beats, hypnotic in repetition, the thrumming bass and dissonant guitars all together create an apocalyptic cacophony. On top of that is the imagery conjured by vocalist Robert Smith. From the opening line, "It doesn't matter if we all die" right through the closing thought "I must fight this sickness, find a cure" the listener is taken on a stream-of- consciousness ride of imagery and despair.

Influences / Similar Artists:
Joy Division, Lowlife, The Sound, Echo & The Bunnymen