2-CD: 9840016
RELEASED: 2006
LABEL: Fiction

Disc 1:
01. The Kiss
02. Catch
03. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
04. Why Can't I Be You?
05. How Beautiful You Are...
06. Snakepit
07. Hey You!
08. Just Like Heaven
09. All I Want
10. Hot Hot Hot!!!
11. One More Time
12. Like Cockatoos
13. Icing Sugar
14. The Perfect Girl
15. A Thousand Hours
16. Shiver And Shake
17. Fight

Disc 2:
01. The Kiss (RS Home demo)
02. The Perfect Girl (studio demo)
03. Like Cockatoos (studio demo)
04. Hot Hot Hot!!! (studio demo)
05. Shiver And Shake (studio demo)
06. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (studio demo)
07. Just Like Heaven (studio demo)
08. Hey You! (studio demo)
09. A Thousand Hours (studio alt mix)
10. Icing Sugar (studio alt mix)
11. One More Time (studio alt mix)
12. How Beautiful You Are... (live bootleg)
13. Snakepit (live bootleg)
14. Catch (live bootleg)
15. Torture (live bootleg)
16. Fight (live bootleg)
17. Why Can't I Be You? (live bootleg)

Limited Edition 2-CD reissue of The Cure's 1987 album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me which has been digitally remastered from the original tapes. Features 18 tracks on CD for the first time. Deluxe package contains a 20 page booklet including sleevenotes and lyrics with rare and previously unseen foto's. With "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me", The Cure put forth an album that truly is of two minds. It builds off the pop brilliance of "The Head on the Door" with both singles and deep album cuts, but it also submerges the listener in the ominous, enveloping moodiness of tracks that recollect the early Cure fashion of Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me's other personality forces one to acknowledge Smith and company are really a genre unto themselves. While Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me sprawls, it does inform the concise, focused - yet expansive - sounds that would follow two years later. Where this album separates the atmospheric from the pop track-by-track, Disintegration would marry them not just on a single album, but within single songs. The reissue does include the surf guitar-meets-horns "Hey You!", which was excised from the original release because of space. Slight and somewhat mindless, it's still nice to have the original album's contents and running order restored. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me's disc two, on the other hand, Rarities (1986-1987), contains every track found on the proper album in an alternate form of some kind - be it home demo, studio demo, alternate studio demo, or live bootleg - many of them instrumental only. Where the demos give insight into the evolution of the album they accompany, the albums themselves provide signposts for each successive release. Sonically, the movement from one album to the next and beyond is readily available. And when taking The Top, The Head on the Door, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me together with the intervening years wiped clean, they form a clear roadmap for the Cure's eventual commercial success.

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