Pornography by The Cure

Pros: Many
Cons: Few

--------------- To celebrate the forthcoming release of The Cure’s b-sides on a four disc box-set, Join the Dots, I’ve decided to spend a couple of weeks wallowing in the music of one of my favourite bands. Feel like joining in ...

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Ah, Pornography. An album that the fans love, that the press hates, and that Robert Smith considers his favorite, even though he doesn't remember recording much of it. A boy in his 20s, coming off the traumatic experience of the sullen, dramatic Faith ...

Pros: Bleak, despairing, brutal and honest.
Cons: You have to be joking.

Robert Smith, a 23-year-old musician, was still living with his parents and playing with wife-to-be Mary in their backyard when Pornography was released. His walls were white, he said in one interview, constrasting "nicely with the impurity of my soul." ...

Pros: Brutal, soul-killing songs and cruel lyrics that resonate beautifully.
Cons: This album may be too depressing for some people.

Welcome to Robert Smith's museum of darkness.

Let him show you around, pointing out the crucifixions, the tortures, the mutilations, and the rapes. Gawk at the animals with their heads twisted completely around, marvel at the flayed skins...

Pros: Poetic lyrics, powerful mood
Cons: lack of song structure may annoy some people

The Cure is a band that has managed to write some of the happiest pop songs, and some of the darkest goth songs. This album presents the darkest portion of their 12 album catalogue. Along with the two later albums Disintegration and Bloodflowers, ...

Pros: Dark, brooding, forceful foray into gloom
Cons: A little repetitive, not for everyone

Perhaps when the Cure decided to title this CD 'Pornography', they did it with a motive. This album deals with issues dark and disturbing, the feelings and thoughts that we hope others never discover about us. The Cure sustains this...

Pros: Wonderful music. Beautiful lyrics. One of Robert Smith's best works yet.
Cons: None.

In 1982, the Cure recorded an album which clearly showed their morbid fascination with darkness, death and decay. They called it, Pornography for it's songs which stripped away all feelings of happiness and love to show all the horrible, dark despair...

Pros: some of Robert Smith's best lyrics
Cons: songs tend to sound the same at first

When I bought this album sixteen years ago with my allowance savings, I probably should have known from looking at the cover that "Pornography" was going to be different from "Japanese Whispers" (the only other Cure album I had ever...

Pros: Probably their darkest album
Cons: Repetitive, monotonous

This has got to be the darkest and moodiest "the Cure" album there is. Repetitive drums and guitars that barely carry a melody, sinister lyrics. Yet I wish they had done more like this and less like the later work. The repetitive drone of these...

Pros: Music, feel, DEPTH of the sound (LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES, EYES CLOSED). :-)
Cons: None that I can think of, but I am biased.

I could literally write a doctoral thesis on personal experience with this album, but will try to limit myself to the album itself.ROBERT SMITH, the singer of the Cure, has said that this album is a revelation of the three members of the time, their...

Pros: Lyrics and Artwork are phenomenal...
Cons: Only 8 songs (i wish it was a double LP!)

Allegedly, the Cure's "Pornography" LP is the first part of a Trilogy (part 2 being "Disintegration" and part 3 to be their forthcoming release in February of 2000, "Bloodflowers").

Regardless of whether it is a...

Pros: It rocks and stentoriously hollers "f*** you!" to anyone who might oppose its artistic vision!
Cons: Beyond the known world, poetically and gracefully so.

I bought it because I thought it was one of the coolest albums one could ever buy, and it was true. ...

Pros: Dark and Moody
Cons: a bit redundant

Pornography is by far my favorate Cure album. Ever since I first got it and listened to the beggining guitar lines to "100 Years" I've been addicted to this album. The lyrics on this album range from the staleness and emotionlessness of sex...

Pros: The best, non commercial, Cure cd on the market.
Cons: None

This is the best cure cd out there when it comes to pure angst and despair...Robert's voice on the figurehead and his lyrics on all these songs blew me away...
Imagery is what makes this album what it is. If you're looking for surrealism, go for 17...

Pros: Atmospheric, dark and moody portraying vivid imagery musically - as good as it gets.
Cons: Perhaps marginally inferior to the live Trilogy versions but excellent nonetheless.

I never really listened a lot to this album when it came out as I'd been a Seventeen Seconds fan and couldn't see much past that. Bought Trilogy though and the live versions of these songs got me listening to Pornography again. The Trilogy versions of Siamese Twins, The Figurehead and A Strange Day got me hooked, and all are great songs on this album, although the live sound is a slightly richer sound, particularly as the bass stands out live. The songs perhaps do sound a little similar at first but they they are not only haunting lyrically, but the songs are hard to get out of your head after a few spins. A dark album that nonetheless has a rich sound that hooks you about the fourth play through.