Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
| The Cure
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in May 1987. The album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the BillboardTop 40 (achieving Platinum certification). It was also a big international success, as was its predecessor, The Head on the Door, reaching the Top 10 in numerous countries.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
July 16, 1982. Kiss Me is a breakthrough all right. For the first time, the Cure’s music is relatively unfettered by pretension and indulgence, and the results are remarkable.
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The Quietus
April 24, 2017. As it turned out, 1987 really was a great year for double albums - just ask Prince. And Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is right up there.
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BBC
A true delight.
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The Vinyl District
August 17, 2016. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is an excellent LP, in part due to its variety—where else are you going to find the rambunctious and horn-driven new wave . . . .
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Slant Magazine
While some acts utilized the double album format to make preposterous albums even more bloated . . . , others knew how to give such a project maximum impact and showcase as many aspects of their music as possible. That’s exactly what the Cure did back in 1987, just as the CD was making its “70 minutes of music” potential felt, with the cheekily titled Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.
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Udiscovermusic
May 23, 2019. An ambitious 20-track double-album, The Cure’s atypically accessible ‘Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me’ has gone on to fascinate whole new generations of fans.
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Stereogrum
August 15, 2012. . . . Kiss Me is an entire world unto itself. Everything is gaudy and glorious, larger than life, manic, depressive, maniacal, and expressive -- it was everything the Cure had ever done, rolled into 18 songs and 75 minutes, and it is absolutely brilliant.
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PopMatters
May 11, 2010. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, a bigger success than The Head on the Door financially if not musically, is an improvement over its predecessor in many ways – the guitars are bigger, the choruses more lush and the hooks even catchier.
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XS Noize
January 30, 2017. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the perfect album to play if you had to explain to an extraterrestrial alien about why the Cure inhabits the position they do in the musical universe. The album is a smorgasbord of Cure stylings, offering up every color the Cure uses from their vast musical palette.
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CrypticRock
November 20, 2017. While everyone awaits the long-overdue, promised album of new materials by The Cure, smooch for the nth time the allure and Ruby Woo strawberry-red lipstick glory of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and stay enchanted forever, and ever, and ever.
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Post-Punk.com
May 25, 2015. All in all, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the most eclectic of all albums by The Cure. In addition to the singles, there are quite a few aggressive tracks, . . . .
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Daily Vault Album Reviews
February 24, 2007. For those who initially dismissed The Cure as “sad bastard music” but are curious as to the band’s lasting impact, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is a great starter album.
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Magnet Magazine
May 25,2019. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me was the Cure’s first album following 1986 breakthrough Standing On A Beach, a singles collection that made a solid case for Robert Smith as pop genius instead of squawking goth goof-off. Kiss Me was his blatant plea to be loved: . . . .
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Rolling Stone.de
June 17, 2017. The beauty of "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me": You can hear the 18 songs from beginning to end as well as from back to front. But the best songs were in this double album, which has been shining for 30 years now.
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George Starostin's Reviews
In short, we have things here to satisfy the most exigent customer. You won't like all of it (I sure know I don't), but you'll still get the feel of the flow, and that's a pretty grand flow for 1987. Best Cure album ever? That's a grand statement. Maybe "the most ambitious Cure album to ever satisfy most of its ambitions" would be more correct. At least semantically, if not necessarily syntactically.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
November 23, 2008. It still remains an obstinately difficult record to easily enjoy. That's the nature of the beast. I still find myself giving the album a '9', although it's probably a weak 9.
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Mark's Record Reviews
There's really no overriding theme here! Just happy song followed by darker song followed by dancy song followed by another happy song followed by another darker song and so on and so forth.... It definitely has enough great moments to qualify as a "really good" album, though.
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antiMusic
In spite of being over an hour in duration, Kiss Me remains strong from beginning to end, and even though the album is now nearly 20 years old, it still holds just as much passion and relevance today as it did when it was released in the summer of '87.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
December 14, 2018. Following the 1985 rebound 'The Head on the Door,' Robert Smith led the band through a double-LP extravaganza that included some of his most joyous songs.
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Hard Rock
April 24, 2018. No matter which side of The Cure you love, every angle is covered on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. Is it a big colorful mess? Sure, most double albums typically are, but the quality of the songs from start to finish makes this a beautiful disaster.
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Robert Christgau
Samey samey samey is the strategy--repeat repeat repeat repeat the same four-bar theme for sixteen, twenty-four, forty-eight, sixty-four bars before Robert Smith starts to whine, wail, warble, work.
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The Maldon Herald
June 12, 2019. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, The Cure’s seventh studio album is an 18-track, 70-minute plus extravagance of pure theatre. The album that cracked America and the endlessness of international suburbia.
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Diffuser
May 25, 2013. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, in a way, is the glorious reaction to the small bits of good fortune coming their way.
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