The previous album Head On the Door began to shed some light on the fact that The Cure truly are masters of several styles of music. In albums previous to it we saw them focus on one style of music and do it well (Faith) or in some cases we saw them experiment with several styles never really going very deep in any (Three Imaginary Boys). Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is by many considered to be their best album and quite simply is responsible for the largest amount of Cure fans being brought into the fold. I had to listen to this album many times as I kept just getting lost in all the songs never really coming to an analyisis on any of them. The last pass through I cam to the conclusion that this album has primarily three styles on it: Fast and Agressive, Pop, and dreamy chill-out. Much like it's more refined predecessor their foray into each of these flavors is good but this album in particular they display that indeed they have mastered each of these sounds. Their "best-of" release before this came too soon as I feel that KMKMKM capped off an era as the next album is truly more of a departure. I could see some of the songs on here on Staring at the Sea quite easily. This album means different things to different people which is certainly predictable as all of their albums affect people this way. For me this album holds my favorite slower songs like Catch, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Like Cockatoos, and A Thousand Hours (this one is arguably the bridge to the next album btw).I could go on and on about this album which had up to this point prevented me from writing this post. This album is one of the Cure's best and most important and kicks off a string of 3 fantastic albums.
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