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THE REVIEW
The album begins with its most famous song, both for lyrics and musical rhythm, and it is immediately clear that Robert Smith's sad and lonely existentialism has probably hit rock bottom in his personal journey through drugs and visions.
One Hundred years opens the album, as we mentioned, and it's not hard to imagine RS with his black backcombed hair, white face, and lips red like a wound that never heals, yelling into the microphone: "It doesn't matter if we all die. Like the sound of a tiger thrashing in the water, everywhere, everywhere, we die one after the other".
There are those who do not listen to the Cure because they depress them, they look at the mask RS presents to the public and stop, without understanding that this exaggerated provocation is aimed precisely at them, at those who are afraid to listen and flee, wanting to see nothing but themselves presented bare and dark.
The music continues and presses on, the atmosphere does not improve, pain is the lord and master, and nightmares come to life, although the harmonies of the sounds soothe until reaching Pornography.
Because Pornography is the delirium, the grand finale of distorted and incomprehensible voices, drums and rhythm, guitars lamenting, and the voice almost no longer singing but shouting and reciting a life prayer that spills into the flowers of drugs and blood until it falls and stops.
Even RS stopped and it took him a long time to find himself again after this.
Pornography is the Cure's masterpiece album, but for those unfamiliar with them, it's perhaps better to start from much further back.
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This review praises The Cure's album Pornography as a dark masterpiece reflecting Robert Smith's deepest existential struggles. The music evokes pain and nightmare atmospheres while soothing listeners with its harmonies. The album is described as intense and raw, culminating in a powerful grand finale. Though challenging for newcomers, it's highly recommended for those seeking profound musical experiences.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley and led by singer-songwriter Robert Smith. Since the late 1970s they have moved between post-punk, gothic atmospheres and pop-oriented experiments, producing widely admired albums such as Disintegration and Pornography.89 Reviews
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By TenshiSell
"This monument of dark music contains the anxieties and frustrations of a generation that isn’t mine, but they cannot fail to belong to me."
"It starts by saying 'It doesn’t matter if we all die.' It ends with hope. 'I must fight this sickness, find a cure.'"
By lucarandi80
The Cure knew very well they were recording their greatest masterpiece; it was felt in the air, it was clear.
They cannot be commented on with simple words because the right nouns and adjectives to do so have not yet been invented.
By Rocky Marciano
Pornography is anguish, fear, and discomfort; the assault of "One Hundred Years" is a metropolitan nightmare.
The apocalypse of the title track continues with a Smith increasingly down but still not wanting to lose the battle.
By Daedal
The masterpiece of the first dark generation.
"Pornography" ends after a gloomy 43-minute journey into the alienating landscape that is Robert Smith’s mind.
By Il Tarantiniano
"For me, this is their dark album par excellence along with 'Faith' and 'Seventeen Seconds.'"
"The instruments suffer the most, the singer emits sudden cries of hatred as if he was crying."
