Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Review

(Elektra)
Release Date: 07/01/1987 12:00

More lipstick, more mascara, more CDs sold. As the Cure became a major concert attraction, they beefed up their production (orchestral synths! horns!) and made this double-album monument to teenage hormones, with just the right proportion of romance and revulsion. “Just Like Heaven,” Smith says, is “the best pop song the Cure has ever done,” but almost every song is a neatly arranged bouquet of roses or a bag of thorns.

DOWNLOAD: “Just Like Heaven,” “The Kiss,” “Why Can’t I Be You?”

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