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Title:
1982 Pornography
Description:
Scaruffi: 7/10
Smith’s Calvary culminates in the epic and acute suicidal breakdowns of Pornography (Fiction, 1982 - Rhino, 2005), the album that marks the turn from the dark-punk of the early days to the dark existentialism (unrelated to gothic) of maturity. Musically, it is only the ambitions that change: where the early tracks were concise and abrupt to be hip to punk-rock, the new songs tend to stretch out in more complex ways to keep up with the post-punk times. But in fact the choruses are similar (i.e., sluggish) and the accompaniment is only less obtrusive.
The tormented solipsism of this fragile romantic alter-ego of Ian Curtis (Joy Division) reaches the apex of his negative lyricism here. The songs become tonal poems, long, intense and complex. The harmonies, already beyond tormented, become even more convulsive, darker, tribal and dissonant, worthy soundtracks of the leader’s existential tragedy.
Exaggerated as never before, immersed in glacial swirls of electronics and distortions (One Hundred Years) and in geometric and tribal cadences (The Hanging Garden), the sound of the Cure smacks of psychic collapse, with the leader’s song-lattern now touching Brechtian declamatory registers, with peaks of absolute delirium (Figurehead).
Towering over it all are the hypnotic existential melancholy of Cold, worthy of certain insanely desperate whirlpools of Tim Buckley, and the title-track, which merges with Wagnerian impetus into a devastating fondoscale all the experiments in tribal rhythm, psychedelic distortions, martial revitals and electronic dissonances. The work culminates, and subsides, in Siamese Twins, a dreamlike and metaphysical danse macabre. Verbose and magniloquent, the Cure’s rock poem is an amateur version of Public Image’s kammerspiel in rock form.
At this point, with Smith at half-duty due to commitments to Siouxsee and the lineup in constant turmoil, the Cure’s acronym is used to experiment with chart-topping synthpop and parlor jazz. Thus were born such singles as Let’s Go To Bed (1982), Like An Animal (1983, under the Glove name), Walk (1983), Lovecats (1983), the fiatistic vaudeville that constitutes the baroque apex of this "humorous” phase, Caterpillar (1984), an unhinged flamenco and Smith’s existential metaphor, In Between Days (1985), a melodic New Order-esque discomusic, and finally the Caribbean fanfare Close To Me (1985), tracks that rely on far more carefully crafted psychedelic and danceable arrangements and simple, optimistic lyrics in an overtly commercial vein.
Christgau: C
Pornography [A&M, 1982]
"In books/And films/And in life/And in heaven/The sound of slaughter/As your body turns . . ."--no, I can’t go on. I mean, why so glum, chum? Cheer up; look on the bright side. You got your contract, right? And your synthesizers, bet you’ll have fun with them. Believe me, kid, it will pass. C
Smith’s Calvary culminates in the epic and acute suicidal breakdowns of Pornography (Fiction, 1982 - Rhino, 2005), the album that marks the turn from the dark-punk of the early days to the dark existentialism (unrelated to gothic) of maturity. Musically, it is only the ambitions that change: where the early tracks were concise and abrupt to be hip to punk-rock, the new songs tend to stretch out in more complex ways to keep up with the post-punk times. But in fact the choruses are similar (i.e., sluggish) and the accompaniment is only less obtrusive.
The tormented solipsism of this fragile romantic alter-ego of Ian Curtis (Joy Division) reaches the apex of his negative lyricism here. The songs become tonal poems, long, intense and complex. The harmonies, already beyond tormented, become even more convulsive, darker, tribal and dissonant, worthy soundtracks of the leader’s existential tragedy.
Exaggerated as never before, immersed in glacial swirls of electronics and distortions (One Hundred Years) and in geometric and tribal cadences (The Hanging Garden), the sound of the Cure smacks of psychic collapse, with the leader’s song-lattern now touching Brechtian declamatory registers, with peaks of absolute delirium (Figurehead).
Towering over it all are the hypnotic existential melancholy of Cold, worthy of certain insanely desperate whirlpools of Tim Buckley, and the title-track, which merges with Wagnerian impetus into a devastating fondoscale all the experiments in tribal rhythm, psychedelic distortions, martial revitals and electronic dissonances. The work culminates, and subsides, in Siamese Twins, a dreamlike and metaphysical danse macabre. Verbose and magniloquent, the Cure’s rock poem is an amateur version of Public Image’s kammerspiel in rock form.
At this point, with Smith at half-duty due to commitments to Siouxsee and the lineup in constant turmoil, the Cure’s acronym is used to experiment with chart-topping synthpop and parlor jazz. Thus were born such singles as Let’s Go To Bed (1982), Like An Animal (1983, under the Glove name), Walk (1983), Lovecats (1983), the fiatistic vaudeville that constitutes the baroque apex of this "humorous” phase, Caterpillar (1984), an unhinged flamenco and Smith’s existential metaphor, In Between Days (1985), a melodic New Order-esque discomusic, and finally the Caribbean fanfare Close To Me (1985), tracks that rely on far more carefully crafted psychedelic and danceable arrangements and simple, optimistic lyrics in an overtly commercial vein.
Christgau: C
Pornography [A&M, 1982]
"In books/And films/And in life/And in heaven/The sound of slaughter/As your body turns . . ."--no, I can’t go on. I mean, why so glum, chum? Cheer up; look on the bright side. You got your contract, right? And your synthesizers, bet you’ll have fun with them. Believe me, kid, it will pass. C
Band or Artist:
Cure
Release Year:
1982
Length:
44
Barcode:
075596078528
Country:
United States
Format:
MP3
Genre:
Rock
Pop
Alternative
Gothic
New Wave
Psychedelic
Ambient
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Catalog Number:
CD 60785
Producer:
Phil Thornalley
The Cure
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AllMusic Rating:
nostar
Record Label:
Elektra
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Recording Location:
RAK Studios, Londres
Number of Tracks:
8
Album Type:
Album
Quality:
N/A
Number of Discs:
1
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:41:11
Packaging:
Jewel Case
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$15.48
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-07-22
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:41:11
