| |
Full Review | User Ratings (110) |
| Summary: Does it really matter if we all die? |
1 of 1 thought this review was well written
"Pornography", by The Cure.
Before we start this reveiw, picture your veiw of what "emo" is. If it is of a fourteen-year-old boy wearing tight pants and a black band t-shirt slitting his wrists, you are most likely a sheep who follows the rediculous description of what emo is. When I picture emo, i think of dark, sad, and depressing music that that boy you pictured could possibly be listening to. For example, that boy could be listening to "Pornography", by The Cure.
"Pornography", when listened to, seems to come off as something like a narrative to a funeral. The opening song, "One Hundred Years", opens with a rolling drum beat, and a mysterious gutiar part. And there is no better way to lyricly start off a album meant to create a depressing atmosphere than with the line "Does it really matter if we all die?".
The third track, and first single off the album, "The Hanging Garden", is quite possibly the strangest and saddest song from the record. It opens up with fast paced tom drumming and a smoothly rolling baseline. The lyrics depict a quiet "garden", full of dying animals. IT is quite possbile my favorite song off of the album. It adds alot more for that boy to cry about.
The sixth track, "A Strange Day", greets the listener with a mysterious synthesizer, and continues into the drums and bass. I must also mention the trend created throughout the album with the openings of the songs. First some in the drums, then the bass. The track would be quite obscure if it werent for the instrumental choruses. The guitar part is absolutely mesmerizingly catchy. It ends with echoey vocals from Mr. Smith saying the songs title.
The title track on the cd does a great job of summing the whole thing up at the end. Its strange, its confusing, and its sad. It opens up with what sounds to be a voice played backwards. (I personally tried to reverse the song to hear the voice, but couldnt pick up much.) There is the same drum beat echoing throughout the track, much like the beat from "The Hanging Garden". Throughout the song we hear strange sounds beneath the music, most likely more voices backwards. The track ends exactly how it started, only the voices sound like a womans.
This album is considered to be one of the most important goth albums of the 80s. It has inspired much more to come from music, and The Cure themselves. So next time your friend uses the word "emo", try to think of more than just that boy, dressed in black, sitting in the corner of a classroom. Maybe you could think of the first line in "One Hundred Years". Maybe you could remember the disturbing lyrics from "The Hanging Garden". Or you could try to think up what those voices in the title track could be saying. Next time you see that dude I described in the introduction, tell him to go to the record store and pick up some "Pornography".
Reccomended Tracks:
One Hundred Years
The Hanging Garden
A Strange Day
|
| Recent reviews by this author | | |
Album Rating: 4
4th reveiw... yayy...
Digging: Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden | | |
I haven't heard anything by this band, but are u sure this is emo?
Digging: Thursday/Envy - Thursday/Envy
| | |
Wow...CTTS recommended in a review for The Cure...that's two drastically different things...its not really emo in the sense of things like Orchid and CTTS...its more just depressing pop-punk/post-punk...still though Robert Smith was my idol for a good year and a half a while back...
I don't know how much of a pop-punky feel this has as I've never heard it but their more recent albums do...
This Message Edited On 10.13.08
Digging: Malamute - Breathe Deeply, Horse
| | |
yea, i just listened to a bit, sounds like maybe it had a slight influence on emo but yea, this sounds like gothic poppy punk stuff, but im not too familiar with the genre either
| | |
The Lovecats will always be their best song in my eyes...
"We miss you" hiss the...LOVECATS
| | |
hmm nice review...i have this lieing around on my pc, but never give this a listen (only listening to greatest hits, disintergration and bloodflowers...) gotta to this right away XD
Digging: X Godlike Japan - Blue Blood
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
The Cure never really struck me as all that great, although I do enjoy a couple of their albums. Disintegration is by far their best imo.
Digging: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion | | |
Good review...although I'm pretty sure your perception on the Cure being emo is a big...er...completely wrong :P
| | |
I wasn't allowed to buy this because my girlfriend thought I was buying actual "pornography". But good review.
Digging: Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
| | |
are you whipped
buy yourself girlfriend that isn't an idiot
| | |
Nah, she's a more hardcore Amon Amarth/Trivium/Children of Bodom fan. She thinks this type of music is for children.  Anyway, I'm not into the Cure much.
| | |
whipped denial
| | |
You should probably just get rid of the first paragraph. It's stupid. Review would be fine without it.
Digging: Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)
| | |
I wouldn't say that the first paragraph is stupid, just not too necessary. The conclusion, however, makes me think that this was trying to be an epic review, which it certainly isn't. Not bad, could give a bit more detail, but I don't like the conclusion. Probably just me, though.
Digging: Cynic - Traced In Air
| | |
|
|
