Pornography

Pornography is the fourth studio album by the English new wave group The Cure . It appeared in 1982 on the label Fiction Records .

Content

 * 1 Importance
 * 2 2005 Deluxe Edition
 * 3 Songs
 * 4 Composition
 * 5 Singles

Importance
Although the album was criticized initially in the press it is now considered one of the highlights, if not the best in the The Cure catalog. The album also marked a real turning point in the history of the group. It was made under the influence of masses of alcohol and drugs, which led to mental stress to the group members. It was that the leader of the group, Robert Smith, struggling with the release of the dark mood of most songs of the group. The album begins with the telltale phrase 'It does not matter if we all who ", ending with" I will fight this sickness, find the cure, "well what the process that the band was expressed during the making of the album . It was clear that there were only two options after Pornography: either stop or a slightly lighter way to deal with music. It has become the second choice, which immediately turned on the successor Japanese Whispers .

The album along with Disintegration is the only Cure album that regularly pops up in the Album 100 of Studio Brussel . In 2007 it reached the 72nd place.

The group in 2002 brought live to the entire album along with the thematically related albums Disintegration and Blood Flowers during the Trilogy -Concerts.

2005 Deluxe Edition [ edit ]
The album was reissued in 2005 with a bonus CD with demo and live versions of existing songs of the group, together with a number of demos from non-released material.

Numbers [ edit ]
All songs were written by Gallup, Smith and Tolhurst.
 * 1) " One Hundred Years "- 6:40
 * 2) "A Short Term Effect" - 4:22
 * 3) " The Hanging Garden "- 4:33
 * 4) "Siamese Twins" - 5:29
 * 5) "The Figurehead" - 6:15
 * 6) "A Strange Day" - 5:04
 * 7) "Cold" - 4:26
 * 8) "Pornography" - 6:27

[Composition edit ]

 * Robert Smith - guitar, vocals, keyboard, producer
 * Laurence Tolhurst - drums
 * Simon Gallup - bass guitar, keyboard

[Single Edit ]
The Hanging Garden and One Hundred Years were on April 27, 1982 released as an EP limited edition, along with a live recording of A Forest and Killing an Arab .