The Cure

Long time fans may have balked after hearing the overt pop of "Why Can't I Be You?" and "Hot Hot Hot" from this 1987 album, but this ambitious record contained so much great material, all could be forgiven. "Just Like Heaven," "Catch," and "The Perfect Girl" are faultless pop gems. It's this album that begins to show how the Cure could translate into mass acceptance.

Even in a year already marked by sprawling, ambitious double albums from Prince and
Hüsker Dü, the Cure's new Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me stands out. Like Sign o' the Times and
Warehouse: Songs and Stories, this two-record, eighteen-song set is about reaching
inward. The Cure is trying to deepen and refine an existing sensibility rather than reach
outward to expand it. On previous efforts, guitarist and singer Robert Smith has f... More >