THE CURE: KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME Seventh Studio Album (1987)

THE CURE: KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME Album cover

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Cure, released on May 26, 1987 by Fiction Records. The album helped bring the Cure into the American mainstream, becoming the band’s first album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart and achieving platinum certification.

Like its predecessor, The Head on the Door, it was also a great international success, reaching the top 10 in numerous countries. In 2000, the album was voted number 256 in Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums.

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is the last Cure studio album upon which Porl Thompson played keyboards; he played only guitar on all subsequent studio releases. Special guest Andrew Brennan played the saxophone on Hey You!!! and Icing Sugar. The album was recorded at Studio Miraval in Correns, France.

THE CURE: KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME Studio Album CD

Tracklist:

  1. The Kiss
  2. Catch
  3. Torture
  4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
  5. Why Can’t I Be You?
  6. How Beautiful You Are…
  7. The Snake Pit
  8. Just Like Heaven
  9. All I Want
  10. Hot Hot Hot !!!
  11. One More Time
  12. Like Cockatoos
  13. Icing Sugar
  14. The Perfect Girl
  15. A Thousand Hours
  16. Shiver And Shake
  17. Fight

THE CURE: KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME Album Art

THE CURE: KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME Album Art

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the Cure

the Cure
Robert Smith: guitar, keyboards, vocals, recorder on “The Snakepit” and “Like Cockatoos”
Simon Gallup: bass guitar
Porl Thompson: guitar, keyboards, saxophone on “Shiver and Shake”
Lol Tolhurst: keyboards
Boris Williams: drums, percussion
Roger O’Donnell: keyboards on live tracks from the deluxe edition

Guest musician
Andrew Brennen: saxophone on “Icing Sugar” and “Hey You!!!”

Production
David M. Allen, Robert Smith: production
Sean Burrows, Jacques Hermet: assistant production
Bob Clearmountain: remixing for single version of “Just Like Heaven”

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