Cure, The Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Fiction vinyl record Buy Online

2×12″ LP from 1987 Remastered
Released in May 1987, ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’ was a double album that veered delightfully all over the place with horns, strings and even funky arrangements. ‘Why Can’t I Be You’ provided their now de rigeur zany pop hit (with accompanying video to boot) but it was ‘Just Like Heaven’ which really hit the sweet spot.Here was a band at the peak of their powers doing exactly as they pleased. Splendid stuff.
Simultaneously more accessible and ambitious than any of the Cure’s previous albums, the double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me finds Robert Smith expanding his pop vocabulary by tentatively adding bigger guitars, the occasional horn section, lite-funk rhythms, and string sections. It’s eclectic, to be sure, but it’s also a mess, bouncing from idea to idea and refusing to develop some of the most intriguing detours. Even if Kiss Me doesn’t quite gel, its best moments — including the deceptively bouncy “Why Can’t I Be You?” and the stately “Just Like Heaven” — are re