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Title: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: isamu on December 14, 2008, 11:32:47
Hi. I am aware that most people hold Disintegration as their favorite Cure album of all time. But I am wondering if anyone here considers Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me to be head and shoulders better and above the rest of the albums, and is their favorite Cure record of all time?

At first I considered the possibility of me being biased due to KMx3 being the first Cure album I ever listened to(way back in 1987)....but I'm starting to think that maybe it's just because the songs are so damn good. Songs like One More Time, Like Cockateaus, Icing Suger, hell EVERY song on the album is a classic!

I honestly can say with 100% certainty that I will consider KMx3 my favorite album of all time, even 50 years from now(I'm 35). It's an album I'll be able to turn on and say "Yup, it still sounds just as fresh and innovative today as it did in 1987".

Disintegration is a great album don't get me wrong, but KissMe x3 has a unique style to it that I honestly feel is not present on any other Cure record.

Anyone else feel the same way?
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Nicholas on December 17, 2008, 16:46:20
It's my personal favorite album of theirs, but I'm not sure if, objectively, it's their best album.  It's definitely up there though.  So you're only half-alone...
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: MeltingMan on February 08, 2016, 15:42:20
I think it is one of their best albums, my personal number three, unfortunately
falling behind since the continuous development of the Trilogy concept. It has practically
no weak songs and I hope that some of the album tracks and B-Sides will appear on future
live setlist. Would be great... :smth023
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: BiscuityBoyle on February 10, 2016, 16:36:50
It arguably contains the most good songs of any Cure album, though it has its share of fillers as well (Shiver and Shake, Fight, Torture, All I Want are not very good songs, Hey You might work as a cute b-side but no more than that).

The best cuts (Snakepit, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Just Like Heaven, Like Cockatoos) are just astonishing (ok, The Kiss, Catch, How Beautiful You Are are pretty perfect too. Icing Sugar - so good!).

A Thousand Hours is always going to have a special place in the heart of lost and lonely me circa 19 years of age... And it's still a good song today.

In short it is their best, though The Top will always be my favorite.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: cuneytarkin on June 15, 2016, 18:14:48
you don't like All I Want or Shiver and Shake? Those songs are great! To each their own I suppose.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Quadpus72 on July 08, 2016, 23:54:12
I thought that until Disintegration. It's #2 for me. If you add the b-sides and take off some songs, it gets better, though not as interesting.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Quadpus72 on July 09, 2016, 00:00:47
How do you reply to specific users as opposed to the OP repeatedly? Can't figure it.

But I agree totally with Torture, All I Want, Shiver and Shake and Fight being among the weaker songs on KMKMKM (though I'd add Snakepit as maybe the worst). I feel if you swap those out for the b-sides, you have an amazing collection of songs, but perhaps not as interesting a record.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Ulrich on July 09, 2016, 11:48:48
Quote from: Quadpus72 on July 09, 2016, 00:00:47
How do you reply to specific users as opposed to the OP repeatedly? Can't figure it.

Not sure what you mean, maybe if you use the "quote" button?

And welcome to the forum, by the way!  :)
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: dsanchez on July 10, 2016, 13:29:55
Quote from: Quadpus72 on July 09, 2016, 00:00:47
How do you reply to specific users as opposed to the OP repeatedly? Can't figure it.

click the "Quote" button. Welcome to curefans.com :smth023
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Fireincairo on August 19, 2016, 21:53:33
No! It's always been my favourite too. Glad it's not just me!
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: gluefreak on October 13, 2016, 01:08:53
I love KM3x. It's my favorite Cure album, followed by 17 Seconds then Pornography. I love the songs some of you think are "weak" and was thrilled to hear "The Snakepit" live for the first time when the band played here in New York in June.

Why is KM3x my favorite? I like the range of the album -- from the darkness of "The Kiss" to the goofiness of "Why Can't I Be You?" The songs are really tight and sound great live.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: dsanchez on October 31, 2016, 23:32:51
Well, apparently Roger have this album in high regard. From his biography (http://www.rogerodonnell.com/bio/):

QuoteThe Cure's label sent me a cassette of the new album KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME and I was at home for a weekend, I put the tape on and within about thirty seconds the choice was made for me, I had to be in this band. Plus the chance to play with Boris again! The music was incredible, like nothing I had heard before, they just didn't care, they were making this amazing beautiful powerful innovative music... So I said YES!
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: ksphotos on January 30, 2017, 21:16:07
I love Disintegration quite a lot. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me I love for different reasons, but it's definitely one of my favorites. Top Five for sure.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: BiscuityBoyle on April 17, 2017, 06:27:20
If you don't like Snakepit... Take a few careful listens. It's a very innovative update of psychedelic rock and just an incredible piece of music, incredibly focused behind the haze. The drum pattern, the guitars - it all starts coming together once you delve into it. One of their greatest.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tanyasmith on April 18, 2017, 02:01:39
I love How Beautiful You Are, A Thousand Hours, Catch, The Perfect Girl...Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me ties for my favorite Cure album with Wish and Disintegration. I REALLY love Out of This World. I saw them perform it live on tour this last round and was struck by it. I don't know if that song has gotten the credit it deserves. It sounds like Nick Drake meets Pink Floyd. INCREDIBLE! See The Cure performing that song at the Wembley from this last December at my youtube channel, Tanya's Ethereal Footsteps. Here's a video of snippets of Robert speaking and some of the best moments captured from 9 shows last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pEKRPzJfNQ

And here's one of my favorite pictures I got of Robert. I hope The Cure tours again in 2020. That year is "the future!"






Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: -:- Elle Lie -:- on April 18, 2017, 10:14:20
Quote from: tanyasmith on April 18, 2017, 02:01:39
I love How Beautiful You Are, A Thousand Hours, Catch, The Perfect Girl...Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me ties for my favorite Cure album with Wish and Disintegration. I REALLY love Out of This World. I saw them perform it live on tour this last round and was struck by it. I don't know if that song has gotten the credit it deserves. It sounds like Nick Drake meets Pink Floyd. INCREDIBLE! See The Cure performing that song at the Wembley from this last December at my youtube channel, Tanya's Ethereal Footsteps. Here's a video of snippets of Robert speaking and some of the best moments captured from 9 shows last year:


Tanya !? I love the videos you posted, I'm a fan of the close-up on "Plainsong" and also "Just Like Heaven" ... So, pleased to meet you  :smth023
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tzare on April 18, 2017, 12:11:30
hi! New here.
Yes it is my favourite official album, it has a lot of different songs with different moods, i think of it as the most complete, others are great too, but maybe are more 'focused', but Kissme has a bit of everything. And,  How beautiful you are, like cockatoos and Just like heaven are my favorite songs from that album.
The only other one that could rival it, despite not being a proper album, would be Join the Dots. I adore that one.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Ulrich on April 19, 2017, 11:45:06
Welcome @tanya!

Quote from: BiscuityBoyle on April 17, 2017, 06:27:20
If you don't like Snakepit... Take a few careful listens. It's a very innovative update of psychedelic rock and just an incredible piece of music, incredibly focused behind the haze. The drum pattern, the guitars

I've liked "The Snakepit" as well, especially after hearing it during the Dream tour.
I hope you included the bass guitar when you said "guitars", I like what Simon does on this one.  :)
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tanyasmith on April 19, 2017, 19:30:55
Thanks, Elle Lie and Ulrich!
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: Ulrich on May 23, 2017, 09:37:32
Articles celebrating the anniversary of KM KM KM (released 30 years ago):

Quote...when I heard it in 1987, 'Just Like Heaven' seemed to come almost out of nowhere. It was a strange, silvery, unusual song, with an unusual but absolutely compelling singer.
Read much more at:
http://thequietus.com/articles/22262-the-cure-kiss-me-kiss-me-kiss-me-review-anniversary

Quote
Gwen Ihnat: The Cure didn't exactly make a U-turn in 1987 with Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, but it was a hell of a reroute. The iconically mopey band, led by head goth/grump Robert Smith, all of a sudden had a cheerful horn section in "Why Can't I Be You?" that threaded throughout the double album. And while its poppiness—and the smash success of "Just Like Heaven"—helped Kiss Me become The Cure's first Top 40 record in the U.S., it also became the first Cure record I never bought.
Read more:
http://www.avclub.com/article/why-cant-i-be-cure-fan-you-253931

Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: PearlThompsonsBloodflower on January 31, 2018, 20:10:09
In my opinion yes its better than Disintegration, but not there best album for me.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tanyasmith on January 31, 2018, 22:41:55
I think most of their albums have been my favorite at one time or another. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is my second favorite after Wish, then Disintegration at #3.
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tzare on February 01, 2018, 14:50:53
For me it's the best too.
Lots of songs, different moods, style, very rich.
Disintegration is probably more consistent, but for me Kiss me is their best one
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: dsanchez on January 26, 2019, 19:05:06
Quote from: isamu on December 14, 2008, 11:32:47
I am wondering if anyone here considers Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me to be head and shoulders better and above the rest of the albums, and is their favorite Cure record of all time?

Apparently Robert Smith agrees with you (http://curefans.com/index.php?topic=8959.msg768767#msg768767) ;)
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tzare on January 26, 2019, 21:15:56
It's my favourite album too, it has a bit of everything, plus it has Robert's lips in it :)
Title: Re: Am I the ONLY person in the world that thinks KissMe x3 is the best Cure album?
Post by: tanyasmith on January 27, 2019, 00:49:27
Quote from: dsanchez on January 26, 2019, 19:05:06

Apparently Robert Smith agrees with you (http://curefans.com/index.php?topic=8959.msg768767#msg768767) ;)

Awwww, love the interview. KMKMKM is really beautiful. I can see how he associates it with a perfect time. The music and music video of Catch captures that exquisite time. It's been a huge inspiration in my life. I think it might have been the first time I ever knew the sea could be so beautiful.