Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Rock · 1987 · 14 tracks

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Seventy minutes of kaleidoscopic excess. A sprawling double album that pivots from abrasive psychedelic noise to some of the brightest pop hooks of the eighties.

Maximalist peak

An overstuffed, double-album sprawl of sensory overload explodes with a newfound sense of physical scale. The music stretches out into wide, sun-baked desert atmospheres, trading the tight corners of their past for a kaleidoscopic, feedback-drenched playground where absolute romantic devotion sits beside cynical disgust. It is the sound of a band operating at a confident creative peak, effortlessly shifting from massive psychedelic dirges to sugary, brass-led pop.

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me · vs · The Cure

Intense+4.0σ

Intense saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks

01

The Kiss

6:15

03

Torture

4:18

04

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

4:53

06

How Beautiful You Are…

5:14

07

The Snakepit

6:59

08

Hey You!!!

2:23

10

All I Want

5:23

12

One More Time

4:32

13

Like Cockatoos

3:40

14

Icing Sugar

3:49

15

The Perfect Girl

2:35

16

A Thousand Hours

3:24

17

Shiver and Shake

3:30

18

Fight

4:28

Moments Worth Waiting For

01The KissThe opening track 'The Kiss' delays the vocals for over four minutes, building tension through a wall of wah-wah guitar and screaming feedback.

07The SnakepitA heavy, hypnotic rhythm and swirling, eastern-influenced guitar lines on 'The Snakepit' create a slow-burning, hallucinatory atmosphere.

17Shiver and ShakeThe frantic, throat-shredding vocal delivery on 'Shiver and Shake' provides a sharp, aggressive contrast to the album's dreamier pop moments.

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