The Cure -The Figurehead/INFO/(Pornography album) Live HQ1984

Lyrics🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Sharp and open Leave me alone And sleeping less every night As the days become heavier and weighted Waiting In the cold light A noise A scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten With spiders inside them And dust on the lips of a vision of hell I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year A hundred other words blind me with your purity Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance I think about tomorrow Please let me sleep As I slip down the window Freshly squashed fly You mean nothing You mean nothing I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls All the time Lose me in the dark Please do it right Run into the night I will lose myself tomorrow Crimson pain My heart explodes My memory in a fire And someone will listen At least for a short while... I can never say no to anyone but you Too many secrets Too many lies Writhing with hatred Too many secrets Please make it good tonight... But the same image haunts me In sequence In despair of time I will never be clean again I touched her eyes Pressed my stained face I will never be clean again Touch her eyes Press my stained face I will never be clean again I will never be clean again Released:4 May 1982 Recorded: January–April 1982 Studio: RAK Studios, London, England Genre: Gothic rock . Label: Fiction Producer: Phil Thornalley The Cure Following its release, bass guitarist Simon Gallup left the band and the Cure switched to a much brighter and more radio-friendly new wave sound.While poorly received by critics at the time of release, Pornography was their most popular album to date, reaching No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart. Pornographyhas since gone on to gain acclaim from critics, and is now considered an important milestone in the development of the gothic rock genre. The band has performed the album live in its entirety as part of the Trilogy concerts. Background and recording Following the band's previous album, 1981's Faith, the non-album single "Charlotte Sometimes" was released. The single, in particular its nightmarish and hallucinatory B-side "Splintered in Her Head", would hint at what was to come in Pornography. In the words of Robert Smith, regarding the album's conception, "I had two choices at the time, which were either completely giving in [committing suicide] or making a record of it and getting it out of me". He also claims he "really thought that was it for the group. I had every intention of signing off. I wanted to make the ultimate 'f**k off' record, and then sign off [the band]" Smith was mentally exhausted during that period of time: "I was in a really depressed frame of mind between 1981 and 1982".The band "had been touring for about 200 days a year and it all got a bit too much because there was never any time to do anything else". The band, Smith in particular, wanted to make the album with a different producer than Mike Hedges, who had produced Seventeen Seconds and Faith. The group settled on Phil Thornalley. On the album's recording sessions, Smith noted "there was a lot of drugs involved".The band took LSD and drank a lot of alcohol, and to save money, they slept in the office of their record label. The musicians usually turned up at eight, and left at midday looking "fairly deranged". Smith related: "We had an arrangement with the off-licence up the road, every night they would bring in supplies. We decided we weren't going to throw anything out. We built this mountain of empties in the corner, a gigantic pile of debris in the corner. It just grew and grew".According to Tolhurst, "we wanted to make the ultimate, intense album. I can't remember exactly why, but we did".The recording sessions commenced and concluded in three weeks. Smith noted, "At the time, I lost every friend I had, everyone, without exception, because I was incredibly obnoxious, appalling, self-centered". He also noted that with the album, he "channelled all the self-destructive elements of my personality into doing something". Polydor Records, the company in charge of Fiction Records, the label on which the album was released, was initially displeased with the album's title, which it saw as being potentially offensive.Following the album's release, Simon Gallup left the group. Legacy In 2005, Spin cited the album as a "high-water mark for goth's musical evolution". NME described Pornography as "arguably the album that invented goth". Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 79 on its list of the best albums of the 1980s. In 2011, NME listed Pornography at No. 6 on its "50 Darkest Albums Ever" list.Mojo placed it at No. 83 in their list "100 Record That Changed the World". AllMusic critic Stewart Mason also described the record as "one of the key goth rock albums of the '80s". According to Apter, Pornography would prove to be "enormously influential", and has been cited as an influence by bands such as Deftones and System of a Down. Personnel: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst.

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