0169. The Cure
Pornography
(I wonder how much traffic I'll get to this page due to the album's title)
Their fourth album was also the end of a trilogy of releases (starting with Seventeen Seconds) that both was their darkest period and (coincidentally) established them as the premier goth-gods forever, no matter the brightness of pop-tracks to come. The tour following Pornography also launched their new-found image of big hair and smudged lipstick as well as the event of a band member leaving due to "irreconcilable differences".
As could be expected from an end of a trilogy the songs are the logical continuation of Seventeen Seconds, collapsing into themselves and going into darker and perhaps more chaotic realms. And in spite of great songs like One Hundred Years and The Hanging Garden I still miss an equal to the instrumental A Reflection on this one.
