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Genre: Rock
Release Date: 06/03/2008
Run Time: 71:19

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 remarkable and help make the album one of the group's very best.

~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Andrew Brennen - Saxophone
Paul Cox - Photography
Simon Gallup - Bass
Porl Thompson - Guitar
Porl Thompson - Keyboards
Porl Thompson - Saxophone
Laurence Tolhurst - Keyboards
Boris Williams - Percussion
Boris Williams - Drums
Johnny Black - Liner Notes
Andy Vella - Photography
Tom Sheehan - Photography
Sean Burrows - Assistant
Jacques Hermet - Assistant
Joe Black - Project Coordinator
Zoe Roberts - Tape Research
Minoru Harada - Product Manager
Shinjiro Kawashima - Research
Dave Allen - Producer
Robert "Big Bert" Smith - Guitar
Robert "Big Bert" Smith - Keyboards
Robert "Big Bert" Smith - Vocals
Robert "Big Bert" Smith - Producer
Robert "Big Bert" Smith - Compilation
Robert "Big Bert" Smith - Remastering Producer
Michel Diercks - Assistant Producer
Michel Diercks - Assistant
R. Tucci - Photography
Robert J. Smith - Producer
Chihiro Nozaki - Coordination

Porcupine
    Echo & the Bunnymen / CD / 1983
Songs of the Free
    Gang of Four / CD / 1982
Movement
    New Order / CD / 1981
Peepshow
    Siouxsie and the Banshees / CD / 1988
Little Creatures
    Talking Heads / CD / 1985
Infected
    The The / CD / 1986

Release Date: 06/03/2008
Genre: rock
Run Time: 71:19