jmtd → log → The Cure — Pornography

Last weekend, Tim Burgess’s twitter listening party covered The Cure’s short, dark 1982 album “Pornography”. I realised I’d never actually played the record, which I picked up a couple of years ago from a shop in the Grainger Market which is sadly no longer there. It was quite a wallet-threatening shop so perhaps it’s a good thing it’s gone.

Monday was a dreary, rainy day which seemed the perfect excuse to put it on. It’s been long enough since I last listened to my CD copy of the album that there were a few nice surprises to rediscover. The closing title track sounded quite different to how I remembered it, with Robert Smith’s vocals buried deeper in the mix, but my memory might be mixing up a different session take.

Truly a fitting closing lyric for our current times: I must fight this sickness / Find a cure