Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

oh yeah Wish too yeah Wish is up there too yeah yeah

see yeah Wish was gonna be mine because a halo kind of tips the scale for me a little bit you know but it's yeah I mean like you got like god yeah both of those yeah and you're right and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is like You know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And while that sounds like it's just goths that can fall in love, it is its own different category that is still around today.

Um, in the, uh, '80s, uh, people that were more into the kind of melodramatic post-punk kind of stuff like Echo & the Bunnymen or The Cure, um, they were disparagingly called Cure heads by a lot of these people that would go to the clubs, you know, because these were people that were more in tune with like Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and Head on the Door era Cure where they were writing love songs rather than like pornography or Seven German Seconds.

This is exactly how jam band fans are today.

Yes.

On those days when it rained She used to just stand there and stare And roll her eyes right up to heaven And make like I just wasn't there And she used to fall down a lot That girl was always falling again and again And I used to sometimes try to catch her But never even caught her name [singing] And sometimes we would spend the night Just rolling about on the floor Just rolling about on the floor And I remember even though it felt soft at the time I always used to wake up sore You know I even think that she smiled like you She used to just stand there and smile And her eyes would go all soft and far away And stay like that for quite a while And I remember she used to fall down a lot That girl was always falling again and again And I used to sometimes try to catch her But never even caught her name Yes, I sometimes even tried to catch her But never even caught her name

And that was The Cure from their Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me album with Catch from 1987.

And just lovely.

Ah.

... trademark, right? Um, and the gentleman that designed the album cover, his na- last name's Vela.

Um, he had designed all of the previous album covers starting with Faith.

He was experimenting with it, decided on the placement of like the handwritten note that says, "Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, The Cure"-

Mm-hmm

five.

We got 1987's The Cure, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me,

dude.

This album's

But as soon as I found The Cure, 'cause that's really what it was, I found The Cure, and it fucking changed everything.

My friend Lisa, she, she actually came up to me and she said, "You gotta stop listening to this, this hair band music." And she handed me Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, that album.

She's all, "Listen to this." And as soon as I did, I'm like, "Whoa." Like, to me, that was the ultimate rebellion right there, you know.

And it's just different contrasts of fucking music.

That album is just, like, one of the best albums of all times.

And then, yes, uh, Disintegration came right after that, and I remember I'd already liked The Cure at that point, and when the first single, Pictures of You, came out, I was fucking stoked.

But, you know, that Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is just such a, a beautiful album and caused ultimate re-rebellion and, uh, gave to the, gave to this, this, uh, downfall or maybe possibly upfall.

[laughs] Anyways, what does this all mean? It means I love you guys.

I'll have to give that one a listen.

And then Just Like Heaven off Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

Yeah.

Such a good song.

Yeah.

So The Top, The Head on the Door, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, each one moved them further into the mainstream without completely abandoning what made them interesting in the first place.

And then the song Just Like Heaven Happened.

And it became their biggest international hit to that point.

And as it seems with a lot of bands that reached that level of success, they were also getting very close to self-destructing.

Yeah.

They finished a massive tour behind Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

And Lal Tallhurst, who had been with the band since the very beginning, was drinking more and more every night.

Around the time of Oranges and Lemons, which I also really like.

And I hate it when people say, again, The Cure, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

I used to like that because I used to listen to these things on tape while I'm doing my A-levels.

And it was a longer time to turn it over if it was...

you know, do you know what you're missing, what you're missing? We'll show if you should try to kiss her.

I quickly sought out their debut album, Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons, and have been paying close attention right up to their most recent record, 2019's Fast Faster Disaster.

Wow.

Wow.

in love

In 2017, Tammy played a solo gig at the Athens Pop Fest under the name of The Tammy Shine.

And in February 2026, the first full-length album by The Tammy Shine dropped.

Okay, Shine, okay.