Pornography

There's in quotes in the middle of the song, Robert says very quietly, your name like ice into my heart.

And that's a reference to that exact line is in the album Pornography.

Yes, yes.

I love that Easter egg.

So I found myself really immersed in this one.

And the only reason really I've got faith behind this one is just because this feels like the biggest step between all of the albums, I think, up until you get to Pornography, which is the one after Faith, which I think is a big jump.

But yeah, so that is my number 12.

17 seconds.

Songs like Siamese Twins and The Figurehead.

I mean, what's going on? They've given up on the idea of writing melody at all on a song like Pornography, the title track.

But then there are these two or three, four songs that actually justify the entire extreme idea.

Of course, what's happening here, by the way, to set the background is drugs, drugs, drugs, extreme behavior.

First off, this album has no song on it less than or fewer than four minutes and 22 seconds.

Most songs on this album are just way too long.

Secondly, I couldn't get this album for a long time because of the name Pornography, and I did not want my parents seeing it in my bedroom at any point in time.

So that was an issue.

So you want to know how it happened? It's right here.

Pornography by The Cure.

This was the first in order.

Like I said, I made a playlist with six albums like we do for the program, and I listened through all of them.

Like I mentioned, Faith from 1981, that one's a little more dreary.

They started out as kind of this post-punk kind of band, and then they started to evolve.

And here with Pornography, it's where they're really finding their footing.

This is the launching point where... they're really really creating like a new genre where they're taking kind of like heavy doomy rift and mixing them with almost like you know you know i think emo but not but you know emo for their time um this is like this is huge like this is uh this i could see in 1982 if i was like you know a teenager then like changing my whole world because it did because it gave my whole world like 40 years old like it changed everything that i thought about like a's music and the cure and this is it like yeah pornography by the cure so that's that's that's the top of the heap in uh 1982.

So we have, in a way, two albums out of a trilogy, right?

Yeah, so we have, as you said, a trilogy of albums in the early 1980s with 17 Seconds, Faith, and the band's fourth album, Pornography, released in 1982.

Single from that one is The Hanging Garden.

John, John Thompson's time.

look,

adopting an anti-image of just wearing plain clothes and hair with little and no makeup.

But it was on the tour in support of the Pornography album, That they adopted their now signature look of this big messy hair, black eyeliner and smeared lipstick.

Like we know, you know, in hindsight, or not hindsight, but just living in the present moment that they continue to make music.