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Robert
on 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me'... "…with this album, I insisted that the others gave me a cassette of music and I got six or seven songs from each one. Even Boris mode a tape of interesting drum patterns which I appreciated because I didn't expect to get anything from him and it just showed that everyone wanted to be really involved in it. "They gave me all the cassettes early last summer when we started doing demos at Beethoven in London. I put all the tapes on and everyone listened to them cold and I didn't say whose was whose and no one was allowed to comment on their own stuff. We gave each a score out of 20 and commented and, at the end, we'd listened to 60 pieces of music and compared notes. We then took the ones that were most immediately impressive, put them on two cassettes and went into John Costo's studio in Provence. We demo-ed there for two weeks - it was really good fun, they had a football pitch and we played the locals every day - and then we drove across to Mirabelle where we recorded at least a song a day, sometimes two. Most of them were first takes, almost jamming the songs to get the feel right. We spent a couple of hours playing each song so we became familiar with it and then recorded it in one go and it worked! It was a delight to record, a joy." (Fancy Dress Party, Melody Maker, April 11, 1987) "Usually I get really stuck but I had words for 23 songs and I think they're easily the best I've ever written. I astounded myself. I wrote the songs the way I wrote 'The Walk'. I had a mood for each song and I sifted back through what I'd already done and a couple of songs even refer to incidents I've already written songs about but they actually capture the spirit of them far more." (Fancy Dress Party, Melody Maker, April 11, 1987) "The most enjoyable period of time I've had in the past 10 years. It was in Provence, in the South of France, in an old country mansion with its own vineyard. We recorded it in complete isolation, we didn't allow anyone to hear anything until we'd finished it - no one at all, not even our families. It was a very incestuous, very secretive kind of thing, because we were having so much fun that we didn't want anyone to come and break the spell. "It was a very unreal situation - 10 weeks of being completely cut off from the world, with no outside stimulus at all. We had no television, we had no transport to get to the nearest town which was five miles away, and all the food was sent in a van in the morning. "About halfway through, all the girls came down to join us. I asked Mary to sit in the studio when I was singing some of the songs, and it was very strange actually singing to her, which I'd never done before. The only other time she'd been in the studio was on Pornography - she sat in a chair and stared at me when I was singing 'Siamese Twins,' I think. "It's strange, I find it very difficult to sing to people when they're very close. I've always found it much easier to sing in a theater than in a club. So it was very weird to have Mary sitting there watching me. And the rest of the group came in and stared at me when I was singing 'Shiver And Shake,' to make me feel uncomfortable so I could sing with an edge. We tried lots of funny things like that". (Eastcoast Rocket 22nd July 1987) This is the perfect record we could have made at this moment. I thought it was right for the band to make a hugely entertaining record now, because that will allow us to leave off at a certain point in the public's awareness, and then come back with something that could be really horrid, but people will he forced to listen to it anyway because the media will have been tricked into playing The Cure. That's always been a big part of what we do - setting people up, so we can go and do the real thing. (Eastcoast Rocket 22nd July 1987) "Well, I drove my car down a mountainside when we were in France, and nearly killed everyone. There we were, hanging upside-down in a ditch, and I could smell petrol. I thought we were going to blow up because Simon had a lit cigarette in his hand and I was too shocked and hurt to move! We nearly didn't live to see ourselves become popular in America, which was weird, and I guess J Mascis' version of 'Just Like Heaven' confirmed it". (Cure News - January 1999) |
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