Pornography
One
Hundred Years
A Short Term Effect
The Hanging Garden
Siamese Twins
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Cold
Pornography
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Robert
on 'Pornography'...
"'Pornography'
was the reverse. 'Pornography' was the most horrifying, chaotic recording
of a record, but not in the nice way that this one's been. It was
a very vicious, anarchic way. I seriously don't even remember making
a lot of 'Pornography'. But it turned out to be one of my favourite
albums." (Inbetweenies, New Musical Express 14/9/1985, David
Quantick)
"'Pornography' is well put together. It's made up of little bits
of experience scattered throughout the songs. To understand the album,
you'd have to have it explained line by line. On the 'Faith' tour,
I'd started to read books on clinical insanity, psychiatry, asylums,
y'know, mental health in general. I thought about what sort of existence
one must have in care, about the way you get treated and I thought,
if I'd been alone, that could have happened to me. Instead of singing
to an audience, I could've found myself singing to a wall."
(Ten Imaginary Years - 1988)
"To call the album 'Pornography' was my idea and Lol and Simon
laughed and joked about how it was gonna be about sex. We had a big
discussion about what exactly pornography was and I was surprised
because everyone had a different idea. Bill thought of it in terms
of the hit parade but I thought of it as in the way people are treated
who don't conform to certain ideas or standards. To some people, someone
obese in a newspaper with no clothes on is pornographic but, for me,
it's the way people open the paper and laugh. It's not the subject
which is pornographic but the interpretaion of it".
(Ten Imaginary Years - 1988)
"It was the inability to be violent, but that just came from
physical excess, completely losing a grip on things. I didn't think
any of it was that important at the time. I went through a period
of thinking everything was fucked and then I started to write these
songs. In one lucid moment, I realized we could make a bloody godlike
album so, unconsciously, I channelled all the self-destructive elements
of my personality into doing something. If I hadn't had that outlet
for doing things, then I would have gone down until I couldn't go
any further. The fact that I wanted to do something was my saving
grace really." (Lipstick Traces Melody Maker April 29, 1989 John
Wilde)
"I had two choices at the time, which were either completely
giving in or making a record of it and getting it out of me. And I'm
glad I chose to make the record. It's really the key action of my
life, really, making that record. It would have been very easy just
to curl up and disappear." (Searching For The Cure, Rolling Stone
1989 Michael Azerrad
"The songs on "pornography" were written either "stream
of consciousness" ("streams of extreme drunkenness!!) style
on an old typewriter in my bedroom at home in Crawley, or on torn
scraps of yellow paper on hallucinating early mornings walking through
and around horrible bits of London in cold December 1982. They range
from acutely personal observations on my immediate surroundings and
friends, to general rants against the futility of everything and everyone,
to back the horrors going on inside...it is very difficult to explain
the songs, as even within each verse of any one, there are several
layers of (logically) unconnected ideas. But I will colour..."
(Cure
News 9 - April 1990)
"Pornography,
an album that almost chokes on itself, remains a diary of one of my
blackest times. But it's one of my favourites!!!" (Cure News
9 - April 1990)
"I discovered the notion of massive quantities of very serious
drugs at the time and had I been older I don't think I would have
recovered. Me and Simon egged each other on to lower and lower depths.
Pornography itself was a reaction against the Faith album, an incredible
up swirl of mindless violence and aggression, mixed in with a complete
disregard for everything and everyone else, in this world or any other".
(Cure News 19 - May 1998)
"A very angry album. I understand why many Cure fans see it as
one of the best Cure albums, we have made." (Gaffa (Danish music
magazine) Feb.2000)
"I thought he was making it too nice. I wanted it to be completely
unlistenable. I thought it was the culmination of everything I'd done
since I left school. I thought it was my grand moment and in the course
of making it I was going to die. " (Uncut
Magazine, February 2000) |
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