I do not know if it is the right place but I enjoyed sharing a critique of pornography album
from a portuguese site.
"Pornography is one of those discs strong content. Not that it's reason to close the children in a room under lock and key, as was once the arrival of Marylin Manson to a more conservative city in the United States, but one of those albums that can cause ear damage if constantly repeated, without interaction with other human beings.
Begins immediately with a punch in the face: "Does not matter if we all die" opening sentence that is underlined with "We die one after the other" still in the initial theme One Hundred Years, and continued off the album, as in Siamese Twins ("Sing out loud, we all die, laughing into the fire").
Yeah, pornography can take various forms and apply to different contexts. What's different is that it does not give much room for imagination. She is there, completely naked. Pure and simple. Raw. Explicit. Pornography can be by words, and sounds. And that's where Robert Smith, scaring little children since 1976 (the year of formation of the band which is the only constant member). Depressed and completely erased by drugs, had only two options ahead: commit suicide or make a record of it to exorcise the body. Pornography was to be his final album with the band, but turned out to be the most successful group to date, even with falling bodies that not dominos.
Preceded by the single that does not enter the Charlotte Sometimes hard, and containing themes as The Figurehead, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years and A Strange Day, Pornography was the end of a dark trilogy (Gothic even say the word without fear), which began with Seventeen Seconds and Faith continued.
Smith also includes another disc personal trilogy, the Cure recorded live in Berlin for posterity on DVD and Blu-ray, consisting of Pornography (1982), Disintegration (1989) and Bloodflowers (2000). To us who know the Cure for a brother or oldest friend and not feel Pornography (and other discs Cure) at the time of its release, is the idea that pornography is not so bad as painted. Robert Smith can paint yourself as you want. We're not afraid of him, on the contrary, like and buy their albums"
Intertwined with recorded dialogue from Germaine Greer & Graham Chapman debating pronography, this is almost a list of things/ subjects that could be interpreted as prongraphic (as was the intent behind the titling of the album). Probably the hardest track on the album to listen to, but it makes perfect sense as a closer.
Post by acousticwarrior on Apr 2, 2017 1:47:35 GMT 1
"pornography, the last song, and in fact the last song i wrote for a while, is fuelled by the same self-mockery, self-hate, that burned in 100 years, but it is, if only very slightly, a little more hopeful than the others ... i am escaping (i escaped) by blaming someone else. a murder or suicide? 'i must fight this sickness ..." R. Smith, from cure news Number 9, 1990
Note: The backwards message at the beginning of the song is BBC television signing off for the night. There is a mans voice "counting" down, and a mention of the radio station that is still available for entertainment...(Tony Pigo)"
Note: The backwards message at the beginning of the song is BBC television signing off for the night. There is a mans voice "counting" down, and a mention of the radio station that is still available for entertainment...(Tony Pigo)"