Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Songs Ranked

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in May 1987. The album helped bring The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming the band’s first album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart (achieving Platinum certification). It was also a great international success, as was its predecessor, The Head on the Door, reaching the top 10 in numerous countries. In 2000, the album was voted number 256 in Colin Larkin’s All-Time Top 1000 Albums. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is the last Cure studio album upon which Porl Thompson played keyboards; he played only guitar on all subsequent studio releases. Special guest Andrew Brennan played the saxophone on “Hey You!!!” and “Icing Sugar”. The album was recorded at Studio Miraval in Correns, France. Here are all of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me songs ranked.

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10. The Kiss

“The Kiss, the most Top-like song, is one of the most startling openers to a Cure album, especially after hearing the brighter and more accessible Head on the Door, and one of their hardest rocking numbers up to this point”

9. All I Want

“All I Want returns to the richly produced nervous romantic angst of How Beautiful You Are, but isn’t as strong, suffering from the same over-repetition of a limited set of ideas that ran The Figurehead down to the ground, but there’s enough passion and conviction in Smith’s vocals to make it reasonably compelling.”

8. The Perfect Girl

“The Perfect Girl” is one of my favorite songs on the album. Musically and lyrically it’s very simple. However, Smith’s vocals, especially near the end, really make the song. I think perhaps part of the reason I like the song is it describes the sort of girl I like as well.”

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7. Icing Sugar

“Icing Sugar, while offering something reasonably different in its tribal drums and brooding saxophone, ultimately feels like a less inspired retread of Like Cockatoos, sharing the same tempo, ominous bass line, repeated chord progression, complex arrangement and hazy production – effective enough but somewhat insubstantial, it’s the first Cure song which one feels needed to be fleshed out with more lyrics, and maybe one or more contrasting sections – the ice cream van coda is an nice and unexpected touch though.”

6. Fight

“Fight Fight Fight, recalling the magisterial doom of Cold but in a heavier and more extrovert vein, though better isn’t flawless, with the rather obvious title line somewhat overwrought and overworked, but it has quite a striking string hook and the coda where it brings the song to a slamming halt following Smith’s wailing vocal spiralling up into the stratosphere leaves a positive final impression, despite the decidedly flawed final side.”

5. Hot Hot Hot!!!

“The funky Hot Hot Hot!!! is the final single and the most controversial, garnering a none too complimentary review from AllMusic’s Stewart Mason. But while Smith’s vocals can get a bit silly and the bass line is modelled a little too closely on Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust, its combination of wit, danceability, fiery energy and wealth of infectious vocal and instrumental hooks is irresistible, with again a cleverly constructed arrangement that makes it far more than just a dumb pop number, with the wah wah acoustic guitar and strutting bass joined by a soft keyboard line during the emphatically catchy “Hey hey hey”, adding a call-and-response between high and slow strings just under two minutes in and a memorable horn tune in the closing seconds.”

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4. Catch

“Catch” is a sweet little pop song. I admit I’m not overly familiar with the Cure’s back catalog, but it was very different from the heavily electric/punk and post punk to something softer and acoustic. Also very endearing. It’s not truly a sad song, but one thing I’ve found true about the Cure is that even if their happy songs, there’s still some sadness.”

3. Why Can’t I Be You?

“Why Can’t I Be You?” is a totally over-the-top song that wouldn’t be half as great if it wasn’t so terribly overproduced — it’s just the image of a couple of goths singing it that doesn’t make sense.”

2. Like Cockatoos

“Like Cockatoos, one of the weirdest songs to date even for The Cure, evokes the bizarre world of one of Smith’s numerous strange dreams, with its combination of surreal and cryptic lyrics, swirling melange of again Middle Eastern flavoured melodies, menacing bass riff and guitars played backwards and imitating birds, propulsive kick drum and clattering drum machine, with the bass line eventually taken over by a majestic yet ominous string orchestra, like that in Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise.”

1. Just Like Heaven

“Just Like Heaven” is the most well known song from this album, and rightly so. The layers of guitars and Smith;s vocals and incredibly evocative, and the lyrics are both sad and sweet at the same time. The song sounds happy- and parts over it are- but overall, it seems to have a sad ending. Yet, Smith manages to keep this song from making you feel down, which I thought was impressive.”