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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
THE KISS
CATCH
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
LIKE COCKATOOS
The Cure
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Elektra : 1987
[Buy It]
Apropos of little but some late-summer nostalgia: Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the first CD I ever owned. My father worked for an electronics company so we were an early-adopting family. We had a VCR the size of a microwave, a microwave the size of a baker's oven, an answering machine with two full-size cassette tapes (and a beeper-like device that let you check messages by pressing it into the receiver of a payphone to check your messages--I was very cool at the mall), and a CD player, the size of, well, a late-eighties VCR. My parents didn't know what to make of it. It sat there for a while in the living room, waiting for one of us to load a CD into it's enormous five-disc cartridge. I was the first to bring one home, this one, in all it's glorious glossy-red-long-boxed-ness. It was a little sad--just this one disc all alone in there with four empty slots above it. But luckily for me, my parents heard a song or two and said, you can take that thing into your room. To them, to all of us, this one album represented all CDs. If this is what's on them, my befuddled parents must have thought, then the whole thing's just not for us.
It took me months to go buy another one--after all they were twenty bucks. But more importantly, I wasn't ready for everything to go this way. I had all their other records on vinyl, and heard all the songs everyone did from Disintegration, but I've put my hands to my ears about anything The Cure has released since then; I'm sure they've gone completely astray. But more than any other band that I feel has gone the way of suck, this is the one I've held the most allegiance to, due almost purely to the fact that they popped my CD cherry. That and the fact that I got into college because of poems I basically plagiarized from lyrics on Head on the Door.Labels: joanna
posted by Joanna
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