Pornography by The Cure is one of the greatest albums ever written about Depression

Discuss.

To elaborate: This is a dark album in a completely different way than most "dark" albums. It's not as safe and platonic an album as Faith in that regard, it's structured like a slow descent into hell itself, nestled deep within Smith's visualizations of his depression. It doesn't end with a suicide, but torment and imprisonment in the title track, which sounds like hell itself. Cold comes off as the icy frozen gates before entering hell, giving you the only alternative that would make you want to dive headfirst into burning alive (Crazy world of Arthur Brown did this too with Fire Poem). This works as if you look up Smith talking about his depression, you will find he talks about how he has never felt like he wanted to kill himself, which leaves him at his worst, trapped although thankfully with no suicidal alternative for escape. It makes sense he would see the logical end of his depression this way.
-The opening lyrics of every single song set the mood without coming off as whiny or pretentious: Just desperate for someone to hear and connect in the hopes that it can save Smith.
-The instrumentation is top notch and rather impressive. The bass playing on tracks like A Hanging Garden would make a lot of bands except for maybe Joy Division and metal bands sweat. Outside of that, there is a lot of real restraint to the instrumentation. Tracks like Siamese Twins have no real ego to their playing, no trying to "show off", the band understands that the lyrics are what sell the song with the instrumentals to back up and maintain that atmosphere. The duality of a disconnect between the lyrics and the instrumentation actually reminds me slightly of the techniques used in Remain in Light.
-It's not a healthy listen for someone with depression. Like depression, it's easy to get addicted to staying in that vibe and that feeling rather than being hurt or feeling anything worse. You don't just vibe, you sink.

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Why are you twats here?

Neither you nor Robert Smith have any idea as to how depression actually works.

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head on the door was better

its not about depression its about busting a nut in a latina chick

agreed

user, that's not 17.

Yeah I never really saw it as an album about depression, just impending doom with it ending with a kidnapping and torment.

Hanging Garden and Siamese Twins are the best though.

Was wondering when the Sup Forums armchair psychologist would appear.

Goth album with themes about sad love, gloomy depression and anxiety. I doubt it is masterfully conceptual or anything.

I wish I could like Head on the Door but its bookending tracks aside it's some of the blandest shit I've ever listened to. It neither inspires excitement nor annoyance in me, the songs just fucking come and go with no impact for me.

oh, and plenty of romanticism regarding love and death. great album tho!!!

is depeche mode as cool (in a 80s goth way) as The Cure? would I like one if I liked the other?

Only true patrician's can see past the guise of pussy, money, weed.

try the first tears for fears album DM isnt quite as dark still very good