SEALED LP THE CURE “Pornography” ELEKTRA orig ’82 rare WOW

$

35

Artist:   THE CURE                                 

Title:   “Pornography”

Label:   ELEKTRA ~ 9 60785-1.  Original stereo pressing. 

Year:  1982.

NOTE:  This album came from the extensive personal collection of the former owner of a chain of retail music stores who retired from the business in the 1980’s.  The albums have been stored virtually untouched and unplayed since that time in a climate controlled, non-smoking environment.  We are in the process of selling many investment grade coloured vinyl LPs, promos, sealed LPs, and other rare collector items from the collection over the coming months.  If you insist on MINT albums, you will not be disappointed. 

Condition: 

Album is STILL SEALED in factory shrink-wrap, as clean as can be found.  The shrink-wrap is sparkling clean; fully intact except cut-out notch at top of spine.  Overall a gorgeous piece that has never seen a stylus! 

Track Listing:

Side 1: 

• One Hundred Years
• A Short Term Effect
• The Hanging Garden
• Siamese Twins

Side 2: 

• The Figurehead
• A Strange Day
• Cold
• Pornography

Review: 

“Later hailed as one of the key goth rock albums of the '80s and considered by many hardcore Cure fans to be the band's best album, Pornography was largely dismissed upon its 1982 release, witheringly reviewed as a leaden slab of whining and moping.  The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between: Pornography is much better than most mainstream critics of the time thought, but in retrospect, it's not the masterpiece some fans have claimed it to be.  The overall sound is thick and murky, but too muddy to be effectively atmospheric in the way that the more dynamic Disintegration managed a few years later.  For every powerful track like the doomy opener "One Hundred Years" and the clattering, desolate single "The Hanging Garden," there's a sound-over-substance piece of filler like "The Figurehead," which sounds suitably bleak but doesn't have the musical or emotional heft this sort of music requires.  Pornography is an often intriguing listen, but it's just a bit too uneven to be considered a classic.”

(review courtesy of Stewart Mason, allmusic.com)

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