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DISCID=6b0a2708
DTITLE=The Cure / Pornography (Deluxe Edition) - Disc 1 of 2
DYEAR=1982
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=One Hundred Years
TTITLE1=A Short Term Effect
TTITLE2=The Hanging Garden
TTITLE3=Siamese Twins
TTITLE4=The Figurehead
TTITLE5=A Strange Day
TTITLE6=Cold
TTITLE7=Pornography
EXTD=Pornography (Deluxe Edition) - Disc 1 of 2\n2005 Rhino Entertainment Company\n\nOriginally Released September 1982\nCD Edition Released February 1988\nDeluxe 2CD Edition Released April 26, 2005\nRemastered 1CD Edition Released April 4, 2006\n\nAMG 
EXTD=EXPERT REVIEW: "First time available on CD" is often a way of putting a spin on words like "scraps" or "rubbish." This is the case with the second disc of Rhino's Pornography reissue. Like all the deluxe editions of the Cure's back catalog, the alb
EXTD=um is packaged with a spectacular layout containing plenty of photos and biographical liner notes, but the decision to compile the band's B-sides on the quadruple-disc Join the Dots -- allowing room for an abundance of lesser material for each albu
EXTD=m reissue's second disc -- means that a lot of fans will feel short-changed. Many of them only want a few B-sides from a specific era, rather than a box set spanning 24 years and a pile of mere curiosities attached to the new edition of each album.
EXTD= (Doing it the other way around, with the B-sides on the album reissues and the other stuff slapped together for a box set, would've made too much sense; granted, it wouldn't have been the wisest business move.) The second disc here contains half t
EXTD=he album in bootleg-quality live form, pulled from a pair of 1982 gigs. Again, only the most rabid followers will want to hear any of these tracks more than once, save for "All Mine," which might be remembered from the cassette-only Curiosity. "Air
EXTD=lock" (a short-film score/extended mood piece, not a patch on Carnage Visors) and a handful of demos are in the same territory, though the demos do highlight the change that came when production help shifted from Michael Hedges to Phil Thornalley. 
EXTD=When stacked against their final-version counterparts, the demos are far more gentle and not nearly as sharp. This also indicates why Pornography was in need of remastering for so long; the battering drums and acidic guitars didn't translate so wel
EXTD=l on the initial CD edition. In fact, a few seconds of "The Hanging Garden" ought to make the second-disc bores forgettable, if not forgivable. -- Andy Kellman\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: (Original CD Edition) Later hailed as one of the key goth rock alb
EXTD=ums 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 betwee
EXTD=n: Pornography is much better than most mainstream critics of the time thought, but in retrospect, it's not the masterp
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