THE CURE
“IT HAS A CERTAIN LONGING”
How J MASCIS was comforted by 1982’s PORNOGRAPHY
MY FAVORITE CURE ALBUM
“I got into The Cure with ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ on some punk compilation, then I got all their albums, I followed them. I really liked Pornography because it was a bit more depressing-sounding, a bit gloomy, it has a certain longing that was hitting my mood of teenage alienation at the time. It was getting more directly to the point with its dismal feeling. It’s probably their most fully realised depression session! Goth wasn’t quite a thing then, but that seems like an early goth record. It’s really reverby, but it’s also more rocking than their other albums, with a driving beat.