Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me by The Cure, album cover
Album

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Released26 May 1987
LabelElektra
Popularity92.8
Also cited5 May 1987

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by The Cure, released in May 1987. It is a double album, recorded at Studio Miraval in Correns, France. Robert Smith saw it as a way of closing a decade of work: one album's worth of material drawing on the bits of their past he liked best, and another of things the band had never really tried before.

It follows The Head on the Door and proved to be their American breakthrough, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard 200 top 40 and going platinum. It also reached the top 10 in numerous countries. Four singles came from it, among them "Just Like Heaven", the band's first US top 40 hit. Reviews at the time praised its variety but balked at the length; since then it has won considerable acclaim, and Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums placed it at number 256 in 2000.

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: tracklist, credits and charts

17 tracks · 1:11:19

Tracklist

  1. 1The KissGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams6:17
  2. 2CatchGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams2:42
  3. 3TortureGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams4:13
  4. 4If Only Tonight We Could SleepGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams4:50
  5. 5Why Can’t I Be You?Gallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:11
  6. 6How Beautiful You Are...Gallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams5:09
  7. 7The Snake PitGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams6:56
  8. 8Just Like HeavenGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:30
  9. 9All I WantGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams5:18
  10. 10Hot Hot Hot!!!Gallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:32
  11. 11One More TimeGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams4:29
  12. 12Like CockatoosGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:38
  13. 13Icing SugarGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:48
  14. 14The Perfect GirlGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams2:33
  15. 15A Thousand HoursGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:21
  16. 16Shiver and ShakeGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams3:26
  17. 17FightGallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst, Williams4:26
Produced by
David M. Allen, Robert Smith
Recorded at
Compass Point Studios, ICP Recording Studios, Studio Miraval, Miraval (Correns, France), Compass Point (Nassau, Bahamas)
Recorded
August 1986 – January 1987
Mixed by
David M. Allen, Robert Smith, Bob Clearmountain
Labels
Elektra, Fiction
Length
1:11:19

Line-up

  • Simon Gallup · electric bass guitar
  • Robert Smith · keyboard, electric guitar, lead vocals, recorder
  • Porl Thompson · keyboard, electric guitar, saxophone
  • Lol Tolhurst · keyboard
  • Boris Williams · percussion, drums (drum set)
  • Andrew Brennen · saxophone · guest

Singles

  • “Why Can't I Be You?” · 6 April 1987
  • “Catch” · 22 June 1987
  • “Just Like Heaven” · 5 October 1987
  • “Hot Hot Hot!!!” · 8 February 1988

Peak chart positions

ChartPeak
UK Albums Chart · 19876
US Billboard 200 · 198735
Dutch Albums · 19873
Swiss Albums · 19873
Austrian Albums · 19874
European Albums (Music & Media) · 19874
German Albums · 19874
Australian Albums (ARIA) · 19879
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi) · 198713
Swedish Albums · 198713
All 13 charts
New Zealand Albums · 198714
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) · 198725
Canadian Albums (RPM) · 198730

Certifications

RegionCertification
France · 1987Gold
New Zealand · 2026Gold
PortugalGold
United Kingdom · 1987Gold
United States · 1990Platinum

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92.8
Popularity (0–100, vs the whole vault)
12k
ListenBrainz listeners
178k
Wikipedia views, last 12 months
49k
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How we know the release date wikipedia 1987-05-26 vs 1987-05-05 (musicbrainz), 1987-05-25 (wikidata)
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MusicBrainz5 May 1987
Wikipedia infobox26 May 1987
Wikidata25 May 1987
US release26 May 1987earliest US date
UK / Europe release5 May 1987earliest UK or European date
30 editions
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2006USElektra081227475024other
2006DZ—602498400807other
2006ALUMC602498400807other
8 August 2006USFiction081227406424other
8 August 2006CARhino081227406462remaster
14 August 2006XEFiction602498400814other
14 August 2006XEFiction602498400807deluxe
30 October 2006DE—other
21 May 2008JPFiction4988005514431other
9 November 2012XEFiction600753270226other
2013USRhino081227967451other
20 April 2013USFiction081227967451other
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