For a band that's known worldwide as the premier purveyors of goth-rock gloom and doom (though hardly incapable of sparkling pop gems), it's no small thing to identify a particular album as their darkest, most disturbing sonic statement. Nevertheless, PORNOGRAPHY surely fills the bill. Reportedly created during a time of great psychological upheaval for group leader Robert Smith, it's a gloriously no-holds-barred existential angst-fest, from the very first line, "It doesn't matter if we all die."
The Cure - Pornography
A1. One Hundred Years
A2. A Short Term Effect
A3. The Hanging Garden
A4. Siamese Twins
B1. The Figurehead
B2. A Strange Day
B3. Cold
B4. Pornography