The Cure followed the breakthrough success of The Head on the Door in 1986 with the compilation Standing on a Beach: The Singles. Standing on a Beach reached No. 4 in the U.K., but more importantly it established the band as a major cult act in the U.S.; the album peaked at No. 48 and went gold within a year. In short, Standing on a Beach set the stage for 1987's double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

The album was eclectic but it was a hit, spawning four hit singles in the U.K. ("Why Can't I Be You," "Catch," "Just Like Heaven," "Hot Hot Hot!!!") and the group's first American Top 40 hit, "Just Like Heaven." Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me was more accessible and ambitious than any of the Cure's previous albums, the double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me finds Robert Smith expanding his pop vocabulary by tentatively adding bigger guitars, the occasional horn section, lite-funk rhythms, and string sections.

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A1 The Kiss
A2 Catch
A3 Torture
A4 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
B1 Why Can'T I Be You?
B2 How Beautiful You Are...
B3 The Snake Pit
B4 Hey You !!!
C1 Just Like Heaven
C2 All I Want
C3 Hot Hot Hot !!!
C4 One More Time
C5 Like Cockatoos
D1 Icing Sugar
D2 The Perfect Girl
D3 A Thousand Hours
D4 Shiver And Shake
D5 Fight