Title: Why Remaster?
Product review: Normally I love to hear my favourite albums remastered, and God knows there are plenty of '80s albums that desperately need it (Psychocandy!). However, I think that the decidedly murky sound quality of this album was its best feature. Let's face it, this really isn't the Cure's best album. My personal favourites are 'Faith' and 'The Head On The Door', but 'Pornography' had always seemed really good. That is, until they remastered it. Sure, now you can hear every 'nuance', but on top of that you can also hear just how frightfully mediocre the songs are. With the old version, it sounded like the band recorded the album at the bottom of a swamp, and that seemed to work really well with the overall sound and feel of the album. But now that it sounds all clean and clear, you realise just how weak this album was in the first place. To the original version of the album, I give four stars. But to this remaster, I give two.
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