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A Short Term Effect

The Cure →Pornography
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The second track on the Cure’s gothic milestone, Pornography, is centrally about the “short-term effect” of drug-taking, something the band had been doing a lot of during the production of the album (and its predecessor, Faith), although, on another level, it deals with the same themes of the shortness and futility of life that are touched on a number of Pornography’s other tracks. Sound-wise, it continues in the same vein as “One Hundred Years”

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