the DISINTEGRATION poll

seeing title track in #3 makes me happy.

^^^true

Not really agreeing with the results here - feel side 2 is way under-represented but that might be due to how these songs kind of merge into a whole, whereas the songs on side 1 are maybe more "distinctive"

side 2 of disintegration vs. side 2 of hounds of love

so the album gets worse with every song?

Playing Entreat now...medicine for anyone who's heard Disintegration too many times :)

so the album gets worse with every song?

no it's just that if you like side 1 more u might like any song on side 1, and if u like side 2 more chances are you'll like "Disintegration" the song best because side 2 is more uniform in texture/mood & "Disintegration" is like the big climax

Okay I'm going to play that song right now, even though I'm not depressed.

Oh my god, this is so much fun. Where in the hell would I be without ILM?

Jesus there is just no way to fuck with this album. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I was surprised, actually that Dan complained about some song or whatever because as far as I'm concerned there is absolutely not a fucking thing wrong with this album.

"Prayers For Rain" and "Last Dance" are too low, but otherwise I totally agree with these results.

yeah, i agree with bimble. pretty much nothing wrong here.

except for "Closedown" being really boring and unfinished-sounding

other than that, impeccable album

What's wrong about Closedown? I think it's one of the best songs in here, I love the synth line and the loose drums.

Yes. Seriously people. "Closedown" is great.

If it's so great why didn't you vote for it

no idea what i'd vote for atm, doesn't help that i lost my copy yonks ago and have consequently not heard this album for about 5 years

missed this poll but my fave has always been "untitled". so simple, so tuneful, so sad. a gorgeous song to dance cheek to cheek with the girl you love. definitely in my top ten of theirs. with "a forest", "friday i'm in love", "just like heaven", "m" etc.

so why are you in this thread louis. don't come back until you know this record.

I do know this record! I can hum most of the songs for you!

Please do so, right now! Sad that Prayers for Rain only got 2 votes.

I know there was a Wish poll... helllllp

search for "it's friday i'm in POLLve" or something equally retarded

"It's Friday, I'm a Poll" - The "Wish" Poll

lol

http://i.imgur.com/JmOWh.png

I'm sure I voted for the title track, but this is otm:

The Same Deep Water as You

I came back to this album a couple of years ago after not listening to it for 15 years or something, and I'd forgotten that song even existed, and it's beautiful, still and meditative, but moving (in both senses) at the same time. The heart of the record.

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 4:30 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That is completely OTM

The quote from that kid is just perfect.

Yes it is!

Came here to say Plainsong but

Oh man this is so hard but I think that I have to vote Plainsong. It's just amazing.

― ENBB, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:19 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2009 me otm.

Hah so awesome, kid. Ask that girl to the prom. If it doesn't work out then hey your favorite band is the Cure you can cry away your misery.

I've never really been taken with 'The Same Deep Water As You'. In fact, if I were to be painfully honest, I find the song extremely boring.

I was so that kid in high school.

After listening to Disintegration (the album) for nearly 20 years, the one song that has stood the test of time and, indeed, has escaped it to flee to a world far removed from ours, is "Homesick".

(But I'm a sucker for meandering piano riffs--think Nick Drake's Northern Sky.)

Happy 24th birthday...

oh cool. i'm eleven days older than this album. i'm really shocked at the results of this poll - i thought "lovesong" would get more votes. especially because of the video where he is in the cave staring at his hand... total classic.

He will always love his hand

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/buriedwreckage/default/robert-smith-cure-lovesong-screencap--large-msg-120103426062.jpg

I was still into Disintegration in 1992 when I decided to paint my skateboard ramp. I wrote a bunch of lyrics on there, including "I will always love you" from Lovesong. A few days afterward, I was skating with a friend who wasn't into the Cure at all. He was like "why did you put Whitney Houston lyrics on your ramp?"

The Cure, skateboard ramps, now I can't get that damn video for Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" out of my head.

BTW - this was the first CD I ever bought.

― ENBB, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:19 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now I feel old. Shit.

"Love Song" was the first CD single I bought.

:D

Disintegration was my first dispatch from the Columbia Record Club

I never want Untitled to end.

Man, no votes for "Closedown"?

it's the worst song on the album