Very much talked about a lot on the Cure reissues thread. And I am waiting very (im)patiently for it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Ahh, I missed all that then. Today was the first time I saw the contents. Exciting!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 March 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
found on youtube, not sure if legit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shJmHOkJXDA
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 March 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
fancy new website for this reissue :
http://www.thecuredisintegration.com
― mark e, Monday, 17 May 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The alternative rarities have been discussed somewhat on the Cure reissues thread.
― StanM, Monday, 17 May 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite right:
http://www.austin360.com/music/music-blogs/the-epic-sound-of-falling-apart-731267.html?cxtype=rss_a-list_123074
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
There are two kinds of Cure fans in the world: those who believe that "Disintegration" is not only the best Cure album but one of the signature albums of the 1980s and those who were born before roughly 1969 or after, say, 1976.Before '69, you probably have vivid high school memories of "The Head on the Door," the Cure's epic singles collection, or "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me." After '77, you probably have warm feelings toward the radio smash "Friday I'm in Love."But for those of us in that sweet spot, for lots of girls and for lots of guys who thought girls would like them if they acted more like girls, "Disintegration" is "Dark Side of the Moon," a generational landmark up there with the Challenger disaster and seeing your first Mac. Suffice it to say that had "Donnie Darko" been set one year later, "Disintegration" might as well have played through the whole thing.
Before '69, you probably have vivid high school memories of "The Head on the Door," the Cure's epic singles collection, or "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me." After '77, you probably have warm feelings toward the radio smash "Friday I'm in Love."
But for those of us in that sweet spot, for lots of girls and for lots of guys who thought girls would like them if they acted more like girls, "Disintegration" is "Dark Side of the Moon," a generational landmark up there with the Challenger disaster and seeing your first Mac. Suffice it to say that had "Donnie Darko" been set one year later, "Disintegration" might as well have played through the whole thing.
Why yes I was born in 1971.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
After '77, you probably have warm feelings toward the radio smash "Friday I'm in Love."
not especially!!
― if i recoil correctly (crüt), Monday, 7 June 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Disintegration is one of the greatest albums of all time obv
yeah i don't agree with that theory at all
― cutty, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
re: years, i agree with crut's theory
i believe this is the all-time greatest "coming down" album ever
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Monday, 7 June 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
coming down from...?
― cutty, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 7 June 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pretty dopey, stuff like standing on a beach and disintegration are canonical enough that plenty of young folks get into them first. and he ignores the pornography cult entirely.
― da croupier, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just going to say, that's a daft theory. what about those of us who think the cure never bettered seventeen seconds/faith/pornography? where do we fit into his supersmug theory?
― anagram, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^
― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 June 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
(add The Top to that and I'm on yr page)
There are two kinds of Beach Boys fans in the world: those who believe that "Pet Sounds" is not only the best Beach Boys album but one of the signature albums of the 1960s and those who were born before roughly 1946 or after, say, 1953. Before '46, you probably have vivid high school memories of "Surfina USA" or "Party!" After '53, you probably have warm feelings toward the radio smash "Kokomo."
― da croupier, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The theory as set-in-stone formalism doesn't hold, the feeling he's talking about at the time rings pretty damn true. And as someone who has listened to Faith more often than any other album of theirs as time has gone by, I still appreciate that sense of what 1989 was.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― cutty, Monday, June 7, 2010 10:48 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
a lighthouse
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Monday, 7 June 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the eighties maaaan xp
― da croupier, Monday, 7 June 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
a generational landmark up there with the apollo moon launch and seeing your first color TV
― da croupier, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
a generational landmark up there with watching my brother's friend blankly stare at the rotary dial of our phone.
― Andy K, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, YOU were the one who got him high.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It was around 1993, which would have made him seven or so. I'm not that irresponsible.
― Andy K, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
But kids these days etc.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
...with their "Fridays I'm Love" and their videos not directed by Tim Pope. they just don't know!
― da croupier, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I was thinking more drugged-out seven years with phones per earlier comments, but I suppose that could work.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, the reissue is mine and I am very happy. Helps that I haven't listened to the album in over a decade, I find it familiar and fresh at once. He sounds so young at points now to my mind.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, June 7, 2010 2:55 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
<3 lol
― punperson (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, the reissue is mine and I am very happy.
So it's released today? I went to three record stores and couldn't find it here...
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, its out, even the big chains had it... but for forty fucking dollars! I'm ordering mine offa Amazon for $25 instead.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I second "best coming down album ever." nothing better after a crazy night out of your mind on acid than dawn and disintegration.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
thank u
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Ordered this from Amazon last night for $25.99 shipped, no tax. Very excited.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
My thoughts here.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
(I once tried to set up a conversation between Cure frontman Robert Smith and Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno for a magazine feature, but Smith wouldn't participate.)
!!
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Phil's right there. And guess who the interviewer was going to be...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mc hammer
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I lacked the pants. Which they would have sensed over the phone.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Stop! Raggetttime!
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just listening to Isis's Panopticon while walking to the post office, and there's a lot of Disintegration influence on that album, it seems to me, particularly the bass sound.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
There could/should be a compilation of metal covers of Cure songs over the years. Deftones as noted, there's Misery Loves Company, "The Drowning Man"...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cure = my favorite band (or so I proclaimed from about 2000-05, before I started buying/listening to waaaayy too much music to even really keep track of "my favorite band" anymore).
Panopticon = my favorite Isis album, by far.
Do the math?
xp
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i just got this today = greatest day ever.
now to find the right time to listen to this again in all its glory.
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys (who already have this reissue), how's the remastering job? Nabisco points out in his Pfork review that things are a little... squished together.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14288-disintegration-deluxe-edition
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 10 June 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Nabisco: Wembley Arena is not Wembley Stadium, btw
― StanM, Thursday, 10 June 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh crap! Sorry, total north-American ignorance on my part -- I'll let them know to correct the wording.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
(still one of the biggest venues in western Europe, right?)
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link