I can't imagine how fucked up my life would have been at fifteen had it been the actual lyric.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of otm-ness here. Absolutely loved Never Enough when it came out shame they immediately dropped the main riff when they played it live
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
and Ned otm indeed - the LOGTB remix was my favorite from that project. Such a strange and intriguing vibe from that version
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hearing that and Orbit's Shiver mix of "Inbetween Days" made me think Mixed Up was going to be much, much better than it actually was.
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
uggghhhh mixed up
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
still pissed off about that mix of "The Caterpillar" tbh
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha YES YOU ARE CORRECT
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh Inbetween Days and yes Caterpillar were the most horrendous things on that
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
haha totally loved mixed up when it was the only cure album i owned back in elementary school, not even sure where my copy went after I finally heard the originals.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The best ones were left off ("Lets Go To Bed" and "Primary"), but I don't dislike the "Caterpillar" remix.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The album versions of "Why Can't I Be You" and "Hot Hot Hot" are much more exciting than the Mixed Up versions.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally holding a copy in my hot little hands, thanks to the wonderful Mrs. via/chicago. Ironic that such a notoriously depressing album would be the bright spot of my otherwise craptastic afternoon.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy 25th.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 May 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I freakin love the Cure. This was the first Cure album I ever heard, I found the vinyl used at a thrift store, and ended up giving it to a goth girl I had a crush on for Xmas. It's a shame it's such a nice day outside, it almost doesn't feel appropriate to play the album in such weather.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 May 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
This will be wildly unpopular, but this record doesn't even make my Top 5 for Cure albums.. It's all a bit "samey" to me, but in a far different way than Faith or Seventeen Seconds were. No doubt that Disintegration paints some vast and desolate landscapes, and they are far more sophisticated than those displayed on those earlier somber albums. I mean, the love and longing oozes from beautifully stretched-out themes -- a very new trick for a band a decade in. I guess i like his more tortured material, or, sometimes the more bubble-gum-ey fun stuff.
Don't get me wrong, it was a great new place to move the material and it sold tons of copies, but really pointed to the beginning of the end in my view. For my money, the never were as lethal as they were with Kiss Me.
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 3 May 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
this weekend on a whim (if slightly inspired by the v tedious discussion of how much jason cooper sucks) i decided to listen to every cure record in order, and hitting disintegration was prob the most dramatic shift in the sequence; it's not really an aesthetic shift i think (it pretty clearly follows up on a lot of the ground staked out on kiss me and besides the most dramatic aesthetic shift in the cure discography is prob still pornography->"let's go to bed"); it's more about scale, where kiss me was a ton of very tonally distinct songs squeezed down into an excitable mercurial space where they could sit together dissonantly and constantly surprise!!! you, every song here is enormous and is almost its own individual space, so that the album feels to me like a series of linked domes in which different weather patterns are preserved
i've been mostly drawn to the expanded entreat on the deluxe reissue bc i've lived with the original album for fifteen years and it differs enough (especially in the shimmering guitar interludes on "pictures of you") that it's like hearing it from a slightly adjusted angle (it's also, as documented upthread, a really excellent performance), which is allowing me to additionally recognize that, even as my tastes have developed a lot since first hearing this at fifteen years old, disintegration and "plainsong" in particular contain so much of what i still value about music, they're like the permanent center of something around which the surface has drifted and warped considerably, and it still enriches and informs that drifting and warping. anyway, <3 u disintegration, i thought faith was maybe my new favorite cure record, but nope
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5YguuNSJg
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
A fine celebration. :-)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
Happy 30th! <eek smiley>
― groovypanda, Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv18HTqbqmw
first 5 minutes of this are a tear-jerker.
― piscesx, Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link