the DISINTEGRATION poll

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

Closedown is better than the four songs above it.

Lullaby got robbed that one is top three material.

'Closedown' is so much better than 'Last Dance'.

LOL @ DJP

you're all insane

The title track is the one I keep returning to from this - easily one of my Top 10 favourite Cure songs.

My personal ranking:

1. Plainsong
2. Lullaby
3. Pictures of You
4. Fascination Street
5. Lovesong
6. Disintegration
7. Untitled
8. Closedown
9. The Same Deep Water As You
10 - 12. All the rest

The Same Deep Water As You
Disintegration
Prayers For Rain
Untitled
Homesick
Lullaby
Fascination Street
Pictures of You
Plainsong
Last Dance
Lovesong
Closedown

You crazy DJP

I'd put Lovesong last and swap Pictures with Closedown but other than that DJP OTM

I had this old CD my dad bought back then and it got scratcher enough for the first two track never to work, Closedown was my official and personal opener and I enjoyed it a lot as such.
Then I got proper files from the album and yeah, it is the lesser song of the album, but I still value it.

Disintegration
Fascination Street
Lovesong
Plainsong
Pictures Of You
Prayers For Rain
Untitled
Closedown
Lullaby
Last Dance
The Same Deep Water As You
Homesick

Released 25yrs ago today. Still remember breaking the seal on the cassette copy I bought that day. Remains one of my favorite albums 25 years later.

"The Same Deep Water As You" really is my favorite Cure song, I've decided. "All Cats Are Grey" and "Siamese Twins" are both wonderful but I never filled an entire C-90 with either of those so I could just listen to them on repeat.

Posted this before I know but again

http://www.rogerodonnell.com/disintegration/

hard to believe this came out in the month of May. didn't know about this but i did hear "Plainsong" today.

Happy Birthday "Disintegration"! Bought the cassette on release day as well. Listened and studied and did *everything* to this thing for months. 25 years...

Just wore my original Prayer Tour t-shirt to the Knife concert the other day. The only Cure t-shirt I kept all these years. Didn't realise it was 25 years old until now ! Still looks great :-)

Played my crackly second hand copy yesterday and thought this should have been released as a double album. So happy to find the 2010 reissue in the local record shop today

happy to see plainsong win, it's one of those songs where sure, there are probably songs as good, but no song could be better

I always feel some weird, irrational guilt when my fav track on an album is the opener, as if I haven't listened properly, surely the real treasure isn't going to be that obvious

I still remember the shock of putting it on for the first time and it just broke over me like a wave. Smith was never as assured and instinctive as in this record - the songs are seamless and unforced (with a couple of exceptions, Last Dance has never worked for me).

I always feel some weird, irrational guilt when my fav track on an album is the opener, as if I haven't listened properly, surely the real treasure isn't going to be that obvious

Hail to thee, neurotic soulmate

pollster bee okay otm. easing into it with that siren then that bass rumble is totally the way to go. love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cty6qH-7mTw

I bought this in the week it came out, while caravanning with my family. Wasn't able to listen to it until we got back home almost two weeks later. It was the last Cure album I would buy.

(Apart from a few reissues)

so that's how it ended, this last dance together?

pictures of trickery amirite

1. Fascination Street
2. Plainsong
3. Homesick

So, "Prayers for Rain" is one of the most badass guitar lines of all time, isn't it?

Bass VI, buddy https://post-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/prayertourshirt.jpg

Yeah, many/most of his leads are Bass VI, Robert Smith's secret weapon.

Yeah. Also that slightly detuned string iirc

"Last Dance" – 4:42 1

robbed!

even the voteless song is fantastic

My Cure dreams were fulfilled when I bought a VI a few years back, even the simplest riff sounds like a grand piano

So it's a 6 string bass? I always thought it was a baritone guitar. You learn something new every day etc.