Probably shocking for most Cure fans, but I love it. The whole dvd is quite good, in my opinion - first time in years they seemed genuinely intrested in shaking a bit their formula.
― Marco Damiani, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
interested, even.
I so need to get that Festival DVD.
Mixed Up pissed me off because I had three of the four Disintegration singles already, so I already had those remixes (and I hated the "Lullaby" remix). The dubby "Pictures of You" remix was (and is) completely brilliant, though.
― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The sequencing of this album from "Prayers For Rain" onwards is one of the most perfect orderings of songs ever put together by a band. -- HI DERE, Monday, October 29, 2007 9:54 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
hay i fixed that for you okay? ^^^
― stephen, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of "Closedown".
― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Fool!
― baaderonixx, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
You are not the first person to say this.
― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of "Plainsong" though.
― baaderonixx, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
uh
― cutty, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"Plainsong" has never worked live for me. I always think it always sounds thin.
― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd like to hear it live, but can imagine that yes, it could be disappointing.
baaderonixx: wow! really? hey ho. horses, courses etc.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Well I don't dislike it but I've always seen it more as a dirgy intro that might be a bit too pompous for its own good (which is maybe the one thing you could fault the album for).
― baaderonixx, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm kinda liking this sludgy metal version though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93vIIKvnFOc
― baaderonixx, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone knows when the next batch of remasters will be released? (Relevant in this thread as "Disintegration" will obviously be among them)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is there no disintegration for The Cure's thread?
― blunt, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Closedown" is awesome!!
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"Closedown" is half-baked.
― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I was about to protest until I checked my iTunes and found that I'd ripped the whole album except "Closedown"! Hmmm...
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
your mom is half-baked.
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
a album that changed everything about me.
not the best album ever made but is my personal number one album of all time.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
BTW, that Stone Roses album really did more overall but comes up short at number two.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never actually heard Entreat, though the sleeve looks familiar. I will certainly seek it out, it seems like a great idea to hear live versions of these songs.
I've never seen the Cure live, either.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
My mom is half-baked which makes her great, hahah, come on.
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, this is the best thing they put out alright
the captivating and altogether enchanting mystique pervading this record lends tracks like 'last dance' and 'prayers for rain' a true dreamlike and ethereal quality. each track is approached with more lyrical sincerity and subtlety than smith had been able to muster before or since. fantastically engaging moody pieces and unforgettable singles. perfect mix and wash of instruments.
and i should mention that the last two minutes or so of the title track is pure bliss
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, lyrically, this is really Smith's finest hour.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Smith's finest lyrical hour = Pornography, particularly "A Strange Day", "The Figurehead" and "Siamese Twins".
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Cure have lots and lots of peaks throughout their career. They've done so many things perfectly; Faith is the perfect Faith, "Just Like Heaven" is the perfect "Just Like Heaven," etc. This album is perfect in a certain dark, romantic, cinematic way, and I think that makes it tower over nearly everything else anyone -- including this band -- has ever done.
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not always my favorite song on the album, but sometimes the sheer awesomeness of "Fascination Street" will leave me slackjawed.
― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
HI DERE 100% OTM a couple of posts up. ESPECIALLY THE FUCKING FIGUREHEAD.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i can lose myself in chinese art and american girls
oh, that's just amazing ;)
no, seriously i love pornography and its lyrical premise. it's just that i wish it didn't quite sound the way it does - very devoid of warmth. which of course was the intention, so how can i be critical? also, 'a strange day' is really magic, genuinely something special. top 5 material, and that's saying something enormous when you're talking the cure's catalogue of songs
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Porno is fantastic and Siamese Twins is probably my fave Cure song ever, but I still think that lyrically 'Disintegration' owns it completely. Maybe I'm just more interested these days in mid-life nostalgic ramblings than fits of narcotic fury.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
This Entreat thing is fantastic!! Thanks ILM.
― Bimble, Saturday, 3 November 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Shoutout to the title track on this one.
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hey bimble what was the track list for that quiet Black Sabbath comp you mentioned way upthread? That sounds like a unique treat! : )
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
when's the deluxe edt. of this coming out?.
― Creeztophair, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I made 'We Sail Through Endless Skies: The Quiet Black Sabbath Album', check it.
Tracklist:
1 Embryo (Master of Reality) 2 Supertzar (Sabotage) 3 Orchid (Master of Reality) 4 She's Gone (Technical Ecstasy) 5 Changes (Vol. 4) 6 FX (Vol. 4) 7 Planet Caravan (Paranoid) 8 Fluff (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) 9 It's Alright (Technical Ecstasy) 10 Laguna Sunrise (Vol. 4) 11 Solitude (Master of Reality)
― Z S, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
good stuff!
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
After all these years it's Plainsong pour moi
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the opening chords of plainsong evoke some weird shit in me.
otm
― latebloomer, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
last couple of shows I've seen, title track and Prayers for Rain just didn't hit me, whereas Plainsong and even, like, "Last Dance" and "Closedown" totally do. It sucks when you so want "prayers for raaaaaaaaaaaaaan" to just shatter your goth soul, and nothing happens.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
uh, rain
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Plaaaaaaaainsoooooooooong
― Mark C, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
What is this picture at the start of the thread?
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link
lolll
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to ask the same thing!
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i traded bob mould's 'workbook' to a guy in uni for this. i like workbook, but i won.
a later college roommate claimed that in 'prayers for rain' smith was actually singing 'president reagan'.
i'm not a big 'lullabye' fan, but the album is grebt and especially 'plainsong', of course.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
The picture at the start of the thread used to be the album cover (I swear!). Now I don't know what the hell it is!
― Bimble, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
it's better this way
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Crazy coincidence: I was listening to Disintegration this morning for the first time in years.
Ok, maybe not massively crazy.
Anyway, I wanted to confirm that a track on the new Guillemots album sounds like 'Pictures Of You' - at least its chords do. Not a great story. As you were, everyone.
― Matthew H, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Read on a Cure blog:
Why did so many bands that made their careers in the 80's seem to peek at or around 1988-89? The Cure had Disintegration, New Order had Technique, Siouxsie had Peepshow, Depeche had Violator, etc... The next album after all of these were "good" and then the rest just...ok.Were these not the pinnacle of these band's careers? Or were these just great albums to me because I was starting college, booze, and sex at that time?
Were these not the pinnacle of these band's careers? Or were these just great albums to me because I was starting college, booze, and sex at that time?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:08 (sixteen 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