Why is there no thread for The Cure's Disintegration?

BTW, that Stone Roses album really did more overall but comes up short at number two.

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.

My mom is half-baked which makes her great, hahah, come on.

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

Yeah, lyrically, this is really Smith's finest hour.

Smith's finest lyrical hour = Pornography, particularly "A Strange Day", "The Figurehead" and "Siamese Twins".

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.

It's not always my favorite song on the album, but sometimes the sheer awesomeness of "Fascination Street" will leave me slackjawed.

HI DERE 100% OTM a couple of posts up. ESPECIALLY THE FUCKING FIGUREHEAD.

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

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.

This Entreat thing is fantastic!! Thanks ILM.

Shoutout to the title track on this one.

hey bimble what was the track list for that quiet Black Sabbath comp you mentioned way upthread? That sounds like a unique treat! : )

when's the deluxe edt. of this coming out?.

hey bimble what was the track list for that quiet Black Sabbath comp you mentioned way upthread? That sounds like a unique treat! : )

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)

good stuff!

After all these years it's Plainsong pour moi

the opening chords of plainsong evoke some weird shit in me.

otm

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.

uh, rain

Plaaaaaaaainsoooooooooong

What is this picture at the start of the thread?

lolll

I was going to ask the same thing!

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.

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!

it's better this way

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.

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?

the epitome of a "DUH" comment

That's for sure!

Esp. with regards to Peepshow. I mean, I like that album a lot but compare it to Juju, Tinderbox, The Scream, Kalaidescope...

For those of us who are actually fans of Depeche Mode, we know that they had released several great records before "Violator", and also did release several after. Those who expect them to be a "rock" band may think otherwise though.

(And The Cure did most of their best work before "Disintegration" too - in fact 1980-85 mainly)

Well apart from Peepshow, those are basically my favorite albums from these bands

I considered starting a "thread in which HOOS discovers the music of The Cure" but I am plenty self-indulgent already.

Just started hearing my first proper Cure albums this week. Porno didn't hit right away, was sort of coldly "impressive" but didn't kick me like I'd hoped it would. This on the other hand, Disintegration, is perfect and I wish I had discovered it when I was 15.

"Head On The Door" is better IMO but also a completely different thing musically.

I haven't listened to Disintegration in years. Are all the synths still as badly dated sounding? I was wondering if maybe those tones have come full circle and aren't as cringe-worthy anymore.

I was actually thinking it sounded like the M83 album I've been listening to all year.

i've never found the synths dated or cringe inducing.

The synths on this album are fantastic (except for "Closedown").

BTW on this most recent tour, the Boston setlist opened with "Plainsong" even though they had no keyboardist and I thought it was the first time the live context had the full-on bombast found on the album.

I'm thinking the synths sounded dated to me in the mid 90s. So by now, they're probably just right.

Are all the synths still as badly dated sounding?

We're speaking 1989. All synths from 1989 sound dated. Actually to a much larger extent than synths from 1981.

In another few years 1989's synths will sound perfect and hip, Geir. All you have to do is keep breathing and it all comes 'round... :)

Another useless post, but: Great album.

Welcome to the fold, Hoos!

"We're speaking 1989. All synths from 1989 sound dated. Actually to a much larger extent than synths from 1981."

See, I completely agree with this statement.

In another few years 1989's synths will sound perfect and hip, Geir.

Badly sampled "authentic" instruments played on synths will never, ever sound hip again. Never!

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/stop_sign.jpg

i thought the picture at the top of this thread was originally the album cover? now it's something a lot... weirder