our very own RSX is on the front page of MSN today.

the article is titled "Unlucky in Love" (ironically)

it recommends sad albums for the unloved.
of course Disintegration is always on top of these lists.
lol!





The Cure's "Disintegration" (1989)
Defining lyrics: "If only I thought of the right words/I could have held on to your heart/If only I thought of the right words/I wouldn't be breaking apart/My pictures of you" from the song "Pictures of You"
Chaser: Your blankie ... but not ... my blankie

"Disintegration" cannot be played during the daytime. For years, I've used it to help me sleep. It is like a warm, gooey, gloomy cocoon. When depressed, I've clutched it and held it incredibly tight, like a life preserver. I can't write about it objectively; it is simply one of the five greatest records of my life.


The backstory finds leader Robert Smith pissed because his band was becoming egocentric based on popularity and wanted to create the ultimate dark Cure album as a response to "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me." He also began taking LSD to cure depression and spark, um, creativity. Meanwhile, a band member was fired for alcoholism, the others became disgruntled and the label was getting worried. Out of this came "Disintegration.
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It is an album of brooding layers, both musically and thematically. Musically, each song begins with something simple (say, a chime), then a long, orchestral intro follows, where instrument upon instrument is slipped into the mix (often synth, a keyboard, shimmering guitars, drums that feel like gunfire) until Smith is finally ready to deliver his melancholy sermons on loss, depression, shattered dreams, broken promises, sucker bets, etc. (listen to "Closedown" or "Homesick" or "Pictures of You" for prime examples).


The music is so gorgeous, so moving, so hypnotic that you are overwhelmed, wet-eyed before Smith even gets to the story. And the story is also layered: Each song about regret, love collapsing, nostalgia for something that could have never been as beautiful as he is remembering. But the disintegration here is also of Smith's band. You can read the album as a goodbye from leader to comrades. The Cure would never be this whole or this great or matter more than they did here. But how could they? This is perfect.






As Above So Below...

thanks for posting this -m- I have been a 3 week kick now with this album, its been years since i have put it in and just listened to it from beginning to end over and over again. No wonder why I fell in love with them 20 years ago!

so kelly, when are you going to take it out of your player and replace it with something else?
what are you going to replace it with?
why?











j/k.
you crack me up!!!

I <3 this thread. <br>

FUnny you should ask random person that is NOT midnight. I have decided by my own choice and no influence by anyone to take it out of my player (which was very very very hard mind you) and replace it with gulp Bloodflowers... which is my least fav of the bunch, song 2 was hard to get through for the first play though (it may be the soul reason that this album gets no play) but I do like a few of the songs on there... more than I remembered. So I am glad after 6+ years of shelving this Album that I pulled it out. I am not sure how long it will stay in the player but hey at least I gave it a go... right? I think 4:13 dream will get another turn for a few weeks and I am looking fwd to it! Yippie!

You are not alone in your appreciation for disintigration, along with faith and seventeen seconds I count them as my three favorite albums by the cure or by anybody

i love disintegration but have not heard it for years since my 2 deep depressions. Well ive heard it but never in the same sense and feeling as then..