You’ve heard the doom and gloom masterpiece of The Cure Disintegration, now you must hear the doom that started it all, 1982’s Pornography album. The record that spurred what Robert Smith calls “the trilogy”, ending with the Bloodflowers album. The latter being a decent into madness and deep depression. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with their entire discography, including their B-Sides and rarities boxset. You could throw a dart at any song on that compilation, and as you said, that song would be most other bands magnum opus...and to think none of them ever made an album cut, speechless.
This was one of my foundational albums back in the day - I have fond memories of turning off all the lights, putting on headphones, laying on the floor in the dark, and just ceasing to exist for 70 minutes. Robert Smith's vocals on the back half of the album sound like it's taking every ounce of effort he can muster to just get out something, anything, past the overwhelming depression of the lyrics.
I absolutely loved watching a new fan in the making! When Babby says ‘what’s happening?’ No other music has ever made me FEEL as much as the cure and Robert. The music, the lyrics and his expression and delivery as well as the production are just perfect!
I can’t imagine my introduction to this band being Friday I’m in Love and then listening to this masterpiece of an album. Definitely listen to more of their stuff - I’d recommend Head on the Door next. Also a masterpiece.
Yes! HOTD Was the one that drew me in and made me a fan of their music. Disintegration guaranteed that I would stay one forever. This entire album is simply timeless
This is the big one. Even among all the other Cure albums there is nothing like this record. But if you want to dive deeper into this band, I'd suggest "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" (if you want to experience all the different styles they mastered), "Pornography" (if you want to know how brutally dark and at the same time addicting they could get), or "The Top" (if you want to know the levels of "weird" they reached). "17 Seconds" is a beautiful and eerie album as well, and it contains one of their immortal masterpieces, "A Forest". P.S.: Lots of people dismiss "The Top" as a failed attempt at best and put it very low on their "worst to best" rankings of all Cure albums. But I insist that it is a criminally underrated record that is just bursting with ideas, fun, color, emotions and WTF-moments. It's actually my third favorite Cure album after Disintegration and Pornography.
I second everything you’ve said. Kiss Me captures everything, and I’d recommend that next too. Also, The Top is a fantastic album. It is weird in the best way, no one else has ever made an album like that. I don’t think anything beats the B-sides on Standing On A Beach for me, though.
I like how Lovesong, in a record that is mostly about getting older and closer to death, brings some light into the mix. Whenever he is with his lover he feels young, fun, and whole again. When people say the song doesn’t fit, I disagree, even if it’s clearly the big single of the album.
Listening to Disintegration is like walking through a haunted house with beautiful music playing in the background.....Disintegration is hauntingly beautiful
Kyle from South Park called out "Disintegration is the best album ever!" for a good reason. Getting to see them perform Pictures of You live has been a highlight of my life. In terms of recommending further albums: Wish gets a lot of shit by some elitist Cureheads, cause it's a bit like the more "conventional" version of this album, but I personally still really like that one. However, if I had to talk about the most overlooked Cure album, that's not getting mentioned in your comments, but that you absolutely should listen to, it's Faith. Very moody and a mix of their earlier post-punk work and their gothic rock style, that they would become famous for.
To my mind The Cure defies genre and any attempt to put it in a box. That's what drew me to their music. It's such a a .... Soundscape. I listened to this CD until I wore it out...twice Over the 90's. I loved when Fascination Street played in the clubs...such a vibe. Nice to see young people discover their magic
Babby - you get what long time Cure fans feel. Life definitely has moods and this is the album I play again and again for that effect. It transports me away and I love it.
This album is top Cure for me. It also happens be the real breakout album for the band into commercial success. Personally, I find that quality and commercial success don't really go hand in hand when it comes to music, *especially* when it comes to more alternative music like post-punk. This album just drills deep into your soul. There was a time when I couldn't listen to the song "Disintegration" without crying. The emotion starts building from the moment the song begins and through Rob's desperate singing in the latter part of the song. It used to feel like I could barely stand it (suffocating was a good way to describe it, Babby) and my body needed to release the tension. The song hasn't had the same level of effect on me more recently, but I still put it up there with my favorite songs of all time. Having said that, I did go through a significant loss recently and I haven't dared listen to this album yet. I don't know when I'll be ready so thank you for listening to it because it allowed me to hear it from a bit of a distance. This album is truly magnificent and, based on my experience, you will likely never tire of it. If you ever have a chance to see them live, Babby, go! They're amazing live. Robert is a freaking treasure and the band is so talented.
The great masterpiece of the cure. An instant classic of gothic rock. And for the guy of the left, well, each one of us have our favorite music but you should know some basic facts about the genre that you're reactioning, it's dark, it's doom, it's glommy.
I was 17 when this album came out. Got my very first girlfriend that year and suffered my first true heart break when we split up at the end of the year. What an album to take you through the highs and lows of that! Still remember it all like it was yesterday. Pictures of You is my favourite Cure song followed by Just Like Heaven.
Ok, so all this time I’ve thought that Lullaby didn’t fit this album because, on the surface, it just seems like a creepy bedtime story kinda song. I’ve thought about it some more and the way I am interpreting it now makes the song make more sense within the context of the record. The spiderman is simply a representation for death and it’s coming for Robert in the night before he can wake up. In the title track “Disintegration” he mentions “the fear of sleep”. What I think he’s saying there is he’s afraid of going to sleep and never waking up again. The spiderman is that force that is making sure he doesn’t wake from his sleep.
They had some seriously great albums earlier in their history, that were maybe more influential than Disintegration (in my opinion anyway). 'Standing on a Beach - the Singles' is a great tour of the earlier songs, and highly recommended if you like this one.
There's alot of stories behind the songs on this, and unlike their other albums these ones are more personal to Smith, especially Closedown about his fear of turning 30 and Lullaby about his father when he was a child. Fascination Street is about debauchery in New Orleans French quarter - the mouth part being about alcohol and subsequent vomiting. Plainsong is him projecting himself and his wife Mary to the end of the world where they're old and dying. Pictures of You is about his house fire. Lovesong is for Mary. Disintegration is about a person he knew (not Mary) who cheated - it may be about his sister and her husband who was a member of the band. Not sure. It's about the futility of infidelity and how it always ends.
Loved watching your review and reaction. If you plan on reacting to more Cure records, I reccomend Pornography for their most angsty and depressing album (considered a masterpiece along with Disintegration), and Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me for an excellent mix of everything The Cure is as a band.
i would really like to see you guys to tirzah or ml buch, they are so underrated and both are unbelievably good, experimental and minimalist production, honest lyrics
It's the single greatest single album ever put out. It has its feels yes but it's a single greatest album ever put out. I feel like Jerry is closed minded and it doesn't fit his vibe so it's an okay album. This is a 100 out of a 100
You’ve heard the doom and gloom masterpiece of The Cure Disintegration, now you must hear the doom that started it all, 1982’s Pornography album. The record that spurred what Robert Smith calls “the trilogy”, ending with the Bloodflowers album. The latter being a decent into madness and deep depression. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with their entire discography, including their B-Sides and rarities boxset. You could throw a dart at any song on that compilation, and as you said, that song would be most other bands magnum opus...and to think none of them ever made an album cut, speechless.
If they thought Lullaby was creepy... Lol Pornography will shock them.
This was one of my foundational albums back in the day - I have fond memories of turning off all the lights, putting on headphones, laying on the floor in the dark, and just ceasing to exist for 70 minutes. Robert Smith's vocals on the back half of the album sound like it's taking every ounce of effort he can muster to just get out something, anything, past the overwhelming depression of the lyrics.
I absolutely loved watching a new fan in the making! When Babby says ‘what’s happening?’
No other music has ever made me FEEL as much as the cure and Robert. The music, the lyrics and his expression and delivery as well as the production are just perfect!
I adore it, too.
I can’t imagine my introduction to this band being Friday I’m in Love and then listening to this masterpiece of an album. Definitely listen to more of their stuff - I’d recommend Head on the Door next. Also a masterpiece.
Yes! HOTD Was the one that drew me in and made me a fan of their music. Disintegration guaranteed that I would stay one forever. This entire album is simply timeless
This is the big one. Even among all the other Cure albums there is nothing like this record. But if you want to dive deeper into this band, I'd suggest "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" (if you want to experience all the different styles they mastered), "Pornography" (if you want to know how brutally dark and at the same time addicting they could get), or "The Top" (if you want to know the levels of "weird" they reached). "17 Seconds" is a beautiful and eerie album as well, and it contains one of their immortal masterpieces, "A Forest".
P.S.: Lots of people dismiss "The Top" as a failed attempt at best and put it very low on their "worst to best" rankings of all Cure albums. But I insist that it is a criminally underrated record that is just bursting with ideas, fun, color, emotions and WTF-moments. It's actually my third favorite Cure album after Disintegration and Pornography.
I second everything you’ve said. Kiss Me captures everything, and I’d recommend that next too. Also, The Top is a fantastic album. It is weird in the best way, no one else has ever made an album like that. I don’t think anything beats the B-sides on Standing On A Beach for me, though.
I like how Lovesong, in a record that is mostly about getting older and closer to death, brings some light into the mix. Whenever he is with his lover he feels young, fun, and whole again. When people say the song doesn’t fit, I disagree, even if it’s clearly the big single of the album.
As a Cure Mad Girl, I adore witnessing people react to that Absolute Masterpiece. The Cure effect is undeniable.
Plainsong is the best intro track to any album. Mood setting
It's one of the greatest songs of all time, I have yet to hear anything like it where you have a song that sounds so colossal
Yeah gives me goosebumps and takes me to another place! Love it! Just Beautiful!
Listening to Disintegration is like walking through a haunted house with beautiful music playing in the background.....Disintegration is hauntingly beautiful
Kyle from South Park called out "Disintegration is the best album ever!" for a good reason. Getting to see them perform Pictures of You live has been a highlight of my life.
In terms of recommending further albums: Wish gets a lot of shit by some elitist Cureheads, cause it's a bit like the more "conventional" version of this album, but I personally still really like that one. However, if I had to talk about the most overlooked Cure album, that's not getting mentioned in your comments, but that you absolutely should listen to, it's Faith. Very moody and a mix of their earlier post-punk work and their gothic rock style, that they would become famous for.
I adore Wish too....prob my 3rd fave Cure album.
To my mind The Cure defies genre and any attempt to put it in a box. That's what drew me to their music. It's such a a .... Soundscape. I listened to this CD until I wore it out...twice Over the 90's. I loved when Fascination Street played in the clubs...such a vibe. Nice to see young people discover their magic
Babby - you get what long time Cure fans feel. Life definitely has moods and this is the album I play again and again for that effect. It transports me away and I love it.
Babby gets it.
i always loved this album since it came...but ones i listen to it on LSD it became even better.
Guy on right is correct on Disintegration…a masterpiece and 1 I can’t believe wasn’t famous in its day.
This album is top Cure for me. It also happens be the real breakout album for the band into commercial success. Personally, I find that quality and commercial success don't really go hand in hand when it comes to music, *especially* when it comes to more alternative music like post-punk. This album just drills deep into your soul. There was a time when I couldn't listen to the song "Disintegration" without crying. The emotion starts building from the moment the song begins and through Rob's desperate singing in the latter part of the song. It used to feel like I could barely stand it (suffocating was a good way to describe it, Babby) and my body needed to release the tension. The song hasn't had the same level of effect on me more recently, but I still put it up there with my favorite songs of all time. Having said that, I did go through a significant loss recently and I haven't dared listen to this album yet. I don't know when I'll be ready so thank you for listening to it because it allowed me to hear it from a bit of a distance. This album is truly magnificent and, based on my experience, you will likely never tire of it. If you ever have a chance to see them live, Babby, go! They're amazing live. Robert is a freaking treasure and the band is so talented.
Closedown is my song. Feels like it’s about me haha. Of course it does. This album is just a masterpiece plain and simple.
The great masterpiece of the cure. An instant classic of gothic rock. And for the guy of the left, well, each one of us have our favorite music but you should know some basic facts about the genre that you're reactioning, it's dark, it's doom, it's glommy.
Y’all should listen to Cornography or Head on the Door or Faith lol
I was 17 when this album came out. Got my very first girlfriend that year and suffered my first true heart break when we split up at the end of the year. What an album to take you through the highs and lows of that! Still remember it all like it was yesterday. Pictures of You is my favourite Cure song followed by Just Like Heaven.
fascination street is great
I haven't finished yet (I'll be back), but I'll just say this album is music to get absolutely lost in. Just let the sound wash over you.
Damn bro what did the British do to you??? They make the best music!
Indeed!
Lovesong was written for his wife for their wedding
Ok, so all this time I’ve thought that Lullaby didn’t fit this album because, on the surface, it just seems like a creepy bedtime story kinda song. I’ve thought about it some more and the way I am interpreting it now makes the song make more sense within the context of the record. The spiderman is simply a representation for death and it’s coming for Robert in the night before he can wake up. In the title track “Disintegration” he mentions “the fear of sleep”. What I think he’s saying there is he’s afraid of going to sleep and never waking up again. The spiderman is that force that is making sure he doesn’t wake from his sleep.
I don’t really understand the wheel spin, what put Disintegration in the Meh section?
They had some seriously great albums earlier in their history, that were maybe more influential than Disintegration (in my opinion anyway). 'Standing on a Beach - the Singles' is a great tour of the earlier songs, and highly recommended if you like this one.
Let's goooo
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Lol. My favorite track on the album is … last dance
They now need to listen to Three Imaginary Boys and Pornography to be surprised by how drastically the band could change their sound between albums.
Also this album written by Robert Smith was about him turning 30
“Disintegration is the best album ever”
There's alot of stories behind the songs on this, and unlike their other albums these ones are more personal to Smith, especially Closedown about his fear of turning 30 and Lullaby about his father when he was a child. Fascination Street is about debauchery in New Orleans French quarter - the mouth part being about alcohol and subsequent vomiting. Plainsong is him projecting himself and his wife Mary to the end of the world where they're old and dying. Pictures of You is about his house fire. Lovesong is for Mary. Disintegration is about a person he knew (not Mary) who cheated - it may be about his sister and her husband who was a member of the band. Not sure. It's about the futility of infidelity and how it always ends.
Loved watching your review and reaction. If you plan on reacting to more Cure records, I reccomend Pornography for their most angsty and depressing album (considered a masterpiece along with Disintegration), and Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me for an excellent mix of everything The Cure is as a band.
Close Down is pure fire?
Please discuss the new excellent album from Anohni “My Back Was Bridge For You To Cross”.
i would really like to see you guys to tirzah or ml buch, they are so underrated and both are unbelievably good, experimental and minimalist production, honest lyrics
It's the single greatest single album ever put out. It has its feels yes but it's a single greatest album ever put out. I feel like Jerry is closed minded and it doesn't fit his vibe so it's an okay album. This is a 100 out of a 100
Check out Pornography and Head on the door.
I really want to watch more of babby and less of jerry, way too negative!
No references, no music culture, 5 words in the vocabulary to express himself... the dude on the left is boring af
Omg the most annoying reaction. Not following
Damn bro what did the British do to you??? They make the best music!