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Despite their reputation as the figureheads of gloomy goth, The Cure had always been tonally playful. They debuted in 1979 with short, spiky, post-punk songs about boys crying and Albert Camus.
I'm an itinerant club DJ but I've always hated 80s 12" versions of songs. It's typically just double the length of the boring parts, put a bunch of delay on the vocal track, add a bunch of shitty computer edit sounds, and call it a day. The 12" "extended remix" of "Lovesong", to me, sounds like a completely different take of the song.
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave Disintegration four-and-a-half out of five stars, and applauded the band by saying, "The Cure's gloomy soundscapes have rarely sounded so alluring [and] the songs – from the pulsating, ominous 'Fascination Street' to the eerie, string-laced 'Lullaby' – have rarely been so well-constructed and memorable."
38. ‘Waitin’ ’Round to Die’ by Townes Van Zandt. The king of ‘70s singer-songwriter sad, Townes Van Zandt is responsible for some of country’s most bruising ballads, from the outlaw ...
- ‘Untitled’
- ‘Last Dance’
- ‘Plainsong’
- ‘Disintegration’
- ‘Fascination Street’
- ‘Closedown’
- ‘Prayers For Rain’
- ‘The Same Deep Waters as You’
- ‘Homesick’
- ‘Lullaby’
To start off this ranking of Disintegration, we’re going to the tail end of the record, where the final untitled track of the LP lives. ‘Untitled’ finds The Cure at a folkier crossroads to end an album as trippy and dour as Disintegration,as if to reiterate that The Cure are able to flip between moods and genres with ease. Although it’s a relativel...
If there was one underrated hero that made The Cure’s sound so unique, it would be bassist Simon Gallup. Having been with the group for nearly their entire history, Gallup became a master of crafting hooks that spread all across the fretboard. Just as well, he could anchor songs like ‘The Love Cats’ and ‘Just Like Heaven’ with a deceptively simple ...
Bursting out of the gate with a mix of heavenly synths and spellbinding rhythms, ‘Plainsong’ is the perfect opener for an album as singular as Disintegration. Setting the tone for the next hour, ‘Plainsong’ feels lively and strangely gloomy at the same time, giving an early indication of what listeners are in for. Despite being one of the most hypn...
Even at their darkest, The Cure could still get people up and dancing. That was part of their appeal: when you listened closely, Smith’s lyrics and themes could often be depressing, but on the surface, The Cure still made intoxicating dancefloor hits. ‘Disintegration’ is so elastic and entrancing that you can almost forgive it for being a meanderin...
In a parallel universe, ‘Fascination Street’ is the major hit single that launches Disintegration into the mainstream. Brooding and moody yet upbeat and catchy, the song was the first single issued from the album when Elektra Records declined to release the UK single ‘Lullaby. ‘Fascination Street’ includes a bassline that is highly reminiscent of ‘...
About as close to Pornography-era doom and gloom as Disintegration gets, ‘Closedown’ is another track that often gets lost in the shuffle due to being stuck between ‘Pictures of You’ and ‘Lovesong’. That’s a shame, considering how ‘Closedown’ is just as captivating as any of the album’s best-known songs, even if it doesn’t have the same hit potenti...
The Cure had evolved into their most hard-hitting incarnation by the time Disintegrationwas being recorded. The minimal participation of keyboardist Lol Tolhurst notwithstanding, guitarist Pearl Thompson, drummer Boris Williams, and new keyboardist Roger O’Donnell were now fully integrated into the lineup, giving the group an expanded set of top qu...
Smith purposefully wanted Disintegration to represent a return to the more morose and sombre side of The Cure that had been cast aside during the mid-’80s. Once again dragged into a depressed state of mind, Smith wanted the rest of the world to experience the depths that he was swimming through at the time. As one of the album’s thematic centrepiec...
By the late 1980s, Lol Tolhurst was a member of The Cure in name only. As the band’s original drummer, Tolhurst was the only member of the group to stick with Smith as he made the transition from gloomy goth rock to upbeat synth pop, switching to keyboards when they became a much more prominent element of the band’s sound. But as The Cure added new...
Disintegration has plenty of demons in the metaphorical sense. There are spectres and ghosts that float around songs representing everything from deteriorating mental health to the loss of innocence, but usually, these are just metaphors. Usually, that is, except for one moment on the album where a very-real creature called The Spiderman descends f...
Jan 5, 2022 · 12. Miley Cyrus – Adore You. As the title suggests, this is a love song about how much Miley Cyrus adores her boyfriend, who at that time was Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth. The song is accompanied by a sultry music video featuring Cyrus rolling around on a bed and sitting in a bathtub. 13.
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In “Gloomy,” Creedence Clearwater Revival taps into the human experience of despair and uncertainty, crafting a song that lingers with the weight of its emotional resonance. The track’s sparse but effective instrumentation, combined with Fogerty’s introspective lyrics, make it a defining example of how rock music can evoke powerful feelings of gloom and hopelessness.
