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Aug 21, 2024 · Released on Tuesday, 2nd May 1989, Disintegration is considered by many to be The Cure's masterpiece. With tracks like Pictures Of You and Lovesong, it's one of the band's best-loved records ...
- ‘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...
Daily Song Discussion #111: Lovesong. This is the fourth track from The Cure’s eighth album, Disintegration. How do you feel this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? How would you rank it among the rest of the band’s discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)? Studio version. SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4: Not good.
12 lovesong. Bad association 11 disintegration. Never a fav. 10 lullaby. Radio killed it 9 pictures of you. Radio killed it. 8 same deep water as you. Great song. Nothing here and after is bad at all. 7. Untitled. Too short! Love it. 6. To 1. All perfect songs. Can’t decide. I’ll try 5 fascination street. 4. Closedown 3 homesick 2 last dance
Disintegration soon became The Cure’s mainstream breakthrough, spawning a hit U.S. single in the form of “Lovesong,” an elegiac hymn to undying romance that captured the heart and ...
"Lovesong" (sometimes written as "Love Song") is a song by English rock band the Cure, released as the third single from their eighth studio album, Disintegration (1989), on 21 August 1989. The song saw considerable success in the United States, where it reached the number-two position in October 1989 and became the band's only top-10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100 .
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Jul 12, 2021 · Lovesong. Amid the emotional turbulence of the album sits this track, a moment of redemption, a straightforward love song that Smith wrote for Mary Poole, as a wedding gift in August 1988. Without this track, he recalled, Disintegration would have been a radically different album.
