the DISINTEGRATION poll

if it was the 12" version of "Fascination Street" than that would get my vote without hesitation but since it isn't than...

instead of deliberating to the point that i forget to vote, i'm just going to go with pictures of you, because a.) i was such an emo teenager b.) the song itself is still wonderful and c.) plainsong builds so perfectly into it

"Untitled." A perfect conclusion: simple, spare.

"Plainsong" is that one song I needed to hear in my life

i'd vote for the run of 8-10 if i could

plainsong

on that "essence of an album" thread, plainsong won, iirc

"plainsong" just opens up so huge and cinematic. it's really the perfect overture.

Fascination Street, 12" remix or not, is one of my all-time fave Cure tracks. I can't not vote for it here.

Buttsong

title track

^^^ great bass from Simon.

Impossible poll.

Running through the track list, I got chills just thinking of "Disintegration" the title track... so that's how I'm gonna vote and it's the only way I can decide, honestly.

it's funny, i think of this album so much as a unified whole that i forget it has their biggest hit single on it. (in the u.s., anyway.)

Fascination Street, 12" remix or not, is one of my all-time fave Cure tracks. I can't not vote for it here.

i think the longer version as the original mix with the album version being the edited version of that song.

Kinda my thought as well, yes.

This poll is impossible so instead I'll just say that the picture above is from the Head On The Door era... ;-)

damn, you're right!

only know that now that is was pointed out but remember that is from the album before.

or two album before, you know what i was getting at.

Shit I was hoping this was a Basinski poll.

Each song on this has been my favorite at some point or another

i'd vote for the run of 8-10 if i could

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), mercredi 1 avril 2009 02:52 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

This OTM basically. I find it hard not to simply vote for "side 2" (8-12).
I guess ultimately I'll vote for "Homesick" but let's sleep on it

The Same Deep Water as You

I came back to this album a couple of years ago after not listening to it for 15 years or something, and I'd forgotten that song even existed, and it's beautiful, still and meditative, but moving (in both senses) at the same time. The heart of the record.

i think the longer version as the original mix with the album version being the edited version of that song.

Hmmm ... why didn't the longer version end up on the album? There was a shorter, radio edit of "Pictures of You" as well but of course the long version on the album is 100000X times better. Is it because the album was long enough already, without yet another eight minute track?

Title track.

My turkish brothere-in-law, whose tastes were somewhat more of the Prince/disco type, loved "Lullaby" back in the day, I'd bought the (3" CD) single...

He dashed out and got "Disintegration" as soon as it came out, and was all like "WHAT IS ALL THIS?????"

His loss, my gain.

This is nearly impossible, but went with the title track. High class gut wrenching drama.

Plainsong >>> you know, pretty much every other song ever.

He dashed out and got "Disintegration" as soon as it came out, and was all like "WHAT IS ALL THIS?????"

Yeah, I think this is an album where the singles don't really matter unless they're heard within the context of the whole thing.

I've always said The Same Deep Water As You, so I think I'll stick with that. The bassline is extremely hypnotic and the way it starts (and ends) with the sound of rain is perfect for setting the atmosphere.

I came back to this album a couple of years ago after not listening to it for 15 years or something, and I'd forgotten that song even existed, and it's beautiful, still and meditative, but moving (in both senses) at the same time. The heart of the record.

I listened to this song on repeat for 4 hours one day while I was in high school. It's easily one of my favorite things of their, possibly my all-time favorite Cure song.

'Pictures of You' is one of my least favorite songs.

I feel like "Pictures of You" was the last major song with a rambling narrative Robert wrote that actually worked (honorable mention to "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea").

otm

Pictures of You interrupts the flow on this so I don't like it as much, but it was awesome the first time I heard it after Plainsong

yeah i get kinda bored w/ PoY around minute 4 or so

it's funny, i think of this album so much as a unified whole that i forget it has their biggest hit single on it. (in the u.s., anyway.)

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

was it really their biggest US single? maybe it's an age thing but i'd always assumed it was "friday i'm in love"

(in terms of radio play at least)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure_discography#Singles

yeah i get kinda bored w/ PoY around minute 4 or so

This is true for almost every song! I like this album and love its singles, but it does drag.

no YOU drag

I voted for "Pictures of You", maybe it drags but it's a gorgeous drag.

Especially difficult, once again, but I guess... "Untitled"? Like Alfred says, it's the way it's so simple that makes it perfect, after all the enormity of the preceding record.

Second choice would be the opposite extreme, "Plainsong."

christ, impossible, almost every song on here is absolutely classic except maybe Last Dance. My gut says "Homesick" so I'll vote for that, although I love the way the weird time changes in Plainsong as soon as the vocals come in.

the only song on here that isn't classic is "Closedown" IMO

title track here too.

ffs the poll is broke for me...would probably vote "Homesick"

Wait until tomorrow, you can vote (again).

I'd take the title track second, probably. I always think of that and Same Deep Water As You as like the real center of the album, a one-two punch of sadness and misery. It's hard to count the number of times those songs have helped me deal with shit.

Pictures of You interrupts the flow on this so I don't like it as much - I agree that it sticks out, but it is still one of the most mindblowingly awesome singles ever and gets my vote. The rest of the album is so cohesive, as others have mentioned, that it is a painful process to isolate just one track, instead of a block of two or three.

xp How is sadness + misery a one-two punch?

a one-one punch

A knife with a twist

HOW DO I PICK JUST ONE?

Oh, okay. "Plainsong" it is.

Also. Hello, ILM. Been awhile.

"Last Dance" is so underrated. Great intro and the lyrics are just beautiful (I like his songs that mention Christmas for some reason). I always loved it and it gets my vote.

By a lot of people, this is seen as their pinnacle. I am not disputing it being a good album. A lot of the songs are indeed really great.

But I guess my problem about "Disintegration" is first and foremost that, to such an extent, it has 1989 written all over it: Big gated drums, lots of reverb, harsh digital synth sounds. To me it sounds a bit too much like a timepiece to really score compared to other Cure albums.

That being said, there are exceptions, at least in the case of the reverb. On "Lullaby" and "Lovesong", the reverb was toned down considerably, letting the actual songs come better to their right. And even though I wasn't that much of a fan at the time, I really stand by those two being great pop singles today.

So, in the end, ending up voting for "Lovesong", maybe because I prefer the snare drum sound used on the single version of "Lullaby" rather than the album version. :) Oh, and yes, other great tracks (although all of them with way too much reverb) include the two other singles, plus "Plainsong", "Prayers For Rain", "The Same Deep Water As You" and "Untitled".

Oh man this is so hard but I think that I have to vote Plainsong. It's just amazing.

BTW - this was the first CD I ever bought.

How is sadness + misery a one-two punch?

It's because whereas Same Deep Water As You is resigned to everything and sad, Disintegration wants to fight against it all. I love that these two songs are right next to each other.

shit wait

Homesick was my fave when I was 18

my tastes have changed massively since then

will have to listen and decide anew

I've narrowed down the poll to Homesick vs. Last Dance vs. Prayers for Rain.
I'm surprised the latter hasn't received any shout outs. The intro to that song is just so bad-ass - ie. when the bass kicks with that "WOOOSH" effect = utter bliss

the only song on here that isn't classic is "Closedown" IMO

WHAT??!??!

common sense says i should choose fascination street for the bassline alone but a former girlfriend told me that she though of me whenever she listened to lovesong. horrific ego always wins out. lovesong.

So I guess your former girlfriend will always love you.

Don't get it twisted, she said it when we were still together.
These days, she would stab me in a heartbeat.

Oh I get it, twisted.

My point being that it shouldn't still appeal to your ego after the words are proven false, or at least not as eternal as they purport to be.

But it is a silly lyric, anyway, isn't it? I mean, forever? For ever ever? For EVER ever?

http://sidesalad.net/archives/BronsonPinchotBeverlyHillsCopThatsNotSexySerge.jpg

lemon twist-ed?

first time i ever saw two men making out was at this concert. what a monster fucking album. i agree with the guy who said every song is classic except "last dance" (which is still not too shabby). i have to go with the title song because, like bee ok says, the 12" mix of "fascination street" isn't the one that made the cut

Last Dance is glorious - you are all crazy

I really don't dig 8, 9, 11, or 12, so great as the title track is it gets lost for me in that dirgefest.

^^^^ this is incomprehensible

yeah i know. ok the intro and backing to prayers for rain are ok but the vocal just drags. same deep water goes on too long. by the time homesick comes around i care about as much as bob seems to, doo doo doooo doo doo doo doooo dooooooooo dooo. untitled would be ok if i hadn't given up completely by that point. game over man!

Title track. Same three chords all over. Bass line never changes.

side 2 of this album is probably my favorite music piece ever so yeah I can't understand this comment (unless you really didn't like the Cure but then you wouldn't really care about side 1 either)

it's "Plainsong" or "Pictures of You" and i really can't decide

Don't get it twisted, she said it when we were still together.
These days, she would stab me in a heartbeat.

You shatter her, your grip on her, a hold on her so dull it kills, you stifle her, etc.

why does this poll not have options

it's a problem with images off and polls

PLAINSONG

this album sits right next to hounds of love for me in greatest records of all time

"But I guess my problem about "Disintegration" is first and foremost that, to such an extent, it has 1989 written all over it

― Geir Hongro"

silly.

anyway, went with "Plainsong" because it's my shit. this album is like DM's "Violator" in that it works so well as a whole, has such an overpowering mood, and i always listen to it all the way through in the wintertime. fucking love it.

stunning album but i will not choose a favorite. plainsong might be the best song, but side 2 wins.

i listened it to it once already today because of this thread and might play it again.

really regret lending my copy to a dude who proceeded to either keep it or completely lose it

this was 4 years ago

need a new copy like now

i traded my copy of bob mould's 'workbook' for this album

think i won that deal

Inevitably, I'm half regretting my vote. I knew it would happen, but damn...so much good here.

still prefer Pornography and The Top, mind, those albums had (nearly) all of Disintegration's dark grandeur AND were completely fucking awesome-bonkers as well

or to put it more precisely, those two albums were more mercurial, more psychotic and visceral beings, whereas Disintegration has a magnificent serenity to it...my personal outlook favours the former type, but I completely understand why so many people regard the latter, when done this well, to be some sort of definitive aural statement...it is a tremendous achievement whichever way you look at it, just not quite as astonishing to me as a couple of the earlier albums, which although less assured (albeit that Pornography has a towering and almost accidentally coherent narrative and works on every conceivable level I can think of) were more sonically inquisitive

porn >>> top > dis = kmx3 >> faith > wish >> head >> blood = cure = 17 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have a guess

haven't heard the new one enough to place it

still prefer Pornography and The Top, mind, those albums had (nearly) all of Disintegration's dark grandeur

Dark as fuck, sure, but I don't hear the grandeur except maybe on "One Hundred Years" and even then it's a totally different mood than anything on Disintegration.

This is one of the oldest CDs I own and it's pretty much unplayable. Has it been reissued as a special edition yet?

Has it been reissued as a special edition yet?

It's next in line, but I don't when they're going to do it.

"still prefer Pornography and The Top"

I agree with this, more or less for the same reasons. Disintegration is a mammoth, and probably their ultimate lp, but these days I'm more interested in quiky Cure or red & black carnage Cure.
And, albeit I feel very alone in this, I like the last album enough to rank it a more-than-decent effort.

YOU'RE NOT ALONE
These days , 'The Top', 4:13 or the Glove album would probably be the only Cure things I'd wanna play at home. My problem with the Cure is that I've played most of their stuff to death - I could probably play Disintegration note for note entirely in my head - so what's the use in putting it on?

have a guess = wild mood swings?

i hope it's not three imaginary boys!

I just got The Glove album and it's kind of blowing me away

but this album
oh wow this album
i'll have to come back to this

did you get the Deluxe reissue with RS singing the songs on the 2nd disc?
(the more I listen to that CD the more I start believing the suspicions that these RS versions were actually re-recorded for the reissue and not found in an old box from 1983...)

I believe this has already been confirmed.

.. the vocals are, at the very least, re-recorded...

I'm pretty sure about it too.
That said, those "fake" demos re fun.

ps thanks Baaderonix for the good company on 4.13!

I don't think it's been confirmed - Severin got all upset when these rumors started appearing "how dare you look a gift horse in the mouth?", etc etc

£7.99 for the single disc, £16.99 for the Deluxe, it's not a gift horse.

I think re-recorded demos are fine, fwiw. Still....

did you get the Deluxe reissue with RS singing the songs on the 2nd disc?
(the more I listen to that CD the more I start believing the suspicions that these RS versions were actually re-recorded for the reissue and not found in an old box from 1983...)

― baaderonixx, Friday, April 3, 2009 11:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yes! I can't decide if i like the original or the demos better.
and yeah, as soon as i heard the second disc i thought it was current day RS - but that's ok with me because it still sounds great

yeah well i think we had a discussion this when it came out - what bothers me is that from a commercial POV I think it would have made more sense to advertise the CD as a brand new recording

That reissue is any case probably my favorite.

That Glove album is really fucking excellent

oh i miss the kiss of treachery

is this thread in a weird blue box for anyone else? and why?

(stains on the carpet, stains on the ceiling)

If you're a mod or have images turned off, this poll won't work for you.

I really don't dig 8, 9, 11, or 12, so great as the title track is it gets lost for me in that dirgefest.

I also feel this way, kinda. The individual songs are pretty great, but it's tough to get through them all in one sitting -- too many long songs stacked up in a row. As much as I like this album, it's LONG and it feels long, so I rarely listen to all of it at once.

ah, yes. i am a mod.

my vote is going to "Lullaby" as it's quite simply: one of the best songs ever made.

Fuck me sideways this is the best album of all time!!!

(Drunk.)

^^^ those last two posts are 100 perecent correct

But only taken together.

have a guess - LJ, plz don't be dissing on Three Imaginary Boys, now.

lol of course i'm talking about WMS, just haven't heard 3IB in YEEEARS so can't accurately place it

Crazy tough. Moreover, I've always listened to this album as one complete work, rather than a collection of individual tracks. That all said, I'd have to go with "Pictures of You" (though i prefer the live version on Entreat). Title track is magnificent too.

"Homesick". Those last two cymbal crashes, holy crap.

The thing with 'Homesick' is... it doesn't feel like it belongs on this album. I mean at all. That's because it wasn't on my LP when I bought it. When after many years I finally bought the CD, 'Homesick' - as pretty as it is - still feels out of place here. I've listened to the record far too much to let something come between the ending of 'Disintegration' and the beginning of 'Untitled'. The latter always feels like something soothing, an "it's okay"-whisper after the frantic 'Disintegration'.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

this is crazy. Homesick seems to be the most despairing song on the album. All the everything you win turns to nothing today

I'd have to go with "Pictures of You" (though i prefer the live version on Entreat).

Alex, that's one of the last songs I'd expect you to pick from this (given your other music tastes). Would have expected something meatier, "Fascination Street" maybe, or "Disintegration" which you mentioned. But you picked one of the more emo songs instead?? Really?

according to wikipedia, smith was taking loads of LSD during the writing/recording of this album?

I thought that was The Top

yeah you're right

also lol @ the ned mentions in wikipedia article

Actually that was this album too! xpost

tiiiiiiiiiiiiitle track!
cus
cus
that part where he starts getting upset
is like, my most listened tos hit ever
and that has to count for something
but this is one of the most consistently great albums ever made
every song is perfect

he gets more upset on the entreat version of the title track

Alex, that's one of the last songs I'd expect you to pick from this (given your other music tastes). Would have expected something meatier, "Fascination Street" maybe, or "Disintegration" which you mentioned. But you picked one of the more emo songs instead?? Really?

For a start, let's please never refer to the Cure as fuckin' "emo" -- ever. They predate all that ridiculous bullshit, so it really doesn't apply. I love "Fascination Street" (and the rest of the album in its entirety), but I just think "Pictures of You" is simply the finest cut of the bunch. And Cutty's right -- on Entreat, Robert is just a bit more emphatic in his vocal delivery.

you can practically hear him spitting on the microphone

You can also hear the sound echo around the expanse of the French enormodome they're playing in. It's a great recording.

t minus 3 hours!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Besides all the love for Fascination Street (I just don't get that song), I can live with these results just fine.

3. "Closedown" – 4:16 0

This makes me so fucking sad, what a great song.

True. "Last Dance" is the only less-than-great song on the album. I might retroactively change my vote to Fascination Street. Sometimes it towers over the rest for me.

3. "Closedown" – 4:16 0

due to being a mod, I cannot see the results so knowing this makes me go like this: ^_^

due to being a mod, I cannot see the results

Huh?

mods can't see the results. can someone plz cut and paste them.

1. "Plainsong" – 5:12 18
2. "Pictures of You" – 7:24 16
10. "Disintegration" – 8:18 13
7. "Fascination Street" – 5:16 7
6. "Lullaby" – 4:08 5
12. "Untitled" – 6:30 5
4. "Lovesong" – 3:29 4
9. "The Same Deep Water as You" – 9:19 3
11. "Homesick" – 7:06 3
8. "Prayers for Rain" – 6:05 2
5. "Last Dance" – 4:42 1
3. "Closedown" – 4:16 0

ok grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

9. "The Same Deep Water as You" – 9:19 3

what the hell, ppl

seeing title track in #3 makes me happy.

^^^true

Not really agreeing with the results here - feel side 2 is way under-represented but that might be due to how these songs kind of merge into a whole, whereas the songs on side 1 are maybe more "distinctive"

side 2 of disintegration vs. side 2 of hounds of love

so the album gets worse with every song?

Playing Entreat now...medicine for anyone who's heard Disintegration too many times :)

so the album gets worse with every song?

no it's just that if you like side 1 more u might like any song on side 1, and if u like side 2 more chances are you'll like "Disintegration" the song best because side 2 is more uniform in texture/mood & "Disintegration" is like the big climax

Okay I'm going to play that song right now, even though I'm not depressed.

Oh my god, this is so much fun. Where in the hell would I be without ILM?

Jesus there is just no way to fuck with this album. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I was surprised, actually that Dan complained about some song or whatever because as far as I'm concerned there is absolutely not a fucking thing wrong with this album.

"Prayers For Rain" and "Last Dance" are too low, but otherwise I totally agree with these results.

yeah, i agree with bimble. pretty much nothing wrong here.

except for "Closedown" being really boring and unfinished-sounding

other than that, impeccable album

What's wrong about Closedown? I think it's one of the best songs in here, I love the synth line and the loose drums.

Yes. Seriously people. "Closedown" is great.

If it's so great why didn't you vote for it

no idea what i'd vote for atm, doesn't help that i lost my copy yonks ago and have consequently not heard this album for about 5 years

missed this poll but my fave has always been "untitled". so simple, so tuneful, so sad. a gorgeous song to dance cheek to cheek with the girl you love. definitely in my top ten of theirs. with "a forest", "friday i'm in love", "just like heaven", "m" etc.

so why are you in this thread louis. don't come back until you know this record.

I do know this record! I can hum most of the songs for you!

Please do so, right now! Sad that Prayers for Rain only got 2 votes.

I know there was a Wish poll... helllllp

search for "it's friday i'm in POLLve" or something equally retarded

"It's Friday, I'm a Poll" - The "Wish" Poll

lol

http://i.imgur.com/JmOWh.png

I'm sure I voted for the title track, but this is otm:

The Same Deep Water as You

I came back to this album a couple of years ago after not listening to it for 15 years or something, and I'd forgotten that song even existed, and it's beautiful, still and meditative, but moving (in both senses) at the same time. The heart of the record.

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 4:30 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That is completely OTM

The quote from that kid is just perfect.

Yes it is!

Came here to say Plainsong but

Oh man this is so hard but I think that I have to vote Plainsong. It's just amazing.

― ENBB, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:19 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2009 me otm.

Hah so awesome, kid. Ask that girl to the prom. If it doesn't work out then hey your favorite band is the Cure you can cry away your misery.

I've never really been taken with 'The Same Deep Water As You'. In fact, if I were to be painfully honest, I find the song extremely boring.

I was so that kid in high school.

After listening to Disintegration (the album) for nearly 20 years, the one song that has stood the test of time and, indeed, has escaped it to flee to a world far removed from ours, is "Homesick".

(But I'm a sucker for meandering piano riffs--think Nick Drake's Northern Sky.)

Happy 24th birthday...

oh cool. i'm eleven days older than this album. i'm really shocked at the results of this poll - i thought "lovesong" would get more votes. especially because of the video where he is in the cave staring at his hand... total classic.

He will always love his hand

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/buriedwreckage/default/robert-smith-cure-lovesong-screencap--large-msg-120103426062.jpg

I was still into Disintegration in 1992 when I decided to paint my skateboard ramp. I wrote a bunch of lyrics on there, including "I will always love you" from Lovesong. A few days afterward, I was skating with a friend who wasn't into the Cure at all. He was like "why did you put Whitney Houston lyrics on your ramp?"

The Cure, skateboard ramps, now I can't get that damn video for Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" out of my head.

BTW - this was the first CD I ever bought.

― ENBB, Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:19 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now I feel old. Shit.

"Love Song" was the first CD single I bought.

:D

Disintegration was my first dispatch from the Columbia Record Club

I never want Untitled to end.

Man, no votes for "Closedown"?

it's the worst song on the album

Closedown is better than the four songs above it.

Lullaby got robbed that one is top three material.

'Closedown' is so much better than 'Last Dance'.

LOL @ DJP

you're all insane

The title track is the one I keep returning to from this - easily one of my Top 10 favourite Cure songs.

My personal ranking:

1. Plainsong
2. Lullaby
3. Pictures of You
4. Fascination Street
5. Lovesong
6. Disintegration
7. Untitled
8. Closedown
9. The Same Deep Water As You
10 - 12. All the rest

The Same Deep Water As You
Disintegration
Prayers For Rain
Untitled
Homesick
Lullaby
Fascination Street
Pictures of You
Plainsong
Last Dance
Lovesong
Closedown

You crazy DJP

I'd put Lovesong last and swap Pictures with Closedown but other than that DJP OTM

I had this old CD my dad bought back then and it got scratcher enough for the first two track never to work, Closedown was my official and personal opener and I enjoyed it a lot as such.
Then I got proper files from the album and yeah, it is the lesser song of the album, but I still value it.

Disintegration
Fascination Street
Lovesong
Plainsong
Pictures Of You
Prayers For Rain
Untitled
Closedown
Lullaby
Last Dance
The Same Deep Water As You
Homesick

Released 25yrs ago today. Still remember breaking the seal on the cassette copy I bought that day. Remains one of my favorite albums 25 years later.

"The Same Deep Water As You" really is my favorite Cure song, I've decided. "All Cats Are Grey" and "Siamese Twins" are both wonderful but I never filled an entire C-90 with either of those so I could just listen to them on repeat.

Posted this before I know but again

http://www.rogerodonnell.com/disintegration/

hard to believe this came out in the month of May. didn't know about this but i did hear "Plainsong" today.

Happy Birthday "Disintegration"! Bought the cassette on release day as well. Listened and studied and did *everything* to this thing for months. 25 years...

Just wore my original Prayer Tour t-shirt to the Knife concert the other day. The only Cure t-shirt I kept all these years. Didn't realise it was 25 years old until now ! Still looks great :-)

Played my crackly second hand copy yesterday and thought this should have been released as a double album. So happy to find the 2010 reissue in the local record shop today

happy to see plainsong win, it's one of those songs where sure, there are probably songs as good, but no song could be better

I always feel some weird, irrational guilt when my fav track on an album is the opener, as if I haven't listened properly, surely the real treasure isn't going to be that obvious

I still remember the shock of putting it on for the first time and it just broke over me like a wave. Smith was never as assured and instinctive as in this record - the songs are seamless and unforced (with a couple of exceptions, Last Dance has never worked for me).

I always feel some weird, irrational guilt when my fav track on an album is the opener, as if I haven't listened properly, surely the real treasure isn't going to be that obvious

Hail to thee, neurotic soulmate

pollster bee okay otm. easing into it with that siren then that bass rumble is totally the way to go. love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cty6qH-7mTw

I bought this in the week it came out, while caravanning with my family. Wasn't able to listen to it until we got back home almost two weeks later. It was the last Cure album I would buy.

(Apart from a few reissues)

so that's how it ended, this last dance together?

pictures of trickery amirite

1. Fascination Street
2. Plainsong
3. Homesick

So, "Prayers for Rain" is one of the most badass guitar lines of all time, isn't it?

Bass VI, buddy https://post-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/prayertourshirt.jpg

Yeah, many/most of his leads are Bass VI, Robert Smith's secret weapon.

Yeah. Also that slightly detuned string iirc

"Last Dance" – 4:42 1

robbed!

even the voteless song is fantastic

My Cure dreams were fulfilled when I bought a VI a few years back, even the simplest riff sounds like a grand piano

So it's a 6 string bass? I always thought it was a baritone guitar. You learn something new every day etc.

Bass VI is different from a baritone or a six-string bass. I'm probably missing a few differences with this explanation, but basically:

Baritone = essentially a guitar with thicker strings in BEADF#B tuning.
Bass VI = Short-scale bass (30" neck) tuned one octave lower than guitar EADGBE
Six String Bass = standard- or longer-scale bass tuned BEADGC, with both an lower and a higher string

Bass VI pops up in some surprising places. I think it's on a few Beatles songs, when John or George are playing bass because Paul is doing something else. Neil Young's "Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)" is I think played with an octave pedal, but my guitar teacher is convinced the main riff sounds like a fuzzed out Bass VI.

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That was my vote !

Bass VI pops up in some surprising places. I think it's on a few Beatles songs, when John or George are playing bass because Paul is doing something else. Neil Young's "Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)" is I think played with an octave pedal, but my guitar teacher is convinced the main riff sounds like a fuzzed out Bass VI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfdxB8Tv98A

I would have voted for Closedown, which sounds to me like the gentle, sweet release of death. Lullaby is just as great, though I prefer the extended version on Mixed Up--it's a groove to ride into infinity

Bass VI is different from a baritone or a six-string bass. I'm probably missing a few differences with this explanation, but basically:

Baritone = essentially a guitar with thicker strings in BEADF#B tuning.
Bass VI = Short-scale bass (30" neck) tuned one octave lower than guitar EADGBE
Six String Bass = standard- or longer-scale bass tuned BEADGC, with both an lower and a higher string

― peace, man, Friday, 8 January 2021 14:17 (six hours ago)

Makes perfect sense. I've played guitar for 30 years and I've never heard of these.

https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/lennon_fender_vi_bass-jpg.204607/

This album is probably the world's greatest extended mope.

The title track is up with “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” as the band’s finest hour. Incredible lyrics and production. It’s so beautiful and sounds incredibly urgent

Happy 35th anniversary, I sez I sez.