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― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
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?"
― sheer tip (how's life), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
The Cure, skateboard ramps, now I can't get that damn video for Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" out of my head.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Love Song" was the first CD single I bought.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Disintegration was my first dispatch from the Columbia Record Club
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
I never want Untitled to end.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Man, no votes for "Closedown"?
― Matt M., Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's the worst song on the album
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Closedown is better than the four songs above it.
Lullaby got robbed that one is top three material.
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
'Closedown' is so much better than 'Last Dance'.
― Here's to Shooting Up (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
LOL @ DJP
― Matt M., Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
you're all insane
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
The title track is the one I keep returning to from this - easily one of my Top 10 favourite Cure songs.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
My personal ranking:
1. Plainsong2. Lullaby3. Pictures of You4. Fascination Street5. Lovesong6. Disintegration7. Untitled8. Closedown9. The Same Deep Water As You10 - 12. All the rest
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
The Same Deep Water As YouDisintegrationPrayers For RainUntitledHomesickLullabyFascination StreetPictures of YouPlainsongLast DanceLovesongClosedown
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
You crazy DJP
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'd put Lovesong last and swap Pictures with Closedown but other than that DJP OTM
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
DisintegrationFascination StreetLovesong PlainsongPictures Of YouPrayers For RainUntitledClosedownLullabyLast DanceThe Same Deep Water As YouHomesick
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Thursday, 15 August 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 2 May 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Friday, 2 May 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Posted this before I know but again
http://www.rogerodonnell.com/disintegration/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 May 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
hard to believe this came out in the month of May. didn't know about this but i did hear "Plainsong" today.
― Bee OK, Friday, 2 May 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Happy Birthday "Disintegration"! Bought the cassette on release day as well. Listened and studied and did *everything* to this thing for months. 25 years...
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 3 May 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
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 :-)
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 3 May 2014 05:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― willem, Saturday, 15 September 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
happy to see plainsong win, it's one of those songs where sure, there are probably songs as good, but no song could be betterI 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
― niels, Saturday, 15 September 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
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).
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 15 September 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
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
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 15 September 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
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
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
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.
― Duke, Saturday, 15 September 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
(Apart from a few reissues)
so that's how it ended, this last dance together?
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 15 September 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
pictures of trickery amirite
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 September 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
1. Fascination Street2. Plainsong3. Homesick
― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko), Sunday, 13 September 2020 05:37 (four years ago) link
So, "Prayers for Rain" is one of the most badass guitar lines of all time, isn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
Bass VI, buddy https://post-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/prayertourshirt.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 8 January 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, many/most of his leads are Bass VI, Robert Smith's secret weapon.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
Yeah. Also that slightly detuned string iirc
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 01:22 (three years ago) link
"Last Dance" – 4:42 1
robbed!
― piscesx, Friday, 8 January 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link
even the voteless song is fantastic
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Friday, 8 January 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
My Cure dreams were fulfilled when I bought a VI a few years back, even the simplest riff sounds like a grand piano
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 8 January 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
So it's a 6 string bass? I always thought it was a baritone guitar. You learn something new every day etc.
― Duke, Friday, 8 January 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
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 13:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link
"Last Dance" – 4:42 1robbed!
That was my vote !
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 8 January 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfdxB8Tv98A
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link