the DISINTEGRATION poll

"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)

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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