I do know this record! I can hum most of the songs for you!
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Please do so, right now! Sad that Prayers for Rain only got 2 votes.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I know there was a Wish poll... helllllp
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 February 2010 08:55 (fourteen years ago) link
search for "it's friday i'm in POLLve" or something equally retarded
― shite new answers (cutty), Sunday, 28 February 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"It's Friday, I'm a Poll" - The "Wish" Poll
― Bee OK, Monday, 1 March 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― shite new answers (cutty), Monday, 1 March 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JmOWh.png
― 乒乓, Saturday, 12 January 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I voted for the title track, but this is otm:
The Same Deep Water as YouI 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
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
― how's life, Saturday, 12 January 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
That is completely OTM
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Saturday, 12 January 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
The quote from that kid is just perfect.
― Mule, Saturday, 12 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Yes it is!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 12 January 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 12 January 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 12 January 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
I was so that kid in high school.
― crüt, Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
(But I'm a sucker for meandering piano riffs--think Nick Drake's Northern Sky.)
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Happy 24th birthday...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
He will always love his hand
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/buriedwreckage/default/robert-smith-cure-lovesong-screencap--large-msg-120103426062.jpg
― 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