Disintegration

Seems repetitive at times but there are some great tunes on here

1989. Key Songs: Lullaby, Lovesong, Pictures of You

Kinda had to speed run through this album but I got the overall vibe. Overall vibe is a bit unsettling and strange. Some of the lyrics are beautiful poetry though. My favorite song is probably Lovesong.

Really wanted this to blow me away but was kinda wishy washy. Mid

Bad, but not the worst I've heard. 90% instruments, 5% nonsensical mumbling, 5% actual lyrics.

a couple of nice singles that are classic and very neat guitar work the rest boring and repetitive

Ah, dunno if it's the overblown sound thing or just the singing but I do not get these guys 🤷🏻‍♂️

I only really liked one song on the album called Prayers for Rain. This one album was much more instrumental than I liked.

Not my sound

2.5

Moody, dark, but enjoyable album. It's gloomy and introspective without getting tiring or annoying or too inaccessible.

The first triumphal notes of Plainsong were perfect. We had done it, Shivkumar Sharma had been banished to the dusty tomes of history and it was a new day. However, even by the end of Plainsong, I had lost all interest in the plodding, unadorned chord progressions that are all over this album.

Kasari proge rokkia. Vähä outoa kasarifiilistelyä. Ei oo mun juttu. En tykkää laulajasta.

Didn't really like it.

Two timeless songs, good shoegaze overall

Boring

I can sort of understand why people like the cure. This album sounded well put together. But I’m just not a fan

1 hour 12 minutes really? So repetitive and long

First two tracks were okay 👍I appreciate the mood. Not a big fan of the vocals, I think the songs are actually better without them. This just was not for me and that's okay. I was very bored. This type of music seems popular with cool people, so I'm happy I got a peek into their world 🙂 Thanks 💗💗

Mmm no

slitsomt

So boring and dreary with flat vocals.

Não terminei achei meio bleh

Meh

The Cure…for insomnia.

La primera canción es horrible, son como 3 minutos de intro y despues cuando canta pusieron un efecto eco que no me gustó. Intros y canciones inecesariamente largas. La voz del cantante es hermosa y queda muy bien con los ritmos.

I really liked the vibe of eath and grownd. There is always the caratteristic guitar and the drums. The voice is very dramatic. But overall there wasnt a song I liked particulary. 2 stars

I'd never heard this album by The Cure before. It was ok, not my favorite.

Not terrible, but a little boring and some of the songs started to sound the same. Honestly, I didn't finish it.

Great band, but not really my type of music

The Cure is such a drag.

This isn't for me. I understand the talent and why people like it, with the atmospheric sounds and textures and meloncholy lullaby sounds, but I can't get into it.

⭐️⭐️

Lame and dreary. Bro should've laid off the drugs. Or at least swapped to stimulants.

not my gravy

-More of a rainy day type album to listen to, very goth rock, not exactly something i'd reach for or listen to often

Hit and miss, more bad than good

Despite being a Yorkshireman this is just too dark and miserable for me. Lullaby was a rare ray of light, and even that's relative. Maybe I'm just a fairweather Cure fan. Or maybe I should have been ripped to the tits on halucinogens when I gave it a spin. But either way this is just hard work. 2*.

Dreary

All their songs sound the same kinda.

Not my favorite Cure.

Just not my cup of tea..

It was okay 4/10 not my vibe but got one or two nice chill songs

Jebus tits. They really put the cholic in melancholic.

Very boring. How did the band who wrote Friday I'm in Love and Love Cats write this.

In one ear and out the other.

I don’t like it. Grew on me, but I don’t like it. 5.8/10

I do not understand the appeal or the praise this album has. It's melodramatic, trying way to hard to be soulful, and just did not interest me in the slightest. I knew there was going to be an album like this eventually where everyone gives it such high praise, but I just cannot find enjoyment in this album. 4/10 I must have been vaccinated because I don't need The Cure.

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didn’t like it

The only songs that are really good are Lovesong and Untitled. Otherwise it drags on terribly, it's long and they start singing after three minutes of melancholic playing of the strings

a boring listen even now. Nothing fun about the title and nothing fun in the album itself.

Like the Cure’s hits. But this was a slog. Could not complete.

Literally panic attack inducing. Not my moment. No thanks. The music is high quality ish tho so.

Ok - all the songs were so similar.

Not my taste. I want to like the Cure. But I can’t get into it.

I was excited to listen to this when I saw it ranked among the 100 best albums on Rolling Stone and Apple Music’s lists. The first song sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before; it was cinematic right from the start. At times, though, the instrumental breaks felt too long and not engaging enough to really hold my attention. I honestly think if I forced myself to sit with it more, I could possibly grow to like it, but right now, there isn’t much about the album that truly grabs me. That said, it has aged well as it doesn't sound like it was from the 80s. I'm conflicted on how to rate this album as I don't see myself going back to it, but it's not bad......

An album I've never understood the hype for honestly. Definitely sounds like the cure, and most of their albums sound pretty similar. Just not my style.

Not for me. I can respect the artistry but I just found it pretty dull and repetitive to be honest. Fascination Street was probably the best track for me but yeah, kind of zoned most of it out. (2.5 stars)

I listened to this on the plane, which normally enhances music because I have no other distractions and can really focus on enjoying it. And yet, 7 hours later and I cannot remember a damn thing about it except some very middling guitar and singing.

Lots of patience for a pop album. I’ve always like Pictures of You and know it has a long intro. I didn’t know that longer intros were their “thing”, or at least was for this album. I don’t love this album but appreciate it in its appropriate context. The mellow dramatic synth pop songs were popular at the time but from what I understand, The Clash were pioneers of that sound. I’m sure it would be much more relatable, had I been older and more aware of social and political issues of the time. While I hate to say it because sometimes a band’s sound is mistaken as “repetitive” or overdone. That being said, there is just way too much similarity from song to song.

Har man hørt 1 nummer har man hørt dem alle

Wasn’t my favourite. Found it quite unexciting. Just not a huge fan of the sound.

I found this boring.

Pretty boring. The layers sound great but couldn't bear it past the first. tracks

Me gusta Love song y Lullaby, el resto no. Se nota que está bien elaborado, con tonos y texturas bonitas por momentos, pero no tiene suficiente ritmo ni melodías memorables.

It's sad and angsty. Just not my kind of sad and angsty. I can understand the appeal though.

Not really for me. I appreciate the influence The Cure has had on the music I like, the gothic pop rock vibes. But I think I like songs by The Cure better when they’re sung by someone else.

Genuinely wasn’t bad just I didn’t like it. Couldn’t find something that was wrong just didn’t fit my vibe. Also the lead sounds like he can’t floss.

Too slow for me honestly and it is more instrumental than singing. The songs are also sooooooo long😭 Its not bad at all but not for me

Good. But no for me

Wasn’t a fan when I was younger but can appreciate them now that I’m older. As with other bands I like the hits instead of the entire album.

Maybe not being fair with this rating because I didn’t make it all the way through. I was tired and it did help me fall asleep. 💤

Way to dramatic for my blood

Quite good. The textures and soundscape is strong. Doesn’t excite me sorry. 2.5

She's okay :( not bad but not my style

Harta de hombres e inglés. El álbum, independientemente, no me ha gustado demasiado, me cansaba.

Harta de hombres e inglés. El álbum, independientemente, me ha cansado, no me ha gustado demasiado.

Long and drawn out songs, would’ve enjoyed it a lot more if it was a shorter album

This album has pretty much all the cure songs that I like, but the album is twice as long as it needs to be. Songs are too long and they easily could have collapsed 8 of them into four with multiple parts. It's understandable how polarizing they are. 2.5 rounded down because the last track was too long, unnecessary, and then they didn't even bother to title it.

maybe this is really bad but I found it kind of eh I thought parts were really good but I think it's not my vibe or I wasn't in the right mood?

I like The Cure. Robert Smith seems like a decent guy - he comes across as witty and charming in interviews - sharp, to-the-point but humble with it. I don't know too much about the rest of the band, but they make an interesting sound, one that is instantly recognisable but often surprisingly varied and textured within the boundaries of what they do. Possibly more than any other band of their stature, they have remained relevant for the best part of 50 years without compromising their own singular vision one iota - beating a unique path through alternative music and the mainstream while showing scant consideration for trends or commercial concerns, in fact it is often impossible to pick out any obvious influence at all within their music at all. The Cure are a great band, and the world is much better for having them. The problem is, I don't really like many of their songs. Which is a bit of a sticking point. Don't get me wrong, they have done some fantastic songs, and I wouldn't dream of pegging them as merely a singles act, but Disintegration - seemingly one of their most fondly regarded LPs - doesn't really do it for me. A bit overlong, a bit meandering, a bit repetitive and (sorry) just a bit unexciting so far as I am concerned - there are Cure albums I certainly prefer over this. But, like I said, it's a great sound, just not enough great songs here for me to justify the sound.

Dette syntes jeg var svært kjedelig. Var forsiktig optimistisk i starten, men så ble sangene veldig like hverandre etter hvert 🤷

This is an objectively good album and i understand why people enjoy it. But it just wasn’t for me. I thought the instrumentals were very good, but I did not particularly like the singer. I would give this a 2.5 if it was an option. Prayers for Rain and the Same Deep Water As You were the best tracks on this album but i probably won’t find myself listening to this again

2.5

Peak wallflower energy

Honestly, pretty boring. There are a couple of good songs but after a while the singers voice really grates on my nerves.

if every song they made was like Lovesong they would a) just be The Mission* b) maybe I would like them but instead they were the band that taught me not every cool influential goth thing people talked about was good and sometimes waiting for a song to download on limewire ended in disappointment not adding to collection * this is my official petition to add Masque to this list instead of Disintegration. thank you.

Nah this is not it

Honestly found it a bit boring

i guess i dont like the cure

11/1001 First listen. Eleventh album in and it’s my second from The Cure. Is this a weekly thing around here? In spite of the high praise from critics, I’ve never heard a note of this before. So, same as my earlier review. There doesn’t seem to be anything here for me. Maybe if I spent more than a day on it. Nothing to hook me in though. Still, not a bad album.

A lot of musos like cure or the idea of the cure. Its whiny navel gazing twee ribaldry at its best. There is a lack of excitement even in the typing of this. If the cure is the answer then maybe disease is a fine option.

Very boring

Better than Bob Dylan I guess

A couple memorable songs (Irene's fault?), but I wanted to skip most of them halfway through

De type chiant.

Whiny 90s music. It can stay there.

Not very interesting.

plainsong 5 pictures of you 6 closedown 5 lovesong 7 last dance 5 lullaby 5 the rest 5

The hair is difffffferent. My heart wasn't fully in it today. Bit of a slack listen/review/attention span etc etc. This was a bit sad/slow for moi

meh

This was fine, but I feel sometimes these songs just drone on and on and could definitely be shorter. Overall this wasn't bad, but definitely wasn't great. Their vocalist is just not my style at all. The band isn't bad tho. Liked Songs: "Pictures of You" , "Closedown" , "Last Dance" , "Fascination Street" , "Homesick"

All the songs have the same feel and unfortunately this feel did not vibe with me

More emo pop jeeeesuuuus!

The Cure grow on me the more I listen to them, guessing a greatest hits album of them could reach four stars for me.

I want to like the cure, I really do.

The sound is dark and rich. I like this much more than the Smiths, but it suffers from the same problem — whiny, complaining lyrics sung in a holier-than-thou British accent. The vocals range between bad and really really bad (eg, the title track). Too bad — because the band has a really lush brooding dark sound. A 2.

Not for me. dark gothic ambient sounding music that didn’t hit home. Better than Seventeen seconds tho.

It's pretty melancholic, and I don't think I was in the mood for that today.

The Cure é uma banda que não me empolga. Tem seus bons momentos, mas a sonoridade, em geral, não acho nada demais, comum até. Este disco em particular me soa sombrio demais. Sobram teclados e guitarras etéreas, o que normalmente não me incomodaria, mas aqui sinto falta de "pulsação". Disco Regular para Mediano.

Very 80s, but not quite my thing, not as catchy

This is fine. It's not for me. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A My ratings are kind of based on general vibes and how many tracks I save to my Deezer profile -- ⭐⭐: Didn't like it, didn't hate it. Saved no tracks.

If it isn't Friday I'm in Love, then get it out of here.

Not actively painful to listen to, but just a plodding slog to get through.

Whatever breakup this guy went through, he needs to get over it. “Here’s a six minutes song about how sad I am, and here’s another!”

ugh. I don't like The Cure. There are a bunch of other musicians I do like who have done covers of songs by The Cure. Invariably, I find the cover to be so much better than the original. A bunch of those songs which have been covered by other artists are on this album in particular.

Yes there are some good songs, but the album could've been better.

Like any child of the 90s, Lovesong is super nostalgic and I love it. But the rest of the album is so dull by comparison. So many overly drawn-out intros.

Meh so boring

This wasn't for me. Too moody - 2

Mouais

I was 26 when this came out. The few songs that registered, like “Pictures of You”, never made me seek out more by The Cure. Too low-key, repetitive and bland. I’m sure I know people my age who loved this album.

If you're an angsty teenager or 20-something going through a phase, I bet this album hits like crack. If you have more mainstream tastes, this probably doesn't mean much. The sound mixing was good, and I liked a couple songs, but listening to this entire album was a bit of a slog. I can appreciate it for what it is, but to a guy like me it's just average. 2.5/5

All the songs sound the same, and he sounds like he's just short of breaking into a crying fit on every song. I know it's proto-goth and all, but... I couldn't get into it.

Pomalo naporno za slušati u cijelosti. Ima mi nekih dobrih dijelova, ali ovo bubnjevi bodu uši. Imaju oni i boljih albuma. 2/5, 3/10.

Lush instrumentation but a bit sandy same for me and doesn’t do a lot (I’ve never really gotten into the cure). Dig some of the guitar work on “pictures of you” but nothing something I’d rush to go back to.

Ahh the 80's, kinda.The soundtrack to my younger years. I didn't understand the pull of The Cure then, and I don't now. There are a few good songs on here, sadly all of the rest sounds alike. I like to think of this sound as proto-emo. It's all slightly whiny and if you're not in the head space for it....Well it falls flat. I listened to it again and it's just not there. I see all the 5 star reviews and wonder if it's a nostalgia thing and I just missed that boat when I was younger....

Remarkable... Remarkably boring. This album did basically nothing for me. Maybe 2 is a bit harsh. IDK It just didn't do anything for me

i like the cure but this album didn't do it for me

I didn’t have the time or energy to truly focus on this one, and the album didn’t have the strength to pull me out of my hectic state of mind. The sound doesn’t appeal to me either, it feels like it’s trying too hard to be something it’s not. So this time, no more stars than that.

Goth pop has never been my go to, I do love me some Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim or Joy Division on occasion. I find this somehow too resigned, disinterested even in their own doings and that ruins the interesting dreamy vibes for me. The album sounds great, whoever recorded and engineered this did a fine job or adding space between instruments. The soundstage is wide and airy. It's just that the music is... weak. Lethargic. Whatever it is, it is not to my taste.

I love The Cure but the album was mostly filler

Two Cure albums in four days is too much.

This wasn't bad, but I actually enjoyed the other Cure album, Seventeen Seconds, a little more. First few songs were decent then it kind of sounded all the same. Not terrible, just not very interesting.

more cure :/

It was a lot slower than I thought I would be

Nope.

Whiney, love song is the only single I’d listen to. A lot of repetitive production. Could cut a minute off each song.

Nothing very special, a bit depressing, and thus boring, but that might be because I'm in the mood for more energetic songs as of now.

I know a lot of Cure fans who consider this their best work. Personally, I’m not a fan. It lacks the intensity of earlier work

Only a couple good ones. Very 80s. Some really moody songs.

Not my cup of tea

Artist radio after this album ended made me realize that I do like The Cure, but moreso their upbeat stuff than this album. Lovesong was really the only standout. 2.5 rounded down because realistically I won’t seek out

For an album called disintergration I found it quite hard to differentiate between a lot of the songs... A lot of repetitive mopiness, just don't think I'm angsty enough to get it. Favourite: Disintegration

It was aight :shrug: sounded very same-y, I think the "memorable" bits are just from songs I already knew

I keep trying with the Cure. But just I can't.

Not a lot of lyrics, if I listened more it’d probably be better. The background music is the same between songs but really interesting, wish the songs were shorter.

Tercer y último álbum de The Cure del generador. Me ha gustado menos que los otros dos, en parte por su larga duración, y en parte porque ya no me dice nada nuevo. Con la excepción de dos o tres temas (por ejemplo, el excelente "Fascination Street"), el resto de temas son demasiado melodramáticos para mi gusto. Me gustó más la temática depresiva de los álbumes anteriores que estos temas, más melancólico-románticos. No sé, se me hace demasiado quejica. Creo que, en general, The Cure es un grupo que me entra mejor o peor según mi estado de ánimo, y hoy me encontraba con ganas de algo más animado.

not for meeee 2/5

Aside from a couple of catchy tunes, this is a mess of a record. I just don’t like the lack of melodic content in many tracks, and his vocals aren’t my favorite.

best song = Fascination Street

I didn’t hate it like I did back when it came out, but I still didn’t enjoy it. 2 stars.

better than expected.

What can I say, I just don’t like the cure. The guy’s voice has always annoyed me, even when I was a teenager and they were huge. Which is weird, because other whiny Brits’ voices don’t annoy me.

I think ultimately, I just don't really understand this. There are some solid moments and things that I enjoy, but it never really clicks for me. It's music, at least. But I don't think it belongs here. Favorite Song(s): Lullaby

Simple, persistent, heavy rhythms. Minimal harmonic progressions. Ethereal keyboard backgrounds. I assume this is what fans are drawn to. This is not a negative appraisal of the music. It's just not for me.

Way to long and kinda boring

So mid it's bad

It was fine. The whole album had a decent tone and sound but no individual song jumped out at me.

Not enjoyable. Sonically feels like a bad versino of Radiohead or Fontaines.

don't know mixed feelings

En keskittyny tähän, ei nyt huono mutta en varmaan koskaan tartu tähän enää. Mutta nyt tiedän mitä The Cure tekee. Sehän on hyvä.

I want to like The Cure but its all so depressing and Emo.

É um bom album, mas nenhuma música se destacou. Me lembrou os albums do U2 do começo dos anos 80.

I didn't like this at all. Instrumentals are just a wall of sound with nothing interesting happening. 1.5

what is this genre of music called? idk if i like this. i keep waiting for these tracks to have more energy. this song is 7m long?? at the same intensity the entire time?? little sad englishman u gotta cut that shit out. okay we finally hit a track that doesnt sound like its the same track as the first 3 tracks. will learning what this genre of music is called prevent me from listening to it by accident. this is the kind of dislike where theres a chance ill listen to this like 5 more times and realize i love it actually but an equally large chance i will never enjoy it. theres some interesting instrumentation but it doesnt feel like its put to the service of any kind of...idk momentum. Point. think the vocalist is really REALLY not doing it for me either. hes like a very poor mans david bowie and i am not really a david bowie fan. okay fascination street is Actually a different track. thats like a little bit interesting. the second half has a diff tone than the 1st half of the album but sadly they do just feel like 2 tracks w an occasional Different Track for like 3m interspersed, not "a collection of distinct tracks that flow into each other harmoniously". omg no this isnt what Emo is as a genre right?? ik emo + goth are music genres but have no idea what they entail. but im sure this is either emo or goth. anyway the same deep water as you is actually also nice...too long but it might make it onto the EHIOF playlist bc its abt water in a creepy way! oh my god id like this album more if u made a different guy sing it and the total length was cut by 20m. homesick: another song i like but can tell its just gonna be too long. yeah the darker 2nd half is way way better than the front half. oh its over. RANKING: i would not buy a physical copy of this album unless like it waz a really Really fancy vinyl or smth. a 2.75/5 kinda beat. better songs: lovesong, fascination street, the same deep water as you, homesick. biggest complaint: album is way too long to feel this directionless

I am sorry but I really hate the cure. I’ve always hated the cure. It’s been 30 years since I’ve listened to the cure. I thought maybe something had changed. It has not

between a 2 and a 3, hard to get through

meh

I remembered why I don’t listen to full The Cure Albums. Too much whining more me. Needs mood changes. The radio plays are still good songs.

Ehh, the album is a bit slow and depressing, but what do you expect from The Cure. Love Pictures of You & Love Song, but this one isn’t for me. 2.5 Stars.

72 minutes is an audacious run time for this genre. They could have chopped off 3 songs and made it 60 minutes. A lot of it sounds the same. I dig a lot of the bass. Love Song is a classic and Pictures of You was good. If the previous EWF album was a 3, this can't be a 3. Giving it a 2. Maybe setting the bar high too soon, but we got a long way to go.

Not as good as their more popular stuff. Kind of boring. 2.5/5 Won’t listen again

Never heard the Cure before, but they sound exactly like what I imagined lmao.

Eh.

Really didn't get the appeal of this, have enjoyed a lot of the Cure's material previously but this album was meandering, hookless and each track was hard to distinguish between with it all being at the same tempo. Maybe I need to be in a very specific mood to appreciate it

I liked the first two tracks but at over an hour in length the album really started to drag towards the end.

I like the textures and sounds in a lot of Cure songs, but have never been on board with Robert Smith’s vocals. This album is too lumbering for me.

Upon it's opening, I was transported to a world of David Lynch and an alternative Twin Peaks-esque universe. So things were looking up, but then I found the sludgy pace, reverb melted drums and the outright dreary nature of it somewhat soul-destroying. Perhaps I should have read the album title more closely. It has cleverly multi-layered moments, Lullaby being the pick of the bunch, but I found it tough going overall.

No too bad for the Cure, there are some good tracks at the start and i've always liked lullaby. Just not my vibe generally though.

Seems like they took inspiration from my G Leonard Cohen in that their music is so fucking boring that I nearly fell asleep.

I really want to like the Cure as a wannabe goth emo boy but it just doesn't do a great deal for me other than the odd track

Ist ja gute Musik aber das Album würde ich mir nie aktiv anhören. Disintegration und Fascination Street haben mir am besten gefallen aber ein Song muss halt gut und enjoyable sein um über 5min lang zu sein und sie sind halt alle so lang und das nicht sehr verdient.

Felt really long, but had some interesting moments. I liked the ending, 2.5

a bit samey. old school cure, a bit too much like the smiths for my taste

Never understood the love for this band. Kind of groovy, in an 80s way, but...meh?

This album has all the trappings of 80s synth pop/rock. Luscious keyboards? Check. Guitars with copious amount of reverb and delay? Check. This is also the first time I’ve listened to an album by The Cure front to back. “Plainsong” is a terrible song to open a record. Like several of the albums tracks, there’s a lot of “fat” around the edges. There’s periods of those guitars and keyboards droning out for minutes at the time while not varying or developing enough significantly to justify sitting through the 2 minute intros before the vocals start. Often times, the vocals are not up front in the mix, which makes the songs often times difficult to follow. However, sometimes those elements come together nicely. “Lovesong” is one such example and it’s easy to see why it’s one of their most popular/well known tracks. The album does successfully accomplish going for that “anguished” type of vibe as the title would suggest. “Untitled” does prove to be a strong closing track

1. plain - 1 2. picturez - 2 3. cloze - 1.5 4. love - 2.5 5. dance - 1.5 6. lullaby - 1.5 7. ztreet - 1.5 8. rain - 1.5 9. uuater - 1.5 10. dizintegration - 1.5 11. home - 1.5 12. untitled - 1

Disappointing. Started off good and got worse. Very long songs - pieces

I guess this album is good. But it made me feel so miserable and it was really hard for me to listening to all 72 minutes of it.

Borink

Everyone alive in the 80s has heard of them, but so what? At the end of the day they’re just another 80s band, producing weird alt rock shit that navel gazing angsty teens listen to, but adults would readily classify them as the one hit wonders they are. All these 80s bands are all either gone or still peddling their worn out crap to squeeze a living out of music. Truly great musicians of the 80s (think Sting for example) continue to produce, innovate and inspire.

nothing really standed out to me? Idk maybe I just need to listen to it more

wat een gejank... Nonkel Robert was vroeger een gangmaker op het familiefeest, nu is ie de nonkel vol zelfbeklag

My favorite of all The Cure albums I have heard. Although that's not saying much, I'm generally not a fan of theirs. But this was good, the songs are kinda long for my taste, but this album has good energy. I still won't come back to this.

Difficult to enjoy this

Still don’t get the fascination with these lads. Is it because Smith sounds gay, wears lipstick, and dresses like Count Dracula? I get that there are people who like depressingly morbid music, but this is an act, and not worthy of the accolades.

Meh

Too slow!

Wasn't crazy about this at all. Only song I liked was Lovesong.

Dreary

I didn’t like it, but I let it happen to me.

Drone attack! Man this is a dull Cure album.

Gear: Aür Audio Aurora Artwork: timburtontimburtontimburton Mix: feinfeinfein Musik: mehmehmeh Wertung: 🦇🦇(🦇)/5

The only saving grace is 'Lullaby' on this album. To each their own, but this band is just not for me.

This one bounced off me big time. I genuinely liked Plainsong, Lovesong and Last Dance. But, every other track was overpowered by the way I was getting sent straight to sleep by the lead vocalist's voice. Favourite track: Last Dance

I almost fell asleep

I'll always respect The Cure for carving out a sound that is somehow both unique and formulaic at the same time. They are able to land pretty firmly in the emo/sadboy realm but still give their songs a rock/poppy edge. Not quite sure how they do it but it works. Not sure I've ever met someone who doesn't like The Cure even if they aren't a big fan. Between their hits they have something for everyone. Credit to them. Disintegration threads the needle much in the same way. It's got a lot of the signature dark depressing nature associated with Robert Smith and The Cure as a whole. A couple hits and some solid deep cuts that keep the album interesting. It's a little long at 70+ minutes and it drags by the end of it with a couple unnecessary long songs in the back half. It would benefit the album to cut 2 songs to tighten it up, Despite this it still held my attention much better than plenty of the long albums seen elsewhere on 1001. All in all a good listen and a worthy album from my end. 3.4 stars

good sound, really synth heavy nd wasn't a fan of the vocals

This is a good The Cure album, but to me they all sound too similar. 2/5

Never was a huge Cure fan. That said, I've actually come to really like their earlier, rawer tunes but the more gothy synthy (signature) stuff I never got that into. Didn't dislike this album in it's entirety but overall, nah.

I really wanted to like this more than I did. I just never really connected with it.

Not a fan of this sound, I feel like if you enjoyed one of these songs you’d like them all because they all felt the same to me.

Lots of wining and synthesizers and a few decent songs.

I was bored. It's ok, but it just didn't interest me. I tried to listen again since I was so bored the first time. Poor guy crying so hard on the first track. Boo hoo baby, I'm moving on.

Certainly not a cure for boredom. This soft rock is so uninteresting. Every song sounds like the last, and for an hour and 12 minutes. This is not something I'll ever come back to. 2/5.

A monotonous, boring onslaught of melodramatic rock garbage. Song after song of the same arpeggiated, chorus-laden electric guitar and echoing drum beats, with tuneless, whiny singing. It’s not technically bad, but it sure is exhausting. I had to check my phone a couple times to make sure I wasn’t on song repeat; just absolutely no variation, improvements, or change at all. Once a song starts, it takes about 15 seconds for you to know how the rest of the song is going to sound. Uninspired and unremarkable, like the rest of The Cure I’ve heard. There can be no stand out tracks if all track sound identical.

From Art to alternative Rock it feels inconsistent at best.

Too upbeat for me. If I'm not contemplating suicide, it's not a proper The Cure record.

Not terrible, but I still can't get into The Cure. Just too melancholy for me.

I wanted to like this but it puts me to sleep, its sounds the same over and over

Big, echoey pop. Kinda interesting, but felt like it dragged on

I didn't like this-

I was never drawn in by the supposed lure of the Cure. Eternally moody, nearly monotonous songbook, I never got it. I gave them several good and honest attempts to see what everyone was talking about...but...alas...nothing. No spark here. I'm glad they have a good and loyal audience. Cheers to the Cure!

Still don't get why this album is considered by many to be the Cure's best. Pornography and Seventeen Seconds are far, far better.

achei chororo demais

Zzzz

Boring and drab

Discount U2

The album has high points in Lovesong and Fascination Street but the tracks fail to differentiate themselves or justify their longer than average runtimes. I can imagine that if you are really into this sound, it's fantastic but for my personal taste it's too much of the same.

This is what happens when a working band decides to be deep. That's not really something you can choose to do. The album disappoints in very predictable ways.

Every song (except Lovesong) makes me want to turn it off and listen to one of the earlier Cure albums. I love the Cure. But this album has always sounded like a collection of songs that weren't quite good enough to make the cut for Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, so Robert tried to overcompensate by making the production cleaner and richer. It does sound beautiful. And Lovesong is gorgeous. And that's about it for me.

BORING

Först och främst, har aldrig gillat the cure. Ett problem är Smiths röst. Och det "släpande" soundet. Det är liksom sävlig musik. Händer inte så mycket. En syntvägg som vaggar en till sömns. Första låten är bara ljud. Som en relaxskiva som spelas när man får massage (överdrivet förstås, men åt det hållet). Orkar inte kommentera resten. Hatar inte skivan. Men det är verkligen inte min kopp te. Har försökt lyssna på the cure förut utan framgång.

Just okay. Wasn’t my kind of music way back and just realized it still isn’t. However I didn’t hate it so I can’t really give it one star.

Not for me

Wer hört sowas...?

Ok! I get it! The slow build-up, adding layers, one instrument at a time, it builds tension and atmosphere. It works, but it gets so repetitive. Songs like Prayers For Rain and (especially) Lullaby work. But there are a lot of forgettable tracks.

No era lo que esperaba... los singles eran canciones de mi gusto, pero las demas eran muy oscuras.

Not for me.

Over-rated and boring

Meh..

Nicht mein Fall

Very British and kind of boring.

I quite like the heavy production - it's certainly a far harsher sound than I was expecting from this genre, though something about it fails to land with me. All the tracks blend together and the crooning vocals keep this from being something I'd want to come back to.

Im sure it is good, but it just feels like an hour long moaning session. I'm not getting anything else out of it.

Naja

😢😭😩😫😢😭😢😫Way too much of this. Not for me and I’ve heard better covers of their Lovesong. Round up.

I’ve never been a huge fan of this one. I feel like there are much better Cure albums.

maybe i need to listen to this a couple more times to really appreciate it, but i don't think i get it. i enjoyed the instrumental tracks, but most of the songs got lost in the background. i liked lovesong, of course, but i don't know this is an album that i would go back to.

no

I never particularly liked the Cure. Vocals too off-putting. Went through each song and came up with the same answer from 40 years ago - I don't particularly like the cure. A 2 because one track was listenable.

vampire whisper music

found it a bit uninteresting to my ears. not really my sound

First off, cover art is great. I enjoy a few songs off Three Imaginary Boys. Of course there's 10 years between them so I did go in expecting a gloomy, hypnotic mood-show rather than anything resembling a hits record. But this didn't do IT for me on my first listen. At no point did I go "oh man!" It felt like a load of gothic dullness. Will listen again, loud, to really hear the lyrics and try to feel it. Plainsong just started and I get it. I dig Lullaby. I like Prayers for Rain. 2 stars from me. Good.

I don't loke the cure. But it's pre emo music that left a clear influence on emo bands

It was a good album but didn’t have any I wanted to save to my library! Would give it a 2.5 if that were a rating.

plainsong. big, flowy, echo. interesting choice for an intro. pictures of you. the cure seems to love chorus/flanger pedals. and really long intros. background/elevator music. closedown. 2 minutes in, song starts. jesus christ. lovesong. a song that actually sounds like a song. a very overrated one at that. last dance. bleh. lullaby. well i do want to fall asleep. fascination street. these are 2-3 minute songs with 2 minutes of fluff intros. what the hell. im already bored with the song before the lyrics start. prayers for the rain. cool melody at least the same deep water as you. intro was only 90 seconds this time. same dramatic montage shitty movie sound. disintegration. 1:45 intro. homesick. at least this one sounds like a proper intro, piano/guitar accompaniment, actually musical instead of ambient noise. nice harmony, drums come in with main riff only about a minute in. best intro so far, albeit still to long. strings come in 90 seconds in, then synth at 1:45. kind of ridiculous, now its absurdly long. lyrics start after 3 minutes. fuck this lol. untitled.

Noise with rhythm, that's the single most basic definition of music I've heard. And this was really close to hitting that definition on the head. I see no good concept here. The music is dull. Maybe this was really just meant to be enjoyed while high? Whatever the case, it was a big miss from me. I'll be perfectly happy if I never hear this album again.

Started ok. Faded badly

Not for me, but I can see why others like it.

Didn’t get around to listening to it

Not really my thing

Spacey. Moody. Alright.

not my jam. sounded a bit off

AJ: At least it’s got Pictures of You on it. Oh and this 311 song!!

Boring

An interesting stroll down sadsack lane couldn't see myself rocking this on a leisurely stroll next to the beach or on a nice winding road trip through the mountains, so I don't know where I would connect with this, maybe a drama movie perhaps.

boring ahh hell

It's good. I think. It's just not my thing

#16: Um… I don't see what the hype is about this album. Long drawn out instrumental sections made it slow. 116 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of all time. Favourite track for me was Lullaby.

Fine, didn't grab me

The beginning of the album seemed very promising - I loved how expansive the sound was and there was some good groove to it. But everything kind of started to sound the same by about halfway through and the second half of the record was a real slog for me. I wasn't a huge The Cure fan before this. I have some new appreciation now but mostly I wasn't supremely impressed.

Well, here it is Robert deciding that everything was giving him the shits, and Lol deciding to go and get pissed. And it shows, I bought this back in the day and it was the one that killed it for me as it was the proverbial dog returning to its vomit. There's nothing wrong with it, there are some quite good tunes but seriously they were standing still. Sorry death freaks, if you are looking for something while they hook the horse up to your arm to see you out and you want a bit of gothy doom, go and get 17 Seconds and give this the flick.

I like some stuff by the cure but it gets kinda dull after awhile for me. Always been a bit on the “emo meets new-wavy” side. With that being said, pictures of you and love song are fun songs.

I didn't understand The Cure in the 1980's and I don't understand them now. Why is this popular?

Slog city.

It turns out The Cure for my headache was turning off this album. Some classic cheesy 80s parts, but otherwise got really boring and repetitive as it wore on.

Started off good, but quickly started to lose interest in the album. A lot of the songs sounded the same. I enjoyed the piano, as well as some guitar and bass parts, but I could really do without the singing in almost every song.

not nearly as good as seventeen seconds

Die angegebene von Länge 72 min lässt beim Lesen bereits erste Zumutungsgefühle aufkommen. Das ist die Platte, wo Lullaby drauf ist, aber soweit hab ich’s dann nicht mehr geschafft und vorher aufgegeben.

Fascination Street was a winner. Unsure about the rest.

I was familiar with Lovesong. The rest of the album was way too long. I do not need several 8 minute songs. It wasn't that good. No need to revisit.

Ikke helt min kopp te, 80-90-talls sounden med synthene har ikke truffet helt, men det er jo musikk som svinger på sin egen måte

Bland album

Meh

Post punk, gothic. Although this album is their breakthrough album. The bands music style is a little too gothic for my tastes. Too dark and dismal.

alternativo demais pra mim… n tankei

Non mi piace la voce di Smith, non è il loro miglior album

that's 8:20 of my life I'll never get back very repetitive not even in a trance way pass for me

These British sadboys need to have shorter intros and outros. There is absolutely no reason for these songs to be as long as they are.

First song got saved but still don't like it

Lovesong is fine but the rest of this album is so 80s with its sound, too much new age synthesizer sound or something for me to ever need to listen to any Cure stuff moving forward.

Nothing special for me. Nice background music

This is a loooooong album, too long. The Cure have never really appealed to me much at all. Sure you hear an occasional song here and there and it's fine, but a whole album is too much. Not for me.

Not terrible but not for me

Not great

OK once the songs got going. Quite atmospheric and not all that catchy.

Boring