Reviews (page 7 of 15)
Aka that time Robert Smith felt emo about his commercial success so recorded his most commercially successful record. Word is he's still emo to this day...
Day 71 Such a wonderful album, I want to live inside the haunting melodies and the ambiance. I love the cure. (4.5/5)
Gostei! Algumas músicas sensacionais
Pretty good, atmospheric, spacey, mellow/dark, a little dated but still cool.
love love love
Good but i DNF'd
Good album. Classic Cure.
Love it
Ethereal and devastating; formed from simple parts layered to create something so atmospheric you can’t help but be consumed by it. A portal into another world. Favourite track: Pictures of You
Don’t think I’ve listened to a The Cure album start to finish before. Very good.
Album 12/1001 Perhaps the most atmospheric album ever made. Absolute perfection. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Favourite song: Pictures of You 📸👧 Honourable mention: every other track 👌
Sm more creative than the smiths,such a dreamy and ethereal project,kinda suffers from its length tho 9.6
Not bad. Surprised by the sound quality from 1959 but inwasnt blown away musically.
It's alright, not the craziest. Some great songs, but as a whole, it's alright
Ich denke, dazu könnte man echt gut schmollen und vor sich hin vegetieren. Aber nein, irgendwie zieht es sich mir dann doch zu sehr. War trotzdem spannend, man was von denen außer die Hits zu hören, und war bei weitem nicht so schlecht wie ich erwartet habe.
11/10 My favorite album of all time. Not even close. 9-15-2025
Introspective, moody, but not a fun time to listen to while running. "Songs about happiness murmured in dreams And we both of us knew how the ending would be"
My most anticipated album of 1989. I was a massive Cure fan, so I couldn't wait for this to come out. While I loved it, I found it to be a bit of a slog toward the end. I still think it's overlong, but it's also full of some of their best work.
Yeah the last half drags a bit, but this is a masterpiece. Plain Song, Pictures of You, Love Song, Fascination Street are all pretty perfect. Robert Smith is a genius. The Cure's finest album.
Same good vibes as usual from The Cure. I enjoyed the album well enough, but it wasn't anything different from their usual. Favorite tracks: Pictures of You, Lovesong, Homesick
I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I'd heard a couple songs off it before--I'm pretty sure my mom had a mixtape with some of these songs on it when I was younger. I expected the album to be too repetitive in its gloomy tone, but I actually didn't find that to be the case. The first part of Disintegration sets you up to believe that this is just going to be an album with too many dreary love songs, but it takes a turn after Lovesong. Some of my favorite parts were the extended instrumental bits like at the beginning of Lullaby. I will definitely listen to this album again and put some of the songs into my regular rotation. Favorites (that weren't just Pictures of You or Lovesong): Lullaby Fascination Street Homesick
It's pretty melancholic, and I don't think I was in the mood for that today.
I am aware of the Cure obviously, but never actually listened to them on purpose. I enjoyed this album very much, but thought a lot of it all had the same dreary sound with not a lot of variety. Nevertheless, this is very very Cure. They have such a distinctive sound. Listened before: no Listen again: very likely
I really like this album. Very easy to listen to. Unexpected given the album cover. Very pleasant listen both times
"Still, here you have a story written with the sole object of inspiring a pleasing terror in the reader; and as I think, that is the true aim of the ghost story." Some Remarks on Ghost Stories, M.R. James. After yesterday's engagement with Junkyard, a gothic rock album that everyone on this site seems to hate, we get to Disintegration, the gothic rock album that everyone - on this site and elsewhere - seems to love. I have admitted before that, while the Cure are among my top five bands, I don't know that they've released a five-star album. Disintegration, laden as it is with garlands from others, is surely the challenge to that. I bought my first copy of Disintegration on the afternoon when I would have my first kiss. She was a lovely goth girl, with Robert Smith's dimpled chin. To situation this memory in early 1999, I'll admit that I bought the album because some character in South Park had called Disintegration "the best album ever," shouting after a winged Kaiju version of Smith. However, the whole interaction was awkward and embarrassing. I wasn't ready for any of it emotionally. I thought I was already in love with a different girl - not a goth, but a quiet and withdrawn. I had also already fallen in love with some of these songs from the live Show album which I'd borrowed from the CD library. Those recordings were leaner, more energetic and the epic cuts, such as Pictures of You, were leavened with shorter, more exuberant tracks from other parts of their career. Let's Go To Bed shouldn't comfortably beside Fascination Street, but it does in the live show. In comparison, the unmoveable slabs of Prayers for Rain and The Same Deep Water as You are a challenge. There are other instances of Cure albums that present such a dense track lists, but it is a hallmark of their two most successful albums - Disintegration and Wish - that there is a specific homogeneity of tone across the whole record. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is infinitely varied, as is the Head on the Door. Faith and Pornography are constant in their onslaught. However, on both of those successful records, the pop songs and a depressing dirges are dressed in exactly the same raiment. On Wish, the pop songs are exceedingly pop and pull the epic downers closer to them. On Disintegration, it is the other way around, so heavy is the mood of those later big songs that the singles get caught in their wake. Even, Pictures of You, a song of multiple of hooker parts and a hit single of sorts, is stretch out to epic status, as though the line between the two parts of the Cure is being intentionally mangled. Disintegration often seems like a daunting, dark effort to me, so I rarely listen to it. Unlike Pornography's manic writhing, Disintegration seems to wallow. And I understand the pleasure of wallowing: that is what goth - though the Cure, like everyone else, hates the term - allows you to do. Wallowing is often a put-on or an indulgent exaggeration of events. And, certainly, distinct from the despair that Smith harnessed to write Pornography or the grief he exorcised on Songs of a Lost World, at the time of Disintegration, he was happy, I think. He married he childhood sweetheart - Lovesong is the gift he gave her. In the studio, the band bullied alcoholic bandmate, Lol Tolhurst, because they didn't know how else to handle the challenge of his behaviour. It was a weird, mixed moment and weirder still that it produced such a constant record. I think this consistency is the reason that Disintegration fares so well with others. While the strength of the Cure lies in their extreme poles of pop and desolation, this album melds the two in a way that softens the edges of both in a way that seems to suit most people: a pleasing terror. The main terror for me, however, is Roger O'Donnell's synth strings which upset me even now, but, overall, I have come to admire, if not completely love Disintegration, just as I did not completely love that goth girl back in 1999. Too much, too early. Too much even now. 4 We could have done with this on a weekend but sure… Disintegration is great, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s also the definition of too much of a good thing. By the time I am through the twenty minute stretch of Same Deep Water… and the title track, both of which I admire very much, I am aching to stop. There’s fifteen minutes still to go. There is so much that is memorable on the album - marvellous riffs on every instrument, iconic, gripping drum patterns - and at least half a dozen of the best songs Robert Smith ever wrote. But it doesn’t quite work as an album, for me. There are other records that I love that seem to require reserved energy and a deep breath before sitting through in one go - Ys by Joanna Newsom, Ladies and Gentlemen… by Spiritualized, or even my favourite album OK Computer. But there doesn’t seem to me to be any way of girding myself for Disintegration. It is simply not digestible. It’s not just that it is too long, it’s that it doesn’t have a narrative (emotional?) shape - it sits there like a mountain of champ and gravy. It is always ending and then beginning again with diminishing welcome, even as it impresses and satisfies. What I should have done is listen to Plainsong and Pictures of You - both absolutely wonderful and as good a start to an album as I can think of - and then just glanced down the tracklisting for a moment in remembrance of how good almost all of these tracks are (I could still leave Last Dance in any case). Then I could hand Disintegration its five stars. It’s the listening to it - enduring it - that’s the problem. 4/5
Wow what a depressing album. I am not goth and I’m sad now. I can appreciate the dreamy ethereal nostalgic sadness but not my thing
Best Song: Love Song The Cure still suck. Looking at the reviews, it seems people either love it and give it a 5 or hate it and give it a 1. I am in the middle, if I hear this I'm not grabbing a belt and looking for the nearest means to hang myself, but I am also not reaching to turn it up either. 3/5 and that is being generous.
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.
The orchestration for “Pictures of You” is so good I don’t really mind that they follow the same structure on so many other tracks.
The good songs are in the first half of the album. The others are fine, although I couldn’t remember any of them five minutes later. Ethereal rock at its finest? Rounding down.
I like this way more than I thought I would. Mr. Smith isn't too whiney and the songs are pretty good overall.
Honestly a banger. Just some real classics on here
Definitely a vibe. Gonna have to listen to this again sometime.
Very 80s, but not quite my thing, not as catchy
top 3: - pictures of you - lovesong - the same deep water as you special mentions: - last dance - lullaby
A near perfect mix of songs and texture.
Moody, which I liked.
The type of album I want to listen to on a rainy September day, looking out the window. Makes me wish I was a goth baddie. Perfect spooky goth album for the fall season. 4/5 stars because the songs were so long
beautiful album!!! so happy i got to see them live a couple years ago!! this record is a good 4/5!
This album is bleak, stark, grey, drab, depressing, sad and introspective… It’s a great piece of music, but I don’t think it’s the quintessential Cure album other think it is. While well written, produced and executed, it kind of all stays in the same vein, save for “Lullaby,” which is not what I like about The Cure. I like there to be a bouncy upbeat song or a sort of weird, but totally engaging song. These are all songs of being overwhelmed and sad and anxious. Apparently, for Robert Smith, turning 30 was a big, sad deal. Enjoyed the album, but if someone said “hey, if you had to pick a Cure album to show the world on a list of 1001 albums, what would it be?” it would’ve been The Head On The Door. Points for having my favorite 311 cover.
I know this is a cool record, and I reeeeally loved seeing them live last year (they were fucking amazing), but I was NOT in the mood for this album today. I mostly don’t listen to the Cure unless I get a wild hair, but it felt like goth AIC: super dirgy and almost… like heroin. This album kind of sounds like heroin feels. But not the good part. The desperation, the sickness, the rubber morality. Too dark for my taste at the moment.
My kinda music, love the Cure.
I’m sorry, but I was kind of bored by this…
This was way better than I expected. The hits I know and love, but the longer songs with a lot of dreamy musical sections between verses were very enjoyable. The length of it didn’t bother me.
Oh hell yeah, let’s go. One of the best opening tracks on any album ever. Then pictures of you? Come on. What a 1-2 punch. This is an album that justifies its run time, and each track justifies its own length, because the whole thing is so cinematic and immersive. (Looking at you, Metallica’s black album.) I don’t quite love it enough to give it a 5, but it’s also early September and the sun is shining. Give it a couple months and this will hit just right.
excellent
Later Cure, good. Bit of variety and interest enjoyed.
"Disintegration is the best album ever!" -- Kyle, in S1E12 of South Park Just like what John Linnell, singer/keyboard player of famed American band They Might Be Giants once wrote in “Older”, You're older than you've ever been/And now you're even older/And now you're older still”. Set to a 60 bpm drum beat, the song vividly portrays decay at a visible time, bringing us the existential crisis that stood still in our heart. When Robert Smith began writing this album, he was motivated by the same thing: the fact that he is already 29, and most artists in the music world has done their best work before 30. The result is probably the annex of the whole gothic rock genre. The atmosphere of the album immideately sets up with"Plainsong", which starts with a shimmering soundscape and airy synths and guitar, while Robert's voice doesn't enter until halfway. "I think it's dark and it looks like it's rain", he sang in a painful manner, like doom, its unescapable. the protagonist wryly smiled for a second but the smile is enough to give the feeling of doom. It's just the way I smile, he continued. basic and natural and harmless but still giving harm. like the fact that you are 29. "Pictures of You" is more dreamy and lengthy than plainsong but for the general audience, its more accessable because of the presence of lyrics throughout the song. It seems to be about love but can also interpreted as the lost of youth and the worried state that Robert was in, But it is "Closedown" that he addresses the issue more throughly: "I'm running out of time", he starts the song directly and let his anxiety loose, singing about emptiness, having real feelings again, and love. Speaking of love... Lovesong is definitely the lightest moment in the whole album. Created as a gift for Robert's long time childhood friend and eventual wife, Mary Poole, it escapes the pain and highlights the love, the most straightforward thing in human relationships and one sparkle of light under the anxiety of underachieving. Last Dance, the addition track on the CD version and streaming version is somehow an anti-lovesong: affection turns to the fear of aging but still continuing that wryness of Plainsong, ending a relationship. Lullaby is another light note with the bedtime story of "cannibalistic" spiders (aka Spiderman. get the reference? anyway robert smith dont have the hyphen between spider and man, so what we're talking here is not peter parker.) set to a rather lighthearted instrument, might be the only cure song that i have heard on local radio. im in east asia by the way. Ending side one, Fascination street have an iconic riff and a somehow "heavy" atmosphere, the somehow dancy instrumentals made it another commercial hit on disintegration, the lyric is also unstable as well, feeling the type of forced feeling when everything is ending. Please take me out and give me meaning, this is what the lyrics feel to me. Prayer for Rain opens the darker and generally longer side 2 with the essential darkwave atmosphere, brooding, dark and lingering. The lyrics are also visibly depressing in a near masochism fashion. We dont know who the “you” Robert is mentioning, but rain is always a symbol of hope and reborn, so we might as interpret it as a song hoping for one last chance to prove yourself before you are deemed worthless by the general public, before all the pain kicks in. The nine minute epic named “the same deep water as you” is transcendent. Framed with death motifs and in stretched out synths and reversed guitars for me somehow returns the the grand theme and probably can be interpreted as the difficulty for musicians struggling to create their best album before they turn 30, struggling and working but ultimately sinking due to that, its unfiltered pain in the most serene form. The title track gives us a similar type of lengthy buildups but having a more melodically strong riff topped with Robert’s lyrics, decaying, breaking apart from anxiety, disappointment, and frustration. “It's easier for me to get closer to Heaven/Than ever feel whole again”, he sang in a most pathetic and powerful manner, as the music keeps on its beat and the melody repeats over itself, feeling like falling and flying at the same time. But we all know that we will never grow wings one day. Easily one of the best track on the album. Homesick is inferior comparing to Last Dance for both of them being bonus tracks on the CD version, so at last we come to Untitled, the finishing of side 2 and of the entire album. Robert talk about time and underachieving again, struggling to tell what happened to people and the fear, the anxiety, with the final result being more things undone but also keep this feeling inside his heart and that’s how he managed to make this album, racing against the clock and his own fear, until successfully escaping it all, like how flowers bloom in natural disaster sites. Before talking about why Disintegration is a 5, i have something to say about myself. I am an anxious neurodivergent sixteen year old who lives under self loathing and tried to create music because I Love music. under Robert's negative influence i came to know that if i didn't create anything good before I am 30 i would rather be going to hell. funny, you would think but actually i mean as the John Linnell lyric i quoted, time is marching on every minute and every second so i am drenched in fear as if i am turning 30 next minute. i feel what he feels, the decay and the ending of your life being unsuccessful at 30, people tried to reclaim the age by celebrating 30 years old like it a brand new start for their life, many singers continue to produce high quality works after they turn 30 and some debut after turning 30, but the fear of the age is real. So, with disintegration, Robert successfully beat the social expectations of turning 30 and created the most successful gothic rock album, blending dream pop, post punk and alternative rock with ease. I didn’t feel at ease with my age but time zooms by like an arrow and my 17th birthday is just around the corner. and again to quote the lyric, it is marching on every single moment, and is still marching on. i am in fear. and also, one of the reason i love the cure is that i fucking hate morrissey. dude is both a whiny extreme right wing racist and a supposed man united supporter. this type of people should go to hell for supporting man united (and for being a nationalist too). wait a minute he dont support any football team. i both hate him less and hate him more.
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.
Gorgeous
Instrument focused. Mellow sounding
This album and Wish are top tier albums. One of my favorite from this era of alt rock/ post punk
It's Disintegration. Not much more to be said.
It's The Cure. I am very happy that they exist, and I do enjoy a lot of their more jaunty numbers, but this got a bit 'heavy' after a few tracks. maybe I just wasn't in the mood. I would not put this among their best. For lighter touches I prefer their debut, and for the darker stuff A Forest / Seventeen Seconds and Pornography deliver more. Pictures Of You is a lovely song, though.
This is a class album. It's almost Cure by Numbers. But that's no bad thing. No one else makes music like The Cure. Not then, not now. Good old Captain Bob.
Definitely a very consistent album across its runtime. The first time I heard Plainsong it blew my mind. The explosive energy and the yearning in the singer’s voice really got me. The first four songs were really strong for me, but once I realized that the rest of the songs had the same mood with the same synths and the same lumbering and longing feel to it, it started to lose me halfway through. I think anybody who likes a couple of these songs will end up enjoying the rest of the album, but I just don’t think this listen was for me. I think if I listened to them separately like I did with Plainsong and Lovesong, then I’d have more of an appreciation for it. I do also think I could warm up to this album, but this is just my initial thoughts. The production was beautiful though.
Why has no one told me to listen to the cure before?? So beautiful 🥹
Wow, this is one of the greatest of all time. My first listen through the whole album; I only listened to their songs. But the album really breaks you down to your core and is so damn powerful.
classic album full of dark themes and hypnotic riffs
scho zweimol live gseh nonie es album glost. wird ziit hä. ussert hemmer schomol eis gha? weisnöd. plainsong no cool so sehr tonal aber irgendwie au dark mit de synths. ah moll s album pornography hemmer glaub mol gha. pictures of you goht afoch wiiter vom letste song. es isch alles so dark hä. aso ihm isch nöd guet gange und er het au nöd wölle dass em guet goht? last dance irgendwie sehr cool. sehr melancholisch. lullaby suuuper snare. fascination street goht au kinda hard. coole bass drums sind riesig. aber s wirkt scho au mega so als het de robert unbedingt müese öpis deeps mache. same deep water as you sehr unterwasser goth jo. gsehni. disintegration easy groovy oyeh. geile beat schös riff. de song disintegration het au no öpis, irgendwie coole klangteppich. he laaangi langi songs. und find etz wos fertig isch dases i sache hooks scho sehr dünn isch eigentli. es 3 gits well mega vorriter.
halluzinogeni the cure wieder! plainsong isch meh e atmosphäre als en song ABER d gitarre isch echt schön ok vlt ischs ganze album eso? closedown findi na easy schön lovesong und last dance back to back isch seeehr geil, und es isch immerno ihdere spezifische atmosphäre lullaby hani eneer nervig gfunde mitem umegezupfe fascination street BANGER wow the same deep water as you isch mega! hans gfühl wär es guets lied als abschluss vom album gsi homesick tönt au öppe so fantastischs album. wär es 5i wenn vlt 1, 2 weniger spannendi lieder nöd debii wäret. eso ischs es starchs 4i d atmosphäre wos kreieret suugt eim fast scho inne
I misread the cure only being familiar with their radio hits. They are far from the bubblegum pop group I thought they were. This is the second album allocated to me from them and the better of the two. Really enjoyed this one.
I always liked The Cure but regarded myself as a bit of a part timer (y’know - greatest hits and singles) before seeing them headline Reading in 2012, where they were fantastic. Disintegration is the best Cure album I’ve heard up to now. So good that I’ve listened to it 4 times over the last few couple of days (including the extra tracks that are not on the original release) meaning I’m getting behind on yesterday’s and today’s albums! I don’t know how to review it for production/songwriting/lyrics/playing. It’s just “The Cure”.
Maybe it's enough to say it's very idiosyncratic, and he's a very strange dude, and somehow because of that it all fits together so well.
This whole album is an experience, something to really sink into and drift through. But even so, there are so many strong, standout tracks for me. Pictures of You - come onnn, what a perfect song.
Getting The Cure two days in a row was something. Certainly cured me from the desire to kick back and relax with an album listen. I gave up on the 3rd track. It's never going to be my vibe. Repetitive effects, samey-samey vocals, and not a singular moment of inspiration on the guitar or drums. Goths apparently do not riff. I read the wiki and went back to listen to Lovesong as the most popular track. Yes, it's a bit of a jam. It's not boring like the rest of the mood, someone add synth tracks, and it's very pop-y. It's also the shortest track in this album, like 25% shorter than the other tracks on average. So you can imagine rest of the album is a pure slog. On the very next track, I gave up again.
Mørk, dronete og fin. Med noen skikkelige godlåter og klassiske melodier.
If it isn't Friday I'm in Love, then get it out of here.
The instrumental is a high 3, vocals are a low 3.
The hits were hitting, the rest not so much.
The hits are solid pop tunes. The intermediate songs were a mixed bag where I think if I was putting this album on because I was in that mood, they'd be great, but I wasn't totally into them at the time. Still rounds out to a 3.
some classics but overall quite underwhelming
Gothic vocals with moody, dreampop synths and shimmering guitar lines all wrapped in plenty of reverb, this is a fantastic album and definitely one I will be revisiting.
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.
i guess i have the illness
Liked it. The music feels weighty, in a good way, with lush synths.
Yes there are some good songs, but the album could've been better.
4/5
Loved it. So goth, but also gave me vibes of shoegaze. Classic!
6/10
Classic
The buildups were crazy i really liked the same deep water as you and disintegration
new fav! kinda psychodelic and moody
Sweet beats. Do not like the vocals
Not my cup of tea.
I’m not in the greatest headspace today, but this just doesn’t speak to me. I’ve never gone deep into the Cure, because I just do not connect to the songs I’ve heard (the popular ones). I guess the Cure isn’t technically “shoegaze,” but it sounds a lot like it to me, and I fucking hate shoegaze.
Not a huge fan of The Cure's ghastly and industrial undertones (i.e. "Pornography") but "Disintegration" is by far their greatest album, in my humble opinion. My favourite songs include "Pictures of You" and "Lovesong."
i liked that shi
This one really captured my attention. I really like The Cure and have heard all the singles off of this but its damn near a masterpiece as a whole.
All-time favorite album!!
yeah it's okay. way too long
Not surprised to really enjoy this one. Tons of comparisons to indie/alt bands over the years sinces
WE ARE SO BACK. one of my favorite albums of all time. This album means so much to me as it helped me though so many things. While not my personal favorite cure album (that goes to seventeen seconds!): It really is that amazing. I do admit I am pretty biased as the cure is one of my all-time favorite bands, if not my number one favorite. This album is also one of the first cds I found secondhand when I started collecting cds! I was so happy about it :] -- misc song opinions - Pictures of You - This was my father's favorite song from the cure. He'd always say that the song ''flowed nicely'' whenever I'd ask about it. While it wasn't my favorite song, I appreciated it but didn't fully 'get it' like my father did. When he passed recently, I re-listened to disintegration in full and finally understood it. It's now a very dear song to my heart because of it. - Last Dance - This track is my number one favorite song from the cure. just a gorgeous song that feels like taking a long walk in winter. I particularly love how RS's voice sounds in it. - I had a particularly hard time getting into untitled and closedown the first and second time I had listened to them. I'm not entirely sure why! I now deeply love them, though x] Favorites: All tracks + Demo fear of ghosts. I don;t think I could rank the songs in best to worst as I adore all of them. 5/5
Not that i ever disliked the cure, but this is definitley the first tome that i felt like i fully understood onoe of their albums. Incredibly good, although its a shame that i dont see whats so gothic about it other than the fact that its the cure. Feels a lot less dark and gloomy in comparisson to their other albums to me atleast (im not goth what do i know). Its does get darker near the end though i guess. I dont want my fav cure album to be the least gothic one that feels lame as hell on my part
Great nostalgic feel. Happy to have listened something from The Cure other than their well-known songs.
sin más. soso
not for me
Perfect album, back to front; deep cuts, hits, they're all exceptional. I’ll compare this to a recent listen - The Good, The Bad, and the Queen. That band managed two memorable melodies across an hour of music. Robert Smith will throw five hummable melodies on top of each other for a 30 second slice of one song. If you think I'm making this up give the intro to "Untitled" a listen! I'm not very consistent with my star rating system. Some records get an extra star or two for having a great song, or a great vocalist, or a song that really moves me. Disintegration gets a star for each Mt Rushmore it appears on- 80s records , synth pop records, goth rock records, British records, best A sides. If my math is right that's -> FIVE STARS
The Cure are brilliant and this album is a classic
3.2
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.
It was on Houmous & Chutneys Japanese Tour ‘Hows That For You?’ In 1981 when Robert Smith asked us how we managed to stay so positive with such universal popularity. He really couldn’t ever understand it. But for both me and Len it had been a lifelong problem. We never knew any different. One of the curses of being child prodigy’s I guess? 3.2 11/12 Homesick
Pictures of you is the best sad boy song.
It sounds more modern than the release date and has an incredible sound, with an amazing atmosphere. But it just has no hits and goes on far too long out staying its welcome becoming tiresome this just lowers the score for me.
Awesome start, instrumental, takes until song 2 for vocals to come in. Hopeful tunes at the beginning, filled with emotion and powerful melodies. Great ballads. Melancholy dreams. Great for any season. I didnt listen in one sitting, I want to listen again.
I really liked this one quite a bit more than the previous Cure album I received (Seventeen Seconds). Just felt a little more complex, a little more intricate. Probably more accessible, which for me in this case is a good thing.
This might be sacrileigous but I found this mind-numbingly boring and DNF'd
So the music is alright but it's just a bit meh. It's nice leaving it in the background while you're doing stuff because it's very chill but it's just not exciting whenever you properly focus on it. I only knew Lovesong and that was nice but the rest were just meh.
Robert Smith will always love you and I will always love this album, especially lovesong. The Cure feel so criminally underrated yet are consistent so good. This is certainly one of their best albums and it contains my second favourite Cure song in Lovesong. Perfect for me!
I got 17 Seconds as one of my first albums on this list and I was bored most of the time. This was much better, they're hitting their stride here.
Meh so boring
My first time listening to this band! I like how cohesive the album is and how signature the style. 6.5/10
A swirling ocean of immaculately produced ethereal post punk. It surrounds you with feelings of longing that almost drown you. The lyrics are dripping in that melancholy, but they never feel overly dramatic or inauthentic. They feel real and honest. Each song feels carefully crafted, with intricate synths and guitars that compliment each other perfectly. And there's so much range here: the regret of "Pictures of You," the sinister "Lullaby," the pulsing, desperate "Fascination Street." On a different album "Love Song" would be a thoughtful pop tune, but here you begin to second guess whether it's also somehow a downer. Whenever the album gets to those last 5 long songs I always think they're going to drag by, but each has such a lovely, enthralling melody that I feel disappointed when each song ends.
Masterpiece
I really, really want to give this 5, but it's just too long. The opening of this album is downright haunting, and it closes strong, but it just cannot keep the steam going through the middle section.
Love me some Cure! Lot of hits on this album. I really appreciate a theme and when songs feel like pieces to a larger act, as they do here. This album is unique, weird, and great at what it does.
#673. This album is pretty close to what you'd call a masterpiece. If you don't like this, than we probably can't be friends. 5/5: more, please
Gloomy and boring
had already listened to it, maybe I'll relisten someday. But it's really good!
Intense
Tykkään tästä tunnelmasta. Hyvät kitarat. The Cure-mainen😜 Vähän kuitenkin tylsistyi välillä, kun biisi kesti 10 minaa ja ei hirveästi ollut vaihtelua. Ei ois myöskään tarvinnut laittaa kaikkiin biiseihin monen minuutin introa😘 Silti oikein hyvä
This is everyone’s favorite Cure album, but I actually think more than a couple of their earlier ones were superior. To be clear: This is a GREAT album and I enjoyed revisiting it.
Thought I was going to hate this and actually only dislike it. It's all a bit dull teen angst from the 80s with far too many monotonous instrumentals.
Good
Good background music if you're in an 80s mood 🙂
lots of bangers
Best goth album ever made
Dark, moody, strangely sexy. Love it.
Seems pretty good. I know absolutely nothing about The Cure.
Great Cure Album. Don't know them well enough to know if its the right choice or not.
I loved so many moments of this album, and the sound that The Cure keep consistent throughout it. I would say that it was a bit ponderous at times, and that Robert Smith's vocal tone started to wear on me. Nevertheless, about 5 tracks made it onto my "1001 albums best-of" playlist so pretty tough to give it less than 3/5. Oh, and "Lullaby" fucks.
Super long and feels like a chore
I seem to always say this about New Wave, but this is ‘luxury music.’ I can never think of a time when this wouldn’t be great to have on (maybe only at a dance party?). This was the first album by The Cure that I got as a teenager, trying to use an extensive CD collection in my car to look cool. I didn’t appreciate this album then, but some of my friends did. I’m glad I’ve seen the light.
❤️
One of the greatest pieces of music ever made. This is 10 out of 5. Best album on this list.
Liked this one more than I thought I would. I've been down on The Cure during this project but this one stood out for the right reasons. More atmospheric with solid production behind it. The guitars and bass really stand out. This might turn me into a Cure fan. Well, maybe not. Robert Smith is still annoying.
I don’t know what I had but this album certainly was the cure
Really great production, and good songwriting
I have no idea why I've never listened to this album before, but it was incredible. I've listened to it multiple days in a row. This is a true 5 star perfect album.
Some real good ones.
Good but not my speed
This wasn't for me. Too moody - 2
I need to listen to this band more, great album
The Cure was one of the bands I was most excited to listen to in this project. I’ve always been a fan of the hits I’ve heard, but admittedly never listened to any of their albums in full. It was just as I expected it to sound.
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: 11/1001 I've listened to this album numerous times and I keep coming to a similar conclusion - it's the perfect example of something that has all the parts of an objectively good album, but tied together, it's not an album I personally connect with. As I listened to Disintegration, there was no doubt in my mind how rock solid this album is from a prdouction standpoint, but it failed to find me. The production is sound, it's layered perfectly, it's lyrics are deep yet not overly complex, the cohesion is spot on, and the instrumentation is well thought out and hooky. Though at the same time, I find the length carries too long with the singing a secondary component often starting too late or ending too early, its so cohesive it's almost repetitive despite the unique builds from each song, and the instrumentation is great but nothing I haven't heard before. None of these are problems on their own, perse, but as it all ties together, these compounding problems leave me disinterested in the album overall. It's like The Cure found exactly how to make a good album, and then followed and stretched the code beyond its function. The synth and strings carry the sound for me as the drum beat maintains the same rhythmic roll throughout. Robert Smith has range to hit the various tones portrayed throughout this melancholy album, but nothing that made it exceptionally strong overall despite the atmospherically haunting effect he prescribes. Ultimately, it ends up seeming overindulgent and a bit self-serving as this pattern repeats. The peaks still captivate me, there are lyrics that appeal to me, there's meaning that's not lost on me. Though much of that is lost through an unchanging, depressed tempo that loses me before another part can hook me, creating a mostly lukewarm album. It's a perfectly produced album, but the content within is just kind of meh. (It does sound better the louder you play it!) Podium: 1. Pictures of You 2. Lullaby 3. Lovesong Honorable Mention: Disintegration I can't deny the album's strengths (production quality), but I also don't view it as a pretentious attempt to elevate music (sonically) and it doesn't land as a result. It leaves me questioning what makes this album in particular worthy of being considered one of the best albums. I can't quite pin why this album isn't better than the sum of all of its parts, but with each part having standout features, the way it all comes together just doesn't appeal to me personally. Whether it's too drawn out or not versatile enough, I'm not someone who will just listen to an album because the people producing it produced it well. It'd be like watching a movie with a terrible plot but great cinematography. Disintegration is dark with emotional resonance. The drawn-out instrumentation do add to the cohesion presented throughout. Yet it fails to be captivating just by pure repetitiveness and absence of anything unique, I would expect of a five-star album. Perhaps it comes down to just not being my style despite the greatness I do hear, but it's ultimately for these reasons I give Disintegration by The Cure 3.5 /5 stars.
Absolutely standout.
Absolutely fab
Phenomenal album. Pictures of You is 5 stars alone. Robert Smith has a way of making a love song seem so fucking cool and not at all sappy. Much of this music is atmospheric and dreamy. Good stuff.
Listened Oct 2024. I understand this one a lot more now. I’m still not the biggest Cure fan, but I’ve come to appreciate their slow, sad gothic melodramas now that I know they aren’t just a goth pop band. Great album that I will keep returning to.
witchy whimsical girl must listen
Top 10 all time (personally) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐+++++🖤
Great album, super easy to listen to and still super deep if you can pay attention. A classic for a reason
I love the soundscape these guys create. The only other full album I've listened to by The Cure was their new (2024) release and I really liked that one, but I assumed it was a change in direction after mainly knowing their singles. After listening to this all the way through it makes me realize they've always had that sound. Contemplative and interesting throughout.
If there's any album that is a band's culmination of their earlier work and thier pop peak its this album. Similar to physical graffiti for lead zeppelin.This is where everything they had been working on finally came together.Perfectly
Their eighth album. Gothic Rock / New Wave. Plainsong, the opening track is very much like Atmosphere by Joy Division. I get that vibe from it. Disintegration is a moody, atmospheric and introspective Goth Rock album. Pictures Of You accompanies the opening song brilliantly. Each track washes over you like a wave seamlessly. Great production. It does get a little bloated, some tracks are unnecessarily long. The Same Deep Water As You is nine minutes.
Pretty good! 4/5
Cover 7 Good but several songs sound similar / bleed into another. A great dark anthem though.
Great Album
Mouais
it’s disintegration
Lovesong is altijd een banger, maar verder niet helemaal mijn ding. Elke nummer begint met een lange musicale opbouw waar je in de mood voor moet zijn, maar voel er niet veel voor. Lullaby en disintegration, waren wel leuke nieuwe nummers, die ik nog niet kende. Het einde van het album is leuker dan het begin.
What an album! Atmospheric, nothing it has it all. Packed with fantastic music from start to finish. Highly recommend this one
Gloomy in a good way
Yeah.
What a delight!
The Cure are a band that has evaded me almost entirely but I have to say this was excellent. Will be looking at their other albums.
I had high expectations and for some reason they were not met, perhaps the long intros?
Really liked it. Haven't listen too closely to the lyrics but from the melodies and everything I really enjoyed it
⭐︎3.8 日本のV系シーンがこぞって影響を受けた印象のキュアー。 デジタルなドラムサウンドが印象的。 途中U2みたいな曲があった。 悪くないけどめちゃくちゃ良くもない。 とはいえ、3曲は琴線に触れるものもあった。
Now this is what I call a dragon album. Because it really, really drags on. That back half, hoo boy, what a slog.
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.
Untouchable masterpiece.
Красивый дрим-готик-пост-панк с прикольными синтами и прочими звуками
Lullaby is fine, Homesick has it's moments, Untitled is okay. Same problem with having some dated vocals and synthy stuff but enough of it is passable for a three
Superb album, not a bad song on it.
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
Fairly generic album but not bad background noise
Very cool and moody. Enjoyed it more as the album went on Standout songs: Pictures of you Fascination Street Disintegration
A very good album.
This album was really popular with the drug crowd back in the day. I'm listening to it on a rainy Sunday morning, which seems suitable. Great music but a little bit too much of a downer for me. 5/5 for the compositions, 1/5 for its influence (negative) on so many people I knew. 3/5 overall.
3.5
I've given The Cure (and all the 80s mod/goth/pop) a hard time during this experience, but this was actually the album from them that I did enjoy. Solid songs. Consistent. These are the tracks that show up in a movie and take me back to the 80s with an actual smile. Nice.
Iconic
Lovesong
Very solid album. Loved the longer instrumentals. Top 3 would be Untitled, Deterioration and Pictures of you.
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.
Decent
Holy shit I love the cure. I’ve heard other people talk about them and always filed it away as “yeah, one of those good bands from a while ago” but jesus Christ this album rules. I’m gonna go back through their discography
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Ah, Robert Smith's voice. It's right up with in my top ten Voices Of All Time, for sure. Just love it. The bass guitar tone is *chef's kiss* throughout, too. Think I'm going to have to deep dive The Cure soon. Favourite tracks: Pictures Of You, Lovesong, Lullaby, Fascination Street, Disintegration, Untitled.
The Cure are a band I didn't pay much attention to at the time but the previous album on here was alright and so is this. Not exactly a masterpiece but good enough.
Incredible record.
I was a metalhead in the 80s but had some Cure and Depeche Mode cassettes around to help me talk with the the goth girls. This album finds The Cure reaching for a commercial audience. But there are some classic 80s tunes on here, especially Lullaby. #120
I'll be honest, from the offset I struggle a bit with Disintegration as an album. I will wholly admit that it's importance to shoegazer is unquestionable and I think that it's a perfect example of such. My favourite tracks off of here, Lullaby and I think that says a lot about how I feel about this album. When he turns to his slower more introspective singing I think that his voice loses a lot of its' appeal and I don't know if that's intentional or if it's just bad production? Lullaby feels like an intentional confusion of sound in a way that the other songs don't. Lovesong feels like confident melancholy and Smith's voice really shines through. Up to this point I prefer their earlier albums, I prefer their more post-punk and pop sound because I feel he sings with more conviction. As an aside - the era directly after Disintegration, I also love. The perfect blend of their earlier work, evolving their shoegazer style with their gothic/punk/pop sound and Smith's voice and range becomes more controlled and confident. Not the album I'm reviewing, but Wish is IMO peak The Cure. The more matured Cure that we find on their 2024 release Songs of a Lost World is in some ways what I think Disintegration should've been. Should this album get a better score because it's important and made such a difference by differentiating The Cure from a sea of sameness and inspiring so many future bands? Probably yes, but we lose Smith's vocals, it becomes an instrumental album at best in places and that's not what I come to The Cure for. Recommendation and this is similar to my view on Nevermind by Nirvana, get the deluxe version, listen to disc 3 (live in 1989) that's the album I think this should've been and if it had the same emotion and energy then it would be a 5/5 but I'm not reviewing them as a live band, I'm reviewing the original release and I have to do this through that lens. All that said, I'm still giving it a 4/5 for its importance, it's cohesiveness as an album and its musicality. Maybe it's just one of those albums that for me has its time and place.
So moody and great
This album is everything.
I never once listened to The Cure. But now I am two albums behind because I listened to this album on repeat.
Better than the last Cure album I reviewed. Plainsong, Lovesong and Fascination Street all have really good instrumentals. Still not a big The Cure guy, but I can get why people like them.
It was a decent album that really encompassed a good end of an era. The vibes were very 80s but it was clear we were moving into the soft rock 90s era
Well I guess I'm a fan of The Cure now
paired up so well with the stormy weather! also getting sick of being mainstream and putting out an album that would ultimately be their most known album is just the cherry on top.
3.5 really - great, classic Cure
It’s The Cure so you know what you’re getting going into it. It’s not bad, I think I like this one a touch more than the other album we reviewed by them. I knew a handful of the songs, the others were if not familiar felt like they meshed with the songs that are more familiar to me. Pretty standard 3 stars, good enough, not great.
Good album, easily best suited to a rainy afternoon or evening, but I'd be willing to go back to get more in depth with this one. 3.5 rounded down to 3 for now. Feels like an album that needs repeated listening to really explore it.
Not a bad album at all, it definitely has a mood and sticks to it.
I get it now.
One of the best albums out of the UK - over 70 minutes with no filler.
tenía temazos, me gusta esa vibra algo depre que tiene The Cure <3
a transending ambient collection. Moody and relevant.
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.
Third Cure album I've listened to on this list, but easily my favorite so far.
I love this album, it’s the cure’s magnum opus.
I don’t know why I’ve never listened to a full The Cure album. This is awesome! Very groovy and grand, yet at the same time spacey and lush.
A masterpiece. Pure Cure. Dark, moody, introspective. I loved this when it was released-a new Goth punk sound. It has lasted very well to present time darkness… Comforting.
Goth legends at their apex.
Qué maravilla. Acabo de vender este vinilo porque quiero una edición mejor. Es un diez. Este disco es un estado de ánimo.
This album was excellent. “Plainsong” is a really pretty opener. “Pictures Of You” might be my favorite song here it’s truly excellent. “Lovesong” is among their most popular songs and is there for a reason it’s really good. “Lullaby” and “Fascination Street” are also excellent. The first 7 tracks are really great, genuine 5 star material. But I didn’t care much for “Prayers For Rain”, “The Same Deep Water As You”, or “Homesick” though the title track and “Untitled” deliver very good ending bits to the album. If the second half was stronger it would be a 5, as is it’s around a 4.5/5
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.
Epic album. Made to be played loud. Such a big sound
A sad dreamy meditation.
got it
Immense, gothic and elegiac, Disintegration a soundscape of an album. Coincidentally, the first time I saw them on this tour, this is The Cure moving at a monumental, glacial pace that absorbs the listener in a vivid, dreamlike state.
Pretty good
Groovy, spacey, very very good
An absolute classic.
Das nenn ich mal e gueti cure gege schlechti Luhne! Ned mis Lieblingsalbum vo ihne aber allemal e solidi punk note und 2, 3 grossartigi bangers druf. Da würdi gern 4.5 Nächt bi ihrem Cure-Ort Bueche, aber da munis wohl uf 4 abrunde. Dafür mit Zmorge.
Chli sad aber au seehr stimmigsvoll. Es weckt defintiv vieli emotione, zwüsche brüelle, träume und schwärme chamer glaub zu dem vieles erlebe. Und darum au viele Dank the cure, wieder mal öpis schöns chöne drilose
the cure for my wednesday blues, the cure for my tiredness, the cure for my hemorrhoids big fan! für 5 dafalgan längeds leider knapp nöd aber für 4 (1 grämmer) ganz bestimmt – wenn das mal nöd en leberschade gid uiuiui
Probably the best The Cure Album of all time. Absolutely love it.
Interesting listen. I felt like I knew The Cure but it turns out I just merged them in my mind with the New Romantic period they coincided with. I found traces of punk in their sound and an emo feel, even though I think they’re a bit early for that genre. Three discs, mostly instrumental was a bit much but I enjoyed disc 1 and that’s the basis of my rating
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....
Goated
Holy shit, the synths on this album are soooo smooth! It’s like melting away into nothing, pure ecstasy. I’ve always been a fan of ‘The Cure’s’ hits but the album tracks here are on par with the rest.
I knew I liked The Cure, but I didn’t expect to love this album as much as I did. Looking at the track list, I knew there’d be a couple of songs I recognised, but none were my favourites. However, listening to this from front to back was an absolute delight. It feels very ethereal and dream pop. I’ve never really understood what gothic rock is, because it seems more about clothes than music. This was a really nice pop rock album though. I’ll be looking out for this when I next go record shopping.
This one brings me back! I loved this album back in my teens, & still love it into my 50s!!!
9/10
The Cure always has a difficult spot for me. I dont dislike the music per se, but it also is not a vibe I dig normally. The lack of enthusiasm and power for the voice just makes it so undesirable for me to listen to. This album has some great songs, such as lullaby. The instruments are great, but just the singer is the dealbreaker for me.
Always good
The Cure were popular when I was in college. I never got into them. This album reminded me why. It's not awful, but really just boring. It could be a cure though, a cure for insomnia.
All of a sudden I was back in the middle of a blistering hot Hyde Park..
Very mystical. reminds me somewhat of the sundays
Such a beautiful album, I love how almost every track has such a wonderfully crafted opening. The lyrics read far more like poetry, which fits the over all gothic romantic dream feeling.
really really liked this album!! the first track was the best and though i didn’t read the lyrics, i liked the sounds and stuff. didnt know The Cure was this good since i dont really like their most famous song Boys Dont Cry. would listen to this album again and this band too :)
Me dijo un amigo que este es el mejor disco de The Cure. En general, y durante la vida, me han gustado una que otra de las canciones de la banda, pero nunca les entré de lleno ni me declaré fan absoluto. Este álbum fue capaz de cambiar eso, ahora quiero escuchar todo lo que han publicado. Discazo.
Love this one!
Fantastic texture throughout. Can really see their influence in some of my favorite songs.
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 did it
Classic. 5*
Amazing album, some incredible songs and impeccable composition. Perfectly gloomy.
First half of this album is dull. Second half's great.
i like the cure but this album didn't do it for me
It sounds good in a lot of ways, and it kinda drags on. Overall a good album.
Beautiful, epic intro. The band's first commercial hit. 80s goth rock. Atmospheric sound bath. One of my first music memories. The Lullaby video, creepy and fascinating. Must have been 8 or 9.
Classsic
Surprised at the contract between this and their other album, Pornography. I liked this one way more.
This is the 141st album I’m rating. Right now I want to listen to some Fiona Apple because I know I'm going to hate this. Adding to my Playlist - Plainsong and Lovesong. Not Adding to my Playlist - Pictures of You, Closedown, Last Dance, Lullaby, Fascination Street, Prayers for Rain, The Same Deep Water as You, Disintegration, Homesick, and Untitled. Plainsong - Nevermind. This shit's really good. I'm sorry to The Cure. Pictures of You - Nevermind. This is shit. I hate The Cure. All in all I liked 2/12 songs. Pretty shit album. I did not need 71 minutes of this.
Excelente álbum. Alguns clássicos. Ótimas músicas. Celest Phoenixcall.
This album changed my mind about the Cure. Great production, masterful use of effects and thought provoking lyrics.
My my, how dramatic the 80s were! These songs are too long, but this is probably the pinnacle of 80s alt-pop. Pictures of You is a killer track.
Lullaby and Fascination Street are incredible songs. The rest of the album is great too. Love it 4/5
Eric brigham shit, maybe my new favorite breakup album ;( hope i don't need it
EN lo personal nunca he sido muy fan de The Cure. Este sería like mi 4to intento to get into them 1. Muy dreamy for me. 2. Not bad, not catchy either. 3. Gay-ish, didn't like it. 4. Gayer, not enjoying. 5. Muy su época lo 80's-y de la guitarra con efectos largos. Not enjoying tho', skipping el ending. 6. Lullaby. Me gustó, nice beat, whispered lyrics. 7. Tuvo nice, pretty solid. Nothing too amazing. 8. Mid, not a huge fan. 9. Zzzzzzzz 10. Como chilla Smith, diojmío... No, que ladilla. 11. Homesick. Ladillísima. 12. Maloso. Solo me gustó el ending tipo Jagermeister Pie de Beck.
Уснула под него. В целом норм, зашло.
Not that good!
Not far into this album and it feels very much like they are a band that feel the listener should do some work before they ate rewarded with songs. Unnecessarily long intros mean by the time the song proper starts I’ve already slighted turned off. With the exception of Lovesong their slavish dedication to intros well over a minute mean i can only assume Robert Smith has a weak bladder and songs are all arranged in a manner they can be easily extended to enable his relief before the vocals come in. That said, the songs are generally pleasant enough to listen to and whilst nothing really grabbed me and demanded my attention it is a reasonably solid album. Oh for the want of a strong producer to rein those unnecessarily long intros into line.
This is a bit of a slow burn to begin with but, once you hit “Lovesong”, picks up, and has a run of songs that cement this as maybe their most cohesive album. It’s not perfect - you could lose probably 20 minutes of intro and outro, across the whole album, and it would still keep its coherence. Even my love of The Cure doesn’t temper an dislike of too-long songs.
The first few tracks of this had me nervous. Yes it was moody and brooding, but was all a bit samey. But then I got Lovesong, Lullaby and Fascination Street pretty close together and things perked up. My big complaint, as someone who thinks that most tracks benefit from being max 4 minutes long and who likes Robert Smith's voice, is that you could cut out a lot of the noodling and let Mr Smith sing his little heart out. I can understand how Cure fans think this is a masterpiece, because it's likely giving them a lot of what they enjoy, but for me its just fine. 3/5
I think this is the third cure record and by far the best on the list so far. Pictures of you and love song and just flat out great great songs. I am inclined to give this a 4 because I’ve been giving out many threes. Does anyone even give a shit about my rankings? Not likely but I will continue to do this for some reason. Let’s rank it and see what crappy record I need to listen to next.
Robert Smith saved my grandmother from a cow Jokes aside, I still love this album.
Best album by The Cure
First I need to complain little. I so dislike singing style and also a bit the voice of Robert Smith, not my cup of tea. Putting that aside I get to my short opinion of Disintegration. Wow. Just wow. This is album full of excellent songs and by listening this album two times already I can't find weak links. I also notice that I'm apparently a sucker for string arrangements that pops up on multiple songs on this album. When trying to be an adult and putting my opinion of Robert Smith's voice aside, I just have only one option. That I called 5 stars
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.
Another pleasant surprise of another well-known band which I never got interested in for whatever reason (work, home life, focus on the known favourites. Loved listening to this melodic work with beautiful well produced balads and cool songs.
Was cool. Might have to give it a relisten at some point
What a great album for today - driving the coast route home, with the moonroof open in So Cal - it was like being part of a movie soundtrack 4/5 #musicsky #albumsky #musicchallenge
The grief and sadness of Robert ongoing depression captures your heart with every lyric in this album. The powerful vocal which comes from the deepest parts of Robert's soul, grips your senses constantly. It's a soul crushing cry
This is amazing! It's moody, atmospheric, textured, and unique. The whole album feels very cohesive, and it really draws you in. I really liked Fascination Street, Lovesong, and Lullaby.
Thematically solid.
I get the appeal and once upon a time I think I would have enjoyed this but I kind of now just find it all mopey and droney. Definitely some beautiful synth backdrops but I'm just not a big fan of Smith's vocals. I did particularly enjoy The Same Deep Water as You and Homesick (incredible intro but again, I think I'd actually enjoy a fully instrumental version of the song more)
Best album of 80s
Solid synth-pop songs.
Some amazing tracks, however a lot of ambient / moody instrumentals which were perhaps less interesting
Robert Smith has such a great voice, paired with some great instrumentals here, very atmospheric
Super album
It's The Cure
So I listened to the 7 hour podcast on the Cure. I have previously never listened to them, maybe in movies or tv shows without knowing it, I think I’ve heard Boys Don’t Cry a few times, but that’s not really what this is. I listed to the album before the podcast but a few times in chunks. I just listened to it end to end again. My first five on this project. It’s really refreshing to realise I can like something so much that is new, I can’t remember the last time that happened. Lovesong is fantastic - listening to the lyrics, it could very easily be sappy or cliched, but it’s audibly and obviously a sincere artistic creation of one man - not a mash-mash creation of a Swedish guy in a cabin writing a melody for a NY popstar who gets lyrics from an alcoholic Belfast. I think you can make the same case for lyrics on other songs, it’s very easy to make fun of, but I think I’m too old for that - if it’s a genuine attempt by anyone to come to terms with what they feel having gone through the turmoil of life and not drummed out by an algorithm I will honour it - in this case it’s also moving, but helped immensely by the mood and vibes created instrumentally. On the podcast they said that, at least prior to this album the Cure were very blase about instrumentation, it was more vibes “hey we’ll get you someone who can teach you keyboard, but you’re not good enough at drumming.” What I notice about this album is how many times you have to go several minutes into the song to hear any singing, and relatedly how almost all the songs are 5 minutes plus. That’s usually a red flag for me - especially if it’s from some obviously self-flattering “we are aRtISts” crowd, but it works here and is well earned. For the same reason I can see why this never became that popular - there aren’t really any radio friendly singles here with the exception of lovesong. I also, unfortunately, listen to YouTube music with ad breaks which I imagine Robert Smith would chew cyanide pills at the thought of. Just one more way modern life has degraded the few treasures we have left.
A near perfect album. Robert Smith and crew do a phenomenal job of drawing the listener in, lulling them into a false sense of security, and then going in for the killing blow. Amazing.
I had a very difficult time getting into this album. I thought it was cool conceptually, and I did find myself really enjoying the musicianship here. That's about as far as I go, however. The vocals weren't to my liking, and I found everything to be a little one-note. It was a chore for me to push through the album as, to put it simply, it just bored me.
One of their best. It doesn’t represent their poppier side, but this might be the most Cure album by The Cure. 🖤
I have heard songs by The Cure before, and liked it. That didn't change here. What a solid album from start to finish
So much aura. It sounds like a long car trip on the sunset and reminded me of Serial Experiment Lain. Shout-out to the drums and synth sounds.
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Тягучий, унылый, меланхоличный.
This is just really good, isn't it? Atmospheric and moody, with some killer tunes. Among the Cure's best.
Que album increíble loco. Nunca me había gustado tanto the cure hasta que le dí una verdadera oportunidad con este album. Amo esta vibe toda majestuosa melancólica pero medio ochentera que tiene y las letras como que me llegan mucho. Me gusta mucho la atención al detalle en las instrumentales y el hecho de que las canciones tardan en empezar para dejar que la instrumental crezca digamos y que después pegue más cuando entra la voz. Aparte de las obvias (lullaby especialmente, amo), me encantaron prayers for rain y the same deep water as you
I was maybe 5 songs in when I ordered a Vinyl copy. Maybe I was just in the correct mood for listening to this album but I was expecting an album of filler with 2 exceptionally great songs in Lullaby and Fascination street and 2 radio friendly hits when I looked at the tracklist. I honestly don't think there is a bad song on this album. I think this is probably my favorite album that I never listened to previously that the list has given me. There have been a couple other albums I hadn't listened to before that I gave 5 stars but I really don't know how I missed this album as I listened to mostly alternative and metal through the 90's but I guess I never gave the Cure the credit I should have. This is simply a masterpiece