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Post by dandy panky on Mar 9, 2005 11:37:38 GMT -5
Just thought I'd put a few new threads up, so peeps can just leave passing thoughts about various albums whenever they want. And if we're all still here when the remasters come out we can yak some more about them then too... anyhoos, as I've said many times elsewhere, Disintegration is both my first and favourite Cure album. I find it can actually suit any mood, and I still listen to it most weeks, despite having it for 15 years now... The Same Deep Water As You will probably always and forever be my favourite Cure song, but the standard is so high throughout this album that picking favourite songs would be like picking your favourite children... but (of course) I'll still have a go... Picyures Of You still gives me goosebumps, the way it just raises and raises the whole way through. Lovesong is still the sweetest lyric Robert has ever written. I love the 'stomp' of Fascination Street, and can never resist trying to drum along with 2 pens on my desk when ever I hear it. Disintegration (the song) is a fantastic ball of fury and spite that really kicks the senses in the head after the tranquility of The Same Deep Water As You. Homesick starts off with a sweet melody, but soon sinks in a creepy, sticky mire that envelopes the senses and pulls you into it's heart. And Untitled sounds like a swansong, but also a sunrise, it feels like the start of a new day...
(I seem to have drifted into cd review man for the last bit there, sorry!)
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Post by Crimson Porn on Mar 9, 2005 11:51:42 GMT -5
This was the first to be released after I started listening to them and still the best to be released while I've been a fan. It also saw them become strangely popular, which made me think this would eventually happen to all the bands I liked!
As a live experince, that massive burst of blue light during Plainsong at Wembley will never be forgot.
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 9, 2005 12:10:28 GMT -5
homesick is without a doubt my favorite song on dis. i think there is no better example of the muscial genius that is roger. his lines are heartbreaking and exhilerating. i love the whole sentiment of the song, and all its overt naughtyness. closedown is another favorite, although i seem to suffer from the opposite malady......untitled speaks to me on such a personal level sometimes i can't listen to it, but i'll always remember hearing it for the first time (i "heard" po.rnography and dis. for the first time while watching trilogy, so you can just imagine how it felt to hear and watch them for the first time all at once. i was depressed for weeks after watching the first disc, and to this day still haven't gone past maybe someday on the bloodflowers set.) back to dis.... dis. (the song) is perfect, hearing it live is life altering. this is an incredible record, from start to finish.
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 9, 2005 12:52:18 GMT -5
homesick, pictures of you, close down, i love the whole album really. i find myself listening to it more and more. it's sad but it's comforting. i just love it.
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Post by BloodFlowers on Mar 9, 2005 19:26:33 GMT -5
i REALLY love all the keyboards done in this album. homesick is beauifully done, for example. very much like the other songs, such as plain song and close down -- very moving i thought and just listening to them reminds me why i love the cure so much
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Post by Revenge of the Cult on Mar 9, 2005 19:34:37 GMT -5
Disintegration = Ahhhhh Best Album Ever!
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 9, 2005 22:43:05 GMT -5
yeah, robert smith kicks ass
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Post by ghanisbuli on Mar 9, 2005 22:44:48 GMT -5
I don't really have the words to describe Disintegration. My fingers are coming up empty. The CD is a masterpiece, and that's all there is to it.
I remember the first time I really understood Pictures of You. It had never quite clicked before, but I was just sitting in my room, starring at the pictures on my wall (oddly enough) and it came on the radio. I had never really picked up on the desperation in Robert's voice... didn't hear the way the song just built up and reached a climax, like a story, and then poured everything out. I have a whole new appreciation for the song now.
Thinking back, I kinda went through similar things with a lot of the other songs on Disintegration. It sometimes took a few runs through before I realized how wonderful of a song it actually was, but nothing was so dramatic as the Pictures of You experience.
Guess what I feel like listening to now...
Moving on, I've found Plainsong very therapeutic to play on my bass after a looong day... and that's all I'll say for now.
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Post by dandy panky on Mar 10, 2005 7:31:34 GMT -5
I know how you feel, Ghani. I had a similar thing with Pictures of You only a short while ago (though with the music as opposed to the singing), where it was near the end and for the first time I noticed how it lifts and lifts for that last minute or so... definite goosebumps moment, I tell ya...
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Post by ghanisbuli on Mar 10, 2005 17:53:05 GMT -5
Oh, I'm talking about the music, too. The song as a whole...
But yeah, chills...
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 10, 2005 18:51:58 GMT -5
the way the music and lyric intertwine to make that song so...thrilling chilling and wonderfully everything is i think what the cure does best. this is only one of the songs that i think just do it on a level above the rest of them. some of them are a laugh and light hearted, others deep dark and violent sided. but the ones that catch you mid step on your way to do somthing else and leave you feeling like you understood something is so fantastic.
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Post by ghanisbuli on Mar 10, 2005 23:54:34 GMT -5
Okay okay okay... I sat down to eat my dinner in front of the TV (as I do on Tuesdays and Thursdays because everyone has already eaten by the time I get home from class), flip on the Alternative Music video... first song up... Pictures of You from Trilogy! Even though I have Trilogy, it was HORRIBLY exciting and it surprised me because I wasn't looking and then all of a sudden it was the intro... and then I looked up and there was Simon... and this cause me to make strange noises, and my dad thought I was injured, and it was really embarrassing.
For some reason, I was like, "What if it's someone else doing it?" before I looked up. I never think it's ACTUALLY going to be The Cure... I don't know why my mind does that. Too good to be true, I guess.
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Post by dandy panky on Mar 11, 2005 5:56:39 GMT -5
and lets face it, seeing Simon on tv is always a treat!
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 11, 2005 9:41:06 GMT -5
seeing anything from the band is a treat! i made a very funny yelp the last time i caught the cure on tv...ah memories!
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Post by orange on Mar 11, 2005 9:45:04 GMT -5
I know I've said it before, but for me, disintegration is not only the cure's best album- it's the best album ever, by anyone. (south park was right.) I don't see anyone even coming close to that again (especially in the age of downloads and singles).
every song is perfect in its own right, but the way they all work together as a whole gives me chills. I actually have a hard time listening to songs individually off that album, because it doesn't do them justice.
disintegration will also be forever linked in my mind with the summer of '89- anticipating the september concerts, discovering the entire cure catalog, reading everything I could find about the band who suddenly turned my world upside down.
the concerts in september took that to another stratosphere- I've gushed over that whole experience before, so suffice it to say it was one of those space & time things that could never be repeated (for me).
*goes to put disintegration in the cd player!*
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