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Digitally remastered UK single disc pressing. The release of Disintegration in 1989 saw The Cure returning to the introspective and atmospheric sound of their earlier albums, after the mid '80s foray into poppier territory. This 21st Anniversary Edition has been digitally remastered by frontman Robert Smith at The Soundmasters, London. Features the original album and contains the singles 'Lullaby', 'Lovesong', 'Fascination Street' and 'Pictures of You'.
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By Jo
Format:Audio CD
The Cure are not my favourite band, though they surely are up there, but this is hands-down my favourite album of all time. Why? As a young adult in the post-CD age of downloading tracks, this opus struck me over the head and left me wading in melancholy, ecstasy, humility, delight. I heard this album for the first time leaving my apartment in Montreal to go to a cafe and study, grabbed the first CD of my roommate's sitting on the counter. I remember that day so clearly: I was totally hungover and foggy-headed, and it was one of those magical late-March gloomy, rainy, drizzly Montreal Saturday afternoons on rue Laurier. From about a minute into 'Plainsong' I was rapt: "Sometimes you make me feel like I'm living at the edge of the world/Like I'm living at the edge of the world.' I spent the rest of the day stumbling around the city in my Converse sneakers finding some hazy lucidity in my stupour, incredulous to discover that Plainsong merely introduced an hour of equally jarring material.
Robert Smith has said he made _Disintegration_ to express his sense of growing, well, disintegration- losing the purity of adolesence and sense of stable self which all of us can relate to. But ironically, listening to this album is the perfect Cure to such existential woes. All of a sudden, all of your breakups, gloomy depression, and unfulfilled desires are like stars in Smith's shattering-glass, reverberating, lugubrious dreamworld where people fall to their knees in prayer for rain, fall in love in deep murky waters, and dance with spidermen on candy-stripe legs. Luscious and life-changing.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Chauncey
Format:Audio CD
A miracle of an album. Robert and the boys manage to encompass the whole spectrum of The Cure's eclectic sound on one recording, and the whole thing flows with beauty, precision and grace.
Any of you kids out there jumping on the Hot Topic goth bandwagon should do yourself a favour and pick this up. Screw all those bands like My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte et al. This is goth pop-rock in its true form. And unlike the afformentioned bands, this will be an album that people are actually listening to 25 years from now.
Any of you kids out there jumping on the Hot Topic goth bandwagon should do yourself a favour and pick this up. Screw all those bands like My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte et al. This is goth pop-rock in its true form. And unlike the afformentioned bands, this will be an album that people are actually listening to 25 years from now.
Format:LP Record
Merci beaucoup, envoie rapide et bon emballage. Item en excellent état. Il ne faut pas hésiter à faire confiance à ce vendeur. C'est apprécié.
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cult classic
excellent album of the 80s. great sad mood, nostalgic, entering a world of magic from a cool era.
Published on Aug 24 2010 by Mathieu Gratton
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Submerged Gloop
Life has a rational surface, below which is the infinite gloop. The Cure have made pop songs that are fun as can be (and others that irritate as much as any radio-friendly hit),... Read more
Published on Jun 18 2010 by Paul Rayson
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A Very Dear Masterpiece
From glorious glittering beginning to utterly spent finish, Disintegration is a masterpiece and a cleansing medataion. Read more
Published on Jan 11 2008 by Estrild
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Wonderful
I purchased a copy of this album on vinyl in 1990 and used it to soothe my soul after a particularly difficult breakup with a girlfriend of mine. Read more
Published on July 12 2004
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Haunting Perfection
As novelists and poets may know, if your aim is to write something that will cause tears well up in the eyes of readers, you must be crying as you write every word. Read more
Published on July 1 2004 by E. Byrnes
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Ethereal & Haunting, A True Classic.........
Disintegration is by far the most haunting and evocative album ever released by The Cure, and is probably the most haunting and evocative album ever released,... Read more
Published on Jun 10 2004 by Paul Perry
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The darkest Cure Album
You can feel how heavy this album is from the first track to the last one. Songs like "disintegration" and "homesick" shows how dark and intense Cure music can... Read more
Published on Jun 9 2004 by Ricardo Menezes
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Great album
This is a Great Album. I'm not into this kind of music but I recognize the quality of his. Guess what. Read more
Published on Jun 3 2004 by Toqui Gambit
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"the soft and the black and the velvety"
A friend of mine loaned me a copy of Disintegration. I knew I liked "Lovesong" with its very catchy bass beat, so I decided to give it a try. Read more
Published on May 31 2004 by mwreview
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The Definitive Breakup Album
Disintegration is the best album I know of by The Cure. That's not to say there is not a better one (though I doubt there is) -- just that I am not a dyed-in-the-wool Cure fan. Read more
Published on May 26 2004 by Erik Russell Olson
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