Andy is also referred to as Undy in various other bits of Cure literature through the years. 'Homesick' and 'Last Dance' give a whole new dimension to the experience and the quality is far better than the original, which despite the 25+ minutes for each side, it sounded very good. It was chosen…. Porl/Paul, Chris Parry = Bill, Perry Bamonte = Teddy etc. Robert Smith and his band have performed the album live, in its entirety (complete with b-sides and rare demos) at Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid Live festival. how on earth can you objectively decide if both make identical, but opposite claims so emphatically? He told Melody Maker in May 1989: “I have no intention of lugging on at 60. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. So I’ve broken a promise to myself.” Smith turned 60 in April 2019 and The Cure have a series of festival appearances planned across the summer, including a headline slot at Glastonbury on 30 June. . ‘Glittering Prize’: Simple Minds Take Stock Of A Sparkling Decade, ‘Got My Mind Set On You’: George Harrison Soars Towards Cloud Nine, ‘Rock Of The Westies’: Yet Another Peak In Elton John’s Stunning Career, ‘Ride A White Swan’: New Name, New Adventure For T. Rex, ‘Hush Hush’: Jimmy Reed Enthrals Keith Richards With Hypnotic Blues, Justin Bieber Shares Trailer For New Documentary, ‘Next Chapter’, Watch HAIM’s Ghoulish ‘3 AM’ Performance, Feat.

Arguably their flagship release, The Cure’s Disintegration sold over three million copies and raised the band’s status from cult icons to stadium-filling superstars. Their logo was a little teacup. Recorded at Outside Studios, Berkshire. In every other respect; cover, sleeve, label, the catalogue number on the runouts, even the track divisions, it is the genuine thing though. A separate video for the track was made, as Smith told Select magazine in 1991: “The original idea was a Doctor Who video, that's why there's a phone box and a clock, with rooms within rooms.”. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (A variant 1): 839353.1.A1 10.5.89 THE CURE FICTION It’s well documented that the Disintegration sessions were sometimes fraught, and that they culminated in keyboardist Lol Tolhurst’s departure from the band due to alcohol-related issues. It cost £80,000 to make and was apparently inspired by scenes in David Lynch’s cult movie Eraserhead. The English rock band The Cure have released 13 studio albums, five live albums, 12 compilation albums, 10 extended plays, and 37 singles on Fiction Records and Geffen Records.They have also released 10 video albums and 43 music videos..

This pressing has a smooth / matt cover, a textured "spider web" cover was also released. Rhino reissue so not to surprised but for such a great Cure album not in my collection am super disappointed. When it was released, on 2 May 1989, the NME rightly hailed it as “a mind-blowing and stunningly complete album”; it rose to No.3 on the UK chart and yielded multi-platinum sales. With its 12 tracks clocking in at well over an hour, Disintegration wasn’t for the faint-hearted, yet fans and critics alike agreed it was a tour de force. Cookies help us deliver our Services. The old pressings, even though they cut a couple tracks, were still compromised because they crammed too much music on each side and the 2010 and onward reissues use the crappy remaster as a source. Buy Vinyl. “Disintegration is the best album ever!” cried Kyle following Robert Smith’s guest appearanceon South Park - and he had a point. In the UK, meanwhile, Fiction Records chose the equally infectious ‘Lullaby’ as Disintegration’s first single, and it also went Top 5, despite Smith’s eerie, semi-whispered vocal and the song’s memorably nightmarish lyric wherein “the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight”. The image was taken at a Scottish castle in 1980 and a similar, blurred photo was originally used as the sleeve artwork of the single Charlotte Sometimes. After they demoed over 30 new tracks, the band joined producer David M Allen (The Human League, Sisters Of Mercy, Neneh Cherry) at Hook End Manor Studios, in Oxfordshire, and pieced Disintegration together across the winter of 1988-89. The song is about how he felt about the photos and what they meant to him. The music on it is totally weird because it is a misprint. Another issue within the band at the time was with one of the founder members, Lol Tolhurst. “I would have been quite happy to have made these songs on my own,” Smith said. Great pressing. His depression heightened by the fact he would turn 30 in April 1989, Smith and his fiancée, Mary Poole, moved to a new house in London where Smith began writing a series of new songs on his own. The girl staring into the mirror is Mary Poole, Robert Smith’s wife. 8am - 11am, Pure Morning As he later told The Cure’s biographer Jeff Apter, he’d even devised contingency plans to record a solo album if his bandmates rejected the morose new material he’d composed.

Disintegration is a desert island album for me so with the release of the 2010 remaster with all 12 songs across 2 discs, I couldn’t wait. The majestic opening that is "Plainsong" is so mesmerising, that powerful hi-hat/stabbing keyboard riff pouring in, keeps sweeping anyone off their feet to start with... Thirty years on, I think I'm old (and it's so cold) - and when we'll all be long gone, this album's splendour will continue to shine on new generations in the manner of the greatest big bang.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The song Pictures Of You was inspired by an incident during the recording of Disintegration at Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire in the autumn of 1988. Porl & Andy Vella produced artwork as "Parched Art". (CD, Album, RE + CD, Comp + CD, Album, RE + Dlx, RM), Buy Vinyl, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 1): 839 353-1 S 1 - 2 12 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 1): 839 353-1 S 2 - 2 12 41, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 2): 839 353 - 1 S 1 - 2 1215 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 2): 839 353 - 1 S 2 - 3 1216 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 3): 839 353-1 S 1 - 2 12 3 4 3, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 3): 839 353-1 S 2 - 2 12 3 2 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 4): 839 353 - 1 S1 1243 ̶8̶̶2̶̶9̶̶ ̶̶2̶̶5̶̶2̶̶ ̶̶-̶̶ ̶̶ ̶̶1̶̶ ̶̶S̶̶1̶ 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 4): 839 353 - 1 S2 - 3 12 4 0 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 5): 839 353 - 1 S1 - 3 1216 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 5): 839 353 - 1 S2 1 1210 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 6): 839 353 - 1 S1 - 3 12 19 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 6): 839 353 - 1 S2 1 1215 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 7): 839 353 - 1 S1 - 3 1226 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 7): 839 353 - 1 S2 - 2 12 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 8): 839 353 - 1 S1 -3 1 A0, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 8): 839 353 - 1 S2 - 3 1 U, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 9): 839 353 - 1 S1 1243, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 9): 839 353 - 1 S2 1 1225, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 10): 839 353 - 1 S1 - 2 1 N, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 10): 839 353 - 1 S2 1 C, Matrix / Runout (Stamped A side variation 11): 839 353 - 1 S1 - 3 12 28 3 2, Matrix / Runout (Stamped B side variation 11): 839 353 - 1 S2 - 2 12 24 3 2, Other (Non ink stamp on back sleeve): PRS Hannover. “If we’d been an American band,” Tolhurst told Radio X in 2016, “There would probably have been an intervention. Mis Álbums Imprescindibles. Has anyone out there encountered the same problem I've had with the 2010 Reissue? The Cure album covers had always been very abstract and never had images of Robert or the band on them, suddenly Paul and Andy delivered a cover with Robert’s face on it. Andy Vella's website; which has a dedicated Cure section. The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1978. OPEN’ER FESTIVAL POSTPONED Published : 30 Apr 2020 ** UPDATE ** Record Store Day 2020: ‘Bloodflowers’ & ‘Seventeen Seconds’ Published : 13 Mar 2020. ", The Cure’s American label Elektra didn’t feel that Lullaby was commercial enough (or too weird) for the fickle US audience, so they went with the rockier Fascination Street instead. He also claimed that the Prayer Tour - which took The Cure from Europe to America across four long months - would be the last time the group would embark on such a lengthy campaign. Meanwhile, here are some of the stories behind the making of Disintegration that you may not have heard…. OUT NOW - AVAILABLE ON DELUXE BOX HARDBOOK DIGITAL STREAM. At the tender age of 13, what more was there but "Disintegration"? When The Cure eventually re-emerged, they did so with a pivotal album which many long-term fans believe still best defines their work.

The recording mix is also quite rough and flat and doesn't do the songs justice. Thematically and sonically, Disintegration was primarily a return to the dark, gloomy aesthetic The Cure had explored across their key early 80s titles, Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography.

The Cure – Disintegration: Paul Thompson and Andy Vella had designed all of The Cure’s artwork until this point, but for ‘Disintegration’ Robert Smith was thinking of using someone new. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Omg I've tried 3 copies all of which have been returned thank goodness because at least here in Canada they are very expensive selling for around $50 New Sealed. Both Janet Jackson and The Cure will appear at this year's Glastonbury - but when Jackson's Twitter account posted the festival's poster, her billing had mysteriously moved up in front of headliners The Cure, The Killers and Stormzy. Great pressing. Your email address will not be published. Placebo

The 2010 reissue on vinyl is absolutely what to get if you want it on wax. The Cure album covers had always been very abstract and never had images of Robert or the band on them, suddenly Paul and Andy delivered a cover with Robert’s face on it.