General Article name: Disintegration
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Polydor UK Number of tracks: 32 Tracklist LP - 1 1. The Cure - Plainsong 2. The Cure - Pictures of You 3. The Cure - Closedown 4. The Cure - Lovesong 5. The Cure - Last Dance 6. The Cure - Lullaby 7. The Cure - Fascination Street 8. The Cure - Prayers for Rain 9. The Cure - The Same Deep Water as You 10. The Cure - Disintegration 11. The Cure - Homesick 12. The Cure - Untitled   Tracklist LP - 2 13. The Cure - Prayers for Rain 14. The Cure - Pictures of You 15. The Cure - Fascination Street 16. The Cure - Homesick 17. The Cure - Fear of Ghosts 18. The Cure - Noheart 19. The Cure - Esten 20. The Cure - Closedown 21. The Cure - Lovesong 22. The Cure - 2 Late 23. The Cure - The Same Deep Water as You 24. The Cure - Disintegration 25. The Cure - Untitled 26. The Cure - Babble 27. The Cure - Plainsong 28. The Cure - Last Dance 29. The Cure - Lullaby 30. The Cure - Out of Mind 31. The Cure - Delirious Night 32. The Cure - Pirate Ships   Description Description

Expanding the latent arena rock sensibilities that peppered Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by slowing them down and stretching them to the breaking point, the Cure reached the peak of their popularity with the crawling, darkly seductive Disintegration. It's a hypnotic, mesmerizing record, comprised almost entirely of epics like the soaring, icy "Pictures of You." The handful of pop songs, like the concise and utterly charming "Love Song," don't alleviate the doom-laden atmosphere. The Cure's gloomy soundscapes have rarely sounded so alluring, however, and the songs -- from the pulsating, ominous "Fascination Street" to the eerie, string-laced "Lullaby" -- have rarely been so well-constructed and memorable. It's fitting that Disintegration was their commercial breakthrough, since, in many ways, the album is the culmination of all the musical directions the Cure were pursuing over the course of the '80s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Artist: The Cure Record Label: Polydor