The Cure - Disintegration album cover. Recorded at Outside Studios, Berkshire. The Cure. Another issue within the band at the time was with one of the founder members, Lol Tolhurst. Cracks first began to show following the release of 1987’s eclectic, double-disc set Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. Meanwhile, here are some of the stories behind the making of Disintegration that you may not have heard…. "No, I'm better." No comments for this album art. I just now listened to both and compared. Your email address will not be published. Porl/Paul, Chris Parry = Bill, Perry Bamonte = Teddy etc. Their logo was a little teacup. Comments; Wikipedia Entry; Deluxe Edition (Remastered) Jayrcee on 2018-11-07 11:28:41. EGO. This should have been a double album, a great shame that ace tracks like "Last Dance" and "Homesick" were not included on the original vinyl issue. One of those albums that didn't need to be messed with, period. I mean on one level there's this stupidity and humour, but beneath that there are all Smiffy's psychological obsessions and claustrophobia. honestly: such a great album, BUT: such a bad press quality. Download 'Pure Morning' on iTunes, 31 May 2019, 10:16 | Updated: 31 May 2019, 12:19. When you buy Disintegration on vinyl, you now get two discs and all the tracks as originally intended. That was my limit. “If we’d been an American band,” Tolhurst told Radio X in 2016, “There would probably have been an intervention. 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. Disintegration is British alternative rock band The Cure’s eighth studio album. OPEN’ER FESTIVAL POSTPONED Published : 30 Apr 2020 ** UPDATE ** Record Store Day 2020: ‘Bloodflowers’ & ‘Seventeen Seconds’ Published : 13 Mar 2020. ‘Beautiful Day’: The Dawn Of A New Era For U2, Best Chet Baker Pieces: 20 Jazz Essentials, Best Pat Benatar Songs: 15 Power Ballads and Pop-Rock Bangers, Badu Babies: How Erykah Badu’s Vocal Style Transformed Music, About Us • Contributors • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy • © 2020 uDiscoverMusic. There were murmurings that they had done this so their cover would be chosen, I had no opinion on it. I have both the 1989 original vinyl and cd (a few different pressings of each format) as well as the 2010 remastered on vinyl and cd (deluxe). 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. Seemed to be like a nickname cf. The song was so successful in the US that it went to No 2 in the Billboard charts - it was kept off the top by Miss You Much by Janet Jackson. Has anyone heard of misprinted copies of Disintegration floating around or do I have a rarity in my collection? It was chosen…. I’m probably an outlier here but I prefer the original 1989 mix on cd. On a number of occasions in 1989, Smith told the press that this would be the last Cure record and that he was already working on a solo LP. (CD, Album, RE, RM, Unofficial + CD, Comp, RM, Unof), Buy Vinyl, Matrix / Runout (A variant 1): 839353.1.A1 10.5.89 THE CURE FICTION, Matrix / Runout (B variant 1 ): 839353.1.B1 10.5.89 THE CURE FICTION, Matrix / Runout (A Side stamped variant 2): 839353-1 S1-2 1218 3 2, Matrix / Runout (B Side stamped variant 2): 839353-1 S2-1 1211 3 2, Matrix / Runout (A Side stamped variant 3): 839 353-1 S1 12 55 3 2, Matrix / Runout (B Side stamped variant 3): 839 353-1 S2-2 12 31 3 2, Matrix / Runout (A Side stamped variant 4): 839 353-1 S1-3 1 C, Matrix / Runout (B Side stamped variant 4): 839 353-1 S2-3 1 >, Matrix / Runout (A Side stamped variant 5): 839 353-1 S1-3 1 2 32 3, Matrix / Runout (B Side stamped variant 5): 839 353-1 S2-2 1 2 30 3, Rights Society (Boxed separately): B.I.E.M. Reading the below vinyl v CD debate for Cure’s Disintegration is like watching the Trump V Clinton election debates. I already have 2010 edition that is one CD, with the inscription "CD one. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The recording volume is not increased, the level the same as of 2010. The Chris Moyles Show 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. The studio was residential and a fire broke out in one of the rooms, leading to a hurried evacuation by The Cure and their producer David M. Allen. The Rabbit is eating away destroying the beautiful songs before in-between and during most. 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. Picture: Fiction Records Disintegration is all about turning 30. some history of inescapable discs (not in order), Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, runout A side, stamped): 8393531 A -1 U-1-2, Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, runout B side, stamped): 8393531 B -1-1-1, Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, runout A side, stamped): 8393531 A-1U-1-3, Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, runout B side, stamped): 8393531 B-1-1-1, Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, runout A side, stamped): 8393531 A-1U-1-4, Matrix / Runout (Variant 3, runout B side, stamped): 8393531 B-1-1-1, Matrix / Runout (Variant 4, runout A side, stamped): 8393531 A-1U-1-3, Matrix / Runout (Variant 4, runout B side, stamped): 8393531 B-1-1-4, Matrix / Runout (Variant 5, runout A side, stamped): 8393531 A-1U-1-1, Matrix / Runout (Variant 5, runout B side, stamped): 8393531 B-1-1-4, Matrix / Runout (Variants 1 to 6 hand-etched A side): HOW THE END, Matrix / Runout (Variants 1 to 6 hand-etched B side): ALWAYS IS, Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 runout A side, stamped): 8393531 A-1U-1-3, Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 runout B side, stamped): 8393531 B-1-1-3. 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. Well, after the release of the double LP, which includes all the songs of the album, this version is to be kept for sentimental reasons only. News. “I would have been quite happy to have made these songs on my own,” Smith said. Im wrighting about 3 CD edition 2020. Mis Álbums Imprescindibles. The original ‘89 vinyl sounds really good considering its length for 1 disc but corners were cut to make it work. In every other respect; cover, sleeve, label, the catalogue number on the runouts, even the track divisions, it is the genuine thing though. The music on it is totally weird because it is a misprint. He originally played drums on tracks like Boys Don’t Cry, but moved to keyboards in 1982 and unfortunately became sidelined in the studio. It makes you wonder about people’s stubbornness and their need to be right, regardless of whether they are wrong, or whether there even IS a wrong. Though Smith later admitted “it was never our intention to become as big as this”, the Prayer tour found The Cure graduating to stadiums and playing marathon, career-spanning sets, ensuring that when they waved goodbye to the 80s, they’d morphed into one of the biggest alt.rock acts on the planet. The original 1989 mastering on compact disc is the definitive version. However, initial sessions at drummer Boris Williams’ home proved The Cure were keen to get behind their leader’s new material. Over 70 min, sprawling with love and angst where no songs could have been omitted to the journey. 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. In every other respect; cover, sleeve, label, the catalogue number on the runouts, even the track divisions, it is the genuine thing though. Robert Smith may not have been suffering from the raging nihilism which drove him in the run up to the latter, but the depression that descended upon him during 1988 moved him to write songs such as ‘Prayers For Rain’, ‘Plainsong’ and ‘Closedown’: intense, melancholic anthems garnished with icy synths, ponderous guitar figures and Williams’ tom-heavy drums. The 2010 remaster simply adds compression and boosted bass that does the music no favors - it just kills the spaciousness and atmosphere of the album. Around this time there was talk of the artwork and that Robert was thinking about using somebody other than Paul and Andy who had done most of the cover art up until then. 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. Andy is also referred to as Undy in various other bits of Cure literature through the years. "I'm Better". 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. 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. http://www.rogerodonnell.com/disintegration/. 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. Smith (along with bassist Simon Gallup and drummer Lol Tolhurst) had appeared on the cover of 1982’s Pornography, but they were all wearing masks and the image was blurred beyond recognition. The second single from the album was Lovesong, which Smith wrote as a wedding present to his wife Mary, who he married in August 1988. 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Built around a supple groove and one of Simon Gallup’s most insistent basslines, ‘Lovesong’ in particular remains one of The Cure’s most sublime pop moments, and its tender lyric (“Whatever words I say, I will always love you”) marked a major milestone for Robert Smith. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. However, they were also intensely productive. Buy Vinyl. Sounds fantastic. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. ‘Lovesong”s universal appeal took it to No.2 in the US and provided The Cure with their biggest Stateside hit. “If the group hadn’t thought it was right, that would have been fine.”. OUT NOW - AVAILABLE ON DELUXE BOX HARDBOOK DIGITAL STREAM. When you play it you get treated to an hour of lively German polka/folk music instead of Disintegration. 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”. Find any old pre-2010 CD if you want to hear the album properly. The memorably scary video for Lullaby was directed by The Cure’s long-term collaborator Tim Pope, who had been behind the camera on clips for The Love Cats and In Between Days. Mastered with wide dynamic range and plenty of headroom so it can be turned up loud as the booklet instructs. Bought the vinyl virtually the day of release sadly it sounded as though the record was already 10 years old crackle and pop all the way through!! Cookies help us deliver our Services. So I have a copy of this LP with runouts Side A: 3 20 A (letter lying sideways) 1 and Side B: S2-2 12 37. The original ‘89 vinyl sounds really good considering its length for 1 disc but corners were cut to make it work.

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