Disintegration

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Disintegration
Studio album by The Cure
Released	May 2, 1989
Recorded	--
Genre	Gothic Rock, Alternative Rock
Length	71:42
Label	Elektra Records, Fiction Records
Producer(s)	David M. Allen & Robert Smith
Professional reviews
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The Cure chronology
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987)	Disintegration (1989)	Mixed Up (1990)

Disintegration is the eighth studio album by rock band The Cure, released in 1989. It peaked at #12 on Billboard's Top 200 Album countdown.

Contents 1 History 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 Singles 5 Charting singles 6 Sample

[edit] History

It was the first Cure album to be specifically recorded for CD and this is the reason that the vinyl release is without the songs "Last Dance" and "Homesick". The CD version is over 71 minutes in length, well over the average rock album's length. In fact, half of the songs on the 12-song album are over six minutes in length.

The Cure had pigeon-holed themselves as a dark and brooding goth-rock band in the early 80s with albums such as Faith and Pornography. They broke away from this image with light pop singles, such as "Let's Go to Bed" and "The Lovecats" and their accompanying Tim Pope videos. The following albums The Head on the Door and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me had largely continued in the same direction.

In 1989, Robert Smith and company returned to feelings of angst, depression, and regret to record the album Disintegration. It saw a return to the dark and brooding imagery of former days, except the band was able to employ pop hooks and lush well-produced orchestration. Some consider this the band's best album.

The album is considered part two of Robert Smith's "trilogy", also including Pornography and Bloodflowers. In 2002, the current Cure at the time performed all three albums in their entirety to a Berlin audience, and it was released on DVD as Trilogy in 2003.

The album was certified gold by the RIAA on June 28, 1989. The album was also certified platinum on October 20 of the same year. On July 1, 2004, the album was multi-platinum twice.

In the South Park episode Mecha-Streisand, Kyle Broflovski declares Disintegration "the best album ever".

In 2003, the album was ranked number 326 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams.

1. "Plainsong" – 5:12
2. "Pictures of You" – 7:24
3. "Closedown" – 4:16
4. "Lovesong" – 3:28
5. "Last Dance" – 4:42
6. "Lullaby" – 4:08
7. "Fascination Street" – 5:16
8. "Prayers for Rain" – 6:04
9. "The Same Deep Water as You" – 9:18
10. "Disintegration" – 8:18
11. "Homesick" – 7:06
12. "Untitled" – 6:30

"Last Dance" and "Homesick" are only on the CD and cassette versions.

[edit] Personnel

• Simon Gallup - Bass, Keyboards
• Robert Smith - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer
• Porl Thompson - Guitar
• Laurence Tolhurst - "other instruments", but confirmed to have contributed nothing
• Boris Williams - Drums
• Roger O'Donnell - Keyboards
• Dave Allen - Producer, Engineer
• Richard Sullivan - Assistant Engineer
• Roy Spong - Assistant Engineer

[edit] Singles

• "Fascination Street", released only in the U.S. in December, 1988
• "Lullaby" released in April, 1989
• "Lovesong" released in August, 1989
• "Pictures of You" released in January, 1990

[edit] Charting singles

[edit] Sample

• "Lovesong" (1989) (file info) — play in browser (beta)

• Sample of "Lovesong" by The Cure
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1989	Fascination Street	The Billboard Hot 100	No. 46
1989	Lullaby	The Billboard Hot 100	No. 74
1989	Fascination Street	Mainstream Rock Tracks	No. 24
1989	Fascination Street	Modern Rock Tracks	No. 1
1989	Lovesong	The Billboard Hot 100	No. 2
1989	Lovesong	Modern Rock Tracks	No. 2
1989	Lullaby	Modern Rock Tracks	No. 23
1989	Fascination Street	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	No. 7
1989	Lovesong	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	No. 8
1989	Lullaby	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	No. 31
1989	Fascination Street	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	No. 13
1990	Pictures Of You	The Billboard Hot 100	No. 71
1990	Pictures Of You	Modern Rock Tracks	No. 19
1990	Pictures Of You	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	No. 33

The Cure

Robert Smith | Porl Thompson | Simon Gallup | Jason Cooper

The Cure personnel

Discography

Studio albums: Three Imaginary Boys | Seventeen Seconds | Faith | Pornography | The Top | The Head on the Door | Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me | Disintegration | Wish | Wild Mood Swings | Bloodflowers | The Cure

Live albums: Concert | Entreat | Paris | Show | Trilogy

Compilations: Boys Don't Cry | Japanese Whispers | Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea | Mixed Up | Galore | Greatest Hits | Join the Dots

EPs: Half an Octopuss & Quadpus | Lost Wishes | Five Swing Live

Singles: "Killing an Arab" | "Boys Don't Cry" | "Jumping Someone Else's Train" | "A Forest" | "Primary" | "Charlotte Sometimes" | "A Single" | "Let's Go to Bed" | "The Walk" | "The Lovecats" | "The Caterpillar" | "In Between Days" | "Close to Me" | "Why Can't I Be You?" | "Catch" | "Just Like Heaven" | "Hot Hot Hot!!!" | "Fascination Street" | "Lullaby" | "Lovesong" | "Pictures of You" | "Never Enough" | "Close to Me (remix)" | "High" | "Friday I'm in Love" | "A Letter to Elise" | "The 13th" | "Mint Car" | "Gone!" | "Strange Attraction" | "Wrong Number" | "Cut Here" | "End of the World" | "Taking Off" & "alt.end"

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