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Disintegration | 
| Artist: The Cure
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 1164
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 72
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042283935327
EAN: 0042283935327
ASIN: B000025ZNL
Release Date: March 19, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Plainsong | | • | Pictures Of You | | • | Closedown | | • | Love Song | | • | Last Dance | | • | Lullaby | | • | Fascination Street | | • | Prayers For Rain | | • | The Same Deep Water As You | | • | Disintegration | | • | Homesick | | • | Untitled |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Disintegration is a pop album realised on an epic scale. Most of its 12 songs are long mood pieces that develop slowly around the listener. Anchored by complex drum patterns, the layered guitars, soaring bass lines and rich keyboards blend to create a lush, evocative soundscape that captures the ear immediately; and for all its length, the album is never boring. The lyrical focus is intensely personal throughout, and, with the exception of "Love Song", the mood is overwhelmingly dark and brooding. Here are songs of remembrance that, through their deep candor, transcend the individual level to explore universal longings and fears. Robert Smith, his vocals plaintive or angry or despairing, unfolds a tapestry of loss. Broken bonds, old lies, missed opportunities, belated realisations. Anyone who has experienced the joy and sorrow--especially the sorrow--of love will find his or her deepest sentiments, noble and petty alike, echoed poetically here. --Al Massa
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 The best album ever!!! October 27, 2008
I'm a big fan of The Cure and have adored them for longer than I care to admit, but this album is by far my favorite. Although other Cure albums are brilliant, this one keeps the same atmosphere through the whole album which for me, makes it stand out. Definately the soundtrack to my youth as I was in my late teens when this came out and I was at that time the sterotypical teenager who heard this and thought "At last, someone who understands me!."
However many years later, I still listen to this album a lot and still love it. The music and the lyrics are just pure genius and although it may be thought of as rather melancholy, it is, in the wonderful self-obsessed way where you can just wallow in it all. Although melancholy it always makes me feel uplifted after listening to it as its so beautiful. Robert Smith at his most brilliant with both the music and the lyrics. Sheer Poetry!
 The beginning of the end...................... June 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A reviewer at the time of release said "Phew! there's not much room to breathe in here" and they were absolutely right.
The overall feel and sound of this recording is almost suffocating and that's a shame because this could have been a truly great Cure album. It's true to say that in many respects the Cure were going through the motions by this stage but Smith's musical talent had yet to vanish entirely.
Part of the problem is the production. It's stodgy. I don't think anybody but Smith had much say in it's recording. However, we do get great tracks like 'Lullaby' and 'Pictures Of You' that somehow escaped the midnight pillow of death.
The real star of the show is the final track 'Untitled'. I'd always written it off until I saw them perform it on the 'Trilogy' DVD. The reason for this is that this album plays much better live.
Well after this album I don't know. It all got a bit dull when the songwriting began to creak. Maybe Smith's pact with the devil finally reached the small print. It's the last worthwhile Cure album. And probably a bargain from Amazon.
The best cure Album by a country mile! May 1, 2008
In the late 70s/early 80s I had been into Joy Division et al in a big way and subsequently found The Cure to be a perfect augmentation to my playlist. Faith and Pornography were my faves; Kiss Me and Head were great LPs too but, when Disintegration came out I was knocked sideways!
There's no need to add anything to the many positive reviews already posted here, except to say this album is quite simply the best thing they have ever done.
Robert Smith may have found the "feel & sound" he has been longing for for so long! March 18, 2008
Disintegration show cases The Cure & especially Robert Smith bring together all aspects of their music prowess that has been cultivated over many years. The scales are very delicately balanceed with the two distinct sounds that have been The Cure before this album "melodic spirtless tracks & out & out pop tracks. It is timless in that respect & could have been recorded yesturday, it is a top ten album of all time, which is evident by the fact that most of the songs appear on their set lists too what ever tour they our playing. Cure fan or not it is a must. Like fine art this album will always take pride of place in any collection. So what our you waiting for buy it.........
Extremely overrated September 2, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a pretty weak album by Cure standards but for some reason it is deemed their best almost universally. I have to question this. Did these people get into The Cure with this album, was it one they grew up with? This would explain the many positive reviews. I got into the band when their second album, Seventeen Seconds, was released. For me Disintegration is one of the later albums released after they'd peaked! Faith, Pornography, The Head On The Door and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me which all appeared before Disintegration are WAY better. It's just too dull and boring, with atmospherics in place of true hooks. Wish and Wild Mood Swings which appeared AFTER Disintegration are much better albums in my opinion. It's one I'd pick up last, don't believe the hype folks.
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