Disintegration - 21 years old
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- mg330
Found some fucking gems on YouTube tonight:
- exador10
I can still remember hearing Plainsong for the first time, loud - i might add......it blew my mind, sonically....and pretty much set the stage for the rest of the album....
- CyBrain0
I saw them that year in the Meadowlands with the Pixies and Love and Rockets. At the end he said goodbye forever. How many times has Robert tried to retire? More than Leonard Nimoy.
- spraycan0
what's so good about this album? what makes it better than others Cure's album?
- mg330
I have to say, the best concert of my life was seeing them in probably 2000. They did a 5 club tour of tiny venues in the US. I still lived in Dallas Ft. Worth and was still in college.
The Ticketmaster stores are always at a certain grocery store chain down there all across the suburbs around Dallas. A common plan when getting tickets right when they went on sale was to go to a crappy part of town where there likely few "fans" of the band in line to buy tickets.
I went to one in Arlington in a somewhat suburb area, and there were 40 people in line already. Ticketmaster gives out numbers and calls one out randomly to start the line from that person. Sure as hell, they called my number first and I thought i was floating. I was freaking out. I mean, this show sold out in about 30 seconds. I had meant to bring enough money with for four tickets to sell two of them. I was the only one in line who got tickets.
A guy in line behind me, knowing it would sell out, gave me $30 just to buy him two tickets with his money. That practically paid for one of my tickets.
one of my friends actually paid $400 to go to that show, and people were paying more than $1,000 for tickets.
It was an absolutely incredible show. Robert Smith is by far my biggest music influence, especially in terms of guitar playing, so to be there about 15 feet from the stage was just ridiculous.
Here's their setlist from the show:
Mainset:
out of this world
watching me fall
want
fascination street
the last day of summer
maybe someday
from the edge of the deep green sea
inbetween days
if only tonight we could sleep
39
prayers for rain
one hundred years
bloodflowersEncore 1:
a strange day
just like heaven
a forestEncore 2:
the figurehead
disintegration
- Amicus0
Robert Smith is a great guitarist, but for me it's his songwriting that is virtually par excellence. From the super long, moody intros, to the sparkling melodic journeys I'm transported to another world, another part of me.
Right now I'm going to pull on my Docs and go shopping for something fitting this anniversary. :)
- fooler20
I remember the day I bought the Head on the Door tape at Record and Tape Outlet at the clerks suggestion 25 years ago.
- mg330
Wow... make absolutely sure to go to the music section and click the Rarities section on the left of the player. Listening to this instrumental home demo of Closedown is giving me chills... Wow.
- inkpink0
the vid for Lullaby used to give me nightmares.
- mg330
I am having some seriously major deja vu right now...
- scarabin0
jesus christ, i just realized bloodflowers is already ten years old
- exador10
first time i heard them was in highschool....was watching videos with my older brother when 'love cats' came on...we both looked at each other and said something along the lines of 'that's some pretty gay shit going on there'....or words to that effect....
fastforward to about 1997, and i was working at a software company in Toronto, when the creative director said it would be a cool idea for all of us to start bringing in cd's that we thought everyone should hear, everyone gets to be a dj for the day...play all the shit that you think everyone should be into, sorta vibe...
since he was CD, he got first dibs and through on Disintegration...blew my fucking mind...right from the first track of Plain song.....couldn't believe i'd never given this band a fair listen...in all fairness, i played the next day and hipped everyone to Cocteau Twins..which i hope shows that i wasn't a complete musical retard ;)
my older brother (god help him) took a long time to convince...he is more of the metallica/megadeth set (which i was as well at the age of 14 or so) but when i played him 'Burn' from the crow soundtrack, he got on board fairly quickly....'i thought those guys were just a pack of poofs that liked to prance around singing about their cats and shit' was what he said at the time i believe... lol....the 'burn' song helped him reevaluate things a bit :)
- georgesIII0
- sorry for the mess, took it above my wife's workbench to not wake her upgeorgesIII
- background is very fitting... who art directed these shots? ;)inkpink
- you're black?iCanHasQBN
- jk. i knew you were.iCanHasQBN
- villars0
I love that album :)
- pillhead0
Still have the album, and still great.
- marychain0
F U C K !
I was in high school when it came out
I'm old as shit :(
- Kiggen0
Ian Curtis 30 years dead. Crazy.
Where are oldies.