![]() ![]() I was 15 or so, mostly into grunge and ’90s rock. The Joshua Tree effectively established the high-drama keyboard fade-in two years prior, but it has nothing on Disintegration‘s sad sprawl. That’s the way this 71-minute behemoth of an album opens: totally downcast, but lush and swelling and gorgeous as well. This album is heavy - in an emotional sense as well as an all-consuming sonic sense, like the way those keys at the start of “Plainsong” drown you in waves of pure gloom. Zach Schonfeld: Here’s why Disintegration has become the landmark Cure album: It’s as sad, dark, and unrelenting as the hearts of anyone who gets deep into it. I don’t know if this is actually the most popular Cure album, but it does seem to be the most important. Maybe I’m just speaking from a music nerd’s perspective. There are the Britpop kids, and then there are the Deep Goths. I guess it demonstrates how there are two distinct layers of Cure fans. Disintegration is full of long, heavy songs even “Pictures of You” is seven-and-a-half minutes now that I look at it. This is a band that has written some of the most radio-friendly songs in history, and their most iconic work spills out over the lines of acceptable pop boundaries. ![]() Not a mess in terms of the band’s vision and how they realized it a mess in terms of sprawl. Sasha Geffen: It’s both weird and great that Disintegration seems to be considered the Cure album just because of how much of a mess it is. Looking back on how the album affected their personal history as music fans, the two talk loneliness, heartbreak, and just why this record has come to be so emblematic of the Cure’s career. In this week’s edition of Dusting ‘Em Off, Associate Editor Sasha Geffen and staff writer Zach Schonfeld celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Cure’s goth-pop classic Disintegration. ![]()
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