35 years old today.

In my opinion probably the greatest collection of songs recorded as a “singular work”. It’s not so much an album as very long song punctuated by a weird love song…

Some of the most tasteful and clever drumming I’ve heard, beautifully recorded interweaving guitar lines and emotional lyrics that actually work. And fantastic repetitive bass lines.

Probably one of my favourite album period.

Who dares vote crap on this?

I am not a Cure fan at all (I wuz worshipping Swans, Neurosis and Godflesh in my impressionable yrs so I found Pornography laughable as a quote / unquote depressing record - fey whining for gurls), but since I am now old and mellow I can hang with Head on the Door, Kiss Me... and this, which I think is a great, lush lovey pile of sensitivity. Very ornate and evocative with minimal cringe.

A great album (as a collective work) as mentioned earlier.

I say NC.

I think Faith was their high-water mark, but this is an excellent record.

Krev wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 1:46 pm I think Faith was their high-water mark, but this is an excellent record.

Well put, I agree.

It was charming when one of the South Park kids called this record the GOAT.

Krev wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 1:46 pm I think Faith was their high-water mark, but this is an excellent record.

I don't think I had listened to Faith from start to finish since the mid 90s, so I put in on while I worked this afternoon. I think I can get behind your assessment.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 1:21 pm Who dares vote crap on this?

I certainly wouldn't. I'm more of a Head on the Door man myself, but Disintegration is an iconic work.

Overrated. The decline starts here.

A few very good songs but plenty of meh. Some of the B-sides of this era are kick ass (eg Babble.)

I'm a huge fan of almost everything that came before.

Afterwards they did little that interests me.

Abstaining for now.

Edit: their early 80s work is as big an influence on my bass playing (and my band) as anything. A few years ago we finshed a set and as we tore down the sound person put on Pornography. I cracked up. Well played, sound person!

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 1:21 pm Who dares vote crap on this?

That would be me; outside of some VERY early stuff, I can't stand the Cure in general and this album in particular which might very well be their worst:80s british haircut rock, even worse than Echo &the Bunnymen. Wet, saggy and-yuck!-"melancholy", a vibe I can't appreciate as an overriding feature in music (as a *spice* to other vibes, it's perfectly fine). It's not even a strong emotion but more this passive and grumpy eeyore the donkey shit. Could never stand to be around folks with that mindset either. Cure feels like the aural personification of that-MEGA crap

Not my fave Cure record, but it contains some great passages and it's very well recorded. NC