The cure disintegration lyrics6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I kind of knew what I was doing briefly.” I thought, “Yeah, it’s actually really cleverly put together. And when we played it through earlier this year, when we were rehearsing it, I kind of felt that again. ![]() It manages to hang together in a way that on paper it really shouldn’t. At that point I thought, “Yeah, I get now why people were drawn into it.” It’s a really nice balance of big and small in a funny way. I think when I did the remaster for Disintegration in 2010 was the first time I’d listened to the album since we’d made it. When was the last time you sat down with the record? I actually wanted to do the 40th anniversary of Three Imaginary Boys instead, but I was overruled, so we did Disintegration, which is probably the wise thing to do. ![]() It’s probably one of two or three albums that meant something in the broader cultural sense than just, like, “another Cure album.” It happened at a particular time, and I suppose it had the right combination of songs and it meant a lot to a lot of people. You recently played the full album in Australia. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Disintegration. It hung together and gave me a new appreciation.” Then I found it quite difficult, but it was a good show. It proved very difficult, actually, for me to sing it convincingly to myself because I had to put myself back into a time and a place where I was very, very unhappy. It’s just that for me, it’s a very important song. “Playing ‘Untitled’ was actually quite difficult for me,” he continues, “because it’s this song that has a lot of emotional … baggage isn’t the right word. We hadn’t played a couple of the album songs probably since ’89, so that was also kind of weird. “So it was strange, in a good way, revisiting those. “We’d only played one of those B sides before ever,” he says. But it’s an unusual event where Smith and his bandmates play all of the album’s songs, as well as the record’s attendant B sides, at once. Singles like “Lovesong,” “Fascination Street,” “Pictures of You,” and “Lullaby” have become set-list staples for the band for a reason. and made it up to Number 12 on the Billboard 200 - and he’s well aware of what it means to his fans and the music world at large. The album is the band’s best-selling release - it’s certified double platinum in the U.S. When the Cure played their 1989 album, Disintegration, in its entirety earlier this year at the Sydney Opera House, the whole experience was “weird” by frontman Robert Smith’s estimation. ![]()
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