Disintegration

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a b Jeff Apter (5 November 2009). Never Enough: The Story of The Cure. Omnibus Press. p.26. ISBN 9780857120243. Hopkins, S.; Smith, Robert; Foo, T. (1989). The Cure: Songwords 1978–1989. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-1951-8. The Cure – EPK for The Masses Depeche Tribute (Robert Smith 1998)". YouTube. 10 May 2017. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021 . Retrieved 10 May 2017. Chain of Flowers: The Cure at Pinkpop 2012". Chain of Flowers. 28 May 2013 . Retrieved 26 June 2013. I absolutely agree with the two of you, since the way I interpret it is that Robert's talking about his fame, corporate greed, and his fans. I feel like he may have developed this song with dual meanings in mind as well though.

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Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.

Despite such conflict, O’Donnell recalls much “laughter, joking and fooling around” during the recording of Disintegration . “It was never a serious atmosphere in the studio, and when you think about the album and how dark it is, I’m sure people think we were sitting around slitting our wrists.” Read our interview with Thomas Dolby Read our interview with Deacon Blue Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone Germany. Archived from the original on 12 April 2012 . Retrieved 8 July 2008. a very straightforward love song. In the past,I’ve always felt a last-minute need to disguise the sentiments or put a twist on them. It’s actually one of the most difficult songs I’ve had to sing. It’s an open show of emotion. It’s not trying to be clever. And it’s difficult to do because you run the risk of being laughed at .I realized that while we were recording it.

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The Cure: Disintegration would go on to become the band’s finest work, created by a band at the peak of their powers. Smith’s dark ruminations of lost love and despair would transform the band from cult status to mainstream adulation, with posters of them adorning the walls of teenagers’ bedrooms across Middle America.

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In the South Park episode " Mecha-Streisand", Kyle Broflovski called it "the best album ever"; the show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are fans of the Cure, and had got Smith to voice himself in this episode. [57] The album plays a role in the climax of the 2015 Marvel film Ant-Man, as "Plainsong" plays when an iPhone's Siri mishears the villain, Corey Stoll's Darren Cross, saying "I'm going to disintegrate you"; director Peyton Reed said that "It's such an epic song that it transcended the joke", and that Disintegration was the second album he ever bought. [58] The Prayer Tour and aftermath [ edit ] Robert Smith with the Cure during the 1989 Prayer Tour McNulty, Bernadette (24 March 2008). "The Cure: Godfather of Goth Relishes His Power – Telegraph". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 26 June 2013. Johnson, Steve (1 June 1989). "The Cure: Disintegration (Elektra)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022 . Retrieved 24 October 2015. Barbarian, Sutherland, Smith (1988); and The Cure: A Visual Documentary, by Dave Thompson and Jo-Ann Greene (1988) Omnibus Press ISBN 0-7119-1387-0 In NME's cover article for March 2012, the Cure announced that they would be headlining a series of summer music festivals across Europe, including the Leeds/Reading Festival. [111] [112] On 1 May, Porl Thompson, now known as Pearl Thompson, announced that he had left the Cure for the second time. [113] [114] On 26 May, the Cure embarked on a 19-date summer festival tour of Europe, commencing at the Pinkpop Festival, joined by Reeves Gabrels on guitar. On the same day, it was announced that Gabrels would be standing in for the tour, but at that point was not a full-fledged member of the band. [115] [116] [117] Several weeks into the tour, the band invited Gabrels to become a member and he accepted. [118] In 2013, the Cure toured South America, where they had not performed since 1987 apart from two 1996 concerts in Brazil. [119]

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would be very easy to dismiss the album as having a certain mood. But throwing that one in sort of upsets people a bit because they think, ‘This doesn’t fit.’ It’s taken me 10 years to reach the point where I feel comfortable singing The song is essentially about love and based on an essay by Myra Poleo (an anagram of Mary Poole) called The Dark Power Of Ritual Pictures . After reading this work, Smith says that he destroyed his old personal photos and many of his home videos in an effort to wipe away his past. It was a decision he came to regret a few days later. Sonically, it has all the classic Cure elements, deeply layered textural sound with phased and chorus-drenched monotone guitar predominating. The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's (BPI) annual pop music awards. [191] The Cure has received two awards from five nominations. An overwhelming sense of loss is a pervading theme of Pictures Of You , which was released in an edited form as the album’s fourth and final single. According to interviews, Smith was inspired to write the song after a fire broke out in his house. While he was sorting through the remains, he came across his wallet, which contained seared photos of his wife Mary Poole, one of which featured on the cover of the 7″.

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