#disintegration
Sometimes you make me feel
Like I’m living at the edge of the world.
“It’s just the way I smile,” you said.
Comic Book Review: Forbidden Worlds Vol. 15
Comic Book Review: Forbidden Worlds Vol. 15
Comic Book Review: Forbidden Worlds Vol. 15 edited by Richard E. Hughes
Forbidden Worlds started as a horror anthology comic book series from American Comics Group in 1951. In 1955, it ran foul of new restrictions on horror in comics, but soon retooled as “stories of strange adventure” which conformed with the Comics Code and kept being published until 1967. This volume reprints #89 (August…
Disintegration turns 28 years old today. Back then, I wasn’t the music obsessed weirdo that I am today - but then again, i was but a child. That being said, i was lucky enough to have older siblings who left cool shit lying around for me to pick up and call my own, which would ultimately help mold me into the music lover that I am at this moment. Back then, it was the just the tape with “Love Song” on it, that my brother left behind as he left home to discover his path. Later it would be a starting point to seek out similar sounds. Even later, it would become the anchor of many conversations about what a perfect album sounds and feels like. Today, it’s just an old hoodie that I never get tired of wearing. A dark, yet warm blanket that reminds me of home. And as always, it’s a towering work of beauty that shows little sign of age, and still, hits like a freight train if you’re willing to let it wash over you one more time. The singles are flawless, but the title track stands as one of my favorite songs of all time. Disarmingly lovely and haunting in equal parts. A high water mark of a band overflowing with mountainous peaks.
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happy belated goth day everyone i wanted to paint this forever and … was late for goth day wooohoo
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I was an awkward kid back in the day, and among other things I searched around a lot for who I thought I might be, and something about the whole Goth aesthetic kinda chimed a note with me. I liked a bunch of the music, too (Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie & the Banshees, great stuff), but there was never ANY of them I loved more than THESE GUYS. Years since I left the whole Goth thing behind after I finally became (relatively) comfortable in just being me, these guys are STILL one of my VERY favourite bands to ever ply their trade, and these are my top tracks from them …
10. DREDD SONG (Join the Dots: The B-Sides & Rarities)
There are VERY FEW real redeeming features to the bloody awful Sylvester Stallone movie of the classic Judge Dredd comics, but this is VERY MUCH one of them. This came about because the band’s phenomenal frontman/main creative driving force Robert Smith is a HUGE fan of the comics, and is SO BLOODY FANTASTIC that it ALMOST redeems the crappy movie it’s attached to. Dark, edgy, moody and really quite beautiful, this is WAY better than anyone had any right to expect.
9. CLOSE TO ME (The Head On the Door)
There’s nothing I love more than The Cure’s thoroughly irrascible sense of FUN, and this is definitely one of the very BEST examples of them fully indulging in that. It’s a wonderfully lovable track, full of fuinky little elements (particularly in the jazzier elements present in the later remixed version which injects a brass section, and I love the way that, instead of relying on samples or keyboards for that, when they’re playing live Robert Smith always just SINGS the trumpet solo himself). But, this being The Cure, there’s also a darker side to the song, a deep creepiness when you listen to the lyrics …
8. PICTURES OF YOU (Disintegration)
Feelings of nostalgia, regret and frustration are writ large upon one of the strongest standouts on what is pretty much the band’s BEST album, with Smith waxing most lyrical indeed about a fire that swept through his home, destroying many of his mementos of his wife, Mary Theresa Poole, only for him to later find a photo of her in his wallet. It’s a haunting song, but also tentatively hopeful, a think of truly fragile beauty.
7. LULLABY (Disintegration)
You don’t get much more memorable than this one when it comes to Cure tracks, Robert Smith bringing his horrid nightmares borne from the damaging childhood stories from his rather malicious dad to vivid, cathartic life in this wonderfully weird and deeply twisted jet black fairytale about “the Spiderman”, which also resulted in the band’s VERY BEST music video.
6. DISINTEGRATION (Disintegration)
You should know my rule by now, if you got a title track on your album it BETTER be a proper corker, and this one from what’s pretty much their best album is one of the very best examples I’ve EVER come across over the years. It’s a beautifully powerful track, Smith singing of the depressive downward spirals that often grip him that he tries to battle through his creativity, but musically this is a stangely moving and even somewhat uplifting piece of work, full of spiky experimental wonder and magic.
5. A FOREST (Seventeen Seconds)
Without a doubt the VERY BEST of their early material, this beautifully stripped back superdark masterpiece of edgy early 80s alt rock precision is powered by a phenomenally relentless bassline from masterful bass player and ubiquitous founder member Simon Gallup, one of the very best in rock music history as far as I’m concerned. A perfect example of The Cure at their most full on GOTH.
4. BURN (The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Boy, this one ALWAYS takes me back … back in the day, when my town still had a really great rock club where we could dance to all our favourite music and get a decent drink, this one was always GUARANTEED to fill the dancefloor. This is BY FAR their best soundtrack contribution, a perfect standout fromone of my very favourite movies EVER. I just fucking LOVE THIS SONG …
3. JUST LIKE HEAVEN (KIss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me)
Occasionally you get a genuinely HAPPY song from these guys, and this is an absolutel corker, a blissfully happy-go-lucky track that dances and flits about gleefully as Smith sings about the joyful euphoria of just being in love. This is the boys are their most sweet, light and whistful, and so much fun because of it.
2. IN BETWEEN DAYS (The Head On the Door)
Despite being about the breakup of a relationship, this is another wonderfully happy song from ther boys, Robert Smith hopping about with clear musical glee as his sinks his teeth into some enjoyably effervescent vocals and enthusiastically catchy guitars. Forming the perfect opener to one of their very best albums, this is about as fun as The Cure gets.
1. FROM THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA (Wish)
My very favourite Cure track of them all sits comfortably at the heart of my OTHER favourite album of theirs, but even better this is (RIGHTLY SO) one of the core fixtures in their live shows and ALWAYS brings the house down in spectacular style. Powerful, palpable and darkly seductive, this is as good as The Cure gets, the band at the very height of their powers and every single one of them coming together with utmost preceision to create something truly magnificent …
C’était aujourd’hui l’anniversaire de Disintegration. J’ai juste mis “play” et je n’en suis plus jamais revenue.
Bonne nuit, ne prenez pas froid. Good night, don’t catch a cold.
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