The Cure-Disintegration (1989)
Artist: The Cure
Title: Disintegration
Year of Release: 1989
Country and Year of Edition: US 1989 SRC
Sell Price: $11.24
Sell Date: 2/6/26
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: $11.24
Low: $1.18
Median: $9.99
Average: $10.01
High: $19.00
Current low price: $4.34
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 17
Have/Want: 2774/988
Where Sold: Columbus, OH
Time It Took To Sell: 2 years
Where and When Bought: Facebook $3 lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
I always thought of Disintigration as the third of a trilogy. Certainly as a sequal to Pornography, which is my undisputed favorite Cure album. I had to scratch my head as to what was the third album in the trilogy and for good reason. Back then Disintegration was rumored to be the end of the band and a return the heavy goth of Pornography and Faith before it. Nowadays Bloodflowers from 2000 is considered to be the third of the trilogy. I managed to ignore that one completely, so I guess I have to listen to it.
The thing about Disintigration is it has bonafide hits. Considering I procrastinated get it a year later as a record club freebee, then played it once and filed it away, I was surprised that there was more hits than "Love Song"--"PIctures Of You" and "Fascination Street" were inescapable in the world at large. The stand out track for me today after a few listens today is the last one "Untitled." It made me turn my head after consistantly zoning out the second half of the CD. I'm not surprised that Robert Smith deems it one of his favorites. Someone in the band noted the song was so depressive he couldn't bear to give it a title.
When I last saw The Cure for the first time since 1987, guitarist Perry Barmonte was in the band and playing but he passed last December. He joined shortly after Disintegration in 1990. There were a half dozen songs played from here-one more than the Songs From A Lost World album they were touring on. Outside of Love Songs and Pictures they did "Lullaby," "Plainsong," "Prayers For Rain" and the title track. I probably zoned out a bit from the balcony much the same way I zoned out listening to those tracks today. Yet there is something inside me that thinks this is a major work and if I just played it some more and committed it to knowing it inside and out, it would be an A record.
37 years on that day hasn't come.
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