Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)

Crocodilekisses has summed up the essence of Disintergration very nicely , little further comment required except to say you'd be hard pressed to hear a baritone guitar ever put to finer use. Every note conjures up a falling raindrop and the instrument perfectly informs the sound of the whole record. As far as Entreat goes, its an exceptional live performance of the whole album, if perhaps a tad too faithful to it. The main draw for the fans and completists are Robert Smith's demos and such. It remains to be seen whether their quality holds up - the delay in this Deluxe Edition being released makes me wonder. As for Disintergration being the last great Cure album, well yes, but let's not forget the stuff that came after. Wish had its sublime moments and Bloodflowers, while not the complete article, contained some of the most affecting songs Smithers ever composed - the reworking of the riff from "Burn" (as heard in the film The Crow) into "The Loudest Sound" immediately springs to mind - enough to give pause to anyone with a heart. It would be nice to have Deluxe Editions for all the Fiction releases, no album is without merit - its just a shame they never included documentaries like Mute made for the Depeche Mode Deluxe releases. As for the Cure's Geffen days, i think we can happily live without supplementary material - the albums can be a chore as it is.

Well its got to be great really. 3 discs with excellent material and some not yet released before. This is one of the cures classsic albums and remasterd with extras, cant wait! My origional album is always played, many years after it first released. Thats how good.

Yes. I said it. After the deranged eclecticism of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me the band - fuelled by Robert Smith's so-called 'mid-life crisis' (he actually turned 30, whoop de doo!!) - decided to revisit the moody majesty of Faith and to some extent the angst of Pornography, resulting in probably the weightiest collection of mini-melodramas that the band have never bettered to this day. There are EPIC tracks all over this album (in length as well as sonic scope)...opener 'Plainsong' for instance is the aural equivalent of seeing a huge Alpine waterfall cascading in slow motion. Icy it may seem, but it's also warm and caressing. There aren't many tracks that could be classed as singles material (the bittersweet Lovesong excepted), but even so Lullaby was their biggest ever hit!. The best way to listen to this album is in one sitting - just wallow in that luxuriant melancholy - and forget about anything else the Cure ever released afterwards.