That being said, it’s hard to imagine “Pictures of You” being any shorter. “Pictures of You”: If not for the nearly two-minute intro and 7:49 overall run length, this would have been a smash. Smith should have handed her the pen and let her write the rest of the record. When he finally gets around to singing, he quotes a girl who compares the weather to death and complains about feeling old. “Plainsong”: After about 20 seconds of wind chimes, the bass, synths and drums hit like a thunderclap, and just like that, you’re in Smith’s stormy little world. Keep reading for our track-by-track take on this melancholy stunner. It’s made countless all-time best-of lists, and 25 years later, it sounds like nothing in the band’s discography - or in anyone else’s. 2, but “Disintegration” remains the Cure’s best-selling LP, as well as the one people still talk about. The follow-up, 1992’s “Wish,” reached even higher, peaking at no. 12 on the Billboard 200 - the Cure’s highest chart placement to that point. Indeed, “Disintegration” had “commercial suicide” written all over it, but it proved gloomy in all the right ways, climbing to no. He emerged with a set of droning slow-burns inspired by the overall cruddiness of his situation, and not surprisingly, his label wasn’t pleased. Such was his motivation for going off and writing much of “Disintegration” on his own. Still, Smith was completely freaked by the prospect of turning 30, and amid tensions with his bandmates, he worried he’d missed his chance to make a masterpiece. 35 on the Billboard 200, and after more than a decade in action, they seemed poised for breakout success. The group’s previous album, 1987’s “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me,” had reached a respectable no. post-punk band was finally making headway in America. Oddly enough, when Cure mastermind Robert Smith began work on “Disintegration,” he was a recently married 29-year-old whose pioneering U.K. Such is the power of these dozen songs - slow, dark, sensual ruminations on losing love and feeling washed up. Once copies of “Disintegration” started hitting CD trays and turntables, the skies turned grey and the rain began to fall, and sad boys and girls everywhere soaked it all up like sponges. No need to check the almanac to see what the weather was like on May 2, 1989, the day the Cure released its eighth studio album.
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