![]() ![]() My clinically depressed, sad little heart responded quite strongly to Smith’s lyrics, with music that perfectly backed them up. ![]() No one wrote depression quite like Robert Smith (save, perhaps, Ian Curtis, but he wasn’t making new music at the end of the ‘80s). With this record, however, a return to the heavy gothness of the likes of Pornography and Faith years earlier, I tended to focus on its gloriously despondent lyrics. We had a beat-up boombox in there, and rotated tapes in and out of it as I recall, we played Disintegration a lot - the album’s songs with more thrust, like “Fascination Street” and “Prayers for Rain,” helped work go along more quickly. I spent the summer, following my bad freshman year of college, back at home, working with my closest friends in our local college cafeteria’s dishroom. But by August, Disintegration already felt incredibly lived in, to this gay, goth-hearted, lonely teenager. The massive, unexpected, and frankly shocking (to longtime Cure fans, at least) success of “Love Song” - which would ascend all the way to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October, only held out of the top spot by Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much” - was yet to come. Lead single “Fascination Street,” while not a top 40 radio hit, had moved from the Buzz Bin to Heavy Rotation on MTV by the start of July. It was August 1989, and my best friend had just said goodbye to me, with neither of us knowing how long it would be until we saw each other again.ĭisintegration came out at the start of May of that year, so I’d been listening to it fairly obsessively for much of the summer. There I stood on the massive, concrete wraparound porch of my parents’ Indiana farmhouse, endlessly rewinding and playing the title track of The Cure’s Disintegration, tears racing down my face. ![]()
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