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the cure: disintegration n' appreciation thread. (Patreon)

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2019-05-03 04:36:12
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2023-04

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hello my loves

greetings from a bowl of lukewarm lentil soup at the kitchen table at 12:17 on a friday night (and the tap drips, drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip for those of you who care)......

QUICK NOTE: your feedback for the SXSW documentary is AMAZING SO FAR!!!!!! thank you thank you for all of you who are putting in so much input and time and effort. many have asked what the DEADLINE FOR FEEDBACK IS. OOPS SORRY. i've made it may 7th - that'll give us enough time to get the notes in and a new cut to hopefully get the final cut out by the end of the month.

if you haven't watched the documentary yet (plus notes about giving feedback), it's all HERE. 

and.....

although i have been shooting art-tastic documentary story-telling fantabulousness-ness for you all day with the filmmaker michael dunaway and working on the Althing (coming tomorrow, god willing) for tomorrow in the cracks....i just had to post this.

especially since i've been name-checking the cure and my Deep Love for the cure every night on tour. it didn't seen like any less than a coincidence that billboard rang up and wanted a quote from me about disintegration's 30th birthday.

if you're not a cure fan, you can ignore this all.

i love you and goodnight and all is well.


.....

BUT

if you are a cure fan, can we just take a moment to say 

AHHHHHHHH FUCK HOLY SHIT HOW CAN IT BE THAT MANY YEARS SINCE THiS ALBUM CAME OUT and HOW FUCKING AMAZING IS THE CURE and HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT TO PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT THERE WITH THIS MUSIC IN THEIR HEADS AND HEADPHONES AND SPEAKERS and DID NOT KNOW.

the cure was my favorite band, for many years, hands down. especially from about 1988-1993.

and disintegration was my favorite record of theirs. 

it's hard to describe this love.


if you've never heard it....good god. 

stop now, and click here to listen.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9DFAB405514551D

here's my full quote from the billboard article:

Disintegration was the first album that spoke - in its entirely - to the very core of my heart. I wasn't exactly sure what Robert Smith was actually talking about most of the time, but I knew he MEANT IT. My first big concert experience without my parents was a pilgrimage to the Worcester Centrum Enormodome to see the Disintegration tour, and the moment when the opening chords of "Plainsong" exploded through that space changed me fundamentally: it was the first time I understood the massive spiritual potential of live music. 

There's also something about the production on that record - the specific sounds of those synthesizer patches - that captures a moment in time for me. I still get goosebumps listening to those opening chords of "Plainsong"...there's never been a more luscious and bittersweet sound on earth than those two major chords, exploding back and forth. What's so incredible about The Cure and Robert Smith's songwriting is their ability to exist in the dark while emanating light: it's their signature paradox and the secret of their genius. 

If you look at the album as a whole, it kicks off with THREE songs in major (read: "happy") keys: "Plainsong," "Pictures of You" and "Closedown." Then they head for the dark jugular and the following EIGHT songs are in minor keys - the brooding minor-synth sounds people had come to expect from The Cure. Then "Untitled" closes the album in a major key again. It's a dark minor-key sandwich in major-key bread. And none of that would have been an accident: Robert Smith has said himself that he got very clever at making their darkness palatable to a wider audience by design. 

If I look at my latest album as an example, I can see the lineage and influence clearly: Robert Smith has been one of my greatest songwriting teachers. He taught me how to suck people in with hooks and major keys in order to feed them the medicinal dark that actually does a better job at nourishing their souls. Once a goth, always a goth, even if I'm writing in a major key. – Amanda Palmer

there are more quotes from trent reznor & many many more artists in the full article here: 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8509859/the-cure-disintegration-anniversary-influence

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HALLELUJAH LIGHT AND DARK SANDWICH FOREVER

if you're in the mood now, please leave your love for the cure in the comments below.

i know you're out there.

favorite songs, favorite lyrics, favorite shirts of robert smiths....let it come, let it come, let it come.

i am reading.

xxx

a

p.s. the blog link is broken right now but should be fixed by the morning....here's an open letter i wrote to robert smith back in 2009. i think you'll enjoy it. http://blog.amandapalmer.net/20091029/


 

------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------

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Heather Coffey

The Cure have always been one of my favorites...they were a lifeline during the years when I was the only goth kid in a partly rural high school (this was 84-87, well before Hot Topic.) One of my only faves that I've never gotten to see live, which still makes me sad. Disintegration, while arguably great, didn't hook me as hard as Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, which listened to for the first time via Walkman on a vacation trip...the view of those clouds will always be tangled with that album in my memory. I don't think I can really pick one favorite song...that acoustic version of the greatest hits was amazing, but so many of the albums are. I wore out those tapes until they wouldn't play and bought more. I recently heard they were back in the studio in February and am eagerly awaiting that release.

Anonymous

The Cure! My God, so many memories of the 90s with friends and moping and wearing so much black. I had a friend named Mik who introduced me to the Cure, and I loved them immediately. Still do. When those chords from Plainsong opened at goth yoga, I couldn't help but celebrate by putting my fist in the air and saying "yes!" It's like a magic door opens in my head, and I am transported, almost like listening to The Wall. Robert Smith is responsible for me completely loving and accepting make-up on men. He is also responsible for letting me just feel sad because I was, and I felt like he sang right to my soul. The Cure still pops into my stereo, or streams on my phone now and then, but because I'm not really sad anymore it just makes me happy.

Anonymous

The first time I went on a long business trip after being married I printed all the words to "Love Song" on the laser printer, then carefully cut them into strips and taped them together end to end so there was one really long narrow strip with all the words. I carefully laid out that strand of paper from the stairs of our house into the bedroom. At the end of the strand (on my wife's pillow) I put a single rose. We are neither of us that dedicated fans of the group as a whole but that song was simply perfect for that moment in time and in our lives.

Anonymous

One Czech DJ said in an interview that Disintegration helped her to get through cancer. Since reading that I believe Disintegration can make everything easier. I remember listening to it during breakups, while packing my stuff to move away from my husband and so many other occasions. It is my ultimate soundtrack to sad events and I still love it with my whole heart.

Anonymous

Only reading/answering now because I spent the weekend at a rather "luxury" goth festival in a Baltic seashore "resort". No tents, but small, furnished apartments. Not bad, and I actually saw a large tour banner for you there, Amanda (posted the picture on instagram and tagged you). The Cure were so important in my teenage years, the simply seemed to "get it". Their songs felt as if they appreciated and understood what it felt like, being confused and insecure and only starting to grope around in the dark, trying to find meaning, love, freedom. They were the soundtrack to some nameless sadness *happy sigh*. For me, especially Inbetween Days, Boys don't cry, (the whole Standing on a Beach compilation) but most of all The Walk. Like you said, I often didn't know what Robert Smith was singing about, but I felt it, and it sounded like he meant it (my only live experience was a disappointment though, a grumpy, perfunctory The Cure at a rainy goth festival in 2002). I still love the old songs, they're pure nostalgia for me now, and they remind me of who I was and how I felt and whence I come...

Anonymous

"the moment when the opening chords of "Astronaut" exploded through that space changed me fundamentally: it was the first time I understood the massive spiritual potential of live music." - me alone in Webster Hall 2008.

Kate Michmerhuizen

The Cure felt like a secret expression of my real self as I broke from the self-restricting life of classical dance to an explosion of new experiences my senior year of high school. Their music gave me permission to feel wild and passionate and real. Quite a deal since I'd been aspiring to Sugar Plum Fairies and Sylphs for so many years!

Anonymous

I'm weird, I'm rather fond of their debut, Boys Don't Cry, especially the British version, which has four songs not on the American version, which replaces

Anonymous

i love the cure!!!!

Marni Mead

OMG THAT WAS FUCKING AMAZING!! Just saw the concert at the Sydney Opera House - whole album in full with an entree of B sides from the singles. Tune in to the Youtube live stream if you can !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9uSPf9WDbw&feature=youtu.be