I've been trying to do an album of the month on my Facebook, but I think I'll be doing it from here now on. I'll pick a favorite album of mine for each month and try to say a few words about it. Here goes:
It is October and Fall is well upon us; the leaves are changing and a chill is in the air and, as far as I am concerned, there is no better album to go with this weather than The Cure's Disintegration. The Cure have a reputation for being dreary and moody but, if you think about it, many of their most popular songs ("Friday, I'm In Love", "Just Like Heaven", "In Between Days") are quite sunny and happy. This is the album where they truly live up to their reputation.
It is a gloomy, atmospheric masterpiece; the romantic lamentations of "Pictures of You" and "Love Song", The perfect-for-Halloween, Tim Burton-esque creepiness of "Lullaby" ("On candy-striped legs, the Spider-Man comes") and, my favorite, the doomy rocker "Fascination Street" all make for perfect autumnal listening. Sure, lesser tracks like "Plainsong" and "Prayers for Rain" aren't as strong, but Disintegration is truly an album that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Key tracks: "Fascination Street", "Pictures of You", "Lovesong", "Lullaby", "Disintegration"
This is my favorite Cure album too. It's part of a trilogy and the other two albums: PORNOGRAPHY and BLOODFLOWERS, are pretty good too.
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