The Cure
Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) (Remastered)
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MOG Editorial Review
No band embodied the moody rock of the '80s than the Cure, and Disintegration served as the kind of album that cemented their legacy as being far more than just a "goth" band. By the time Disintegration saw its release at the end of the '80s, Robert Smith and company had already found mainstream success, and rather than continue to capitalize on it, the band released an introspective, spacey work of genius that ended up overshadowing anything they'd put out previously. "Pictures of You" sounded like stadium rock from an alternate, gloomy universe, while "Lovesong" is as good a teenage love anthem as you could possibly ask for, and thanks to its hybrid of new wave, post-punk, and moody pop, provided a perfect end note and embodiment of the '80s dark crevices.
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AMG Review of Disintegration
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideThe 2010 Deluxe Edition of the Cure’s 1989 masterwork Disintegration offers a plethora of riches as it is expanded by not just one but two CDs for a whopping total of 32 tracks. Dig into the details and the deluxe Disintegration winds up seeming a little underwhelming. All the non-live B-sides -- a grand total of four (“Babble,” “Out of Mind,” “2 Late,” “Fear of Ghosts”) -- wound up on the 2004 rarities clearinghouse Join the Dots, so they’re not recycled here. Instead, all the live tracks that were used as B-sides in various territories for the album’s four singles are here, presented as the live album Entreat, which itself was released in 1991 as an easy roundup of these cuts. As an enticement for collectors, this live album is augmented by four previously unreleased cuts, so it is now an in-concert replica of Disintegration, something that is perfectly fine but doesn’t stray much from the original blueprint. The rarities disc contains the first sketches of those blueprints and they’re pretty rough indeed: instrumental home demos, band rehearsals, rough cuts with guide vocals, the kind of stuff that is archivally interesting.






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