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albummaster
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Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 10/21/2011 19:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#344): Disintegration by The Cure
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Today's album of the day
Disintegration by The Cure (View album)
Year: 1989.
Overall rank: 69.
Average rating: 84/100 (from 218 votes).
Tracks:
1. Plainsong
2. Pictures Of You
3. Closedown
4. Love Song
5. Last Dance
6. Lullaby
7. Fascination Street
8. Prayers For Rain
9. The Same Deep Water As You
10. Disintegration
11. Homesick
12. Untitled
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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cartoken
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Age: 39
Location: Paris
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- #2
- Posted: 10/21/2011 19:48
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change in BEA chart since 3.5 years: +29
my 8th favorite album ever ! and the greatest album ever after midnight 
masterpiece !
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daveybaker
Location: UK
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- Posted: 10/21/2011 21:01
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A brilliant album
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Hayden
Location: CDMX
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- #4
- Posted: 10/21/2011 21:02
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My opinions are pretty neutral about the album. I've only heard it once, and I remember it sounding pretty good. Just never got around to giving it a better listen.
Can someone explain the cover to me though? I've never understood it. I see a face in the middle, an eye in the corner, and a few flowers i think? 
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Necharsian
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- #5
- Posted: 10/21/2011 22:50
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The best album from the 80s!!!!
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
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Age: 38
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- Posted: 10/21/2011 23:33
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| Necharsian wrote: | The best album from the 80s!!!!
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Damn straight!
In reference to the album cover, I think it is a visual representation of the themes love and loss that run throughout the whole album. Flowers are one of the most interesting symbols in semiotics (blame university) as they can represent both love and death depending on its interpreter.
Also the image of Robert Smith is clouded and overrun by the flowers which could mean the disintegration into death, becoming like soil to make life above thrive.
These are just thoughts I came up with then. Never really focussed all that much on the cover.
This album deserves to be higher. A pinnacle in post-punk of the late 80s and the masterpiece of a highly influential and important band.
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Captain_Dude
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Age: 54
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- Posted: 10/22/2011 05:00
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This album has never done a thing for me. I know a lot of people like it, but to me, it just falls flat.
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Norman Bates
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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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- Posted: 10/22/2011 13:47
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It's good, but not as good as Seventeen Seconds (their masterpiece) or Faith. After a major pop breakthrough, and a disappointing psychedelic double LP, this album showed that their best bet was to come back to depressive new-wave, tinged with a little pop. Anyway, The Cure haven't done anything as good since, but had done better before.
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
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Age: 38
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- Posted: 10/23/2011 03:32
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Anyway, The Cure haven't done anything as good since, but had done better before. |
Kinda agree except some from Wish and b-sides (This Twilight Garden, Play etc) were great. Bloodflowers also had some highlights but yes, consistantly as albums they have missed the mark.
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joedec
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Age: 41
Location: Port Arthur, Tx
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- Posted: 12/30/2011 02:20
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As far as I'm concerned, Disintegration is The Cure's magnum opus. It is a perfect album from start to finish
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