Prayers For Rain (track)
by The Cure
Year: 1989
From the album Disintegration (track #7)
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Prayers For Rain appears on the following album(s) by The Cure:
- Disintegration (track #7) (this album) (1989)
- Entreat (track #5) (1990)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/14/2026 17:48 | SD100852 | 12,513 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 20:54 |  Special | 36,376 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/26/2026 01:34 | TheSmiths82-87 | 16,551 | 85/100 |
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"Prayers for Rain" is one of the many brilliant moments of the album. Again Smith delivers a great vocal performance. Drama and threat. Smith takes his listener to Limbo, to a corner of life where the meaninglessness of human existence is magnified. It is very clever to give the hopeless an instrumental voice. As with more songs on the album, the structure of the song is stuck in multiple layers of different instruments. The guitar does not claim the lead role, but seeks a balance with the again very nicely arranged strings, the many echoes and the excessive reverb. (Edited)
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/14/2013 08:34 | #61473
Great Bass texture. (Edited)
My lowest rated on this great record (Edited)
