Post by gaijin on Mar 13, 2024 21:00:26 GMT 1
Disintegration left me cold.
It is still an album that I can't identify with. While I like dark and moody music TC were in the slipstream of others with their new sound. It may have been new to TC but was hardly revelatory.
I, at least, had heard it all before, just not from the cult. So I tend towards the cynical about it's merits. I am not dissing the songs, the musicians, the playing, the production or anything like that -so save your drone strikes.
I said I'd heard it all before. I heard a lot of music in '88/'89 - most of it on the Beggars Banquet label and it's sublabels 4AD and Situation 2 - though at the time I was not 'label' aware. That is not to imply that I excluded other labels at the time.
i was a member of a record library that was owned by a chap that ran a small record shop. He sold Imports exclusively. Each new 12" or LP was added to the library and for a modest sum one could rent the record should it ever be available when one happened by. I had loads of D-90's I confess.
As i now type 1988 into my database I see some amazing albums appear. I expect half of you reading this wouldn't know the artists let alone their albums. That is not meant to deride anyone, or sing my own praises, it is to illustrate that what I had gone looking for exposed me to an extremely wide range of artists.
In 1988 I was listening to:
Einsturzende Neubauten
My Bloody Valentine
Ministry
Loop
Fields Of The Nephilim
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Niter Ebb
Rose of Avalanche
Siglo XX
Sonic Youth
SWANS
Skinny Puppy
... by way of example. There are many more. and ofc there was daytime radio which pumped the pop out.
Disintegration was like Alternative- Lite. Where before The Cure had innovated they were then 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'. At least that is how I perceived them.
They were still making good music, and continued to so for some time but we grew apart.
I remain a fan, but my own fondness for TC is for their work up to Disintegration. Which title I now realize is apt.
Admittedly I concede that I do not ignore their later work, but I dip into it rather than wallow.
It is still an album that I can't identify with. While I like dark and moody music TC were in the slipstream of others with their new sound. It may have been new to TC but was hardly revelatory.
I, at least, had heard it all before, just not from the cult. So I tend towards the cynical about it's merits. I am not dissing the songs, the musicians, the playing, the production or anything like that -so save your drone strikes.
I said I'd heard it all before. I heard a lot of music in '88/'89 - most of it on the Beggars Banquet label and it's sublabels 4AD and Situation 2 - though at the time I was not 'label' aware. That is not to imply that I excluded other labels at the time.
i was a member of a record library that was owned by a chap that ran a small record shop. He sold Imports exclusively. Each new 12" or LP was added to the library and for a modest sum one could rent the record should it ever be available when one happened by. I had loads of D-90's I confess.
As i now type 1988 into my database I see some amazing albums appear. I expect half of you reading this wouldn't know the artists let alone their albums. That is not meant to deride anyone, or sing my own praises, it is to illustrate that what I had gone looking for exposed me to an extremely wide range of artists.
In 1988 I was listening to:
Einsturzende Neubauten
My Bloody Valentine
Ministry
Loop
Fields Of The Nephilim
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Niter Ebb
Rose of Avalanche
Siglo XX
Sonic Youth
SWANS
Skinny Puppy
... by way of example. There are many more. and ofc there was daytime radio which pumped the pop out.
Disintegration was like Alternative- Lite. Where before The Cure had innovated they were then 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'. At least that is how I perceived them.
They were still making good music, and continued to so for some time but we grew apart.
I remain a fan, but my own fondness for TC is for their work up to Disintegration. Which title I now realize is apt.
Admittedly I concede that I do not ignore their later work, but I dip into it rather than wallow.
