The Cure - Disintegration (w/ guest Jack Sullivan)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2015

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome Jack Sullivan as a guest to talk about the Cure's Disintegration (1989, Elektra/Asylum). Released after a series of songs that helped the band break into the mainstream, principal songwriter and poorly-applied-makeup enthusiast Robert Smith wanted to create a great album that solidifed how the band was perceived amongst both fans and critics. Written and recorded shortly before Smith's 30th birthday, a sense of doom and gloom dominated the album's new wave/alternative music and the lyrical content. Bill, Brian, and Jack discuss how this album became a soundtrack to breakups, 80s schlock, how Robert Smith spends his day to day life, how Jack would resequence the album, the metaphorical impact of Christmas, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I'm alone with you
0:31.6	It made me feel like I am home again.
0:40.3	Hello. feel like I am holding
1:00.5	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast.
1:00.9	I'm Bill.
1:01.6	And I'm Brian.
1:04.6	And today we have a guest with us, Jack Sullivan.
1:05.6	Hi, Jack.
1:06.4	Hi, how are you?
1:07.5	Welcome to the podcast.
1:08.7	Thanks for having me.
1:12.2	And as you heard from that little bit right there,
1:17.5	we are going to be talking about The Cure and their 1989 album Disintegration.
1:18.3	Yes.
1:21.7	Or as South Park would call it, the greatest album ever made.
1:27.1	And we're here to mostly agree with that.
1:33.2	Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be on the great albums program if it was not a great album.
1:34.8	So, boom.
1:37.6	So why don't we start how we usually do?
1:45.5	Well, if you've never listened to the podcast, what we do on every episode is we take a different album of music and just talk about what makes it great.
1:50.3	And we're going to talk about our own relation to the music and the album.
1:54.4	And then we're going to talk a little bit about what went into the production of the album.
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