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THE COUNTDOWN: As the rock pioneers release their first album in 16 years, Mark Beaumont forgoes all singles and picks the best songs spanning a four-decade career The Cure’s nine essential ...
Disintegration is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 2 May 1989 by Fiction Records. The band recorded the album at Hookend Recording Studios in Checkendon, Oxfordshire , with co-producer David M. Allen from late 1988 to early 1989.
The Cure’s lineup remained in flux for years as Smith shifted the band’s sound from post-punk to goth to tuneful pop/rock, eventually writing massive Top 40 hits like 1987’s “Just Like ...
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart. [5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively. [5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. [5]
The song also reached the top 10 in West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway. In North America, the song was released as the second single from Disintegration instead (" Fascination Street " was the first), but did not match its predecessor's level of success, only reaching number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 23 on ...
The British legends' first album in 16 years unfurls like a brooding, gorgeous sequel to their gothic magnum opus, Disintegration. Decades on, frontman Robert Smith's vocals are still commanding ...
In 2011, the song was voted number 283 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. [6] In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number nine on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [7] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number 11 on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs. [8]
[147] [148] Songs of a Lost World reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and was the Cure's first chart-topping album since Wish in 1992. [149] In the United States, Songs of a Lost World debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, and was the band's first top ten album there since The Cure in 2004. [150]