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1. “Plainsong” The opulent, gilded entrance hall to Disintegration’s grand mausoleum, “Plainsong” hits you like a drug dream. There’s an explosion in a glitter shop, then stately ...
The album plays a role in the climax of the 2015 Marvel film Ant-Man, as "Plainsong" plays when an iPhone's Siri mishears the villain, Corey Stoll's Darren Cross, saying "I'm going to disintegrate you"; director Peyton Reed said that "It's such an epic song that it transcended the joke", and that Disintegration was the second album he ever bought.
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]
In the NME's review of the single, writer Donald McRae singled out Smith's voice as the sole element of the song that "doesn't shout 'TEEN FUN'". Nonetheless, he praised the band, and concluded, "Shameless and cheap enough to steal Wham 's ' Young Guns ' riff, this ditty will soon be another Top of the Pops cracker".
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 ] In October 2024, Smith said the Cure would release a follow-up album to Songs of a Lost World and tour in 2025, and would release a documentary in 2028. [ 151 ]
"Lullaby" is a song by English rock band the Cure from their eighth studio album, Disintegration (1989). Released as a single on 10 April 1989, the song is the band's highest-charting single in their home country, reaching number five on the UK Singles Chart. It additionally reached number three in West Germany and Ireland while becoming a top ...
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" is a song by English rock band The Cure. Produced by Chris Parry , it was released on 2 November 1979 in the UK as a stand-alone. It later appeared on the US version of the band's debut album, Boys Don't Cry (1980).
"Killing an Arab" is the debut single by English rock band the Cure. It was recorded at the same time as their first album Three Imaginary Boys (1979), but not included on the album. However, it was included on the band's first US album, Boys Don't Cry (1980). [2] The song's title and lyrics reference Albert Camus's 1942 novella The Stranger.