It's the same for the rest of the top ten, which includes Exile on Main Street, a album loaded with undistinguished blues stuff, even Stones fans will admit.
Revolver? Great songs, but there is a lot of filler on that album, unless you can whistle "And Your Bird Can Sing" for me. Pepper's, some of which is not even listenable, be honest! Pet Sounds? Very dated, not a uniform effort by any means. Let's defer to Rolling Stone and pass right over Sgt. The Doors? Worthy indeed, but do you really like "Whiskey Song"? I hate it myself, and the album is not a complete effort, despite the overall greatness that cannot be denied. And some of the rest are novelty songs that don't really make for serious listening. The White Album? No way, a good 50% of that album is, I don't care what Paul says. My favorite is "Last Dance", which oddly enough wasn't on the vinyl, though thank goodness Smith recognizes it, and included it on Trilogy, or I'd die.īut I digress. My least favorite song might be "Disintegration", just due to the shattering noise it makes in disgorging Bob's relationship guilt, but I'm being silly aren't I? Great song.
I don't need to preach to the converted and mention that every song on this album is a solid, A-class song do I? Anything weak at all? "Closedown" could be criticized as being less than an independent song due to the paucity of lyrical content, but it's a wonderful piece of music in context. Now, let's defend that title, the best album ever. So if there are only 283 reviews posted here, why not? Maybe Cure fans shouldn't be so shy in talking about the holy grail, then there'd be tens of thousands and they'd need a new server to hold them all. Otherwise, forget it, unless there's some country western artist I'm ignorant about, Smith has no competition. Oldsters that perform with 86-piece backing bands are disqualified, so that leaves out Bruce, the Stones, etc.
DISINTEGRATION THE CURE PLUS
Oh sure, there are singers with that kind of longevity, but writing, performing, engineering and producing, plus touring behind it all? Maybe Neil Young? At least he still writes. No other artist I am aware of has produced great music in four decades. What amazes me is how few people understand what a miracle the Cure is, how long the love between the fans and this band (well, Bob and Simon anyway) has gone on. Not true of course, this music obviously came from the depth of a human soul, and Smith has more than proven his genius. It's difficult to believe that Robert Smith really wrote this, easier to imagine that Mozart-like this music always was and he just scribbled it out. I feel the same way about Disintegration. Why write another review of this album? Is it proper even to use the word "review" in this context? One of the best things Roger Ebert ever said was that Prospero's Books (Greenaway) "stands above criticism". (Was this of use? If so, let me know by clicking "Helpful." Cheers!) And the endless build of the title track ensures an epically lush album, and one for the ages."Disintegration" is name-checked as one of depression's great achievements, but that downplays the deft of nuance adrift in its undercurrents. "Prayers for Rain" layers tempest synths over a classically menacing riff. The musical marriage vow of “Lovesong” also finds Robert Smith conceding its inevitable valleys. For over three decades, this album has stirred listeners with its provision of intensely individual experiences.The record's consuming emotion triggers with opener "Plainsong," which not unlike Joy Division's "Atmosphere" enlists glacial synths to conjure a majesty both soaring and solemn. If what's needed is only claustrophobic, blinds-drawn bleakness, there are early minimalist offerings from The Cure that hardly presaged the grandeur of 1989's "Disintegration," a magnum opus so musically and emotionally expansive that it seemingly conjures a wide-openness of oceans and peaks. Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2021
0 kommentar(er)
