Disintegration (The Cure album)
Disintegration is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Cure. It was released on 2 May 1989 by Fiction Records. It is the band’s first commercial peak, charting at number three in the United Kingdom and at number 12 in the U.S., and producing several hit singles. It remains The Cure’s highest selling record to date, with more than three million copies sold worldwide.
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Disintegration is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Cure. It was released on 2 May 1989 by Fiction Records. The Cure recorded Disintegration at Hookend Recording Studios in Checkendon, Oxfordshire, with co-producer David M. Allen from late 1988 to early 1989. Following the completion of the mixing of the album, founding member Lol Tolhurst was fired from the band. It remains The Cure’s highest selling record to date, with more than three million copies sold worldwide. The album was placed at number 116 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the \”500 Greatest Albums of All Time\”. It is the band’s first commercial peak, charting at number three in the United Kingdom and at number 12 in the U.S., and producing several hit singles including \”Lovesong\”, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. It is a return to the introspective gothic rock style the band had established in the early 1980s. Robert Smith had felt an increased pressure to follow up on the group’s pop successes with a more enduring work. This, coupled with a distaste for the group’s newfound popularity, caused Smith to lapse back into the use of hallucinogenic drugs, the effects of which had a strong influence on the production of the record. The group recorded a total of 32 songs, with 12 of the songs making it onto the final album. When the band entered Hook End Manor, their attitude had turned sour towards Tolhurst’s escalating alcohol abuse, although Smith insisted that his displeasure was caused by a meltdown in the face of his bandmates’ egos.
Of the 32 songs recorded, Smith believed he believed the band possessed what he believed his egos possessed, and he believed he was the only person in the band who could cure him of his depression. The band recorded their individual demos at Boris Williams’ house, which he rated as ‘1 to 10’, before meeting later at a second session with a 16-track recorder to record the rest of the tracks. The material he had written instantly took a dismal form, credited to the fact that he would turn 30 in one year. Smith felt all the masterpieces in rock and roll had been completed well before the band members reached such an age. This realization was frightening to him, as he felt that all the greats had been recorded well before he was born. He began to write music without the other members of the band, and the material he wrote took a depressing form, which was credited to ‘the fact that I was gonna be thirty’ The group met later at the second session and recorded their own individual demos that he rated them ‘1-10’, which he then recorded at a third session with Boris Williams. After the recording of the final song, the group met at the end of the summer of 1989 to record a final song. The final song was ‘Close to Me’, which was recorded by the band at a house in Oxfordshire. It became the first single to infiltrate the top ten in the UK, peaking at number seven.
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