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on 'Disintegration'... "On Disintegration, it's more obvious. The words on this new record are glaringly obvious." (Lipstick Traces Melody Maker April 29, 1989 John Wilde) "I know why the songs are like this. It's got a lot to do with just turning 30, getting married last summer, things that have nothing to do with anyone else really. I guess 'Kiss Me' was a summing up for the group, while this record is a personal summing up for me. I think it's as far as I can go. I'm aware of repeating myself, going over familiar ground. I'll have to find another medium for myself. Boxing perhaps..." (Melody Maker 6th May 1989) "Before we even started rehearsing, I had the title 'Disintegration' and I wanted the album's end to convey an actual feeling of disintegration. Originally I was going to take perverse satisfaction in making a depressing album. There were these suicides in New Zealand which made the front page of the newspapers over there. These two boys had been listening to us when they killed themselves and the headline read something like 'Gothic Cult Suicide'. We had this stuck on the wall. I know it's tragic, but at the same time it's grimly funny because it obviously had nothing to do with us. We were just singled out. Everyone was joking about it being suicidal music and how I upset people with the words. This album was supposed to fulfill what was expected, but it hasn't worked out that way. They're certainly not uplifting, but there's a satisfaction that comes from listening to something that you know a lot's gone into. You can tell there are people involved and that those people care. I care a lot." "It's our old idea of producing an thematic album, so you sit down and listen to it end to end on your own. This gave us the time to draw out sections and underplay sections. Rather than having to make the point in three or four minutes, we've allowed ourselves seven minutes. In that sense, the minimal way of recording, it goes back to our earliest stuff rather than 'Top' or 'Head On The Door', where we tried to cram everything in. Those albums were good and they worked, but this is supposed to be a bigger sounding record. "I've never done it before, but on this album I was trying to imagine people listening to it. I had various imaginary and non-imaginary people who listened to the record and I found out what they'd feel listening to the songs. I was also singing to this audience dreamt up inside my head. Some of them were critical, and some accepted everything. They were all in different rooms in this hotel. No room service. I was trying to take them aback with the intensity I was trying to produce." (The Cure Melts Down Spin Magazine July, 1989 Ted Mico) What prompted the title? "It wasn't really to do with the group. Because none of the words to it are to do with the group. It's more like an interior disintegration, and it's something which I felt really keenly, and which I'll feel ever more keenly as I'm getting older, as I'm sure everyone does. It's like when you lose the ability to absorb things and to learn. You can't feel things as keenly, as deeply. It's that sense of everything falling apart". (What's The Big Idea? Musician 1989 J. D. Considine "I'm not trying to get out of things - but all these songs are too personal for me to talk about. Sorry". (Cure News 14 - 1993) "This is an excellent record, even though I was such a perfectionist and so miserable when I was making it. I had a serious mental picture of how I wanted the record to be and I didn't bother to explain myself to anyone else. My mistake. Now I explain, so that others can pick up the thread if I lose my way. I pretend to be a control freak, but retaining total control is like holding mercury - virtually impossible". (Cure News 20 - January 1999) "When we made Wish and WMS, Disintegration remained my favorite album. There's a sensitivity in the songs, that it comes close to who I am." (Gaffa (Danish music magazine) Feb.2000) |
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