I am not very familiar with their music, but I can still see the skeleton of the leitmotif of disintegration through this love that consumes and time that doesn’t forgive. Looks like a great way exercise your lyrical transfiguration muscle. 💪🏻
Thank you kindly, Luciana! I highly reccomend listening to it.
The background of this album is that lead singer Robert Smith grew anxious about the band's legacy as he was nearing 30 years of age and felt he still hadn't written his magnum opus yet. Thus he entered a deep state of melancholy, feeling as if himself and all the life around him was disintegrating. The album makes you enter in this same emotional state which is maintained throughout.
It's a long, slow, and heavy listen, but very trasformative and cathartic!
Understandable. 30 is a fun age where everything you learned in your twenties quite literally shatters and no longer serves as it did. I can relate to his experience of being worried about writing his greatest work, as this period in one’s life, the bridge between your twenties and thirties, brings this anxiety that you are now so old and you didn’t manage to be the greatest writer or the greatest singer songwriter or a prodigy in your field of choice. But most great works come with age and experience, and some people look back and laugh at their 25-30 year old self and say: oh, how silly we were! I wonder what Robert thinks now of his old album. 🤭
Definitely. Yeah it seems the older you get the more weight you associate to the passing of time. In youth everything seems more light and simple, but after a certain while you start to reflect and perhaps wish you'd done things differently.
I believe Smith stated that ''Disintegration'' isn't his favorite of their albums, but he also stated that he understood why it had such a big impact on people. I imagine he associates this album with a very difficult period in his life.
Their album ''Pornography'' is another album that's very heavy, featuring themes of extreme depressions. In general The Cure have a very unique and interesting discography, post-punk roots, hit-singles and Goth-rock.
I believe he said of the song ''The Same Deep Water As You'' made him profoundly sad while recording, beause he felt it was the first time something affected him in what felt like forever. Basically it sort of cured him of emotonal numbness momentarily.
I could talk about this band and this album for days, really!
Well, you have to fall into the abyss to rise back up stronger or at the very least changed from your old ways. This was a very fun and insightful thread, Rasmus. Looking forward to the pieces from the next level.
Thank you, Daniel! It's more of an adaptation or a remix. I took certain lyrics from the album, rearranged them, added some things. Essentially yeah it's an attempt to turn their lyrics into poems
I am not very familiar with their music, but I can still see the skeleton of the leitmotif of disintegration through this love that consumes and time that doesn’t forgive. Looks like a great way exercise your lyrical transfiguration muscle. 💪🏻
Thank you kindly, Luciana! I highly reccomend listening to it.
The background of this album is that lead singer Robert Smith grew anxious about the band's legacy as he was nearing 30 years of age and felt he still hadn't written his magnum opus yet. Thus he entered a deep state of melancholy, feeling as if himself and all the life around him was disintegrating. The album makes you enter in this same emotional state which is maintained throughout.
It's a long, slow, and heavy listen, but very trasformative and cathartic!
Understandable. 30 is a fun age where everything you learned in your twenties quite literally shatters and no longer serves as it did. I can relate to his experience of being worried about writing his greatest work, as this period in one’s life, the bridge between your twenties and thirties, brings this anxiety that you are now so old and you didn’t manage to be the greatest writer or the greatest singer songwriter or a prodigy in your field of choice. But most great works come with age and experience, and some people look back and laugh at their 25-30 year old self and say: oh, how silly we were! I wonder what Robert thinks now of his old album. 🤭
Definitely. Yeah it seems the older you get the more weight you associate to the passing of time. In youth everything seems more light and simple, but after a certain while you start to reflect and perhaps wish you'd done things differently.
I believe Smith stated that ''Disintegration'' isn't his favorite of their albums, but he also stated that he understood why it had such a big impact on people. I imagine he associates this album with a very difficult period in his life.
Their album ''Pornography'' is another album that's very heavy, featuring themes of extreme depressions. In general The Cure have a very unique and interesting discography, post-punk roots, hit-singles and Goth-rock.
I believe he said of the song ''The Same Deep Water As You'' made him profoundly sad while recording, beause he felt it was the first time something affected him in what felt like forever. Basically it sort of cured him of emotonal numbness momentarily.
I could talk about this band and this album for days, really!
Well, you have to fall into the abyss to rise back up stronger or at the very least changed from your old ways. This was a very fun and insightful thread, Rasmus. Looking forward to the pieces from the next level.
I really like using lyrics as inspiration, or is this adaptation? In either case I enjoyed it
Thank you, Daniel! It's more of an adaptation or a remix. I took certain lyrics from the album, rearranged them, added some things. Essentially yeah it's an attempt to turn their lyrics into poems
I think your account will blow up on here pretty soon. Quality stuff
Thank you, Joseph! I see your publication has been doing good number lately, very well deserved! Appreciate the support!
Love these. It’s one of my favourite albums, too.
Thank you! It's a life changing album for sure! A timeless work of art!