I'm so happy that Robert maintained his voice over the years. Or maybe he was just lucky. So many other artists ruined theirs.

I just saw The Cure this week for the first time with my dad (they were his favorite band in the 80s). Incredible fucking show! They sound incredible live still

Robert Smith was still dabbling in acid at the time of the albums creation, Smith reflects "There were maybe three times in the Eighties, when I just went through periods of … “self-exploration” would be a euphemistic way to do it. I was just pushing myself to see how far I could go. It was a big deal to me to be turning 30. I thought, This is it. This is my last chance to create something really meaningful in my life. Disintegration was recorded in a very concentrated burst late in autumn 1988 in the English countryside. It was melancholy. The whole atmosphere was completely different. It was very, very somber."

every time i listen to disintegration i get this otherworldly feeling, i can’t believe the cure is an actual band with this much success in the kind of world we live in, god it’s so beautiful

This is the kind of album i would play when the homies aren't around. From the lyrics to the musical arrangement & sound design. Everything just feels very personal & heartfelt.. Im no musician or had any musical background but something about this record just really resonates with me as a listener. both in a thematic & musical sense.

I love that old clip of Robert saying they'd play for 3 hours just because they were having that much fun. I saw them in 2016 and they did indeed play for 3 hours. Never change Robert Smith

Fascination street is my favorite song from disintegration! It’s so fun and I can’t help but dance to it- and then I immediately sit and cry to prayers for rain. But god I love the turning point it has

It's a perfect album

This record is part of my personal Top 4 albums of all times, along Dark Side of the Moon, OK Computer and the first Rage against the Machine. What a gem, a true masterpiece! Those songs were an integral part of my beginning adulthood, maybe that is the reason why I "keep it deep in my heart". ❤❤❤

It must suck thinking 30 is basically where you peak in life, especially when you're creating music and art. How old was Maynard when Tool launched 10,000 days? It's crazy how Robert thought that 30 was peak because a lot of musicians put out their best work after 30, I feel.

Lullaby and Homesick have always been my favorite songs off this album but Disintegration may have taken that over. It might be their best work instrumentally and it sounds like pure anguish. I saw them perform it live a few nights ago and was a transcendent experience.

I recently got into The Cure and Disintegration is my favorite album of theirs. It came out one year before I was born, and listening to it, I realized that when I was a child, Lovesong and Lullaby were playing all the time on the radio. I didn't actually know that it was The Cure but they kind of were there all along with me. Now, I am a tiny bit older than Robert was when he wrote it but I resonate so much with this album. I am glad I found it at this time in my life, because I felt like I needed it. It's a masterpiece.

Bobert myth

This time next week I’ll be seeing the cure for the third time and I am so EXCITED!! They’ve been my favorite band since I was a young teenager back in the late 90s

Another interesting add to your video is that you say that this is not the darkest Cure album by far, but now that I'm entering the age as well I can certainly feel what it's about unlike I did when I was younger. One might think Pornography is the darkest but there is so much reaistance, so much "f*ck you", as Robert said on it, ending with "I must find this sickness, find the cure", while this album ends with "I'll never dream of you again". So, I must say, even though the music is calmer, like your attitude when you are older, Disintegration is a much more hopeless album than Pornography so now it feels much darker than other Cure albums.

I think a video on the evolution of The Killing Joke would be interesting. Their earlier sound was quite different from what I recall them sounding like when I was young in the 2000s, and now. I really like revelations.

Think I've done some of my most creative writing while listening to this album. It's really something.

It's so awesome that you made this video keep up with the great work

When I first heard The Cure it was the song Love Cats. It wasn't bad but I wrote them off as some cheesy 80s band, then I heard my mom listening to Lullaby and was hooked and they became one of my all time favorites.

Great video!!! I saw them for the second time almost a week ago...best concert of my life. To listen to disintegration live again was perfection. And Robert still has his beautiful voice unchanged.

My daughter and I saw the cure for the first time back in May. It was one of the best concerts I've been too and glad I was able to experience that with my daughter.

Just found out about this channel and it's almost like every single video caters to all of my niche interests. Disintegration is the best rainy day record for me, and The Cure is an incredibly important group. Excellent vid!

Happens to be my #1 favorite album of all time❤❤❤ adding your voice to the mix just made my entire life❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ ooof.

I just get more and more the feeling that music from that decade (80s and 90s) had a much bigger cultural impact than any other music after - let's say 2010 ever will.

So well done! As a lifelong Cure fan, this was such an absolute joy to watch. Informative and entertaining - you should be proud.

I just saw the cure live a few days ago. I love them so much it was a phenomenal show

Man.. really glad I found your channel.. these breakdown/reviews are pretty amazing! Long live the cure 🤟

massively underrated channel, another all time banger of a vid.

Don't forget that "Fear of ghosts" is (one of the) best songs "on the album"! 🤣 Plus I feel that "Homesick" has way more significance on it as it is stated here. It almost feels like a tender touch on accepting death. Or deep sorrow, at least. It's one of those ethereal songs that make you feel the end of the world. And "Fear of ghosts" is the musical presentation of "moonlight in the morning wake up in shivering cold". Can't believe it was left off the album, it is so visceral, cuts like a knife!

This is a classic and one of the most influential pieces of it's time end time going forward!❤

17:30 The 80s were the decade of Generation X, not the Boomers. Generation X are the ones who grew up in the 80s, and who "lust after that bygone era" where the 80s are concerned. Why does everyone keep forgetting there was a whole other generation between the Boomers and the Millennials?

Attended the Cure concert last year. It was magical. My first big concert and i will never forget it. Their music has made a great impact on me

Great video, my favorite album of all time.

23:44 yes yes yes, thank you for making this video and saying the words i can’t put together, you hit every nail.

The Cure has a lot in common with Motorhead: highly iconic looking alcoholic frontmen with a ever rotating band lineup putting out albums and performing a bang up live show for 40 years.

What a masterpiece of a video. Congratulations.

I hope they do another tour. I missed out on the ticket sales of this oast one and i was devastated to find out most the tracks played were from Disintegration and even Burn from The Crow.

Oh my fucking god, this album changed my perception of music, to think we went from the romantic "Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me" to this melancholic masterpiece only 2 years later in 1989, very proud to have seen The Cure live in Birmingham.

Came back to say this is a fantastic video! 🖤 one of my favorite song lyrics comes from pornography’s the hanging garden. “Catching haloes on the moon, gives my hands the shapes of angels”. My personal favorite song has always been Siamese twins from the same album.

This was uploaded at the right time for me to venture in this video.

Warmspot - George Clanton at 5:00!!! Great vid man subscribed 👍

These are cool videos, would be interesting to see you do some on Sol Invictus.

Last Dance is so underrated and lost on this epic album.

My favorite album ever. So many years of memories surrounding this album. So many chapters in my life that it needed to be played.

I turned 29 this year, this video helped a lot. Thank you.

Time to fuel my ongoing The Cure kick

I love Fascination street, that bass line is amazing. I never paid too much attention to the lyrics… oh wow 😦😈

Thank you for taking the time to make such a great video💜😭

Its truly an intense album for sure one of the best. Idk about THE BEST.

Awesome. Such a beautiful album.

Seventeen Seconds is my favorite albums of all times! 🖤 It gets me every time! 💜 🖤💜🖤💜🖤

Your a great channell it seems that your veiws are verry inconsistant based on the topic but your whole channel os good and informative and iv found new music because of you.

Ohhh my god,a video about Disintegration

One of my favorite albums. I think I love all of theirs though.

I fucking love disintegration, I love all their work but it in particular really hits hard. Happy sad is the ultimate goth vibe

So happy I saw this video

great video!

Great video. Ever since this album came out, the song, Disintegration, has been one of my favorites. Can't wait to hear their final album, Songs of a Lost World. Dropping through sky Through the glass of the roof Through the roof of your mouth Through the mouth of your eye Through the eye of the needle It's easier for me to get closer to heaven Than ever feel whole again I never said I would stay to the end I knew I would leave you with babies and everything

best video of all time and I havent even watched it yet Im so happy

oh boy 37 minutes graymads video i will mindlessly consume about the cure

YO NEARLY 40 MINUTE BANGER

I don't know what fanboys will dis you for calling this their greatest album. For such an amazing, landmark disc there's surprisingly relatively little good discussion about it here on KZfaq (which is why I was glad to find this video!) Despite it's sadness and regret, "Untitled" is a somewhat hopeful song. How can it be with that monster-gnawing pain never leaving? I recently heard a quote from Robert about this album that explained something I only kind of half-understood before. He said, these aren't love songs, they're songs about obsession. And I would add, there's a selfishness that permeates most of these songs. As much as he's singing about the objects of his love, he's stuck in his own head. You have to be stuck in your own head to be that obsessed, to make such dramatic paintings of all of these topics. Compared to all that, Untitled is just about the most honest moment for the narrator on in the album. He's just honest about what he's done and not done, but the the tone and feeling of the song, the sober and reflective feel, says he's honest about how to keep all of that in proper perspective. So Untitled is not just another ending, and it's not a happy ending, but it's an honest and therefore redemptive one. That's my take, anyway. Thanks for the video!

What’s up Gray! I’m seeing The Cure next week, perfect!

THE BEST ALBUM EVER MADE. i love you robert smith

hell yeah, new graymads video

silent hill + the cure trust

Loved your video on the Pornography album so I was so happy to see this come up in my recommended.

my favorite album

I, for the longest time could only get into Pornography, Faith, and Seventeen Seconds, as well as their Self Titled album to an extent. Lately however Disintegration has begun to sound right to me. I've found the darkness within the album, and I'm loving it. Its not as desolate as Pornography (perhaps the finest Goth album ever made) but it still feels similar at times.

I've been a fan of The Cure for 30+ years. Disintegration is an incredible album. Mortality and loss of youth is the theme of a good chunk of their current show/tour. Lots of sad, major losses for them.

Do more videos on bands, the cure and depeche mode videos are my favorite!

Pornography is absulute doom. This is despair

Fascination Street, Labyrinth, Burn, Lullaby and Charlette Sometimes are my favorites

Thanks for the content! Because of this, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole and discovered Pornography for the first time. 100 Years has been on repeat ever since then. Haha. 😍 It's like the perfect moody song that I secretly hoped The Cure had made, but never knew it existed, ya know what I mean? I can totally see how something like that could have influenced Deftones, for sure.

There were two types of kids in my school - those who absolutely lived for this album and those who played football. I did not play football.

wild mood swings is kinda like the KMKMKM of Bloodflowers.

I had that my favorite albums

Pornography Disintegration Faith Head on the door The top 17 seconds Are my favorite cure albums porn being my all time favorite

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robert smith 🐐

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The cure are the one band you hear the first note or two you can tell immediately who it is.

Damnit I love this album. I'm amazed how often you, Graymads, give attention to subjects so close to me. Which is weird considering how far removed from mainstream most of it is. That being said... Skinny Puppy? Any chance you're a fan and that we might see some content on the subject... from you... Graymads.

TALK ABOUT SISTERS OF MERCY!

I love your vids graymads you should do a vid on mayhem the metal band I’ve always wanted to know it’s story

I think the cure aged better than a lot of bands, they always remained hard working

at 40 I finally "got" the cure. I can listen to any of their albums, any of their songs. That isn't even true of some of my lifelong favorite bands. Pretty strange as I really couldn't stand them when I was a young man.

I’m surprised you haven’t talked about The Smiths or Joy Division yet

16:16 "you wouldn't want me to do anything... bad... would you?" Me: yes, daddy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Found your channel from the pornography vid, cool to see more cure stuff lol

Thank you! Seeing them for the 8th time over 3 decades, tomorrow ❤

We’re all going to die. We all have to accept that fact, get over it, and live life to the full.

What did you think of that MTV Unplugged song involving members of KoRn and The Cure?

The Cure's Magnum Opus

I clicked this video so damn fast

did you sample FM skyline ? Great video

The Cure didn't start out as a pop act at all. Listen to their first album.

Not even a word about "Faith"? 😳

"Last Dance" and "Homesick" weren't on the original vinyl LP. The first CD pressings listed them as bonus tracks, despite their places as 5th and 11th out of 12 songs. Personally my least favourite songs, but an interesting tidbit.

10:09 In a-nut-shell, The Cure in the UK and Europe is Pop Music. So Robert is Half right not liking the "Goth" term. But he does smells like a goth, never mind that. Here in America he is not pop, but Underground goth alternative music. So over there in Europe he can brag about being POP Cheese. NOT here in America. And he does cater us well.