If THIS isn’t the CREEPIEST Song of the 80s… I Don’t Know WHAT is | Professor Of Rock

POLL: With The Cure Disintegration in mind, what do you think is the absolute MASTERPIECE album of the 80s?

Disintegration is one of those rare "perfect albums" in my opinion. For me, "perfect album" means I listen through it start to finish without skipping a track. I love the whole damn thing.

I don't remember Disintegration being considered "career ending." I remember it being considered a masterpiece.

The whole damn album is a masterpiece, but "The Same Deep Water as You" is still the one that just guts me every time...and I've been playing this album for over 30 years now.

I'm just absolutely impressed that he sounds JUST as good now singing as he did then. Rarely do good voices age well.

Lullaby is hands down my favorite Cure song. It’s one of their most original, haunting, sweet, well produced songs, and Robert’s take on the song is perfect.

Thank goodness Robert Smith wasn’t one to give in to record companies. Even in his early 20s when he wrote A Forest the record company was asking him to make it sound more commercial and he flat out refused. He said he had a vision for the song and he was sticking to it. A Forest is one of the greatest Cure songs ever written. Imagine it sounding any different.

When I was like 6, my babysitter introduced me to The Cure. She used to dress me and my sister up as Robert Smith - she even bought spray in hair color. She took photos of us re-enacting the Lullaby video. The first tape I ever bought with my own money was Disintegration, using my allowance money at age 9. She used to record MTV on VHS and bring it to my house to show us videos. I have her to thank for my "coolness."

I thank my mother's endless patience with me for playing this and Violator by Depeche Mode on repeat for days in my early high school days...

The Cure has had the most dreamy, dreadful, daring songs ever! Disintegration absolutely my favorite album...The Cure is Magic!! xo

Lullaby is a modern masterpiece. No one else could have written it- it’s so personal. I still listen to it, as it lives on my favorite playlists (usually near the Cocteau Twins, and Love & Rockets ‘Love Me’). Life wouldn’t be anywhere near as atmospheric without it.

I absolutely love the all mixed up extended version of lullaby! Such great musicianship.

As a The Cure listener, one who enjoyed records before kiss me3x, I felt that Kiss me3x was actually the departure from what the cure was about. And that Disintegration WAS the return. I consider it their best! Makes me think if record producers had actually listened to their previous recordings.

Not to mention he was almost 40 when he defeated Mecha Streisand. Dude is truly bad ass.

I’d say Lullaby is about anxiety creeping at night. Even before anxiety was widely talked about. One of my favorite albums ever.

Lullaby and a Forest are hands down my favorite songs of the Cure. The dreamy melodic trance the entire album put me in as a teenager helped me get through things. Still my favorite album 30 years later.

I got into the Cure as a teenager in the 80s, and still love them now. I really LOVED “Lullaby” and later “Like Cockatoos” and all their earlier stuff, my parents actually saw them live even earlier in the “Seventeen seconds” era when I was just a kid.

I strongly believe that the “spider” overtaking him in bed before he falls asleep is depression/anxiety. The way those negative emotions/thoughts creep over you like a spider or shadow is the closest experience I’ve felt wrestling with this beast. It feels like you’re paralyzed and completely helpless as it takes hold. Haha maybe I’m just looking too much into this, but I’ve always related to this tune on that level

I turned from 11 to 12 years old the year “disintegration” came out. That was also the year I became a young woman, curious about all sorts of new things I had not thought about before in my prepubescent childhood. It was also the beginning of adolescent depression setting in, but I found solace in The Cure’s music, & had many revelations... I was introduced to their sound by my friend & neighbors older brother, who would play their records on repeat, while his walls were covered in the bands posters, & his style of dress was Gothic & intriguing to me. We lived in houses that mirrored each other, & we each lived in the same room of that identical floor plan. Every time I went to visit, I was being drawn in by the tunes emanating from that room. Yet his domain was so different than mine, & so much cooler with its dark aesthetic & vibe. The mood fit with the one I carried, & in him I found someone who also mirrored my emotions, & music preferences that probably scared my parents. He would spend hours playing their records for me, & explaining things that made him seem otherworldly. I was soon experimenting with art, & new dimensions of expressing… It wasn’t long before I too dressed darker than most of my peers, & had a taste in music that wasn’t the most popular. For me I had found another home within that sound, that still makes me smile, despite it’s sad undertones… I will forever find nostalgia & memories I treasure in those records…🖤🤍🖤

We loved that song-came out when I was in hs. Bands like the Cure really saved a lot of kids-gave us a community and common culture, as we lived our teen-centered life with next to zero adult supervision.