Disintegration

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  1001Albums

  Neil Hopkins

  Apparently Robert Smith had a bit of a crisis of confidence approaching his 30th birthday, thinking that he would soon be past his creative peak. He wrote most of the material for this album on his own, working through his feelings of despair and the band added musical gloomscapes to them. The end result is oddly uplifting, when you remember that Bob is now happily in his sixties and still collaborating with bands who are less than half his age. Gothtastic!

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  Representative Songs From My Teenage Years (1980-1987)

  stumpnugget

  The Cure was the coolest band. The lead singer looked like an alien. Their sound was dark and brooding. I loved them. All the dark kids who seemed to have secret unnamable troubles, and who dressed in long sleeved black shirts on 105 degree days, loved them.