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- Today, it’s the song that drove one of the UK’s biggest bands The Cure kicking and screaming out of obscurity into the Mainstream Thematically, Robert Smith’s Lovesong was completely out of character for the pope of mope… It was an unexpected bright spot on Disintegration.. the 1989 album that makes you feel like you might never see daylight again. Don’t get me wrong, it’s easily one of the most darkly beautiful records ever created. It is a moody, melancholy masterpiece that has not only been hailed as the peak of this band’s career, but also one of the greatest albums of the 80s. So what was this so-called ‘happy’ track even doing there? And could this band’s reluctant rockstar make peace with the song that turned this indie band into stadium headliners? We’ll find out...
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes we have covered Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears and Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Today we are getting into the story of a song that fell one spot short of #1, but definitely deserved that top spot. I remember trying to use the force to will it to #1.
Did any of you ever do that like that scene from Empire Strikes back where look is holding out his hand to pull the lightsaber from the ice… and then he finally did it. I must’ve tried that a dozen times growing up… Ha ha. I wanted this to got to #1 so bad but it had to settle for #2… If you haven’t figured it out by now. It’s Lovesong from The Cure’s magnum opus, Disintegration. And it came in at #2 on the Hot 100. Between 1978 and 1988 The Cure released 20 singles around the world… 21 if you count the re-release of Boys Don’t Cry in 1986. But during that time, the band had received little fanfare in the US. And you know what? That was fine with lead singer Robert Smith who was happy living underground.
Only six of those singles would chart in the US… well, sort of. Let’s Go to Bed and The Lovecats were both bubbling under the Hot 100 at #109 and #107. But on average, these six singles turned in a #82 ranking. Like I said, nowhere near mainstream notoriety.Their first Hot 100 breakthrough was the #99 hit ‘In Between Days’ in 86. And the following year, The Cure had their first Top 40 hit with ‘Just Like Heaven’. That came in at #40 exactly. Pretty ridiculous for one of the catchiest songs… most perfect tunes of the 80s…
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest "Dark" album of all time?
Well, the Cure's Pornography album is probably the best, hardest listen you'll ever have. It's DARK. But maybe Nick Cave and the Badseed's - Your Funeral My Trial, or Siouxsie and The Banshees - Juju.
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Springsteen 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Deftones 'White Pony'
The Wall
The final cut Pink Floyd
The Cure was the first band to make me feel like it was okay to be an introverted, moody, dark, teenaged loner. But Love Song resonates with me because it describes how I feel about my wife. She's the one that pulled me out of my shell and gave me hope that there was light in this world, and in me. We were polar opposites and nobody thought we'd make it. We celebrated our 25 year anniversary last summer.
Happy anniversary! Here’s to 50+ more years! 🎉
Congrats!
Wow God is great. So happy for you both. Stay strong and may you have celebrate many many more 👍🏼
Happy Anniversary! Here’s to 50 more!
Lovely story. 🌹
Disintegration is one of the greatest albums of all time.
Disintegration is a sonic experience that remains with you for a long, long time.
No question!
@@danielclegg9282 agreed. No hit song needed.
@@ProfessorofRock Be well professor and keep up the great work buddy.
Kyle Broflovski agrees.
In 1989 I was working at a huge record store in NYC when this album debuted. As employees, we got to play certain albums over the store's stereo system. I would play Disintegration as often as I could. I cannot think of a single time that it was played and a customer didn't ask for it. What a time to be alive(18 years old) and what a time for music. It was my first real introduction to the Cure after only hearing about them in high school. We throw the word masterpiece around, but this song and album truly fit the definition of that word.
It’s the definition of masterpiece, literally.
I'm a metal head, always have been and always will be. The harder, louder, and faster the better. But The Cure and this album especially has always been so special to me. I remember hearing Plainsomg for the first time and thinking it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever encountered. I was standing outside my brothers room listening to it but i never said anything to him because we didnt see eye to eye on anything and i wasnt about to admit a 6ft 190lb jock had been so mooved. When Wish came out he brought it to me and said i absolutely had to listen to and we had a connection thru music ever since. Truly art at its finest.
hey Disintegration literally had the disclaimer on the cover "this has been mixed to be played loud so turn it up"
Plainsong is my favorite Cure song!!!
Aww that’s awesome ☺️
LOVE your editions on The Cure!!! You truly pay them the deserved respect they have earned... Thank you, the legend of your wisdom continues to swell and spread my friend!
_Disintegration_ is a virtually flawless album; there is not a single bad song on. Definitely one of my top 10 desert island albums. "The Same Deep Water As You" is the absolute highlight of it.
It’s a breathtaking sonic masterpiece.
Last Dance and Homesick weren't even on the LP, they were put onto the CD as extras. And they are both brilliant.
I agree. The head on the Door is also a flawless album start to finish
What a story on The Cure. Thanks for bringing all these details to light. Glad to see the band is still out there creating music.
Robert is an absolute legend. I was at their gig in Leeds, England last month and the respect and affection he has for the fans is wonderful. 4 of the songs played were Disintegration: Pics of you, Love Song, Lullaby, Fascination Street...
I went through a period in the 1990s where I couldn't physically listen to Disintegration, it was too much of an emotional rollercoaster as the album was a milestone during a difficult break up.
Anyway, wonderful gig .my son (16) and I were in the standing area at Leeds Arena. My wife and daughter were in the seated area. Now there was a cock up with their seats and there was a double booking... so they missed the first 4 songs including Lovesong. Anyway as compensation, the venue has given us 2 tickets for Iron Maiden in June for free! Result! 😁😁😁
I was suppose to be at the very same gig! I had covid and was ill and I could not go, so fucking annoyed now and forever hope they tour again soon!
They’re fabulous live. Hope you enjoy Iron Maiden!
I remember the 1st time I heard Just Like Heaven in a club. A cute guy asked me to dance to it & I couldn’t get it out of my head (or him😊). But I had a hard time trying to find out the name of it since they only say it at the very end & not in the chorus. I would try to request it only to find myself singing “show me show me show me” to the dj trying to get him to figure out what song I was talking about. Finally I found one who knew it & that’s when I learned about The Cure. When I went to buy the album I couldn’t find it & ended up buying their All Mixed Up album. Fell in love with every song on it & finally started hearing them on the radio. I bought more of their albums when they finally became easier to find. My husband surprised me with concert tickets to see them for the first time only around 5 years ago & they were phenomenal, playing about 5 encores. Love The Cure! Not everybody gets them, but when you do, you absolutely do!
Loved The Cure since the early 80s. For all their songs, "Pictures of You" makes me feel melancholy and even a little teary-eyed.
Same here. One of my favorite songs ever.
It’s such a masterpiece. All the way through.
Pictures of you hit me straight through my heart. Always.
Same, i could relate to this album.
I used to cry to it as a teen
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I was a fringe Cure fan for years. I grew up on Siouxie & The Banshees. I bought the Cure's first compilation album and loved it. It had many songs I liked. It was their song with horns, "Hot, Hot, Hot," "Just Like Heaven," that woke me up. Seeing them on tour for the first time confirmed what I saw coming, I was officially a Cure fan. That meant revisiting their early catalog. I was one of the millions of people who jumped all over "Disintegration" once it was released. Working in Camelot Music, I saw the madness! It was also like Air Jordan shoes had been released that day! Interesting, you're covering The Cure. I've been binging on their music heavily this month. Very refreshing!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Sean!
Well it makes sense as Robert Smith was in the Banshees for a while - songs like Swimming Horses have a very Cure vibe.
I am a huge fan too, and I totally get the hype!
Camelot Music. Noice!
Ha that’s awesome. I was more a Cure guy but started following the Banshees when as a teenager I learnt Robert had been guitarist for a short period. It’s crazy to think that that was over 35 years ago!
Love Love Love The Cure. So many comments here of people that don’t enjoy their work. Their concerts are legendary, each time they have played inHawaii it’s been over 3 hours and different sets each evening.
A perfect album from start to finish. I was one of those outcast misfits who remembers running downtown after school on the Tuesday it came out. Seems all new releases dropped on Tuesdays back then. Because I was a regular customer, the store owner kept a promo poster for me which I still have to this day, somehow making it through college dorm room walls [where it helped me meet one of the prettiest girls in my class when she saw it on my wall freshman year] and my first apartment after graduation. In fact, I think most of my closest friends today are and have always been solid fans of The Cure. Kind of amazing the bonding ability of this band for so many weirdos and loners from Gen X onward.
There is not one bad song at all on this album. It has a nice flow to it from start to finish.
One of the best of the 80s.
"Love song" is a true gem...beautiful and yet still has that signature brooding quality of The Cure. The story behind it's creation is so amazing. Again, I admire your way of perfectly unfolding "the story" behind every iconic featured song. Thank you so much Professor. ❤️
It's the unexpected 180 songwriting that gets you the most. It's such an intricate album and song, it deviates, but still feels like home for a band like The Cure.
For sure. Thanks RC32!
Others try it and it just didn't work for me, Ozzy's Momma I'm comin' home, Green Day had a "big" one, it's almost an easy tactic to generate some head turning. A genuine 180 that works takes a different level of genius.
That’s why it’s unique.
I love your videos -- they always capture the spirit of how it felt to be part of that PART of that generation. Overwhelmed, missing something, finally seen and not alone.
Indeed the best way to spend the sabbath. Another excellent edition of the professor of rock.
A perfect record from start to finish. Disintegration was my high school soundtrack. My mother was worried about the way I listened to my tape incessantly. She would bang on my room door and yell, “Are you okay in there? Why is this music so morbid?” 😂 It wasn’t morbid at all. it was like therapy for 16 year-old me.
The song is pretty amazing, for two reasons. Musically it is the epitome of The Cure and of '80s melancholy, and sonic delight. The music, while not overly complicated, is perfect.
And the lyrics… they may seem simple and trite, but they're really just uncomplicated. In the way a 15-year-old boy desperately wants to tell a girl that he loves her. And a 60-year-old man would use the exact same words to convey the exact same thing.
It's a masterpiece.
So many great songs.. The B-Sides that were on the cassette version of Standing On A Beach were brilliant as well. Amazing band.
I'm pretty sure this was the first song by them that I consciously identified as a Cure song. I have loved it for decades. (The Cure are in my top 3 favorite bands of all time.) Thanks as always, Adam, for highlighting such greatness!
Thanks David!
For me it was Lullaby. Euston Station in London. I was like... what is this. Is it Kate Bush?
Just 100%...Manage to watch them live when they came to Singapore, love every second of the concert.
Thanks for shining some light on this artist.
Although disintegration was praised the most, to me, the head on the door will always be my favorite Cure album. It was perfection from start to finish.
I completely agree
This song is such a classic. I remember hearing it on the local radio station back when it was new. I'm so glad to see the professor covering The Cure. I completely agree that this song should have been #1. I didn't appreciate The Cure quite as much as some other 80's bands, growing up, but I liked some songs, including Lovesong and Boy's Don't Cry. I eventually bought the album Mixed Up on CD. Thanks.
"Mixed Up" is great, isn't it!
Pictures of you is my all time favorite cure song.
Mine too! Thanks Wayne.
I agree! ❤
Ditto
Beyond a thing of immense beauty and a lengthy song, too, that slowly breaks the heart.
The Cure are just one of best ever
Thank you for bringing me back in time to an incredible year. I was actually struck by Lullaby's video and my life was never the same again
I loved this episode! Great work. I also love your t-shirt!
I had this on Cassette and I played and played it over and over I Love Robert Smith and the Cure ,,every song on it was beyond amazing and still Love them as much now as back then.
Another phenomenal video, Prof. Your channel is absolutely phenomenal
Love the shirt!!
I played guitar in a ska punk band called Save Ferris for a year or so back in the day.
Love the Cure!! Love the channel!
I’ve heard of them!
Thank you for this retrospective on The Cure. So much amazing music!!
I met Robert Smith in Miami when I won a radio contest. He was just great. I saw the Cure 8x. I met his Wife at the Bloodflowers tour and Robert on the Wish tour.
The Cure.. more than just another synth pop band. They were dark and mysterious. So many good timeless songs..
my brother you tell the stories about our life better than all ... im hooked on you and your intel...hope to meet you some day ...the virgin Islands is watching
They did a song on The Crow soundtrack, called "burn". It was awesome.
Amazing song. Unfortunately I got dumped to it once, which makes it a little complicated. But it's one of those everlasting songs that seem simple but are very layered and resonate deeply. There's more to it than meets the eye, or should I say ear.
It’s a very meaningful song.
Considering how many singers made their own rendition of the song, I hope the professor could be able to interview him about this and the other songs of The Cure.
I was a Cure fan in a place where Country and Western ruled. It was such a relief to hear those beautifully challenging sounds and thoughtful lyrics that made me feel understood.
There's an argument that Morrissey - Irish blood and English heart - sang C&W songs. Talk to a Mexican sometime :^x
What I love most about Lovesong is it has such a melancholic feel to it, it feels more like a song of lost love, while being the exact opposite…perfectly Cure
Well I wasn't a big fan of Cure but Love Song was absolutely mesmerizing and fell in love with it first time hearing it. Over the next few years I wore out a few cassettes at the same spot over and over again ..... lol Had a JVC portable that had loop(new feature then) and would listen to the same song few times in a row with a few different cassettes. I will never forget grade nine dance with Love Song playing and walking up to my crush and asking to dance ...... in a movie we would have danced to the song and fell in love. In reality she snickered and said no and as I walked away with my heart crushed this song rang in my ears and etched its self in my soul. Thankfully I was strong enough to not let it defeat me and stayed and danced with a few different girls and my young heart learned a lesson that would serve me well.
Masterfully done Professor!!!!
Great channel. Great song. Literally had the poster for love song on my bedroom wall in Highschool.
This is an awesome album. it was weird that it came to me. I still listen to the album. I thought I was weird to like it in this day, but I guess not. One of the few albums that I love the most of the songs.
I love "Lovesong". I'd still listen to it today more than the other hits from that year.
The poem is hauntingly accurate about passion, that make this song so marvellous. I always go back to the songs that make us relive the deepest feelings we got to experiment in this short lifetime. Love song is one of them. The Great gig in the sky from Pink Floyd is certainly another.
I love how he wrote this for Mary for their wedding.
Just like Heaven is my favorite song 🎵 and has been for most of my adult life.
Most people just don't pack the gear to appreciate the majestic dark genius of robert Smith
Ironically, The Empire Strikes Back is RS's favorite Star Wars movie of the original trilogy. Love your work! Thank you!
This song is my Cure story. It was the first thing of theirs I heard. I was 16 and really only familiar with the cheesy bubblegum pop of the time. Then Lovesong came along and I was equally confused and entranced. To me it sounded like 60s, like The Doors, with those synth keys. But also his voice was magnetic, the mood was hypnotic, I was absorbed and obsessed. When I saw the video I was, again, confused and entranced. The hair? The makeup? The dark brooding? Little preppie-wannabe be was just not acquainted this this... and yet I became obsessed.
I bought the album, one of very few albums I actually purchased as a teen. This was a big deal heh. I played that cassette over and over... confused and entranced. I didn't get it. I could not understand it. But I was drawn to it regardless, and spent hours just glued to my ghetto blaster. Until... I did understand it.
That was the beginning of my lifelong obsession with The Cure. I've enjoyed other bands and artists, but none ever come close. I idolize Robert Smith with the devotion he deserves. His art connects with my soul in just the perfect way.
And Disintegration is the best album ever. And Lovesong, while not in my top 3 Cure songs, will always be the most important one... because it's the one that found me.
How would have thought Robert Smith would write and sing a beautiful Love Song , I agree with you professor what makes this song so great is this was one of the best lyricists that usually wrote about darker things would write an honest love song that became their biggest hit. Definitely a #1 in my heart. Funny the fire fighter telling Robert his life was more valuable that his words definitely didn't understand Robert's words were his life. Great episode and story professor! You should do the whole album for sure!
It's so simple. It's beautiful.
It’s really touching and would make a great pick for a high school dance. When I’ve felt alone, I have thought of this song and just put it on, and it soothes my soul.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 it is a fantastic song especially when Robert is showing that he does love too
@@MyName-pl7zn He pours out his heart, his genuine feelings.
This album is such a masterpiece and there is a reason so many people have covered Lovesong, it's simple but just so perfectly describes what it feels like to be in love. I must have listened to this a million or more times since I first heard it and I'm still in love with it and The Cure.
It's his opus for sure. Thanks!
I never get tired of Lovesong.
Couldn't agree more. I feel like those who haven't given the Cure a chance are certainly missing out on real feeling
A mix tape staple for sure.
True story, the lyrics couldnt be more accurate
My older sister checked out "Standing On A Beach" gatefold vinyl from the library. The entire inside was the singles "sleeves" under water. I was intrigued. Then shortly after I heard Lovesong on the radio and my sisters friend went Nuts and turned it all the way up!!!! I was 12... I was SOLD!! Started with The Top, 17, then Disintegration... Thank you for the great video :)
i remember when i first moved into my Uni digs in 89. Disintegration was first album i put on while unpacking ;)
Still remember vividly when this came out. I loved it back then. Music was changing rapidly in that late 80's early 90's period, but it was nice to see both The Cure and Depeche Mode - who'd been going through the entire of the 80's - achieve massive US success with arguably some of their best work at the end of the decade. While the charts were flooded with the pure pop of SAW and rap / dance music, songs like this kept the charts interesting for those of us looking for something a little different.
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It's fascinating as someone who lives in the UK to see how these bands gained success in the USA. I love this story from your perspective. I was the same in 1985 when Marillion reached number 2 with their love song, Kayleigh. I was desperate for it to reach number one. I was into The Cure on hear A Forest back in 1980 and I remember playing Love Song over and over again in the car (rewinding a tape as it didn't have a CD player) while waiting to pick up my fiancée from a course she was attending in Preston. I couldn't wait for her to hear it!
I grew up in Southport in the eighties and remember when Kayleigh was in the top 10. A great song and band, both iterations, Fish and Hogarth. There is a clip on You Tube from a Dutch programme telling the story of Kayleigh. Very sad.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Yeah, I saw that recently. Incredible story. Still love listening to Marillion now. Funny enough, that day of Love Song, we went from Preston to Southport that evening for a meal. One of those memories that sits so well for me.
@@JamesStoddah Incredible that after all this time the link is made in a discussion thread on POR. Uncanny and a bit spooky.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Yup, was thinking that. Makes me want to go and dig out old vinyl and journals from back in the day.
Sheesh, Robert. If you didn't want to be so successful you shouldn't have been so damn good.
Disintegration was one of those albums that I wore the cassette out. It was definitely an album that was meant to be listened to from beginning to end.
My brother and I wore the CD out. I had to buy it again.
Disintegration is a brilliant album - definitely their best.
And Lovesong is one of the greatest love songs of all time.
I never interpreted Lovesong as a happy song. If you read the lyrics from the perspective of someone suffering addiction and codependency which he was at the time, Lines like “however long I stay“ imply he is not staying. “Whatever words I say“ implies that he’s not always speaking words of romance. And think of the last line of the last verse “you make me feel like I am clean again“ referencing his behavior when he’s not around this person. this song fits on disintegration because a little happiness now and again makes the misery so much more painful.
Appreciate the perspective. 💯 Love, especially romantic love, is more complicated than pop music generally likes to admit. ✌️
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Fantastic analysis Robert!
Trent reznor's speech of The Cure's Rock and roll Hall of Fame induction is a must-watch.
At a musical level I'd say Friday I'm In Love is their 'happy' song, although the lyrics to Lovesong are happier. Disintegration was my real intro to The Cure, before then I'd dismissed them as just anoter goth band.
It always makes me smile and wonder at the duality of releasing songs for people to like, but not wanting too many people to like them. Cheers Adam.
Ha ha. I know what you mean!
Goth is nerdy, sure, but when you look into its true meaning, you’ll be amazed.
This was one of those songs that I didn’t appreciate as much when it was first released, then came back a few years later and it clicked.
Not a The Cure fan but there is a podcast called Curious Creatures, hosted by Lol Tolhurst and Budgie of Siouxsie and the Banshees, interviewing various people including her. The link is on her website. He has also published an autobiography called 'Cured'.
Had my LP (Mexican press) and yes, I also couldn’t believe it came short of being at top. Started following the band with Kiss me x 3 and I consider ‘Why can’t I be you’ one of the most underrated songs ever.
Saw them live! Had the vinyl record with that Disintegration image on it. The title song is amazing! Those were the days! One of my favorites is The Cure All Mixed Up. A Forest is easily one of my favs.
I saw what you did there at the end of that promo. Nice!
I was a junior in high school at that Dodger Stadium Cure show!
I remember listening to the whole Disintegration album, again and again, alone in my college dorm room.
Even now, decades later, just hearing a few bars from any of the songs from that record, instantly takes me back to the state of mind and heart I was in as a 17-year old just starting to discover himself.
September 8th 1989... I will never forget
Lovesong to me is still haunting. To me, it sounds like a surrender, like he's been fighting it, but he's given in and now admitting to it. And he's defeated but accepting of it.
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Professor, I want to watch this video, but RUclips is putting ads every 1:20 and one of them is a 7 minute BMW mini movie. The ad frequency and length is making it unwatchable!
Even though it only peaked at #2 behind Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much” (which I also love from the Rhythm Nation 1814 album) Lovesong is definitely a song I’ve listened to on repeat a lot last year.
No offense to Janet. Miss You Much is terrific.
18:36 love this picture, let someone look at you like this after so many years...
Adam, I wish there were a way to search your uploads. You cover so many great things. I don't want to be that guy who suggests something you've already covered.
You summed up its rightful place on the album so well.
I channel surf and every time I hear The Cure I dial up the volume. Bands like The Cure, OMD, New Order, The Smiths, & my all-time fave Duran Duran rescued me from some pretty bad spots in my youth. I was a wallflower but LOVED the New Wave dances at the Orem Rec Center! The music gave me something that no one could take away from me, and I still just loose myself in the music.
Way back when 311 did their version of Love Song I never knew it was originally sung by The Cure. In the weirdest way, I'm glad I enjoyed 311's cover because it makes me appreciate The Cure's version even more.
Two songs that come to my mind when I think of The Cure Friday I'm In Love and my favorite Love Song .
Japanese Whispers was the first Cure album I ever bought and the first time I’d heard of them. That meant so much back catalogue to explore and then so much Cure to look forward to. Disintegration is an amazing album.
“Just One Kiss” has always been one of my favorite Cure songs 👍
chill bumps...and memories...
I loved this album, Sir if we had been in highschool together we probably hung out!
The Same Deep Water As You still gets me.
this was the first song I recorded in my journey of becoming an artist/engineer/producer. I was in the 7th grade in the 90's and I had a dual cassette "karaoke machine" and I overdubbed the instruments with a terrible youth keyboard and guitar and bounced from cassette to cassette. It was one of the most magical moments of my life and almost 30 years later I'm a music producer and still love lovesong more than anything.
I love this song and I love the 311 cover of it. Very different vibes of the same song.
Love the use of a cave in your analogy, bravo!! I have always been a rock music fan, but the release of Disintegration with “Lovesong” and “Picturesof You” made me delve into the alternative side of music a little more..
Thank you for another great episode!!👏👏👏
Thank you kindly!
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I love the fact that he is wearing what looks like white tennis shoes in the wedding photo! That is adorable!
Disintegration is an absolute masterpiece, timeless album. I first listened to the entirety as a melancholy 12 year old in 1990. It is still to this day, my all time favourite album.
Also, you didn't mention Snake River Conspiracy's cover of Lovesong!
I have always loved The Cure, and the "trilogy" albums were my favorites of their's. I was in high school when Disintegration came out and became my favorite album from my high school years by FAR (The Joshua Tree would have been my favorite, but I was in Junior High when it came out). It's funny though because I never thought that Lovesong didn't fit or was any less dark than the rest of the songs on the album. Maybe it is due to the key it's written in or something, I don't know. My favorite song on Disintegration was Disintegration though. It is still, to this day, my favorite Cure song, and I would love for you to make a video about it!!!
Lush and beautiful are two words among many more that describe the Disintegration album. The same year it was released was when I really got into the Cure. But before I had heard all of Disintegration. A girlfriend turned me onto them, sent me the Head on the Door and Kiss Me albums as a present, I found Disintegration and I've been a fan ever since. Those years, those four albums were their best IMO. Tragically that girlfriend died and the Disintegration album mirrored my grief for a while in the wake of her passing. Since then many it's songs has taken on new meaning, time heals or helps you move on. Don't make a permanent solution to a temporary shituation. Be resilient and overcome. And for all its gloominess, I think Disintegration is just that. Resilience in the acknowledgment of something beautiful, once fulfilling yet lost. And never really dead as it lives on in your heart n soul. Lovesong is the one bright spot in the story that expressed the joy brought through another's love. The rest of the album explores the grief, guilt, and despair in its loss. Always never far from many a playlists for this fan.
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What a great band! I joined in the alt rock scene kinda late (1989). I'm glad I was able to enjoy them, REM, Midnight Oil and Depeche Mode.
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This is quite interesting. I wasn't aware of the backstory for "Lovesong" and when I heard it first, it was when I was playing the "Disintegration" CD. I took it more of a song of obsession, the "before" to "Pictures Of You" , which kinda fit in much better with the overall "theme" of the music on the CD.
"Let's Go to Bed", "Friday I'm in Love" and "The Lovecats" are my favorites. Yeah, I like the happier ones more, sue me LOL.
They are great songs. So catchy!
The Lovecats is a great tune. Reminds me of what my grandparents grew up with.
"The One I Love" from REM got the ball rolling for college rock in the mainstream. The Cure, and the genre, having more momentum, certainly had a lot to do with "Lovesong" doing even better. "So Alive" from Love and Rockets peaked at #3 just months earlier.
"Lovesong"'s #2 peak on the Modern Rock Tracks list was even more strange, given that "Fascination Street" topped the list for several weeks. I remember it kept bouncing between 2 and 3, held off by 3 different singles.
There were huge discrepancies around that time between the Sales and Airplay component charts that led to both "Lovesong" and "Seeds of Love" just missing the top of the Hot 100. Lovesong only went as far as #7 in airplay while reaching #3 in sales. ("Bust A Move" by Young MC, which was #2 sales that week, lagged way back at #19 in airplay, landing it at #9 on the core Hot 100 that week.) "Sowing" meanwhile did hit #1 on sales but only went to #4 on airplay. Neither had the points to top the juggernaut "Miss You Much". Alas.
I really like Just Like Heaven.
Love Song is one of my favorite songs of all time. The Cure is my favorite non-metal band. I saw them live in the late '90's at the George Mason University Patriot Center, and it was incredible. They played for over two hours.