I hear this song everywhere. It comes up a lot. I'm sure the drama of singer Ian Curtis's suicide shortly after the release propelled it some. I'd like to think that it also fueled the fire for the rest of them to carry on as New Order. A classic in my book and yet I discovered The Illustrious G was really not familiar with it. Shocking!
As a fan of the mashup, I must also provide you a link to Dsico's "Love Will Freak Us", a combination of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" with Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On". Mashups are all the more fun when you know both songs of course, so here is a link to "Get Ur Freak On".
The Cure's "Disintegration" is the all purpose album for those in the dumps. Regardless of your source of solace or depression, whether it be loss of love, self-esteem, hope, or worse, you will find a companion in "Disintegration". It is better to embrace the gloom to work through it and to put your focus on a movie or an album, than your own life sometimes. If not now, it will happen in the future. When it does, you can pull this one off the shelf and let The Cure heal your wounded soul as a sympathetic presence.
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "Lovesong" being my favorite.
Today is December 5th and I know that means I'm supposed to be feeling all excited about the holidays… Christmas in particular. I kind of feel like I'm just going through the motions at the moment. I'm oddly more excited about the chill in the air, and frozen puddles on the pavement as I walk under a gray sky. It is not the holidays I feel anticipation for, but rather some real snow. Sure we have awoken to a blanket, but nothing lasting. The change of the season, and perhaps even the coming of a new decade, seem more exciting. It will not be a total rebirth or anything, but perhaps a new way?
Love my way, it's a new road
I follow where my mind goes
Swallow all your tears my love
And put on your new face
You can never win or lose
If you don't run the race
One of my brothers use to listen to this album over and over. I can't say I loved it at first but in the early 1990s I found myself buying the box set of all the albums by "The Police". This one is by far the best in my mind. Watching all the videos now (see links below), take me back to the 80s watching MTV back when it actually showed music videos, and everyone watched. It was during the reign of Post-Punk and New Wave, two genres that are to be cherished and cultivated in my mind, though they may sicken some of you Heavy Metal Hard Rockers out there. Suck it up. This one rocks!
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "Every Breath You Take" being my favorite.
Work has gone so well this week, I think this needs to by my song of the day. I can't believe it is only Wednesday. Only two work days have past yet I feel a year older. Damn.
Both Pulp and Talking Heads seemed to be on my mind this morning. Talking Heads won though. In the time before MP3s, I remember having this song in a midi file and plying it over and over. It was a decent representation of the original given dominant synth part.
I listen to this album and it reminds me, this is why Bono and The Edge can get away with their stage names. (Well maybe not The Edge but the guitar part in "Where The Streets Have No Name" is too cool.) Poor Larry and Adam. I wonder if they have egos just as large or if they'd be happier being nameless and perhaps invisible. But I'm not here to sully their individual personalities. I am here to praise them as the excellent band, musicians, and entertainers they are. How cool they are to still be putting out new albums and making it on to the radio. We're going on decade number three for U2. Holy!
This album has been critically influential to my musical tastes. U2 is one of my "staples". I cannot help but buy every album. I've even paid exorbitant ticket prices to see them in concert, twice, AND it was totally worth it both times. I have had to restrain myself form going a third. They're songs are like gospel to me though and I've listened to this album in particular so many times, it is truly a part of me.
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "Where The Streets Have No Name" probably being my favorite.
The rest are also solid songs, and "On Tree Hill" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" were both singles. 6 of the 11 songs on the album hit the charts. If you have not listened to this, then perhaps you should. If you still don't like it then I don't think you're going to like the majority of my song choices on this blog because I consider U2 and this album central to my tastes.
