How many people have resorted to Robert Smith and company in times of pain and gloominess? Their effect on the music world and the rest of the planet alike is so gigantic and defined its not even realized. With this release the band reinvented emotional music, hollowing them an eternal resting place in the hearts of millions of shy kids. Its a very rewarding experience, listening to the Cure, then breaking out all your emotastic records and realizing the borrowed sound. The band are more of an influence than they initially intended. For the most part, everything you look for in an angst-pop band can be traced back to being one of The Cure's signature styles. The Cure liked to create music for tired lovers, exhausted females and shoegazing teenagers. Much of what seems like gothic rock and emotional ballad to us today can be found on this album and it isn't hard to see that. Derived from moody 80's post-punk are The Cure, and they've recorded a little album called Disintegration. ![]() The best thing about this shoot for me was that I was in my own cave away from the others and as soon as they had shot my bits I could leave! I think that video has a great look to it and another Tim Pope triumph.Here from the past to test the ever-pestering judgment of time is one of many classic albums that do not deserve to be overlooked, in any given situation (even if it will cost you everything). I have one of the stalagmites in my studio. The art director Richard (Earl) did an amazing job and it was all made out of polystyrene and plaster. But of course they weren’t too keen on having their caves trampled over by a bunch of weird looking music people, so the caves were recreated in a studio in London. The original idea was to shoot it in Cheddar Gorge, a group of amazing caves in western England. We all hated the song and didn’t want it released, and time off was also very valuable at this stage. And in the break between the Euro and US legs of the tour we were forced to go back into the studio and shoot it. We hadn’t planned to make any more videos but then “Lovesong” was released (as a single) and did well in America. We didn’t really like it that much, and it went on to the be the most successful single in the band’s history. I remember there being very heated discussions about it being released. And (manager & record label owner) Chris Parry fought against all of us to get it released (as a single). We didn’t even play it on the European leg of the tour (according to my very reliable sources we did in fact start playing it on the last couple of weeks of the European tour). The biggest surprise of the album was the success of “Lovesong”. The opening shot is terrible, this lingering shot of a huge phallus that makes no pretensions to be a stalagmite at all. The idea was of a fairy cave going on forever, but it looked very cramped and posed. ![]() In 1991, Smith shared his opinion of the song’s music video: ![]() I realized that while we were recording it. And it’s difficult to do because you run the risk of being laughed at. It’s actually one of the most difficult songs I’ve had to sing. In the past,I’ve always felt a last-minute need to disguise the sentiments or put a twist on them. But throwing that one in sort of upsets people a bit because they think, ‘This doesn’t fit.’ It’s taken me 10 years to reach the point where I feel comfortable singingĪ very straightforward love song. Would be very easy to dismiss the album as having a certain mood. That one song, I think, hinges the whole Disintegration album and makes many people think twice. I thought, ‘Of all the songs I’d written, this is the one that … cracks through.’ It was quite disappointing. It was kept off the top by, like, Janet Jackson. I thought it was the weakest song on there, and suddenly it went to Number Two in America. I wrote ‘Love Song’ for Mary, my wife, as a wedding present, and I put it on the album to be kind of romantic. ![]() In 2004, Robert Smith told Rolling Stone:
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