Robert Smith of the Cure created a masterpiece in 1989 called Pictures of You after he found an old photograph of his wife Mary when there was a house fire. He immediately wrote the lyrics on what would turn out of be a stand out track on the Cure's masterwork album Disintegration along with Fascination Street, Lovesong, and Lullaby. The record label didn't believe in the album thinking it was too dark and willfully obscure. It became the band's biggest selling album ever and Pictures of You was a major reason as it was the most heart wrenching song of the late 80s. The story of a masterpiece.
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In 1989, Robert Smith was a troubled artist, and a bit depressed, because he believed that his band The Cure, was traveling down a dangerous path.A year earlier, The Cure had unprecedented commercial success with their album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me,
But, they achieved that success by recording songs that were atypical for The Cure. Songs that were more mass appeal, more pop oriented, and Smith was deeply concerned about the future of the band that he had directed for well over a decade. Smith believed that the next album by The Cure needed to go back to their darker, definitive sound, and he was determined to make an enduring album that made a profound artistic statement.
Smith sequestered himself from virtually everyone, and went into what he called his “monk phase.” The Cure’s record label, Elektra, was very frustrated, and more than a little testy about what they perceived as Smith’s incorrigible ‘about face’.
After all, it is the record BUSINESS, and the label felt that the success of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me proved that The Cure had finally positioned themselves to be a commercial mainstay. Having just had their first top 40 hit with Just Like Heaven.
The President of Elektra actually sent Robert Smith a certified letter criticizing Smith for being “willfully obscure. Ha! Can you even imagine? I’m sure Robert snickered. ”Despite the label pressure, Robert Smith remained focused and determined to follow his plan. The result of Smith's brooding isolation, and meticulous pondering, was a magical and truly beautiful and melancholy masterpiece titled Disintegration.
The kind of timeless, luminescent album that Smith was longing for. The irony is that Disintegration turned out to be even bigger than Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
The album went as high as #12 on the Billboard Album Chart, and shot to #3 in the UK.Plus, Disintegration turned out The Cure’s highest charting song on the American pop charts in the band’s history, with the track “Love Song," a single that surged all the way to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and should’ve been a number as we’ve covered in the past.
The success of Disintegration was undoubtedly much more satisfying for Robert Smith, because he created an album on his terms, and followed his gut on what he believed was not only best for The Cure, but for his artistic fulfillment. Disintegration is an album that you just don’t see anymore. Sorry you don’t. A masterwork of such epic proportions and let me be absolutely clear when I use the word Epic that this record is the definition of the word epic, Disintegration as a whole is achingly rapturous.
Every song envelops my soul in ways that seem emotionally impossible. It raises so many feelings that I have though were long dormant. It’s musical euphoria and so inspired that still decades later, even after repeated listens leaves me completely flabbergasted. It just brims with such a beautiful, wistful elegance that what I really feel at the end of listening is a deep gratitude to Robert Smith for gifting us such poetry.
With so many blissful songs, I mean there is the dreary Closedown, the majestic dark opus Plainsong, which is anything but Plain, and of course the eerie yet pleasing nightmare that is Lullaby… Can’t leave out the wonderment of Fascination street Seriously, I get chills even talking about these life altering songs that Smith composed.
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