![]() “ Lullaby”, the album’s most playful track, perhaps rivaling songs like “Love Cats” and “Why Can’t I Be You” as most playful in the band’s entire catalog, remarkably does not feel out of place on the album. Originally released on May 2nd, 1989 the LP is said to be part of a trilogy involving Bloodflowers and Pornography-but perhaps the record is closer in overall tone to Faith, Disintegration nevertheless continues the pop sensibilities established on The Head on the Door, and amplified on Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, with Disintegration’s “Love Song”, matching “Just Like Heaven” as one of the greatest love songs of all time.Īnd the connection between both “Love Song”, and “Just Like Heaven” is augmented by the fact that Robert Smith’s wife Mary’s appearance in the 1987 video for “Just Like Heaven”, dancing with Robert on the cliffs of Beachy Head, with the following year seeing Smith pen “Love Song” as a wedding present to Mary. 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.South Park’s Kyle Broflovski may be right, The Cure’s 8th studio album Disintegration is without question the band’s most critically acclaimed work that is also equally adored by fans. 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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