Disintegration

Disintegration was a May 1989 (see 1989 in music) album by Gothic rock band The Cure. It peaked at #12 on Billboard's Top 200 Album countdown.

Though The Cure's reputation as dark, moody and depressive, Disintegration has an undercurrent of joy. The tinkling keyboard riffs in songs like "Plainsong", "Pictures of You" and "Untitled" are uplifting and joyous, in spite of the grim and angst-ridden lyrics.

Table of contents

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Charting singles

Track listing

Plainsong (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 5:12
Pictures of You (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 7:24
Closedown (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 4:16
Lovesong (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 3:28
Last Dance (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 4:42
Lullaby (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 4:08
Fascination Street (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 5:16
Prayers for Rain (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 6:04
The Same Deep Water as You (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 9:18
Disintegration (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 8:18
Homesick (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 7:06
Untitled (Gallup/ODonnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) - 6:30

Personnel

Simon Gallup - Bass, Keyboards
Robert Smith - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer
Richard Sullivan - Assistant Engineer
Porl Thompson - Guitar
Laurence Tolhurst - Multi Instruments
Boris Williams - Drums
Roy Spong - Assistant Engineer
Roger O'Donnell - Keyboards
Dave Allen - Producer, Engineer

Charting singles

1989	Fascination Street	The Billboard Hot 100	                No. 46
1989	Lullaby	                The Billboard Hot 100	                No. 74
1989	Fascination Street	Mainstream Rock Tracks	                No. 24
1989	Fascination Street	Modern Rock Tracks	                No. 1
1989	Love Song	        Modern Rock Tracks	                No. 2
1989	Lullaby	                Modern Rock Tracks	                No. 23
1989	Fascination Street	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	        No. 7
1989	Love Song	        Hot Dance Music/Club Play	        No. 8
1989	Lullaby	                Hot Dance Music/Club Play	        No. 31
1989	Fascination Street	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales      No. 13
1990	Pictures Of You	        The Billboard Hot 100	                No. 71
1990	Pictures Of You	        Modern Rock Tracks	                No. 19
1990	Pictures Of You	        Hot Dance Music/Club Play	        No. 33