Talk:Disintegration (The Cure album)/Archives/2018/October

Many generalizations based on old press-releases, no facts

Hi guys,

Reading though the article, many mistakes to say the least - here's a complilation of errors since whoever wrote this article didn't bother to check up on the actual history of the album and just recycled old press-releases from Robert Smith:

"Smith consequently began to write music without the rest of the band." - the problem is EVERY MEMBER of the band contributed demos to the album. For ex: "Fear of Ghosts" was a demo contributed by Roger O'Donnell, and "Homesick" was composed by Tolhurst before he left the band, and O'Donnell had played the keyboard / piano part on the album. If one had read O'Donnells' "Memories of Disintegration" article from 2014 or so, (Where O'Donnell laid out the collaborative demo process) they would know better then to write basic "Robert Smith concieved" generalizations that simply didn't happen.

"When the band entered Hook End Manor Studios in Oxfordshire, their attitude had turned sour towards Tolhurst's escalating alcohol abuse, although Smith insisted that his displeasure was caused by a meltdown in the face of recording The Cure's career-defining album and reaching 30. Displeased with the swollen egos he believed his bandmates possessed, Smith entered what he considered to be "one of my non-talking modes" deciding "I would be monk-like and not talk to anyone. It was a bit pretentious really, looking back, but I actually wanted an environment that was slightly unpleasant". He sought to abandon the mood present on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and the pop singles they had released, and rather recreate the atmosphere of the band's fourth album Pornography (1982)." - this is entirely in-accurate. O'Donnell himself said the band had a positive attitude while they were in the control room, and the band got together for dinners pretty much everyone night, hardly a 'depressing' time. - again more generalizations based on recycled press release interviews by Smith - not facts behind the recording process.

The Apter book isn't a worthy reference for 90% of this article. Go in and correct this, or someone else will. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.22.60.108 (talk) 23:17, 3 October 2018 (UTC)