{"product_id":"the-cures-disintegration-9798765132982","title":"The Cure's Disintegration","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book begs the question: why should an album make you feel good? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1989, The Cure's Robert Smith was going to turn thirty years old. His fears and anxieties of age-having not yet written his pinnacle album-caused Smith to embark on the band's undoing with\u003ci\u003e Disintegration\u003c\/i\u003e. The result was an LP drenched in melancholy sublime, a beautiful decree of breaking down to build anew. From the fame and notoriety of The Cure after their hit, \"Just Like Heaven,\" to the departure of the only other consistent band member, Lol Tolhurst, it's clear that the grisly spiral into the depths of pain is stamped throughout \u003ci\u003eDisintegration\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores the depths of Smith's masterpiece by way of the French Modernist Charles Baudelaire and his poem, \"Spleen.\" Much like Smith, Baudelaire took his temperament and softened the edges of sorrow, transforming it into a mass of supercharged emotion: a tenuous concoction of sin and sex, lust and monstrosity, self-hatred and fear... all cauterized by the malaise (and acceptance) of eternal melancholy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd through \u003ci\u003eDisintegration\u003c\/i\u003e lies Robert Smith's corpus-his spleen. It's here that The Cure's upheaval and Smith's heroic martyrdom became the catalyst for his masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-7726916\"\u003eAndi Harriman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798765132982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-MUS\"\u003eMusic\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-MUS050000\"\u003eIndividual Composer \u0026amp; Musician\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-MUS\"\u003eMusic\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-MUS020000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Criticism | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndi Harriman\u003c\/b\u003e is a music journalist who writes mostly about all things Eighties-centric. She has written for \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBandcamp Daily, LA Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Village Voice, \u003c\/i\u003eamong others. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: A Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229522940201,"sku":"9798765132982","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/files\/9798765132982.jpg?v=1790360072","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-cures-disintegration-9798765132982","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}