Poll: The Cure’s Top 98 songs of all time, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers

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The deeply mournful ‘Same Deep Water As You’ — the centerpiece of the new ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ — is not just Slicing Up Eyeballs readers’ favorite song off that classic 1989 album, it’s their No. 1 all-time song by The Cure, according to our informal poll that wraps up ‘Disintegration’ Week.

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Readers poll: The Cure’s Top 10 B-sides

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For Day 3 of our ‘Disintegration’ Week — in which we toast the North American release of The Cure’s eagerly anticipated ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ — we flip those singles over, running down the band’s Top 10 B-sides, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers.

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Readers poll: The Cure’s Top 10 singles

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We continue ‘Disintegration’ Week — celebrating the North American release of The Cure’s expanded ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ — today with our rundown of Robert Smith and Co.’s Top 10 singles, as chosen by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers.

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Review: The Cure’s ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ expanded 3CD reissue

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Admittedly, The Cure’s ‘Disintegration: Deluxe Edition’ may be a bit much for casual fans — particularly wading through so many instrumental demos — but to anyone who has spent the past 21 years exploring the depths of this album, the new reissue is a marvel to hear.

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Roger O’Donnell: Recording of The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ a ‘happy, jokey’ time

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[tweetmeme]Despite the dour material, recording The Cure’s epic Disintegration album was a “very happy and jokey” time for the Robert Smith-led band, recalls former keyboard player Roger O’Donnell in a new 11,000-word essay on the 20th anniversary of the recording of that classic record.
As promised, O’Donnell — who played in The Cure from 1987 to [...]

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Roger O’Donnell to share memories, photos of recording The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’

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[tweetmeme]Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist for The Cure, plans to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Disintegration by offering up his written recollections of that landmark album’s recording sessions, along with never-before seen photographs of Robert Smith and Co.
As noted by Chain of Flowers, O’Donnell took to his Facebook fan page yesterday to announce the upcoming anniversary [...]

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