![]() I've always just sat back and immersed myself in those long instrumental passages, but you're certainly not alone in feeling that they're overlong. I then went back and listened to all their earlier albums (which I also loved). Yes, you're right about everything - "The Head on the Door" was actually the first Cure album that I heard, so "Disintegration" was the peak for me (much the way "The Head on the Door" was for you). Thanks, Honorio, for both the response and for giving "Homesick" another listen. Maybe the reason for my lack of connection was the length of the album and the long instrumental passages on some songs (I still think like that, this motivated my comment about the vinyl and CD versions) but maybe at the time (24 years old then) it was time for me to move away from The Cure and look for another favourite bands. I don't think like that right now, this coming back to their goth roots was the right move, giving them strength and focus, being moreover a sincere and not commercial move (oddly achieving both their highest charting and their more acclaimed album). ![]() I don't know why, maybe I saw the album as a step back to previous and familiar sounds. ![]() When "Disintegration" came out my first reaction was positive (wow, "Plainsong" sound like "The Funeral Party" from "Faith"!) but I failed to connect with the album on the same level that I did with previous albums. My affection for them peaked with "The Head on the Door" (my favourite album by them) but began to vanish with the double album "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" (too long, uneven and disperse). It ignited a goth period for me and I became an avid fan of The Cure, I purchased many of their releases (including now rare 12" like "The Walk"). The Cure were very important on my teenage years too, I bought "Faith" in 1981 (when I was sixteen) and it changed my life, the bleakness of the album connected strongly with me at the time. Just listened again to "Homesick" and I agree that the song is great, it should have closed the vinyl album instead "Untitled." Maybe our age difference is the reason for the different connection with the song. Then again, this might just be the ramblings of a long-lost teen associating a little to strongly to a certain song from his youth. We all miss people, places and times in our lives and "inspire in me the desire in me to never go home" seems a plea to someone, anyone to pull him from the emptiness and nostalgia overwhelming him, some place or time to which he wishes he could return. To me, no other song reminds me more of that feeling of fear, anxiety, hope and longing than "Homesick." It is so incredibly layered and builds in sad intensity, leading up to Robert Smith's languishing in the form of a simple but potent chorus. I've been holding off on rating this album because it has meant more to my life than any other, being the album I listened to incessantly the summer of my graduation.
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