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Diggin' Through the Crates

This summer, I was talking to Will about some possible blog postings we could do, and this came to our mind. I just started going through my iPod finding some of the enduring classic albums of the 80's that deserve discussion.

In the same way that The Sports Guy will compare things like NBA/NFL teams to movie characters/quotes, I thought I would do a Top 5 enduring albums of the 80's list, and couple each album with a movie from the 80's that matches the album.

My only critera: I have to actually own the album, and I have to actually have seen the movie.

So, Album/Movie #5: The Cure - Disintegration[1989]/The Breakfast Club[1985]



Kyle from South Park once uttered "Disintegration is the best album ever!" in the episode when a 50' tall Robert Smith [lead singer of The Cure] defeated a 50' Barbara Streisand. For many late-80s goth-rockers, Disintegration was THE album of the century. On the strength of the uber-popular single "Lovesong," Disintegration was a commercial success, and it appealed to a wider fanbase (via MTV, etc.) than any other Cure album before or since has. If you survey die-hard fans, Disintegration may not be their favorite, but ask anyone else, and it probably is.

So why is it like 'The Breakfast Club'? In the Breakfast Club, you have a rag-tag group of ne'er-do-wells serving time in detention, and through the course of the day, they realize that they all have something in common. Despite their differences, they all feel like outsiders. That's the thing with Disintegration: It's music that made everybody feel like they were different and could identify with the goth-rocker guys wearing eye-liner and lipstick. In the Breakfat Club, even the most popular jock felt like an outsider, and that's the allure of Disintegration.

posted by paul @ 1:52 PM