Bands & Albums Similar to The Cure's "Disintegration"

Wow! Talk about wearing your influences on your sleeve! That is the spitting image of Disintegation/Wish era Cure!

 

I've always thought of Catherine Wheel's Ferment (1992) as sort of a cousin to Disintegration.

 

Lots of great bands and records mentioned in this thread. I'll go with Woven Hand ... Mosaic from 2006 is pretty incredible on my scale. Probably still available on vinyl, sounds pretty nice. Then again, Blush Music may be my favorite, don't think it made it to vinyl.

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They've got their own great original songs but no doubt they were extremely influenced by The Cure. The Cat, A mirage, Only for You or Everything are all great songs...

 

"The Book of days"(1989) of The Psychedelic Furs is got sometimes similar emotions

 

I've always though that there is a more than slight similarity in the melody ( or at least the bass line) between The Church"Under The Milky Way" from Starfish and The Cure's "Lovesong." It's not obvious, but once you pick it up, it stays with you....

 

I recently played The Cure Trilogy blu ray again and hearing live versions of those three albums all in a row is fantastic. Give the 2002 live versions of Pornography and Bloodflowers a try - they still aren't as magnificent as Disintegration mind you, but they are excellent!

 

Love both songs. For me they are musically (and obv. lirically) very different and great in their own way. However both bands are from out of this world..

 

Psychedelic furs : sister europe

 

Steven Wilson: Only Child

 

And Also The Trees - The Pear Tree

 

Like them and old friends of the cure . Currently doing very interesting concerts ​

 

...and also supporting the Cure, this year, at their Christmas Hammersmith Apollo concerts....

 

Latter day Banshees sound influenced by The Cure, which is of course ironic!

Superstition album for one.

 

The Psychedelic Furs in general don't show Cure influence, but "Book of Days" definitely owes a great deal to "Disintegration". David M. Allen produced both albums.

 

The Pixies without Albini's production.
Shelleyan Orphan because I love them.

 

love smith's contributions to later s&b.

 

This one sounds more like mid-80s Cure than Disintegration, but well worth tracking down.

 

I liked his contributions to Hyeana and the excellent live album Nocturne. Since he joined up on two different occasions, I thought it might have been a fitting end to have him rejoin again for the Seven Year Itch tour, but he must not have been getting along with Siouxsie at that time.

 

Robert Smith played on mid period Banshees albums, not the later.

The Banshees have NEVER been influenced by The Cure, it has always been the other way around, and Smith would admit that himself.

 

I agree to a certain extent, but Peep Show sounds like a cousin to Kiss x3 and the use of synths in Superstition (hence my post above) sound influenced to some degree by Disintegration and the thread title. But maybe that's just me!

 

There are bunch of groups from the 80s that I love that were contemporaries of the Cure, I guess. Some of these groups I might like more than the Cure depending on my mood. However, there is little that I've heard that is like the drawn out, spacey, dreamy, epic feel of Disintegration. The shoegaze groups like Ride and Slowdive probably come the closest, though they were a bit different than that.

I do think that fans of the Cure would probably dig some of Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson's stuff, but they don't really sound like the Cure either. They do have some spacey/dreamy moments though.

 

It could be at the beginning but over the years both bands were listening to each other with interest.
Robert playing with Siouxsie & The Banshees but also the collaboration between Steve Severin and Robert Smith in The Glove comes to my mind. They had respect for each other, no doubt (no matter what was said in the press by both) . Which other reason would make want Siouxsie bring Robert Smith to the band. But Robert Smith needed his own space as it shows during the next years with a bunch of masterpieces like Head on the Door, Kiss Me , Disintegration and Wish.

 

The "Pictures of You" bassline of "Leave them all behind" by Ride.

 

Lots of fantastic stuff in this thread mentioned, Book of Days by Psychedelic Furs is criminally underrated and was produced by Dave Allen like Disintegration was.

I'll add The Chameleons Strange Times to the discussion. Also Dave Allen produced from 1986, combine atmospheric Cure with more post punk guitar rock a la early U2 and Echo and The Bunnymen.

Also The Lucy Show, top band, first album is more like jangly era cure.

The Essence are also in that realm but sound comically at times like a cure tribute band