disintegration and automatic

this album came out in 1989; i know this because i looked it up. i'd erroneously remembered it came out in 1992. oh well. this is neither here nor there. the point is that the album continues to make me melt. i actually haven't listened to it in a year or two but i've been thinking about it lately and will put in into my cd player this afternoon, if i don't forget. someone remind me!

like rem's "automatic for the people" (which did come out in the fall of 1992, at the beginning of my senior year, when i was just back from 11 months in ireland and a romantic disintegration), it's an important album for me. "disintegration" came out my first year of college and "automatic" in my last. significant?

i think both albums are going into my cd changer today. i have room for three more.

both these albums, in my opinion, are the last great albums by each of these bands. i was a huge cure fan throughout college, but haven't really appreciated anything they put out after "disintegration" (i listened to their backlist - is it called "backlist" in music or it that just for books?). rem's "new adventures in hi-fi" had some good songs on it but i didn't find it so cohesive. their music since then simply hasn't reached me. (their music up to and including "automatic for the people" continues to blow me away, though.) i totally have respect for michael stipe; kara and i would totally sleep with him.

ooh, if michael and jodie foster both came over for dinner and drinks! what an evening! what a night!