Both great records. Neither is a regular go-to listening for me. Nothing much to choose between 'em. Pressing the PAUL'S BOUTIQUE button 'cause it (probably) needs the vote & blowing up the ol' aesthetic framework...the Dust Brothers piece of PB is the best part of either of these two records.

Got to be a tough double-hit to take. First he has to renegotiate his role with the addition of Mbappe. Then, the very next season, he has to re-renegotiate his role in a new tactical system that has built-in less flexibility to do so. All the while thinking about negotiating the next deal.

NY Times obit...

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Here's the last thing I saw, posted right around the same time as the Rolling Stone thing: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EoA...

Probably so, yeah, but paying for one CD with 40 minutes of music was a better deal than paying for 2 CD with 20 minutes of music each would have been.

Yeah, the seeds of the elongated stuff had been around since "A Forest," but by Disintegration they'd been around long enough to explore all the possible permutations. The Pixies were always more committed formalists in the sense that the shortness was an important part of the schtick.

So it both did and did not win... Schrödinger's Wu-Tang?

With the possible exception of Micronauts & Rom, Mantlo's real talent was mimicry within the high floor/low ceiling formula under Shooter, so his role on this book made sense. I do really like the multi-issue Carrion story a few iss's before this one. Some great covers along the way too.

Complaints about DIS's long songs & double-albumish running time duly noted. The alternative would've been DOUBLE NICKELS ON A DIME or selling half-empty CDs (same logic led to Fugazi releasing two EPs together as 13 SONGS). Even the Rollins Band started regularly making 70 minute+ albums by then.

The drumming is a mix of Boris's live drumming and a drum machine (a Roland R-8, I think, which was VERY state of the art in '89)... It's definitely dense. Can you tell if it's one or the other that bothers you? Or is it a combination of both?

"Have you ever seen blood in a comic book, Will? It appears quite black."

Love that little bit of Milgrom editorializing in the newspaper Mr. Fantastic is holding: "A. Milgrom, world-renowned inker, says: 'They're damned hard to ink whatever they are!!'"

More work than this (gestures all around)?

...If DIS is indeed the Cure's best record (personally, for me it's still PORNOGRAPHY, but I'm always willing to hear arguments), that in itself is an oddity worth talking about: how many bands' (maybe) best work comes eight albums and more than a decade into their recording careers?