#365songs (130 / 365)

Another case of "sometimes popular things are popular because they're good." Disintegration is probably the best-known Cure album, and it so happens it's the best one I've heard too. "Pictures of You" is one of the singles and surely, with "Lovesong" and "Just Like Heaven," one of their best songs. This whole album is great, and mostly in the same kind of floaty long-song way "Pictures of You" is, but "Pictures" is popular because the lyric so perfectly matches Robert Smith's inescapably mournful timbre: some of these lines feel cliché if I listen to them with a critical ear, maybe, but why would I want to do that? This is heart-on-sleeve shit and Smith completely sells it.