326 - The Cure - Disintegration - Wil Anderson
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
Narrowing down the most important album in your life might seem like a daunting task. But if you think about it hard enough, you probably had a moment where a given band or even specific album crystallized in your mind and made you realize something about yourself that would change the way you interacted with the world forever. For comedian Wil Anderson, it was at age 15, when he spent all night listening to goth pioneers The Cure's 1989 release Disintegration with a girl he was in love with. While that buddy romance never truly flowered, it did sow the seeds of a lifelong obsession with the band.
SHOW NOTES:
01:00 - Intro
10:30 - Goth conversion therapy
18:00 - Never too accessible
29:30 - The story so far
42:00 - Life changers
51:45 - Change up the set list
59:45 - On-brand sadness
1:11:15 - Lightning round
1:18:45 - Outro/New music
Check out the music history of this album here.