Untitled (The Cure song)
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- Robert Smith
- Simon Gallup
- Porl Thompson
- Boris Williams
- Roger O'Donnell
- Lol Tolhurst
| "Untitled" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Cure | |
| from the album Disintegration | |
| Released | 2 May 1989 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 6:30 |
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| Producer(s) | |
"Untitled" is a song by English rock band the Cure. It serves as the twelfth and final track on the band's eight studio album Disintegration (1989). Frontman and singer Robert Smith has called the song one of his "favourite Cure songs".[2]
A live version of the song features as the B-side on the Elektra releases of "Lullaby" (1989),[3] this live version is also present on the live album Entreat (1991).
Unlike the rest of the album, frontman Robert Smith called the song "a hopeful song in a hopeless world", making it differ from the usual wholly pessimistic tone present on the album.[4] The Quietus said along with the previous track "Homesick", the song served as a "comedown from a heavy dose of grief" that dominated the album's title track.[5] Neil Crossley of Classic Pop felt the song had "a sense of completion and resolution" noting "Smith’s underplayed and perfectly judged vocal delivery resting easily amongst the chiming guitars, epic snare and almost upbeat melody.", calling it a "moving and enigmatic end to a landmark album."[6] Far Out felt it was "folkier" than the rest of the album and demonstrated the band being "able to flip between moods and genres with ease".[7] Paste called it "one of the greatest finales in all of rock ‘n’ roll, as the Cure let the melancholia become even more tragic".[8]
Ed Jupp of God Is In The TV said the track featured "some of Smith’s most heartfelt lyrics ever",[9] while Treblezine observed the lyrics describing "an incompleteness of a feeling that has yet to be resolved" and saw it as "an attempt – perhaps like most attempts at emotional closure where love is concerned, a misguided one – to say all the right words and charming things before putting away those photographs forever, or at least for a little while."[10]
