Time for an EXTREME bump here.
I finally listened to Disintegration for the first time all the way through today, and I'm hooked.
Granted, it's not perfect (Last Dance
), but the great stuff is positively wonderful (Lovesong, Lullaby). The atmosphere is great, and it really sucks you in to its own little word...a depressing world, granted, but a beautiful one.
Music doesn't have to be wild and fun to be good...there's a melancholy beauty to art. Is the
Mona Lisa fun? Or
Starry Night? No, not particularly. But they're a beautiful thing to behold...and it causes emotions to rise up in you. Even though it's technically lifeless, it feels like more than that...and that's really what makes music so amazing...that a small circle of plastic could move you as much as it does.
Disintegration, however, doesn't seem to be an "everyday" record, but, like Kid A, Sea Change, Blood On The Tracks, etc, there are few things that will move you as much as it does when you're in the mood for it.