Assemblage is an album by The Cure, released in 1991. Rooted in alternative rock · new wave · post-punk. Here's what makes it worth your time and what to listen to next.

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Disc 1

• 3 Grinding Halt 2:50
• 5 Object 3:00
• 6 Subway Song 1:59
• 7 Foxy Lady 2:29
• 8 Meathook 2:18
• 9 So What 2:35
• 10 Fire in Cairo 3:21
• 11 It’s Not You 2:52
• 12 Three Imaginary Boys 3:13
• 13 The Weedy Burton 1:05

Disc 2

• 2 Plastic Passion 2:14
• 4 Accuracy 2:16
• 5 So What 3:01
• 7 Subway Song 1:59
• 9 Fire in Cairo 3:21
• 10 Another Day 3:43
• 11 Grinding Halt 2:49
• 12 Three Imaginary Boys 3:14

Disc 3

• 1 A Reflection 2:08
• 3 Secrets 3:19
• 4 In Your House 4:06
• 5 Three 2:35
• 6 The Final Sound 0:52
• 7 A Forest 5:54
• 8 M 3:03
• 9 At Night 5:54
• 10 Seventeen Seconds 4:01

Disc 4

• 1 The Holy Hour 4:25
• 4 All Cats Are Grey 5:28
• 5 The Funeral Party 4:14
• 6 Doubt 3:11
• 7 The Drowning Man 4:50
• 8 Faith 6:43

Disc 5

• 1 One Hundred Years 6:42
• 2 A Short Term Effect 4:25
• 3 The Hanging Garden 4:32
• 4 Siamese Twins 5:35
• 5 The Figurehead 6:15
• 6 A Strange Day 5:06
• 7 Cold 4:26
• 8 Pornography 6:28

Disc 6

• 2 The Dream 3:14
• 3 Just One Kiss 4:10
• 4 The Upstairs Room 3:34
• 6 Speak My Language 2:41
• 7 Lament 4:22

Disc 7

• 1 Shake Dog Shake 4:55
• 2 Bird Mad Girl 4:05
• 3 Wailing Wall 5:17
• 4 Give Me It 3:42
• 5 Dressing Up 2:51
• 7 Piggy in the Mirror 3:40
• 8 The Empty World 2:36
• 9 Bananafishbones 3:12
• 10 The Top 6:50

Disc 8

• 1 Shake Dog Shake 4:14
• 2 Primary 3:29
• 3 Charlotte Sometimes 4:06
• 4 The Hanging Garden 4:04
• 5 Give Me It 2:46
• 6 The Walk 3:31
• 7 One Hundred Years 6:48
• 8 A Forest 6:45
• 9 10:15 Saturday Night 3:44
• 10 Killing an Arab 2:51

Disc 9

• 2 Kyoto Song 4:00
• 3 The Blood 3:42
• 4 Six Different Ways 3:16
• 5 Push 4:28
• 6 The Baby Screams 3:43
• 7 Close to Me 3:23
• 9 Screw 2:35
• 10 Sinking 4:50

Disc 10

• 1 Killing an Arab 2:22
• 2 10:15 Saturday Night 3:38
• 3 Boys Don’t Cry 2:34
• 4 Jumping Someone Else’s Train 2:56
• 5 A Forest 4:55
• 6 Play for Today 3:39
• 7 Primary 3:36
• 8 Other Voices 4:28
• 9 Charlotte Sometimes 4:13
• 10 The Hanging Garden 4:22
• 11 Let’s Go to Bed 3:33
• 12 The Walk 3:29
• 13 The Love Cats 3:39
• 14 The Caterpillar 3:40
• 15 In Between Days 2:56
• 16 Close to Me 3:40
• 17 A Night Like This 4:10

Disc 11

• 1 The Kiss 6:17
• 2 Catch 2:42
• 3 Torture 4:13
• 4 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 4:50
• 5 Why Can’t I Be You 3:11
• 6 How Beautiful You Are 5:09
• 7 Snakepit 6:56
• 8 Just Like Heaven 3:30
• 9 All I Want 5:18
• 10 Hot Hot Hot 3:32
• 11 One More Time 4:29
• 12 Like Cockatoos 3:38
• 13 Icing Sugar 3:48
• 14 The Perfect Girl 2:33
• 15 A Thousand Hours 3:21
• 16 Shiver and Shake 3:26
• 17 Fight 4:26

Disc 12

• 1 Plainsong 5:15
• 2 Pictures of You 7:28
• 3 Closedown 4:21
• 4 Love Song 3:30
• 5 Last Dance 4:47
• 6 Lullaby 4:12
• 7 Fascination Street 5:16
• 8 Prayers for Rain 6:07
• 9 The Same Deep Water as You 9:22
• 10 Disintegration 8:23
• 11 Homesick 7:09
• 12 Untitled 6:30

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