If I had to pick the essential song from The Cure's most essential album, I'd probably pick Pictures of You. Simultaneously expansive and intimate, this song showcases everything that makes Disintegration the band's best album, with crystalline synth work, driving baselines, bombastic percussion and Smith's wistful, melancholic and at times even haunting vocals. A song about love, loss, and memory, its lyrics were inspired by a fire that damaged pictures of Smith's wife.