The Cure - Pictures Of You
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Incredible song by The Cure.
A lot of people have asked for this cover and I've gone back and forwards trying to find a good arrangement of it that I'm happy to upload and this is the result after a long time. I messed up here and there but I wanted to just upload it even with the mistakes as I'm working on being accepting of flaws and attempting to let go of my obsessive perfectionism, lol.
From Wikipedia:
""Pictures of You" is a song by English rock band the Cure. It was released on 19 March 1990 by Fiction Records as the fourth and final single from the band's eighth studio album, Disintegration (1989). The song has a single version which is a shorter edit of the album version. There are also two different remixes on two UK 12" singles, and other singles released around the world, one of which later appeared on Mixed Up as the Extended Dub Mix and differs significantly from the album version in arrangement in that incorporates wholly original drum and bass arrangements. The other is an extended remix of the original album version which, at 7:59, runs slightly longer than the album version. There is also an edit which was released on 12" in the US, titled "extended remix" as in the European and Australasian releases, but which runs for 6:40 rather than 7:59.
According to interviews, the inspiration of the song came when a fire broke loose in Robert Smith's home. After that day, Smith was going through the remains and came across his wallet which had pictures of his wife, Mary. The cover of the single is one of the pictures. The same picture was used as the cover of the "Charlotte Sometimes" single, but that image was heavily warped and distorted.
In 2011, the song was voted [number] 283 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list."
Lyrics:
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures
Are all I can feel
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain
As I ran to your heart to be near
And we kissed as the sky fell in
Holding you close
How I always held close in your fear
Remembering you running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow
And screamed at the make-believe
Screamed at the sky
And you finally found all your courage
To let it all go
Remembering you fallen into my arms
Crying for the death of your heart
You were stone white
So delicate
Lost in the cold
You were always so lost in the dark
Remembering you how you used to be
Slow drowned
You were angels
So much more than everything
Hold for the last time then slip away quietly
Open my eyes
But I never see anything
If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you
Looking so long at these pictures of you
But I never hold on to your heart
Looking so long for the words to be true
But always just breaking apart
My pictures of you
There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to never feel the breaking apart
All my pictures of you
Audio: Blue Yeti USB Mic into Audacity
Video: OnePlus6T (phone)
As always, if you enjoy this cover any comments, like or subscriptions would be helpful to let me know that you would like me to continue!
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My favourite cover artist does one of my favourite songs.
Thanks Malcolm, hope you enjoy it!
Indeed 🤩
This dude makes me cry over stuff I though I had long been over
Listening to Adam's songs and guitar makes me feel brighter and better. Adam is hope.🙏
Wow thanks so much 🙏❤️❤️
Me too
@@user-dj1gl5ix3m thanks very much! These are all my own arrangements (excerpt for the odd video where I linked the source). One day I hope to tab them out but I don’t have anything ready at the moment
Im listening from Brazil! I Loved your voice man! 😊
My wife and I can hear the "obsessive perfectionism" in everything you do, bro.... because your work is perfect. Yet, take comfort in this: even if you dropped your game to 50%, it would still be 500% that of everyone else on this sloppy, buggy Web.
You're world-class, Adam.🌏
I hope you and your family have a fine weekend.
Peace, respect and friendship 😃🎸🙏💗🌏
Mac (aka RE-VO)
Ahh thank you so much Mac, your support is very much appreciated. I really appreciate all of your comments. Thanks for being here 🙏✌️
@@Adam_Barrett
Sincere praise, brother.🌏
Health and best wishes, my friend.😃🙏💗
oh man what a voice and a guitar can do with a beautiful song
Those arrangements 10/10
Thanks Cristian 🙏
Agreed
Agreed. Absolutely brilliant.
There was nothing in the world I ever wanted more
Brilliant cover mate. Your voice goes perfectly with this song
Thanks so much George! Appreciate that 😁
Wow… my fav cure song… you bloody nailed that! 💪😎
I will never be able to reach those keys! :(. good job Adam! great play and sing!
I love coming to your videos and singing along with you. Thank you! 🙏♥️
UA-cam full of cheesy over produced cover artists. Then there is you.
lovely
One of my favourite songs ! So beautiful, thank you!!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it 😁
I needed this. One of the best song ever written. So could probably argue it is the best song ever written and I don't know that I'd argue with them.
You did a really good job of making this sound right too
So good. Inspiring me to pick my guitar back up.
I've loved this song for as long as I've known it, but, WOW, this rendition is so sweet and warm. Heartbreaking & wonderful, thank you, Adam.
Excellent, u took the maximum as it can be played with chords!, well well done! Greetings from Macedonia
Thanks Petar ✌️✌️
Awesome dude , very well played and singing , where i can find tabs?
Luv the chords in these songs. So incredibly clever. Just playing them is quite something. Great tenor
My favourite Cure song…what a beautiful cover. I’m a big fan of your Smiths covers but this may now be the best you have done. Keep up the great work 👍🏼
You are just great! Thank you!
Alright. Have just discovered you and listed to many of your covers. I seriously hope you are playing live at a local pub. People need to hear you. You're so talented. Guitar and vocals are just beautiful.
My 1st concert was July 1986 at Irvine Meadows. I was 16, my brother took me to see the Cure and I have been a fan ever since. This cover brings back so many memories of listening to The Cure throughout high school. It is probably one of the more difficult Cure sings to cover but you did a really nice job of capturing the beauty and sadness that make this song so great.
Wow, I really wish I could have been around in those days. I bet it was an incredible experience. Thanks so much for your comment and I'm glad you enjoyed it
The only cover of this song I've ever heard that I liked.Great stuff!
Man, you killed it.
What a cover ! You're pretty amazing. Welldone !
You could come to Canada tour the clubs and go home rich playing those tunes. We have such similar taste. Love everything you play.
Dude.....OMG...... ❤️
That was positively brilliant!!!
This is one of the Cure's best tracks and they have a bunch of best tracks!
Such an epic band and you captured the mood, rythym, arrangement, and spirit of the tune perfectly!!
Holy hell that was good!
Would love to hear you tackle a Dream Academy tune......i think you would kill it!
I know everyone loves "Life In A Northern Town" as do i, but "The Love Parade" is by far my favorite track from them and i think you would be magical covering that one.....
Man, words can't express how impressive this cover was..... ❤️
Well done!
Great job !! 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you my friend!
Yessssssssss. 🤙❤
Beautiful ❤
Great version, bro! Can you share the tuning?
Just found this channel. You are simply INCREDIBLE. Wow. Rock on. Just perfect.
My fingers would die trying those chords
Haha they're a bit mad. I just found that playing A and D over and over didn't do the song justice and was a bit repetitive/boring. I like to get as much of the tune in as I can
@@Adam_Barrett honest your a great artist and make every song your own ps you haven't got crazy long fingers lol maybe I will have a bash at the chords :)
Very nice, good voice.
Super Kool. Good job man. Keep em coming. Just found you on here
Amazing 🎸❤️
Wow what a great cover! Tutorial soon?
Fucking brilliant mate .spot the fuxk on brother .
Great version Adam. You've got a really nice voice and you pull off those stretchy chords and difficult rhythm in a way that looks effortless.
Hearing your beautiful voice and seeing the wedding picture behind you, curious Adam: did you play guitar and sing for your bride at your wedding? What a great video.
Chills. Again. Thank you Adam.The world just stopped spinning for 4:19
Más The Cure.
I've got more coming hopefully! 🙌
Dang great job. Wow.
Beautiful
There are 2 amazing acoustic covers of this song on UA-cam. Yours is number one. Did you arrange yourself? Any template to follow I'd love to try it. But I don't have your voice and might not have your fret reach!
Amazing dude, I don't know why but seeing the photos of your wife and you in the background added a very special touch to the cover.
buenisimo bro saludos desde argentina aguante the cure!!!
amazing!
Anyway you can post the chords for POY? Great version! Love for you to try boys don’t cry a little slower pace. Your voice would kill it.
It is great, thank you for this one ;). Do you have any tabs for this ?
An amazing rendition. Thank you for capturing it and posting. Such a difficult song to play and sing, yet delivered so effortlessly.
Also encorporating the riff reminded me of Pick A Part Thats New by Stereophonics - another favourite of mine ❤
How great is that! You have a beautiful essence!! Tabs?
May I ask you for the tuning and chords? It’s a perfect Repetition 👍🏻🎩🙏🏻🍀
Really nice arrangement beautifully sung - what guitar tuning is this in?
great cover, what tunning are you using?
Wao y justo hoy escucho este tema. ;)
Dulcet-voiced, terrifically stripped-down cover.
just perfect! thank you! just one question: is that in standard tuning? thanx once again!
Wow dude
Damn you really are consistently excellent in the choice of your music and your own singing/playing, no one better on the internet.
absolutley wonderful! What tuning is the guitar
GreAt coVEr vErSioN. tHAnK yOu!
Is this on a different tuning? Lower maybe?
nice!
amazing cover! may i know what tuning you use?
Kamu bernyanyi dengan sangat baik
Play and sing along like few others, my friend!
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@@Adam_Barrett Love you!!!
he never shared the tunning.
:-(
Drop d
Something super cool happening with the guitar tuning on this one?
It's actually just Drop D! I'm making it look more complicated than it is haha
Something strange and wonderful about it.
Sounds great man, thank you for sharing your talent here, always enjoy your covers 👍🏽😊
Chords please ! Congratulation
Amazing arrangement man. Do you busk at all?
Hey man, do you have a tab of this arrangement? I can see it's in drop d, I have most figured but wondered if you had a tab? It's lovely.
Do someone know the chords?
Hey man this is awesome, standard tuning?
that was realy nice almost where the words ment more than the song
What's the arrangement - is this in Drop D?
Love hearing you sing my friend so thx for sharing. I hope things are going well and you're finding the right balance in your life. 😁❤️🔥💯
Hey man so good to hear from you! Hope you're doing well. I definitely am thank you. A lot of stuff is happening in life but I'm balancing well 😁
Muito afinado. Essa música é demais! ❤
Awesome, Buddy. Keep going!
Could you please share tabs for it?
stunning dude. Love hearing your songs both original and interpretations.
Ahh thank you, really appreciate your support 🙏🙌
hermosa interpretacion
You really touch and move me with your singing and I think your guitar arrangement is fabulous.
I would buy tickets to watch you sometimes if you played gigs. :)
Having said which, I think your mic was clipping a little. The singing was just slightly too loud for the mic.
Anyway, I think it's time for some Joy Division, don't you? You ought to be able to channel Ian Curtis and it would be interesting to see what guitar arrangement you'd choose.
Thanks so much. Yeah, it's annoying because I usually have the mic lower and I got a couple of comments complaining that the guitar was too loud. So I moved it closer to my mouth this time and now the singing was too loud. I can't win! Appreciate your feedback. I'll find the sweet spot eventually! And yeah I've got some planned 😎
@@Adam_Barrett Great.
See if you can get a fairly good mic, if you don't already own one.
What's good is that I didn't hear sound reflecting off the walls (it was distracting in one of your older vids).
I bet in the future you could stream your stuff on spotify and the like, but I'm sure there'd be enough people for you to play the occasional gig.
I really love your covers and I usually don't bother with amateur cover versions. Even proper bands doing cover versions usually disappoint, but not you :))
Ahhh, if you do Joy Division, I hope it would be of songs other than Love Will Tear Us Apart. It's been done too many times.
@@adrrda6091 thanks. Yeah I'll invest in a better mic at some point. I used to do gigs but since Lockdown started I've enjoyed just being at home and uploading haha. Sure I'll get back out there at some point! I'll keep in mind the idea of doing other songs of JD definitely!
Makes me remember a better time. Thank you 🎉
The cure should cover this song ❤️
The only cover I've seen that reproduces original arrange perfectly
Great man! Could you share the tabs?
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Could you please make tutorials
Appreciate your interest in them! I used to make some but people who hadn't seen my versions would just comment and say it's wrong and it's not how you play it, missing the point of it being a tutorial for my version, so it kinda put me off haha
@@Adam_Barrett I like your versions :)
Nice😎
Came from Reddit after seeing a post about Beach Boys cover god only knows, great channel mate!
Thanks so much! I'm really grateful for it 🙏
those chords look so hard. Nice job mate
I keep coming back to this video and it keeps being brilliant
got a tab for this cover?
I don't know how you do it, but you make these songs sound like your own compositions. These songs must have been alongside you your whole life.
so good mate. ive watched a few times
Good memories from my college youth. Discovering The Cure during the 80's...
Ahhhhh I can imagine it! Did you get to see them live?
@@Adam_Barrett Yes and no. lol I'm in the south of Brazil. There was a theater in the college. A place to the students rest after lunch watching music clips, for instance. There was that time a mix with several of the best Cure music clips. Their music and video clips were really trippy.
By the way, your music versions are top notch!
@@MauroBrisola ahh that's cool! Yeah very trippy! Thanks so much 🙏
This is better than Robert smith 👏🏻