Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one: open.spotify.com/playlist/559NvZ3KjLAp9oAjOS0ZoF?si=ef315b9603c84bd7 and the UA-cam Music one: music.ua-cam.com/play/PLooaZ33lSalclUMzGkrT6hXW0xv-Hy2-i.html&si=AQIN9tkw_YjtRXbC
You have the world's most annoying subtitles - put the subs at the bottom of the frame, like every other film on the planet. You literally block the art direction, with the world's silliest subtitles.
Are you sure he is though? He sure has a bunch of songs that make it sound like he has affairs. He's been on the road for well over 40 years, with lots of drugs, booze, and women around.
@@5Digits it was always interesting to find Bootleg live recordings.. mostly to hear.. Robert change ( A Forest).. Everytime... Absolutely always a unique version would come out of him.. The entire Album 17 Seconds... Will forever be my favorite..
Man, I’ve cried for the last 10 minutes of this video. I often forget how important The Cure has been for me… their music a part of many stages of my life. Thank you for this essay.
The little things like that are just as important to Mr. Trash Theory as the big-picture takeaways on things like genre and influence. And that’s a big part of why this channel is consistently excellent.
The cure is so emotionally vast that you can pick a different favourite song every day depending on your mood, the weather, the day of the week, a landscape, a feeling, a person, a moment a lifetime. Play for today in a forest looking at pictures of you on a mint car felling just like heaven open to desintegration out of this world because boys don't cry.
when Caterpillar was released as a single in Britain a DJ on bbc radio said they were the new pink Floyd & in certain respects he or she wasn’t wrong. they had the lot in my opinion except a Kate bush or Toyah or Harriet wheeler in the line up but i guess they wouldn’t have been what they were with those guys !
It's exactly like horoscope forecast, it so obvious and dumb that it can fit any situation of someone deseperate to understand. It's stupidity at his best
Brilliant comment! I particularly like the way you show me show me show me how you move to the beat like you know that spiderman is having me for dinner tonight
Not sure, I mean, on one hand I prefer quality over quantity, they are not for everyone, but have something for anyone with a soul and a heart. But...will happily put up with some so so (Love)Cat(s) video's and memes!😉
"plainsong" and "closedown" are two of the most lush, gorgeous songs ever written. "disintegration" accomplishes what it sets out to do, because, to me, listening to it feels like dissolving to an ocean in the best way possible, it's a breaking apart to become part of a bigger whole. pure aural alchemy.
for me growing up in the late 80s, Last Dance taught me what lost love and missed opportunities was about and it blew my lid. Disintegration is on my top 5 list, and curiously the only The Cure album I like.
What aren't record company executives getting? Plenty of people like Disintegration, I think they understand that. A lot more people like Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson from the same year, I think record company executives also understand that.
"A Letter to Elise" will probably always be my favorite Cure song. When I was 13 years old, I heard it on the radio in the car and then I wouldn't let my mom turn off the radio until the DJ came on to tell us the song and the artist. I didn't know that "pop" songs could sound like that 🖤
It was definitely in the works sometime very shortly afterwards, the played it in their first demo mini set after Disintegration (along with The Big Hand and two others) in 1990 iirc :)
Disintegration is a fantastic album. Not a bad song on it. The Cure are about the only band that has a song for whatever you are feeling, from happy to sad, motivated to depressed, partying to isolation There is always a Cure song for that mood.
I cannot understate the excitement when I open UA-cam and see that you uploaded a new video, even moreso from a band and album that I've always enjoyed.
Driving to work in the pre-dawn darkness listening to Songs From a Lost World enjoying the music and wanting to keep on driving. I felt the same way on the drive home, also in the dark (love those winter months!), only listening to Fields of the Nephilim.
When they started playing Burn live again I was so happy. Nothing beats finding a live version of Burn from a recent show on youtube and hearing how amazing Robert sounds live.
The 1980s was a particularly magical time to be a teenager and listening to this music coming out for the first time. “Disintegration” hit me like a truck. lIt left an imprint on me for the rest of my life and nothing afterwards even comes close.
@@fairdose cheers from Orange County California.. I still have.. Disintegration Promo Posters.. The Album Cover one's.. I don't have a problem giving them to Real Fans.. I would leave them at BIONIC Records in Cypress CA.. Just ask.. no worries
Been listening to the Cure for just over 40 years. Disintegration was a genius album and for me, nothing after that came remotely close. Such a shame about Lol - I've read the story from both sides and the truth is probably in the middle somewhere. Either way, Disintegration & Faith are two albums from my past that always yank me straight back to being a teenager again. Nice piece of work as always.
Lol basically owns the whole thing in his autobiography. It's mentioned here, but he basically went into detail about how his reaction was stupid, he had no right to say it, and that he still doesn't really know why he reacted the way he did. They made up later, so at least there's that.
Lol's cool though. He's doing well. He's got a nice wife. He does some great podcasts with Budgie. He wrote an awesome autobiography about him and the Cure a few years ago, and he's got a more recent book on Goth. Not a shame at all.
core teenage memory was getting this album - on cassette lol - and listening to it over and over. the title track remains probably my fave cure song ever, and i'm not embarrassed to say i've listened to it on repeat play for more than an hour before.
Disintegration is the album that got me into the Cure, but "10:15 Saturday Night" from Three Imaginary Boys is probably by favorite song of theirs. It just builds and builds. I also have a distinct memory of listening to it as I was leaving my then-partner's house about 15 years ago and a big lightning flash happening at the exact moment of the first cymbal crash, so that memory might be playing into my fondness for it as well.
And I'm sitting in the kitchen sink, ... 3 Imaginary Boys.. Boys Don't Cry.. 3 Imaginary part 2... Seventeen Seconds.. Then we got all those.. E.Ps ?.... But... Primary!!.. Charlotte Sometimes.. Faith.. Pornography (of course)... ..... The Top.. ehhh... Head on the Door... Kiss Me x3.. DISINTEGRATION,, has always been... I don't know how to explain it...good , but also.. I wanted more... Wish... To the Edge of the Deep Green Sea .. I'm still waiting for a Song as good as that.. If you have a suggestion.. let me know...
Great job as always -- 'Friday' is what I go to when I need a huge 'up' (and I listen to most of what they've done) but the whole of *Seventeen* *Seconds* is still a stone cold work of art for me, a flawless incarnation of what was in the atmosphere in those days and ever since.
Really amazingly researched and written video. I've been a fan of The Cure for over 30 years now. Disintegration was there for me during a very dark time in my life and you're quite right. For as dark an album as it is, it was very comforting. I suppose if I had to pick a favorite by them, it would be either If Only Tonight We Could Sleep or Like Cockatoos.
Just Like Heaven is one of the greatest songs ever written. The synths, the guitar, the lyrics - every bit of it is genius. Every time he sings "I'll run away with you. I'll run away with you" I start to cry because deep down that is all any of us really wants: someone who is so devoted to us that they would give up everything to be with us because with us they already have everything
Disintegration is one of my favourite albums All artists All genres All time Like Pornography, it has a genuine dark and macabre but still poetic and romantic atmosphere that makes me shiver Can't wait for their next tour to finally see them !! Thank you for your amazing work I love your videos I never miss one 😁
I start sobbing (or at least tear up) whenever I listen to "Lovesong". It always sounded so pure and genuine in its expression and turns out that's because it was literally always meant to be, not as an abstract concept, but just a pure love song for a real person.
When I saw that my favourite music channel posted a video about my favourite band I felt my heart beat a little quicker, but I've waited until I could be alone and totally immerged into the video. And oh man you delivered so brilliantly! I rarely comment but I really wanted you to know that I deeply love and appreciate your videos, I feel at home, I feel loved, I feel understood. Thanks a lot for the work you provide, you don't even know how happy it makes me feel. And since this one is about The Cure I couldn't hold a tear sometimes along the way! 🖤🖤🖤 Again, thank you so much, and cheers from France. PS: my favourite song of The Cure is probably "Charlotte Sometimes" - although it constantly changes,, tomorrow I can very well say it's "From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea"!
Trash Theory has set the bar so high that it's hard for me to enjoy other channels. Amazing stuff. Also, I wonder if Robert Smith has heard the Converge version of Disintegration...
Disintegration is my favorite Cure song, and that is my favorite cover of one of their songs. Everyone should hear the Converge version of Disintegration.
The Cure have been, and continue to be, the soundtrack of my life. Decades of songs, memories and living. Thank you seems so small a thing to say for such an enormous part of me.
When I heard "Alone" I believe I tweeted something to the extent of "babe wake up, the cure is back and they're more depressing than ever!" 😂 It feels so right
"A Fragile Thing" has been stuck in my head for at least a month. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a lost B side from the Wish era. Truly a return to form.
Thanks for another Cure documentary, Trash Theory! 1989 was life changing for me at age 16. I bought a lot of contemporaneous CDs, but Paul's Boutique, Doolittle and Disintegration quickly stood out as special albums. And to my grave they will continue to be special.
Disintegration is one of my favorite Cure songs it's so hypnotic. The whole album is flawless, a rare 10/10 *side note but I'm sure you've heard this before, you sound so much like Nick Harcourt it's uncanny
I'm just glad despite his constant drowning in drugs and depression that Robert Smith is still around. Cobain, Cornell, Weiland, Bennington, and so many more succumbed to either the drugs, or intentionally un-alived themselves...Good to see he's still around and doing 'fairly well'
Every single one of your docs is BBC material. So thorough, so crafted, and even more so entertaining and interesting. I really hope you get the credits you deserve for this amazing work. Always recomending you and looking forward for the next one. Love from 🇦🇷
Robert Smith told his bandmates that "Just Like Heaven" was the great song he had ever wrote when it was recorded. Robert Smith then composed the songs on "Disintegration."
Wow. One of what has become my favorite UA-cam channels taking on one of my top 5 albums of all time, and how well it is taken on! This video is filled with things I already did know but a lot of nuggets I did not. Well done!
The level of detail that goes into these videos is astounding. And the last section about an album's influence on contemporary music is always full of aha moments.
Watching Me Fall is one of their best and criminally underrated songs. 11 minutes plus of pure Cure dynamic moody vibes over a swampy simple chord sequence.
I remember the first time I heard Disintegration, I was 10 when it came out. One of my uncles is 10 years older than me, which made him more of an older brother than an uncle really, and I had started listening to music with him a few years prior (back in 87). A friend of him had bought the album the day it was released and he recorded it on tape and brought it on a family trip. I already knew The Cure, it was his favorite band at the time and he would play them all the time, but I remember vividly how Disintegration impacted me as no other album had before. Maybe because it was the first Cure album we were experiencing together for the first time. My uncle died suddenly last year and it was a hard hit that I haven’t fully recovered. At his funeral, after he was buried, I stood alone with a cousin of mine beside his grave and played “The Same Deep Water as You” on its entirety on my phone so we could share the album one last time.
My favourite Cure song is undoubtedly "Watching Me Fall". Number two is an axe handle and molotov cocktail riot of songs from Wish, Bloodflowers, Wild Mood Swings(yes, Wild Mood Swings), and The Cure(yes! The Cure!) and various b-sides of all eras fighting it out.
Thank you. Bloodflowers doesn't get its due. And Wild Mood Swings is like Roxy Music's Flesh and Blood...it's solid, but SOMEthing has to be considered the "worst album," so here we are.
I'm not sure I could pick a favorite Cure song, but as it happens my wife and I pulled out _Disintegration_ just the other night as a throwback to my college days when this was my go-to album (CD player set to repeat-all) for private times with a young woman. Thanks for the history lesson to go along with the nostalgia.
This is one of the best episodes you have ever written. I am a long long long Cure fan, and I never knew all that information about Smith and Tolhurst.
It starts out with those windchimes and you're wondering how a song can segue from that apparent randomness. Only opener that compares, I think, is the noodling synth starting Start of the Breakdown by TFF
Best you've done yet! And I really like the new way you've cut in the samples of other songs. Nice. And I've always been a fan of Smith. But after this, even more so. Well done!
A masterful video about a side of The Cure I knew little about. Robert Smith has been such a towering figure in my musical influences that I've often forgotten to humanize him. I appreciate all the hard work and deep research you do, Trash Theory. Cheers!
I watch 1 half, to learn about a bands influence/album/song history and antidotes, the other half for those songs that I never knew there name growing up (PRE-internet) and now they pop for me. Thank you.
A band it took me years to appreciate. A Forest probably my favourite track and I simply adore Lovesong. I also have a soft spot for Straight up by Paula Abdul!
I feel ya, being a hard rockin' teen in the late 80s I hated The Cure, much preferred the likes of GnR, Zepplin, etc.. But now, 30 years on, I find The Cure to be one of my favorite bands and Smith one of my favorite artists, always on top of my Spotify playlists.
Awesome story. I’ve loved The Cure for 35 years and counting. Prayers for Rain has particularly captured me and comforted me of late. Especially love drumming along to it 🖤
You tricked us with that "what Cure song should I cover?" poll, but I can't be mad because you covered all of them, and brilliantly to boot! Lots of great insights packed into this 40 minutes. Thank you!
Lullaby is one of those one off songs that was always going to be made. I remember the first I heard it, it was as if I had known it already. Top tune.
The Cure always were brilliant musicians that I liked to listen to but which always pulled me down over the span of complete albums. This Twilight Garden, is one of the loveliest love songs out there and for me the most underrated song by The Cure!
Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one:
open.spotify.com/playlist/559NvZ3KjLAp9oAjOS0ZoF?si=ef315b9603c84bd7
and the UA-cam Music one:
music.ua-cam.com/play/PLooaZ33lSalclUMzGkrT6hXW0xv-Hy2-i.html&si=AQIN9tkw_YjtRXbC
Fugg, I just _love_ your voice!! Thank you for making & posting content. ❤❤
Lol! I was about to write a comment suggesting exactly that! 😆 Pause the video, play the songs on Spotify, done. 🥰🧨
Really appreciate the playlists.
You have the world's most annoying subtitles - put the subs at the bottom of the frame, like every other film on the planet. You literally block the art direction, with the world's silliest subtitles.
i love you so much trash theory, thank you for your channel and passion
This programme is one of the top 3 things produced on UA-cam
Tell me the others of this same caliber!
'Cor, this programme is armoured with bright colour, leftenant.
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“DISINTEGRATION IS THE BEST ALBUM EVERRR!” - Kyle Broflovski
I mean, he's not wrong.
He was 💯 right
Barbara, Barbara 🦖
Our Savior 🙏🏾
So many albums. Just play one and let your mood decide :)
Smith being so devoted to his wife is so sweet
He still shagged around a lot, though.
Not very pop starry though
It's refreshing. Besides, I don't see him fitting into the trope or some limited stereotypes of a rock/pop star. . .
he's not like the other girls. ;)
Are you sure he is though? He sure has a bunch of songs that make it sound like he has affairs. He's been on the road for well over 40 years, with lots of drugs, booze, and women around.
I thought about that with A Fragile Thing but I don't know 😅@@alukuhito
I am obsessed with A Forest. It's been my ringtone for 10+ years.
I wrote a poem once inspired by that (and Pale Saints' "Hunted"). I don't know if I still have it...
@@5Digits it was always interesting to find Bootleg live recordings.. mostly to hear.. Robert change ( A Forest)..
Everytime...
Absolutely always a unique version would come out of him..
The entire Album 17 Seconds...
Will forever be my favorite..
Man, I’ve cried for the last 10 minutes of this video. I often forget how important The Cure has been for me… their music a part of many stages of my life. Thank you for this essay.
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, I really appreciate the era - specific clips that go with the interview excerpts 👍🏻
Imo Robert smith is on par w Jim Morrison for best male rock voices. The list you are thinking about now LoL
The little things like that are just as important to Mr. Trash Theory as the big-picture takeaways on things like genre and influence. And that’s a big part of why this channel is consistently excellent.
I really love the needle drops and also TT’s voice and writing are JUST LIKE HEAVEN
The cure is so emotionally vast that you can pick a different favourite song every day depending on your mood, the weather, the day of the week, a landscape, a feeling, a person, a moment a lifetime. Play for today in a forest looking at pictures of you on a mint car felling just like heaven open to desintegration out of this world because boys don't cry.
when Caterpillar was released as a single in Britain a DJ on bbc radio said they were the new pink Floyd & in certain respects he or she wasn’t wrong. they had the lot in my opinion except a Kate bush or Toyah or Harriet wheeler in the line up but i guess they wouldn’t have been what they were with those guys !
Well said
It's exactly like horoscope forecast, it so obvious and dumb that it can fit any situation of someone deseperate to understand. It's stupidity at his best
Brilliant comment! I particularly like the way you show me show me show me how you move to the beat like you know that spiderman is having me for dinner tonight
@@ivanruiz9124 (It's Not You)..
(At Night)
(Plastic Passion)
(Object)..
(Jumping Someone Else's Train)
(Primary)
(Upstairs Room)..
Plus others of course..
Probably your best episode yet, and perfect timing with The Cure being at such great heights this Autumn.
Trash theory is my fave youtube channel and Disintegration is my fave album so I've watched this video like 5 times. It's perfect.
British Canon never disappoints.
there's not enough The Cure related videos on UA-cam
Not sure, I mean, on one hand I prefer quality over quantity, they are not for everyone, but have something for anyone with a soul and a heart. But...will happily put up with some so so (Love)Cat(s) video's and memes!😉
I have been waiting decades for 40 minute stories of The Cure. Thanks so much.
"plainsong" and "closedown" are two of the most lush, gorgeous songs ever written. "disintegration" accomplishes what it sets out to do, because, to me, listening to it feels like dissolving to an ocean in the best way possible, it's a breaking apart to become part of a bigger whole. pure aural alchemy.
Even the two offtracks, Homesick and Last Dance, are absolute gems
for me growing up in the late 80s, Last Dance taught me what lost love and missed opportunities was about and it blew my lid. Disintegration is on my top 5 list, and curiously the only The Cure album I like.
Disintegration is another one of those albums that demonstrates how music industry executives don't really get it.
What aren't record company executives getting? Plenty of people like Disintegration, I think they understand that. A lot more people like Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson from the same year, I think record company executives also understand that.
@perfectallycromulent Watch the video before commenting.
They really sat down, listened to it, and were like “Yeah, this is an all-time perfect masterpiece, but what about the Hall and Oates lovers?”
"A Letter to Elise" will probably always be my favorite Cure song. When I was 13 years old, I heard it on the radio in the car and then I wouldn't let my mom turn off the radio until the DJ came on to tell us the song and the artist. I didn't know that "pop" songs could sound like that 🖤
It’s kind of like a companion to “Pictures of you” on the previous album. At least IMHO ✌️
It was definitely in the works sometime very shortly afterwards, the played it in their first demo mini set after Disintegration (along with The Big Hand and two others) in 1990 iirc :)
"As the nights grow longer and colder, there is no better soundtrack." Dead on, balls accurate. Well done. Cheers.
that is the best description of the Cure I have ever heard, "the band who wrote Friday I'm in Love"...lol
I think Smith shivers and shakes whenever someone says that
Disintegration is a fantastic album. Not a bad song on it. The Cure are about the only band that has a song for whatever you are feeling, from happy to sad, motivated to depressed, partying to isolation There is always a Cure song for that mood.
I cannot understate the excitement when I open UA-cam and see that you uploaded a new video, even moreso from a band and album that I've always enjoyed.
Driving to work in the pre-dawn darkness listening to Songs From a Lost World enjoying the music and wanting to keep on driving. I felt the same way on the drive home, also in the dark (love those winter months!), only listening to Fields of the Nephilim.
When they started playing Burn live again I was so happy. Nothing beats finding a live version of Burn from a recent show on youtube and hearing how amazing Robert sounds live.
🐦⬛
I've seen them live a load of times and it's honestly astonishing how well preserved his voice is, still sounds exactly like the records
The 1980s was a particularly magical time to be a teenager and listening to this music coming out for the first time. “Disintegration” hit me like a truck. lIt left an imprint on me for the rest of my life and nothing afterwards even comes close.
@@fairdose cheers from Orange County California..
I still have.. Disintegration Promo Posters..
The Album Cover one's..
I don't have a problem giving them to Real Fans..
I would leave them at BIONIC Records in Cypress CA..
Just ask.. no worries
Been listening to the Cure for just over 40 years. Disintegration was a genius album and for me, nothing after that came remotely close. Such a shame about Lol - I've read the story from both sides and the truth is probably in the middle somewhere. Either way, Disintegration & Faith are two albums from my past that always yank me straight back to being a teenager again. Nice piece of work as always.
Lol basically owns the whole thing in his autobiography. It's mentioned here, but he basically went into detail about how his reaction was stupid, he had no right to say it, and that he still doesn't really know why he reacted the way he did. They made up later, so at least there's that.
Lol's cool though. He's doing well. He's got a nice wife. He does some great podcasts with Budgie. He wrote an awesome autobiography about him and the Cure a few years ago, and he's got a more recent book on Goth. Not a shame at all.
core teenage memory was getting this album - on cassette lol - and listening to it over and over. the title track remains probably my fave cure song ever, and i'm not embarrassed to say i've listened to it on repeat play for more than an hour before.
There is no shame in that. It is the best song on an album full of incredible songs.
Disintegration is the album that got me into the Cure, but "10:15 Saturday Night" from Three Imaginary Boys is probably by favorite song of theirs. It just builds and builds. I also have a distinct memory of listening to it as I was leaving my then-partner's house about 15 years ago and a big lightning flash happening at the exact moment of the first cymbal crash, so that memory might be playing into my fondness for it as well.
And I'm sitting in the kitchen sink, ...
3 Imaginary Boys..
Boys Don't Cry..
3 Imaginary part 2...
Seventeen Seconds..
Then we got all those..
E.Ps ?....
But...
Primary!!..
Charlotte Sometimes..
Faith..
Pornography (of course)...
.....
The Top.. ehhh...
Head on the Door...
Kiss Me x3..
DISINTEGRATION,,
has always been...
I don't know how to explain it...good , but also.. I wanted more...
Wish...
To the Edge of the Deep Green Sea ..
I'm still waiting for a Song as good as that..
If you have a suggestion.. let me know...
As you‘ve asked what my favourite The Cure song is: „Charlotte sometimes“ will touch me deeply forever!
oh my god yes!!!! absolutely my fave as well
I feel we're closing in on Talk Talk, The Style Council and Japan..! Very well done this one
The Cure a band that both lives up and defies expectations and assumptions.
wake tf up the cure is on new british canon again!!!
Great job as always -- 'Friday' is what I go to when I need a huge 'up' (and I listen to most of what they've done) but the whole of *Seventeen* *Seconds* is still a stone cold work of art for me, a flawless incarnation of what was in the atmosphere in those days and ever since.
I'm 48, from the US. The Cure was my introduction to goth music. I'm still thankful to them for that ❤
Really amazingly researched and written video. I've been a fan of The Cure for over 30 years now. Disintegration was there for me during a very dark time in my life and you're quite right. For as dark an album as it is, it was very comforting. I suppose if I had to pick a favorite by them, it would be either If Only Tonight We Could Sleep or Like Cockatoos.
Just Like Heaven is one of the greatest songs ever written. The synths, the guitar, the lyrics - every bit of it is genius. Every time he sings "I'll run away with you. I'll run away with you" I start to cry because deep down that is all any of us really wants: someone who is so devoted to us that they would give up everything to be with us because with us they already have everything
Hands down one of the best channels on it. Seriously love your content.
Lullaby is my favorite song. It's so creepy and romantic at the same time.
When I was 13 years old I started buying their albums and I have the entire collection. It’s been 40 years of pleasure. 🥰
That's Awesome.. I was proud to have been able to give my collection of almost all 1st pressings to my Son Anthony...
Disintegration is one of my favourite albums
All artists
All genres
All time
Like Pornography, it has a genuine dark and macabre but still poetic and romantic atmosphere that makes me shiver
Can't wait for their next tour to finally see them !!
Thank you for your amazing work I love your videos I never miss one 😁
I start sobbing (or at least tear up) whenever I listen to "Lovesong". It always sounded so pure and genuine in its expression and turns out that's because it was literally always meant to be, not as an abstract concept, but just a pure love song for a real person.
What a great album, and what a great channel.
The Cure have been a major inspiration for me for over four decades. Now more than ever.
When I saw that my favourite music channel posted a video about my favourite band I felt my heart beat a little quicker, but I've waited until I could be alone and totally immerged into the video. And oh man you delivered so brilliantly! I rarely comment but I really wanted you to know that I deeply love and appreciate your videos, I feel at home, I feel loved, I feel understood. Thanks a lot for the work you provide, you don't even know how happy it makes me feel. And since this one is about The Cure I couldn't hold a tear sometimes along the way! 🖤🖤🖤 Again, thank you so much, and cheers from France.
PS: my favourite song of The Cure is probably "Charlotte Sometimes" - although it constantly changes,, tomorrow I can very well say it's "From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea"!
Trash Theory has set the bar so high that it's hard for me to enjoy other channels. Amazing stuff. Also, I wonder if Robert Smith has heard the Converge version of Disintegration...
Disintegration is my favorite Cure song, and that is my favorite cover of one of their songs. Everyone should hear the Converge version of Disintegration.
Kiss Me and Disintegration are two of the greatest albums ever. 😊✌🏻
The Cure have been, and continue to be, the soundtrack of my life. Decades of songs, memories and living. Thank you seems so small a thing to say for such an enormous part of me.
Songs of a Lost World is a very welcome return to 'real' Cure.
When I heard "Alone" I believe I tweeted something to the extent of "babe wake up, the cure is back and they're more depressing than ever!" 😂
It feels so right
"A Fragile Thing" has been stuck in my head for at least a month. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a lost B side from the Wish era. Truly a return to form.
Great video as always. Disintegration is definitely in my top 3 albums of all time. Pure bliss from start to finish.
Thanks for another Cure documentary, Trash Theory! 1989 was life changing for me at age 16. I bought a lot of contemporaneous CDs, but Paul's Boutique, Doolittle and Disintegration quickly stood out as special albums. And to my grave they will continue to be special.
Disintegration is one of my favorite Cure songs it's so hypnotic. The whole album is flawless, a rare 10/10
*side note but I'm sure you've heard this before, you sound so much like Nick Harcourt it's uncanny
Amazing!! I love your videos and this is the best one yet!
Swimming the same deep water is an absolute masterpiece, the bass VI on that track is the most beautiful sound ever.
I'm just glad despite his constant drowning in drugs and depression that Robert Smith is still around. Cobain, Cornell, Weiland, Bennington, and so many more succumbed to either the drugs, or intentionally un-alived themselves...Good to see he's still around and doing 'fairly well'
"Other instrument" .. That hurts a little bit, damn
Awesome 🙏 Just like heaven is such a masterpiece. ✌️🤘🏴🇦🇺
One of the best channels ever. Covering one of the best albums ever. Christmas came early this year!
Plainsong is my absolute favorite Cure song. Next would probably be Primary.
Every single one of your docs is BBC material. So thorough, so crafted, and even more so entertaining and interesting. I really hope you get the credits you deserve for this amazing work. Always recomending you and looking forward for the next one. Love from 🇦🇷
Robert Smith told his bandmates that "Just Like Heaven" was the great song he had ever wrote when it was recorded.
Robert Smith then composed the songs on "Disintegration."
Wow. One of what has become my favorite UA-cam channels taking on one of my top 5 albums of all time, and how well it is taken on! This video is filled with things I already did know but a lot of nuggets I did not. Well done!
Arguably one of the greatest bands ever.
The level of detail that goes into these videos is astounding. And the last section about an album's influence on contemporary music is always full of aha moments.
Today, my favourite Cure songs has got to be "The Exploding Boy". Not sure what it will be tomorrow..
Watching Me Fall is one of their best and criminally underrated songs. 11 minutes plus of pure Cure dynamic moody vibes over a swampy simple chord sequence.
The Cure as a whole and even more Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss me can be listened to unendingly for all time.
I remember the first time I heard Disintegration, I was 10 when it came out. One of my uncles is 10 years older than me, which made him more of an older brother than an uncle really, and I had started listening to music with him a few years prior (back in 87). A friend of him had bought the album the day it was released and he recorded it on tape and brought it on a family trip. I already knew The Cure, it was his favorite band at the time and he would play them all the time, but I remember vividly how Disintegration impacted me as no other album had before. Maybe because it was the first Cure album we were experiencing together for the first time. My uncle died suddenly last year and it was a hard hit that I haven’t fully recovered. At his funeral, after he was buried, I stood alone with a cousin of mine beside his grave and played “The Same Deep Water as You” on its entirety on my phone so we could share the album one last time.
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant! That is all I can really say...that...and Thank You for profiling The Cure. They shall forever reign supreme. Cheers!
My favourite Cure song is undoubtedly "Watching Me Fall". Number two is an axe handle and molotov cocktail riot of songs from Wish, Bloodflowers, Wild Mood Swings(yes, Wild Mood Swings), and The Cure(yes! The Cure!) and various b-sides of all eras fighting it out.
Thank you. Bloodflowers doesn't get its due. And Wild Mood Swings is like Roxy Music's Flesh and Blood...it's solid, but SOMEthing has to be considered the "worst album," so here we are.
WMS is amazing. The Cure is solid too.
I'm not sure I could pick a favorite Cure song, but as it happens my wife and I pulled out _Disintegration_ just the other night as a throwback to my college days when this was my go-to album (CD player set to repeat-all) for private times with a young woman.
Thanks for the history lesson to go along with the nostalgia.
This is one of the best episodes you have ever written. I am a long long long Cure fan, and I never knew all that information about Smith and Tolhurst.
No way man! Just like heaven and another girl another planet have different chords! Both awesome❤
Best music channel on UA-cam- thanks for the upload and reminder of this album.
I was 19 when this album came out and I played it to death. I will never tire of hearing it and it's as amazing now as it was then.
'Plainsong' is one of the greatest album openers of all time.
My favorite version: ua-cam.com/video/DPO1zUtzJLk/v-deo.htmlsi=C9tFkkHU0WZs5NJl
It starts out with those windchimes and you're wondering how a song can segue from that apparent randomness. Only opener that compares, I think, is the noodling synth starting Start of the Breakdown by TFF
A letter to Elise, never gets mentioned but I love that track.
_Wish_ had the unenviable task of having to follow up _Disintegration_ , which pretty much everyone agreed was an instant classic 💎
A fan from the eighties, but didn't catch them until Pine Knob, Michigan @2000. Wow. Incredible.
Best you've done yet! And I really like the new way you've cut in the samples of other songs. Nice.
And I've always been a fan of Smith. But after this, even more so.
Well done!
I love the way you can fill in the gaps in our earlier lives in a way that makes it make sense long after the fact 💆🏻♂️
A masterful video about a side of The Cure I knew little about. Robert Smith has been such a towering figure in my musical influences that I've often forgotten to humanize him. I appreciate all the hard work and deep research you do, Trash Theory. Cheers!
The bass line in "Catch" 🖤🖤🖤
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Awesome! Fave Cure song? A Forest!!
thank you for this upload
Thank you for making such an amazing video!
This is the best page on UA-cam. Really appreciate all your research!
Doing the unstuck is not only my fave cure song, it’s my fave song of all time.
I watch 1 half, to learn about a bands influence/album/song history and antidotes, the other half for those songs that I never knew there name growing up (PRE-internet) and now they pop for me. Thank you.
Great video. One of my favorite bands.
Side note - what was cute in his 20s and 30s is positively frightening in his 60s.
F***ing outstanding!! One of your best-ever pieces. Bravo! (And thank you!)
You never disappoint i love your channel and u reaffirm why I love the cure sooooooooooo much
Disintegration is a masterpiece. I love albums that flow and Disintegration does that beautifully.
Oh and I also love Elite.
One hell of a history report! Hope people discover your video over and over again.
A band it took me years to appreciate. A Forest probably my favourite track and I simply adore Lovesong. I also have a soft spot for Straight up by Paula Abdul!
I feel ya, being a hard rockin' teen in the late 80s I hated The Cure, much preferred the likes of GnR, Zepplin, etc.. But now, 30 years on, I find The Cure to be one of my favorite bands and Smith one of my favorite artists, always on top of my Spotify playlists.
Awesome story. I’ve loved The Cure for 35 years and counting. Prayers for Rain has particularly captured me and comforted me of late. Especially love drumming along to it 🖤
favorite cure song? Inconceivable!! 🖤 Great vid, mate!
Another great deep dive into music history. Many thanks.
so much the music of my teens, so good and a great essay as ever from TT 🙂
Why can I only like this vid once! Disintegration is my fav Cure album, maybe my fav album of all time. This -VID- documentary was amazing.
Disintegration & All Mixed Up were my first The Cure albums!❤🖤❤️
You tricked us with that "what Cure song should I cover?" poll, but I can't be mad because you covered all of them, and brilliantly to boot! Lots of great insights packed into this 40 minutes. Thank you!
What a great video! Great job Man! Love The Cure 🖤
Lullaby is one of those one off songs that was always going to be made.
I remember the first I heard it, it was as if I had known it already. Top tune.
The Cure always were brilliant musicians that I liked to listen to but which always pulled me down over the span of complete albums.
This Twilight Garden, is one of the loveliest love songs out there and for me the most underrated song by The Cure!
Excellent vid as always, thank you!
This is the best channel on UA-cam. Straight Up.