As Kyle from South Park once said, "Disintegration is the best album ever", my favorite after their darkest album - p****graphy. Loved this album, their most mature one. Let's see what Professor Skye has cooked. Sad how Morrissey is deteriorating his legacy with time, while Robert and co. are making such immaculate records. AVAA in advance.
@@spiffy8576 Absolutely! I rarely question the quality with Morrissey, that is what he delivers. It's the subtext of the nonsense which ruins the music sometimes. The same way Kanye is making it tough to listen his recent work, without cringing a bit which is sad cuz he is one of my all time favorite artists.
I thin that 'Standing On A Beach' compilation album is the best The Cure album ever (the B-Sides could been an album in their own right) but I'll have to check out this new album though.
I kind of missed out on The Cure when I checked out of popular music for about 30 plus years. Oh, I heard their hits and generally liked them, but it wasn't until this album that I really listened to them, and I'm loving this album .It's ambient, rocking, majestic and emotionally poignant. Nice review.
The Cure are definitely a romantic band. Keats is also quoted in the booklet of this album. I really feel like in the first half of their career they were more of an expressionist band, as if a Munch painting was put into music in a way that was never done before or replicated after (Pornography above all). Disintegration, mine and probably everyone’s favourite, is a quintessential romantic record, in the Sehnsucht sense, a nostalgia that transcends the body and affects the nature in a colossal way. A Friedrich painting. This one is romantic too in that sense, but it seems like the mixture of all the best eras from them (not the pop ones but the seriously artistic ones) . An incredible record indeed. Robert Smith is an artist, a musical painter like few others. Thanks professor
Not sure if it's The Cure's best album, but it's their most concise album and far better than anything we could have hoped to receive from a band 45 years into their career.
AVAA! I found that I also tend to mentally group The Smiths and The Cure in some sort of "rivalry" and I've seen a lot younger fans of both compare the two in a similar way. As for why I have no real idea, maybe due to the fact that both are seen as the definitive "sad boy" alternative bands of the 80s? (sweeping generalization)
AVAA! 35:34 This is such a perfect description of The Cure. The first time I listened to The Cure I didn't understand any word Robert Smith said, but the atmosphere captured me like nothing else I've ever heard.
The Cure's discography wildly shifts throughout their career in quality. Some of the poppy albums are bad and some of the darker gothic rock albums are bad. And then sometimes you get an album like this from them, which is amazing. You never really know what you will get from these guys. The Ophelia painting by Millais is a perfect visual representation of Disintegration. Disintegration is the best album by The Cure, hands down. It's not even a contest. The other thing that is worth noting is that the live performance of this album reveals how fantastic this release actually is. The instruments ring through so much clearer than the album and I think it captures the artistic vision of the release even better than the studio album.
AVAA Nice review Prof. Ancient post punk era Cure fan of the first 4 albums, SOALW is like holding hands with an old and dear friend when we have both grown old and been thru so much. I’m glad the Cure are finally speaking to you. As you’ve described, they make space for us to sit with feelings, they’ve were doing that for me from the first time I heard 10:15, back in 1979. I know yr an album only guy, but if you haven’t seen the replay of the album launch show, I cant recommend hearing those songs played live, more highly.
When I was a kid I had a denim jacket full of patches from bands like Metallica, iron maiden and megadeth. The one patch that really stood out was the cure one.
Well Robert Smith played with Siouxsie and the Banshees. lol! Smith has also been involved in other musical projects, including stints in 1979 and 1982-84 as guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees, and a side project in 1983 with Banshee bassist Steven Severin called The Glove. I saw them in 2023 in San Diego. Let me tell you, this was one of the best shows I’ve seen in awhile! Hands down. Robert Smiths voice sounds like he is in his 20’s ! Very clear, and what a show. If they go on tour again you should go. Thanks for reacting to the album
Regarding the comment on Drone:Nodrone guitar solo sounding like late Bowie. Reeve Gabriel’s plays on this album which he played on Bowie’s 1998 album Hours.
AVAA Smiths is to Cure as Oasis is to Blur. Main difference is that Blur actually grew into a different act entirely and Oasis stagnated hard. May be my Damon Albarn bias, those two bands were both "britpop" but not very similar, by the time both outfits peaked in the "battle" they had.
Mmmm. Fan of Cure since 1979….there was no battle between the Smiths /Cure. They formed at different times, diff parts of the country. Really no musical similarities except for those looking at the 80s with hindsight only. Bands slagged each other off then, the Morrisey/ Smith thing was not unique. I comment a lot lately on the early - mid 80s because I was there for all of it, and it wasn’t the way people see it in the rear view. Much mores diverse and complex. There were hundreds of bands and many different scenes. Nothing like the cut and dried rivalry of Britpop. When The Smiths appeared The Cure were in the depths of Pornography, then The Top, which came out of Robert’s acid eating phase. Long long way from what The Smiths were doing.
Mr. AllMusic published a very elaborate description and review! Yours too! Moreover, they perfectly demonstrate the full extent of this high-quality opus. I fully agree with the review. This is one of The Cure's best albums with: 1. Pornography; 2. Disintegration; 3. Songs...; 4. The head...; 5. Kiss me... Several other reviews mention that this album is beautiful, but depressing. This album is more than that. The atmosphere, the sounds and the content form the expression of an inspired and skillfully presented work. That these critics consider the album depressing is an opinion, but the subjects treated and chosen go in the direction of a tragedy. When an artist chooses to talk about suicide, death, the end of things, it cannot be otherwise! Besides, if we focus on the titles alone, we find the essence of the subject: ... alone... nothing is forever... fragile... war... nodrone... never... end... There is nothing joyful there!!! Once the subject is understood, we enter the musical world and that is where EVERYTHING makes sense! The dissonant guitars, the repetitive and bewitching drums, the heavy bass, the atmospheric synths... everything conjures to transport us to the afterlife, if only we are sensitive to it. So I will dance on the Endsong as a man alone before the fate of the world with dark glasses that are worth as much as those of the pleasant but superficial ditties of the current songs and... so sad by their scope! The Cure deals with sad things, it is true, but my god it is joyful to get carried away and fly away with them!!! I will be at their next show in Quebec to celebrate their vision... and I will not be the only one... living from this collective divergence, shared with the joy in my heart of dancing on the sadness of this world!
AVAA I always like to see your reviews and so I was excited to see that you had reviewed this long time in the waiting new cure record. I am not a fan of hip-hop music. I’m not a fan of pop music. I am not a fan of rap music. So mostly I’m listening to alt rock rock and country rock. Oh let’s include punk whatever new wave was is anyway I listened to your review both the lead into it and then the meet of the actual review of the album and could agree with most everything although I always like the cure ever since I heard them, and an American was that boys don’t cry recognizes sort of a compilation, but I always thought that was great. I really kind of thought that guy. Robert Smith is an old soul even from the start. But the one thing I really want to say is that so many people talk about how this is a grim album in terms of its lyrical content. I guess when you really listen to it in an analyze it it is, but I have to say that it does not feel bleak or ponderous at all to me and I think that comes down to the music. The music is just freaking fantastic as you mention several times. I’m glad you talked about that fantastic beat in endsong. I love the cure’s drums so unique! Actually they just have a sound - guitars and drums and his voice that is great!
Music snob and old-school Cure fan here. Yes, shoegaze would absolutely exist without Disintegration. MBV’s Isn’t Anything (generally seen as the first shoegaze album) came out in 1988, a year before Disintegration. But also, the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins were probably the two biggest shoegaze precursors. Smith liked and championed shoegaze, and Disintegration’s popularity probably helped people to discover shoegaze, but shoegaze was gonna exist regardless.
Avaa and thanks for the shoutout for Blue (my Proust loving wife!). Asking her for a favourite will keep her busy but I’d bet she comes back with Disintegration; we’ll see and I’ll let you know!
I was driving to work when I listened to Alone for the very first time. The sun had just set. The skies were light blue and still had that yellowish tint to it. I will never forget it.
AVAA I don’t really know any of these old bands / artists. But I do know Close to You/Never Can Say Goodbye because Frank Ocean did a beautiful cover of both of them combined in his 2017 festival run
Hi Skye can you please make a video on Sematary. His music is this interesting blend of early 2010’s Chicago drill and noise/metal music. He’s built his own universe/persona/brand around his music which I find very inventive and artistic, it also very much boarders on absurdity which is why it goes over a lot of peoples heads but the music is AMAZING and I think you’ll have a ridiculously fun time listening to him. Albums to Listen to are Rainbow bridge 3, Butcher house, and Bloody Angel. He is the best white rapper out right now in my opinion and I STAND on that.
As obvious as it is I didn't see any mention of it but maybe I just went too fast through the comments. Robert Smith is the guitar player on Hyaena, one of the Siouxsie albums shown. Also co-writer on every song on the record except for one. Including Dazzle.
I’d love to see a 2nd channel for you to talk of the classics that you love. could be an interesting spin if for this imaginary channel, you instead used modern framing devices to talk about older albums. AVAA
yah it’s bad. full of arbitrary anecdotes and opinions that he can’t objectively support. just another internet dork trying to intellectualize his own ignorance while grasping to rope toxic masculinity into a conversation about a band he didn’t really appreciate in the first place.
Been a cure fan since I was 12. I'm 48 now. When I heard disintegration I did think it was music for girls. Anything before that not so much but hey I was 13. I still prefer Anything up to head on the door
Nice review. I enjoyed the back story on your perspective and feelings about The Cure. I can tell a lot went into this album both musically and lyrically but the 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑪 itself hasn’t really grabbed me. There’s nothing that sticks in my mind after multiple attempts to listen to it in its entirety. Also, I do not like the tinny and distorted bass tone on the first two tracks which is really distracting, in my opinion. I really want to like this record but it feels a bit linear to me. No real peaks or dynamics in terms of tempo, memorable choruses, etc. Just feels a little flatline to my ears.
AVAA part of the comparison between The Smiths and The Cure came from Morrissey and Smiths trading blows in the press over the years. Needless to say, these shots made Robert look good and Morrissey look worse lmao Also Ministry over Nine Inch Nails is crazy, do better Teenage Skye 💀 EDIT: I think part of why you may have found it hard to get on with them and the comparison to the art movement may come from the Cure’s album covers, which, I say as a massive fan, are just not all that appealing. Their best and most iconic album cover is Disintegration and a lot of that does look like the painting you described. Take a look at those other album covers like ‘Wish’ or ‘Bloodflowers’ (both excellent albums)and they’re… dodgy. Not exactly alluring. Also it’s very funny that you say that about Siouxsie Sioux, since Robert played guitar for her and helped make some of their songs lmao
Songs of a Lost World is a good old person's end-of-life album. It reminds me of Bowie's final album, Blackstar. But it's not close to their best album.
AVAA - I rarely comment because I feel an urge to write the equivalent of 12 pages (single spaced) to every video. I relate a whole lot to your divisions of like/don’t like from the 80s bands. (I never got The Smiths, though, in spite of many attempts and stamps of approval from other musicians from whom I often otherwise found guidance). Also, at one point you make me think of a song I recommend to you (not for a video, but just,) as a sort of innoculation. (Yes, I am one of your minority of viewers who is not only older than 30, but older than you, Professor!) -- if you don't know it, give a listen to Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane's "Just Want to Be Misunderstood." Unless it's just called "Misunderstood." In which case listen to that.
It's up there on the Mount Curemore, but the best? I cannot imagine anything topping Disintegration or even Pornography. But then they've been around for decades. I'll see how I feel about SOALW in a decade.
"Dudes" and "chicks". Yeah. Too simplistic. But the realization of death as something very real hit the head on the nail. Great comparison to the last Nick Cave.
Cure's best album? Quit drugs, please. "Seventeen seconds", "Faith", "Pornography", "The Head on the Door", "Disintegration" or "Wish" piss on this BRICK
Not sure how anyone can honestly say they "enjoy this album the most" of all Cure albums. It's structurally repetitive. There's not a spark of melody among any of the 8 songs. It's dreary and bleak. "Enjoyable" I guess, if you like indulging in depression and every danceable bone in your body has calcified and rendered you immobile.
Think I speak for most of us when i say I'd watch the hell out of the 'Professor skye reviews old music' channel
As Kyle from South Park once said, "Disintegration is the best album ever", my favorite after their darkest album - p****graphy. Loved this album, their most mature one. Let's see what Professor Skye has cooked. Sad how Morrissey is deteriorating his legacy with time, while Robert and co. are making such immaculate records. AVAA in advance.
Pornography is not a naughty word.
Morrissey has continued to make good records post 2000 he’s certainly made better ones than The Cure and I’m a fan of both.
@@spiffy8576 Absolutely! I rarely question the quality with Morrissey, that is what he delivers. It's the subtext of the nonsense which ruins the music sometimes. The same way Kanye is making it tough to listen his recent work, without cringing a bit which is sad cuz he is one of my all time favorite artists.
I thin that 'Standing On A Beach' compilation album is the best The Cure album ever (the B-Sides could been an album in their own right) but I'll have to check out this new album though.
@@spiffy8576he's made some but so have The Cure....The Smith's are NOT a better band than the cure so let's just get that FACT OUT OF THE WAY.
I kind of missed out on The Cure when I checked out of popular music for about 30 plus years. Oh, I heard their hits and generally liked them, but it wasn't until this album that I really listened to them, and I'm loving this album .It's ambient, rocking, majestic and emotionally poignant. Nice review.
The Cure are definitely a romantic band. Keats is also quoted in the booklet of this album. I really feel like in the first half of their career they were more of an expressionist band, as if a Munch painting was put into music in a way that was never done before or replicated after (Pornography above all). Disintegration, mine and probably everyone’s favourite, is a quintessential romantic record, in the Sehnsucht sense, a nostalgia that transcends the body and affects the nature in a colossal way. A Friedrich painting. This one is romantic too in that sense, but it seems like the mixture of all the best eras from them (not the pop ones but the seriously artistic ones) . An incredible record indeed. Robert Smith is an artist, a musical painter like few others. Thanks professor
Beautifully said. 🖤
SONGS OF A LOST WORLD
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Not sure if it's The Cure's best album, but it's their most concise album and far better than anything we could have hoped to receive from a band 45 years into their career.
Definitely not their best. NOT even close.
AVAA! I found that I also tend to mentally group The Smiths and The Cure in some sort of "rivalry" and I've seen a lot younger fans of both compare the two in a similar way. As for why I have no real idea, maybe due to the fact that both are seen as the definitive "sad boy" alternative bands of the 80s? (sweeping generalization)
A besides channel where you talk about music you grew up on is a fantastic idea. I’ve already subscribed #avaa
AVAA! 35:34 This is such a perfect description of The Cure. The first time I listened to The Cure I didn't understand any word Robert Smith said, but the atmosphere captured me like nothing else I've ever heard.
I like your delivery. Happy to sub.
Avaa! That said. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me was always where it was at for me.
The Cure's discography wildly shifts throughout their career in quality. Some of the poppy albums are bad and some of the darker gothic rock albums are bad. And then sometimes you get an album like this from them, which is amazing. You never really know what you will get from these guys.
The Ophelia painting by Millais is a perfect visual representation of Disintegration. Disintegration is the best album by The Cure, hands down. It's not even a contest.
The other thing that is worth noting is that the live performance of this album reveals how fantastic this release actually is. The instruments ring through so much clearer than the album and I think it captures the artistic vision of the release even better than the studio album.
Robert Smith was born in Blackpool in the North of England but I think as a young child he moved down South to Crawley where he was raised.
AVAA Nice review Prof. Ancient post punk era Cure fan of the first 4 albums, SOALW is like holding hands with an old and dear friend when we have both grown old and been thru so much.
I’m glad the Cure are finally speaking to you. As you’ve described, they make space for us to sit with feelings, they’ve were doing that for me from the first time I heard 10:15, back in 1979.
I know yr an album only guy, but if you haven’t seen the replay of the album launch show, I cant recommend hearing those songs played live, more highly.
When I was a kid I had a denim jacket full of patches from bands like Metallica, iron maiden and megadeth. The one patch that really stood out was the cure one.
Well Robert Smith played with Siouxsie and the Banshees. lol! Smith has also been involved in other musical projects, including stints in 1979 and 1982-84 as guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees, and a side project in 1983 with Banshee bassist Steven Severin called The Glove. I saw them in 2023 in San Diego. Let me tell you, this was one of the best shows I’ve seen in awhile! Hands down. Robert Smiths voice sounds like he is in his 20’s ! Very clear, and what a show. If they go on tour again you should go. Thanks for reacting to the album
AVAA and I love to see the 1.Outside respect, your content is amazing and I'm glad to have run across your channel
Regarding the comment on Drone:Nodrone guitar solo sounding like late Bowie. Reeve Gabriel’s plays on this album which he played on Bowie’s 1998 album Hours.
AVAA always love your videos, keep up the good work professor
AVAA
Smiths is to Cure as Oasis is to Blur. Main difference is that Blur actually grew into a different act entirely and Oasis stagnated hard. May be my Damon Albarn bias, those two bands were both "britpop" but not very similar, by the time both outfits peaked in the "battle" they had.
Exactly. Smiths never gave themselves a chance to evolve. The Cure did and thus offer a LOT more variety in their sound/songs
Mmmm. Fan of Cure since 1979….there was no battle between the Smiths /Cure. They formed at different times, diff parts of the country. Really no musical similarities except for those looking at the 80s with hindsight only. Bands slagged each other off then, the Morrisey/ Smith thing was not unique.
I comment a lot lately on the early - mid 80s because I was there for all of it, and it wasn’t the way people see it in the rear view. Much mores diverse and complex. There were hundreds of bands and many different scenes.
Nothing like the cut and dried rivalry of Britpop.
When The Smiths appeared The Cure were in the depths of Pornography, then The Top, which came out of Robert’s acid eating phase. Long long way from what The Smiths were doing.
Mr. AllMusic published a very elaborate description and review! Yours too! Moreover, they perfectly demonstrate the full extent of this high-quality opus. I fully agree with the review.
This is one of The Cure's best albums with:
1. Pornography;
2. Disintegration;
3. Songs...;
4. The head...;
5. Kiss me...
Several other reviews mention that this album is beautiful, but depressing. This album is more than that.
The atmosphere, the sounds and the content form the expression of an inspired and skillfully presented work. That these critics consider the album depressing is an opinion, but the subjects treated and chosen go in the direction of a tragedy.
When an artist chooses to talk about suicide, death, the end of things, it cannot be otherwise!
Besides, if we focus on the titles alone, we find the essence of the subject: ... alone... nothing is forever... fragile... war... nodrone... never... end... There is nothing joyful there!!!
Once the subject is understood, we enter the musical world and that is where EVERYTHING makes sense! The dissonant guitars, the repetitive and bewitching drums, the heavy bass, the atmospheric synths... everything conjures to transport us to the afterlife, if only we are sensitive to it.
So I will dance on the Endsong as a man alone before the fate of the world with dark glasses that are worth as much as those of the pleasant but superficial ditties of the current songs and... so sad by their scope!
The Cure deals with sad things, it is true, but my god it is joyful to get carried away and fly away with them!!!
I will be at their next show in Quebec to celebrate their vision... and I will not be the only one... living from this collective divergence, shared with the joy in my heart of dancing on the sadness of this world!
You should really do an Outside review
AVAA I always like to see your reviews and so I was excited to see that you had reviewed this long time in the waiting new cure record. I am not a fan of hip-hop music. I’m not a fan of pop music. I am not a fan of rap music. So mostly I’m listening to alt rock rock and country rock. Oh let’s include punk whatever new wave was is anyway I listened to your review both the lead into it and then the meet of the actual review of the album and could agree with most everything although I always like the cure ever since I heard them, and an American was that boys don’t cry recognizes sort of a compilation, but I always thought that was great. I really kind of thought that guy. Robert Smith is an old soul even from the start. But the one thing I really want to say is that so many people talk about how this is a grim album in terms of its lyrical content. I guess when you really listen to it in an analyze it it is, but I have to say that it does not feel bleak or ponderous at all to me and I think that comes down to the music. The music is just freaking fantastic as you mention several times. I’m glad you talked about that fantastic beat in endsong. I love the cure’s drums so unique! Actually they just have a sound - guitars and drums and his voice that is great!
Music snob and old-school Cure fan here. Yes, shoegaze would absolutely exist without Disintegration. MBV’s Isn’t Anything (generally seen as the first shoegaze album) came out in 1988, a year before Disintegration. But also, the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins were probably the two biggest shoegaze precursors. Smith liked and championed shoegaze, and Disintegration’s popularity probably helped people to discover shoegaze, but shoegaze was gonna exist regardless.
Great review. I always love your insights. Hey, Skye, what is the animal at 1.34 popping out of the bushes behind your right shoulder? lol
Avaa and thanks for the shoutout for Blue (my Proust loving wife!). Asking her for a favourite will keep her busy but I’d bet she comes back with Disintegration; we’ll see and I’ll let you know!
I was driving to work when I listened to Alone for the very first time. The sun had just set. The skies were light blue and still had that yellowish tint to it. I will never forget it.
AVAA please make the bowie outside video definitely a top 5 for me that album totally rules
AVAA.
i highly recommend the albums seventeen seconds and faith. they are records from their early days but they’re awesome
Please I would love to listen more of your thoughts on the Outside album!!!!
And yes please prof. Sky talks about old music channel. Though I disagree with you about the Bowie one too. Lol. But yes!!!! Homestar Runner!!!!😂
AVAA to be honest IMO , I think the new album is a decent comeback album. Disintegration & Pornography are for me their all time classic albums.
I enjoyed this video, subbed
As a Disintegration worshipper, I can say without bias that Shoegaze would not exist. But Disintegration wouldn’t exist without Cocteau Twins.
Nor without New Order.
AVAA I don’t really know any of these old bands / artists. But I do know Close to You/Never Can Say Goodbye because Frank Ocean did a beautiful cover of both of them combined in his 2017 festival run
Hi Skye can you please make a video on Sematary. His music is this interesting blend of early 2010’s Chicago drill and noise/metal music. He’s built his own universe/persona/brand around his music which I find very inventive and artistic, it also very much boarders on absurdity which is why it goes over a lot of peoples heads but the music is AMAZING and I think you’ll have a ridiculously fun time listening to him. Albums to Listen to are Rainbow bridge 3, Butcher house, and Bloody Angel. He is the best white rapper out right now in my opinion and I STAND on that.
well my mom likes the cure and my dad likes new order so you’re not wrong
As obvious as it is I didn't see any mention of it but maybe I just went too fast through the comments. Robert Smith is the guitar player on Hyaena, one of the Siouxsie albums shown. Also co-writer on every song on the record except for one. Including Dazzle.
I’d love to see a 2nd channel for you to talk of the classics that you love. could be an interesting spin if for this imaginary channel, you instead used modern framing devices to talk about older albums. AVAA
Please school us on why outside is an amazing Bowie record. AVAA
I can’t tell whether this video is ridiculous or tedious. Both probably. It has absolutely nothing interesting to say about this amazing album.
yah it’s bad. full of arbitrary anecdotes and opinions that he can’t objectively support. just another internet dork trying to intellectualize his own ignorance while grasping to rope toxic masculinity into a conversation about a band he didn’t really appreciate in the first place.
AVAA, similar feelings overall. This album is fuking great!
My fav album of the year.
Nice house
aaaaaaand he never changed the angle lol
oh nvm lol
AVAA. More old music talks would be great!
Been a cure fan since I was 12. I'm 48 now. When I heard disintegration I did think it was music for girls. Anything before that not so much but hey I was 13. I still prefer Anything up to head on the door
Nice review. I enjoyed the back story on your perspective and feelings about The Cure. I can tell a lot went into this album both musically and lyrically but the 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑪 itself hasn’t really grabbed me. There’s nothing that sticks in my mind after multiple attempts to listen to it in its entirety. Also, I do not like the tinny and distorted bass tone on the first two tracks which is really distracting, in my opinion. I really want to like this record but it feels a bit linear to me. No real peaks or dynamics in terms of tempo, memorable choruses, etc. Just feels a little flatline to my ears.
Can you do a breakdown of Dans ma ruche please.love it. From the boys
AVAA part of the comparison between The Smiths and The Cure came from Morrissey and Smiths trading blows in the press over the years. Needless to say, these shots made Robert look good and Morrissey look worse lmao
Also Ministry over Nine Inch Nails is crazy, do better Teenage Skye 💀
EDIT: I think part of why you may have found it hard to get on with them and the comparison to the art movement may come from the Cure’s album covers, which, I say as a massive fan, are just not all that appealing. Their best and most iconic album cover is Disintegration and a lot of that does look like the painting you described. Take a look at those other album covers like ‘Wish’ or ‘Bloodflowers’ (both excellent albums)and they’re… dodgy. Not exactly alluring. Also it’s very funny that you say that about Siouxsie Sioux, since Robert played guitar for her and helped make some of their songs lmao
AAVE (Mount Eerie - Night Palace review please)
Strong Sad!
AVAA, i used to date a girl that loved the cure, shoutout to her
Songs of a Lost World is a good old person's end-of-life album. It reminds me of Bowie's final album, Blackstar. But it's not close to their best album.
AVAA - I rarely comment because I feel an urge to write the equivalent of 12 pages (single spaced) to every video. I relate a whole lot to your divisions of like/don’t like from the 80s bands. (I never got The Smiths, though, in spite of many attempts and stamps of approval from other musicians from whom I often otherwise found guidance). Also, at one point you make me think of a song I recommend to you (not for a video, but just,) as a sort of innoculation. (Yes, I am one of your minority of viewers who is not only older than 30, but older than you, Professor!) -- if you don't know it, give a listen to Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane's "Just Want to Be Misunderstood." Unless it's just called "Misunderstood." In which case listen to that.
You gotta own DIsintegration
It's up there on the Mount Curemore, but the best? I cannot imagine anything topping Disintegration or even Pornography. But then they've been around for decades. I'll see how I feel about SOALW in a decade.
AVAA 11:25 opinion on Brian Jonestown Massacre??
Avaa
Where do I find the poem? 25:36
Election day special ❤AVAA
Turns out the day was not special
To answer your title question, no, but it's as good as Faith or Wish.
"Dudes" and "chicks". Yeah. Too simplistic. But the realization of death as something very real hit the head on the nail. Great comparison to the last Nick Cave.
I always thought that The Smiths were a project by Robert Smith with his Brother
Cant wait till im in my 40s and keep getting asked about the cure 😂
Day 367 of Asking you to Review Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youth
Unfortunately this new album sounds like someone has asked ChatGPT to create an album that sounds like Disintegration w horrible guitar solos
Their best album?
NO! No….just…no. Why? It’s not, not even close :/
listen to Yeat new album my man
Toxic masculinity...dude you standing on a porch talking about the past in a bathrobe thing...baby blue... Just saying 😂
Cure's best album? Quit drugs, please. "Seventeen seconds", "Faith", "Pornography", "The Head on the Door", "Disintegration" or "Wish" piss on this BRICK
Holy shit I love this album but this pseudo-intellectual dissection is beyond annoying.
Not sure how anyone can honestly say they "enjoy this album the most" of all Cure albums. It's structurally repetitive. There's not a spark of melody among any of the 8 songs. It's dreary and bleak. "Enjoyable" I guess, if you like indulging in depression and every danceable bone in your body has calcified and rendered you immobile.
Profe I love you but I'm beginning to understand why you called chromakopia a feminist album omg lmfao 😭
Poor album.