@@matthewteague623 Well, yes. But if you're going to have to deal with the depression, the manic days can get you through. One of my favorite students was a superb writer who dealt with severe bipolar disorder. One day she told me that she used her bipolar disorder in her writing process. I asked how, and she said, "I write when I'm manic and revise when I'm depressed." My jaw dropped and I said, "That's brilliant." She used her manic days to produce a lot of content, and then used the hyper-critical, borderline obsessive days to tear it apart and make it better. It worked well for her.
Hi, you're basically playing my youth years right now...Clever lyrics, catchy & beautiful music all and all. Thanks from a happy 56 year old "the Cure" fan ✌️
So many great songs! Such an iconic modern rock sound! So many great songs; BOYS DON’T CRY, THE LOVE CATS, JUST LIKE HEAVEN, LULLABY, WHY CAN’T I BE YOU, IN BETWEEN DAYS, A FOREST, to name a few.
Their poppiest, most fun song. For a similarly upbeat Cure song, please try Love Cats. Cure is more typically what I would call "moody". I have to admit that I do prefer their moodier, darker songs overall. Please check out and react to: A Forest, Close To Me, A Letter to Elise, Boys Don't Cry. There really are no bad Cure songs. They put out a B-Sides album that has some wonderful gems on it, including two covers of Purple Haze that I absolutely love. They are all great musicians, true artists IMO. Edited to add: several of their classic videos have recently been remastered in HD and they're a joy to watch, I would encourage you to react to them if you can.
I absolutely adore these guys,... they have such a unique sound and feel to them. Their song Pictures Of You always tears my heart up but I still love it so.
yes, "lovecats"! and "just like heaven" -- that was the first song my husband and i danced to at our wedding; i requested it especially. they're my first go-to for '80s music. "close to me," "boys don't cry," "in between days," and "pictures of you." and then the collab with blink 182, "all of t his." the best songs are the ones you can listen to over and over again and not get tired of them.
I was never a Cure purist who maintains that their best work was the dark gothic stuff! Give me some of that, but when the hair got big, and the lipstick smudged, that's when i joined the party. Great song, and try 'Love Cats' sometime!
Love the Cure, some favorites are " Just Like Heaven" and " Pictures of You". They had a wonderful sound and always loved the vocals, songs seem timeless. Thank you Daniel
Anything from the seminal "Disintegration" would be a wonderful contrast to this track. I personally would suggest "Last Dance" because it is so well observed.
Love to hear you react to some of their earlier works: Love Cats, Boys Don’t Cry, Caterpillar Girl, Killing An Arab, A Forest, Let’s Go To Bed, Charlotte Sometimes.
Into the trees, Charlotte Sometimes, Burn, Fascination Street I think are more representative of their moodier or darker music. Love cats and this song are definitely upbeat songs that were great, but overall atypical of what is perceived as the Cure sound. Great reaction.
Daniel,"Close To Me" by The Cure is a funky, jazzy, upbeat, song featuring saxophone. The video of the song is very catchy. The guys are in the ocean with fish, octopus playing the sax and other marine animals. EDIT...Daniel, if you decide to check this song out, try to find the longer version which is subtitled CLOSER MIX. This version was released in 1990 by Fiction Records UK.
I was never a fan o' The Cure but when I heard this unbelievably catchy pop song I was taken under their spell. It really doesn't get much better than this!!!
There were the kids who listened to Duran Duran and the kids who listened to The Clash. After school you could find the C kids in the art room making some big sculpture out of tape dispensers, spoons, lint from under b-wing stairs and Mr Beasom's glasses. The DD kids, meanwhile, were out at cheerleader practice reapplying their mascara.
Perfect reaction. It will absolutely be stuck in your head. Its simple but so fun to listen to. Your bobbing head and that grin on your face says it all. Thanks, Mom! Close to Me, In Between Days, Pictures of You, 10:15 Saturday Night, Boys Don’t Cry, and Six Different Ways are some of my favorites.
Friday I'm in Love. Alternative. One of my favs by The Cure. Lead singer Robert Smith is very goth looking and his hair is styled a little like Edward Scissors hands. Hahahaha. There 's a Adam Sandler movie called The Wedding Singer. His character tells a girl that he wrote a song after breaking up with someone, that it's uneven he warned her, he'd been listening to alot of the Cure. Which turns into an angry song. LOL! Insanely funny. LOL! 😂😂😂 Watch this movie, Daniel.
I was living in France circa 86, and their version of MTV was called TVsix. They played a lot of French music videos, Final Countdown, Madonna and a whole lot of Cure. I loved Lovecats and Boys Don't Cry, tv6 played those constantly
Yes!! I love The Cure! You gotta do Fascination Street it's very Cure. Their main hit is probably Just Like Heaven which is another catchy song. They have a lot of great songs.
You want to hear their dark stuff? Their 4th album, Pornography, is by FAR the darkest thing they ever did. It would be interesting for you to check out one of those songs next, just for sheer contrast.
Yes, this is The Cure at their poppiest and silliest. Besides the classics A Forest, The Hanging Garden, Lullaby, I would recommend 'Prayers For Rain' for a nice dark atmospheric vibe. Definitely you should check out some more and also from their earlier albums, since their sound morphed quite a lot into different moods over the years
I was first introduced to the Cure when I bought the "Boys Don't Cry" compilation album. So many good songs. The old Easybeats' song "Friday On My mind" also celebrates Friday!
When I was your age, and it still is, Friday is the escape from the rat race. Saturday is just as good, but Sunday is knowing the rat race is returning. Great song for a very poppy song.
The Cure has that really unique sound that makes all their songs catchy. For your next Cure song in 2023 lol...I always liked "Pictures Of You". Also "Just Like Heaven" has one of those classic guitar riffs that will stay with you forever. Both great songs.
I am old enough to be your mother. I love music so much. I don't care if it's Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Cyndi Lauper, The Misfits, Danzig, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Dolly Parton, I LOVE music. But The Cure is IT for me. Since I was a literal child the only three bands I was stuck on were The Cure, Metallica and The Talking Heads. But The Cure are really it. Love to see a young person discover them.
From the beginning, Robert has always had the ability write a good single or two, no matter how dark the mood of the rest of the album may be. The guy really knows what he's doing. Good reaction.
I am a 66 year old geezer, a terrible cynic, and I adore this joyous song. I like the lyrics. This is a song that I loved the first time I heard it, and it still makes me want to dance. Truly one of my favorite songs of all time because of the way it makes me feel. Suggestion for song review: Van Morrison's "Why Must I Always Explain." It's another song I loved on first listen. Lyrics I continue to relate to. Another all time favorite.
Gloomy Cure; One Hundred Years (Live) , Shake Dog Shake (Live). The Cure are best listened to Live, they've got amazing stage presence and great sound.
A Cure song that was palatable for a wider audience. It's very bright and poppy for The Cure, but then the 'real' Cure sound will always depend on which phase you started to listen to them (post-punk beginnings, the 'goth' years or the 'pop' albums), it just goes to show the variety of this band!
And yes this is still played heavily on Fridays on classic rock stations all over America. Makes Friday and that anticipation of the weekend all the more special.
Yes! A truly fun number. The lyrics aren't really too deep. You'd like the original video (there's one low quality and one high quality I've found on UA-cam).
I've been a Cure fan for over 30 years, and few bands mean more to me, personally. They're also an *incredibly influential* band that deserves many reactions! :-) Many of their songs are much, much darker than this one, but I love the "happy" Cure too-- it's the brilliant sunshine after the storm! For the *emotional opposite* of this song, though, try "One Hundred Years" or "The Figurehead." *Stunning, powerful* songs!
Here’s some wonderful gloominess from the Cure: * Seventeen Seconds * The Drowning Man * Disintegration * If Inly Tonight we Could Sleep * Cold * A Hundred Years * Faith * Doing the Unstuck * Untitled *Fascination Street * The Perfect Girl * How Beautiful You Are * Charlotte Sometimes *The Caterpillar *10:15 Saturday Night * Same Deep Water As You * Grinding Halt * Three Imaginary Boys *Seventeen Seconds * M * Secrets There’s A LOT more where that list came from 🤍🪐
Boys Don’t Cry is a great early gloom fest.I would also recommend Killing An Arab.It’s based on Camus’ existential novel The Stranger.Unfortunately lunkheaded fans used it for unsavory purposes and the band stopped playing it.Here is a great early live versionua-cam.com/video/y7lULaE6kv4/v-deo.html
You're a Cure fan, Danny. I approve! Listen to Just like Heaven, Love Cats, Lullaby (kinda spooky) , Boys Don't Cry,...etc. Truly original, genius art music. Robert Smith voices himself in an old episode of South Park.
How appropriate for today being Friday! But no I'm not in love! I love this band. It's got such a fun feeling! I also like Love Song and Just Like Heaven! This is a winner!
Wait a minute Brendan Just like heavens your favourite cure song! Great reaction and insight Daniel. Have you reacted to the bat for lashes song Daniel yet?
The problem with the CURE is that one could go on for a while just hitting the foundational and unique cuts from them. The different personas of Robert Smith and the Cure are on display through their discography, the genius is that the CURE make CURE music not commercialize. A good list for reactions who are just discovering the CURE. "Boys Don't Cry" "A Night Like This" "Primary" "Jumping Someone Else's Train" "In Between Days" "The Walk" "Caterpillar" "Lovecats" "Let's Go to Bed" "Just Like Heaven" "Why Can't I Be You" "Catch" "One More Time", (should add that one to the gloomy list) "Thousand Hours" (gloomy and sad) "Like Cockatoos" "The Kiss" (add to the banger list" "Untitled" "Plainsong" "Prayers for rain" "Letters to Elise" "High" "Mint Car" "The 13th" "Last Days of Summer" "Out of this world" "Close to Me" "Hot, Hot, Hot" "Hey You"
Oooooo, gloomy, dark, Cure....I'd suggest From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, the title track off Disintegration, or Strange Days. The Cure has so many songs I adore that fall into the the "gloomy" category, these three are just among my favorites. My personal favorite song by them is A Letter to Elise.
They're masters at building tracks and layering melodies, imo. I happily began performing what I could remember of this -minus the middle - after an attractive young woman asked me about it, if I knew it at an open-stage/jam.
I think you'll prefer their earlier punk/post-punk sound on songs like 10:15 on a Saturday Night, So What, Boys Don't Cry, A Forest (live at the Werchter festival), but would eventually get into their later stuff as well.
Great reaction to a great song by a great band, Daniel ! .. One of my favourites by them .. But PLEASE check out the brilliant and impactful "Boys Don't Cry" from 1979 .. And for a dark, brooding, atmospheric number, you should hit their "Charlotte Sometimes" .. It sounds great and has a very interesting subject matter .. Wayne
This song is probaby one of their most happy pop songs. Their music is normally darker and beautiful. It is one of my favorite songs by them 'tho, but listen to "A Forest", "Pictures of you", "Just like Heaven", "In between days". The Cure are very very good!!!! Could you react to "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran? Thanks!
I like this part: Dressed up to the eyes It's a wonderful surprise To see your shoes and your spirits rise Throw out your frown And just smile at the sound Sleek as a shriek, spinning 'round and 'round Always take a big bite It's such a gorgeous sight To see you eat in the middle of the night You can never get enough Enough of this stuff It's Friday, I'm in love
Just Like Heaven is an interesting mix of the gloomy and poppy. Fascination Street, Pictures of You, Lullaby...all off that same album, I think...and all gloomy and dark. Earlier there's Head on the Door, Killing an Arab, The Forest. They have had a very, very long career and their sound has changed quite a bit over the years.
Friday is definitely one of The Cure's happier tracks, and it's great! But it isn't representative of their typical sound. Their entire album, Disintegration, is perfection (IMO). You did Love Song, but I would continue with Lullaby, Fascination Street (GREAT bass riff!), Pictures Of You & Disintegration. Earlier tracks like Push, Just Like Heaven, A Forest are classics. Later tracks like Burn (features on The Crow soundtrack), and From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea. Fantastic group!! Great reaction.
This is The Cure's "Shiney Happy People" song (see R.E.M.). Is it representative of the bands sound? I think so, Robert wrote it and he is in the band:). (Im being snarky because as a Cure-ist we are suppose to be glum and snarky) Seriously though, The Cure had basically three big hits "Love Song" (which youve done), Friday Im In Love and Just Like Heaven (their biggest hit). All three are love songs and dreamy obsession lyrically. And catchy as hell. Someone mentioned this is a bi-polar persons description of being in love. Pretty much yes. So not all shiney. Not all happy as it may seem on the surface. Erratic love relationship if you really listen. The music is the manic part and the lyrics are the rather depressed part. I mean the guy is only able to keep it together on Friday;). Robert at his best could write amazing love songs like this that are complete earworms. You should complete the trinity and do "Just Like Heaven". After that maybe do an entire album such as "Pornography" or "Disintegration" to get The Cure that Cureheads are talking about. The band is tied so much to the goth movement that they pretty much wrote the book on the gloomy, foggy, dusky, dreamstate genre. That dark gloomy period started with the album "Seventeen Seconds" and then "Faith" (my favorite Cure album overall) ended the dark trilogy really with "Pornography" as Robert Smith was tiring of the dark direction the band was taking. Still many of the later songs and albums have a dark sound. But after the dark trilogy Robert and the band made a concerted effort to become more catchy and poppy. And they did that well with the next couple of albums. Then they returned to form to make a more enduring album with what many consider to be their masterpiece... "Disintegration" That is the album I would react to if I were to choose one entire album, One other note. This band and so many others including U2 owe a huge debt to one band: "Joy Division" I dont know if you have reacted to Joy Division. But I suggest "Transmission" (the live version) or "She's Lost Control" (Every reactor does "Love Will Tear Us Apart" great song but for some reason youtubes fidelity sucks on that song and is a crap shoot to try and find a decent sounding video) But yes, Joy Division would be cool because you can see going backwards where many of the famous early post-punk bands of the 80s got their sound.
Do you want darker, moodier cure songs? Well, just check 95% of their catalogue. At least. Hahaha. No mistake! My sugestions are: Pictures of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, Close to me, A Forest, The Hanging Garden, Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, Push and Inbetween Days. Thanks for reacting to this band. They left a extraordinary legacy in pop music for the last 40 years or more. A great band.
If only tonight we could sleep ( deftones does a great cover!) Egde of a deep green sea Letters to Elise A strange day In-between days 3 imaginary boys How beautiful you are Fascination street The exploding boy
I don't know any other Cure songs to suggest, but if you want a song about waiting for the weekend, you could try Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend". 😊
Try not to cry challenge? 🥲🙂 The Avett Brothers - Ballad of Love and Hate (live) Aurora - Murder Song 5,4,3,2,1 (live at the Nobel peace prize concert) Band of Horses - No one’s gonna love you Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
This is their most popular song, but it's not the overall sound they're known for. In the early 80's they did some post punk/goth albums before they got into new wave/pop. Try listening to "A Forest" "Charlotte Sometimes" or "Lullaby" for some examples of their darker vibes.
I love the Cure. Next: Boys Don’t Cry; Just Like Heaven; Charlotte Sometimes; Love Cats... all of them! If you have the time, watch the Cure Unplugged concert.
Please react to either or both of these songs. One is by Brenda Lee called "If You Go Away" release on the album "Johnny One Time" in 1969. Very emotional and beautifully sung. The second is by Potliquor called "Cheer" from the album "Levee Blues" released in 1972. Great vocals, drums, piano, guitars, and horns. Fast moving, loud with a great message. Both are available on UA-cam. I'd leave a URL but they often don't work. Thank you!
Even though it may also be considered an atypical song, I really recommend The 13th off their Wild Mood Swings album. Some older songs that I think would be good to react to: Fire in Cairo, Lullaby, Close to Me, Let's Go to Bed, and Catapillar.
Great pop song... very catchy. But you've gotta check out (In Between Days) Without You. It was kind of the precursor for this kind of upbeat poppy style but it's got such great guitar licks. I hope you listen to it! It's not one of their gloomy songs... I prefer their upbeat poppy songs because they often clash with their downbeat lyrics.
Great song 🎵 you need to listen to "just like cocatues " in between days, let's go to bed, catapiller girl, lovecats, and so many more fantastic songs by the cure.
Massive fan of The Cure - but this is only one side of them - please check out 10.15 Saturday Night / A Forest / Other Voices / The Hanging Garden / The Caterpillar / Close To Me / Catch* / Lullaby / A Letter To Elise / This Is A Lie / Watching Me Fall / Lost / The Perfect Boy This list being one selected fave from each of their albums - Watching Me Fall is my all time fave. *Why Can't I Be You would be my choice if Catch didn;t have such deep personal roots....
No hidden meanings, no unresolved mystery or angst. At least on the surface, a truly happy song. How refreshing.
kind of a manic-depressive happy song. But, a happy song.
@@matthewteague623 Well, yes. But if you're going to have to deal with the depression, the manic days can get you through. One of my favorite students was a superb writer who dealt with severe bipolar disorder. One day she told me that she used her bipolar disorder in her writing process. I asked how, and she said, "I write when I'm manic and revise when I'm depressed." My jaw dropped and I said, "That's brilliant." She used her manic days to produce a lot of content, and then used the hyper-critical, borderline obsessive days to tear it apart and make it better.
It worked well for her.
@@richardnanian2446 wow this is one of the most interesting things I've read in comment section, so fascinating!
Hi, you're basically playing my youth years right now...Clever lyrics, catchy & beautiful music all and all. Thanks from a happy 56 year old "the Cure" fan ✌️
definitely not of my youth, but from a 66year old "The Cure" fan 😊
So many great songs! Such an iconic modern rock sound! So many great songs; BOYS DON’T CRY, THE LOVE CATS, JUST LIKE HEAVEN, LULLABY, WHY CAN’T I BE YOU, IN BETWEEN DAYS, A FOREST, to name a few.
Their poppiest, most fun song. For a similarly upbeat Cure song, please try Love Cats.
Cure is more typically what I would call "moody". I have to admit that I do prefer their moodier, darker songs overall. Please check out and react to: A Forest, Close To Me, A Letter to Elise, Boys Don't Cry. There really are no bad Cure songs. They put out a B-Sides album that has some wonderful gems on it, including two covers of Purple Haze that I absolutely love. They are all great musicians, true artists IMO.
Edited to add: several of their classic videos have recently been remastered in HD and they're a joy to watch, I would encourage you to react to them if you can.
Yes to Love Cats!
Yes on all your suggestions, plus I've always loved "Inbetween Days." I keep going back to that track over the years.
I absolutely adore these guys,... they have such a unique sound and feel to them. Their song Pictures Of You always tears my heart up but I still love it so.
yes, "lovecats"! and "just like heaven" -- that was the first song my husband and i danced to at our wedding; i requested it especially. they're my first go-to for '80s music. "close to me," "boys don't cry," "in between days," and "pictures of you." and then the collab with blink 182, "all of t his." the best songs are the ones you can listen to over and over again and not get tired of them.
They have a good song called Pictures Of You that is over 7 minutes long. It was released as a single in a shorter version.
I was never a Cure purist who maintains that their best work was the dark gothic stuff! Give me some of that, but when the hair got big, and the lipstick smudged, that's when i joined the party. Great song, and try 'Love Cats' sometime!
Love Cats LOVE CATS!
Love the Cure, some favorites are " Just Like Heaven" and " Pictures of You". They had a wonderful sound and always loved the vocals, songs seem timeless.
Thank you Daniel
This song always brings a smile to my face. Happy Friday, everyone!! 😍
Anything from the seminal "Disintegration" would be a wonderful contrast to this track. I personally would suggest "Last Dance" because it is so well observed.
"Disintegration" itself would be perfect, as it is my favorite of theirs.
Love to hear you react to some of their earlier works: Love Cats, Boys Don’t Cry, Caterpillar Girl, Killing An Arab, A Forest, Let’s Go To Bed, Charlotte Sometimes.
Into the trees, Charlotte Sometimes, Burn, Fascination Street I think are more representative of their moodier or darker music. Love cats and this song are definitely upbeat songs that were great, but overall atypical of what is perceived as the Cure sound. Great reaction.
That was fun. Yes, do another one. Great reaction
Daniel,"Close To Me" by The Cure is a funky, jazzy, upbeat, song featuring saxophone. The video of the song is very catchy. The guys are in the ocean with fish, octopus playing the sax and other marine animals. EDIT...Daniel, if you decide to check this song out, try to find the longer version which is subtitled CLOSER MIX. This version was released in 1990 by Fiction Records UK.
I was never a fan o' The Cure but when I heard this unbelievably catchy pop song I was taken under their spell. It really doesn't get much better than this!!!
For some good dark Cure songs hit A Forest, One Hundred Years and The Hanging Garden. Really they have so many great ones.
Great song. Haven’t heard it in years! Thank you!
There were the kids who listened to Duran Duran and the kids who listened to The Clash. After school you could find the C kids in the art room making some big sculpture out of tape dispensers, spoons, lint from under b-wing stairs and Mr Beasom's glasses. The DD kids, meanwhile, were out at cheerleader practice reapplying their mascara.
This was basically pop music. Try some early Cure if you haven't done so, like A Forest or The Hanging Garden.
It was bloody good pop though!
@@Katehowe3010 yes, I can't argue with that!
That's what I just said! lol
I couldn't agree more !
Perfect reaction. It will absolutely be stuck in your head. Its simple but so fun to listen to. Your bobbing head and that grin on your face says it all. Thanks, Mom!
Close to Me, In Between Days, Pictures of You, 10:15 Saturday Night, Boys Don’t Cry, and Six Different Ways are some of my favorites.
The Cure is awesome. Good choice
The Cure was always in a class by itself.
Try
"10:15 on a Saturday night" or "boys don't cry" for a different earlier feel
So glad you’re loving this light and uplifting song by The Cure ❤️ Highly recommended: A Forest, Fascination Street and Picture of You. Take care :)
Great song and great reaction!
Friday I'm in Love. Alternative. One of my favs by The Cure. Lead singer Robert Smith is very goth looking and his hair is styled a little like Edward Scissors hands. Hahahaha.
There 's a Adam Sandler movie called The Wedding Singer. His character tells a girl that he wrote a song after breaking up with someone, that it's uneven he warned her, he'd been listening to alot of the Cure. Which turns into an angry song. LOL! Insanely funny. LOL! 😂😂😂
Watch this movie, Daniel.
I was living in France circa 86, and their version of MTV was called TVsix. They played a lot of French music videos, Final Countdown, Madonna and a whole lot of Cure. I loved Lovecats and Boys Don't Cry, tv6 played those constantly
Yes!! I love The Cure! You gotta do Fascination Street it's very Cure. Their main hit is probably Just Like Heaven which is another catchy song. They have a lot of great songs.
You want to hear their dark stuff? Their 4th album, Pornography, is by FAR the darkest thing they ever did. It would be interesting for you to check out one of those songs next, just for sheer contrast.
Yes, this is The Cure at their poppiest and silliest. Besides the classics A Forest, The Hanging Garden, Lullaby, I would recommend 'Prayers For Rain' for a nice dark atmospheric vibe. Definitely you should check out some more and also from their earlier albums, since their sound morphed quite a lot into different moods over the years
The Cure - Burn
I was first introduced to the Cure when I bought the "Boys Don't Cry" compilation album. So many good songs. The old Easybeats' song "Friday On My mind" also celebrates Friday!
Song is sunshine in a bottle. :D
When I was your age, and it still is, Friday is the escape from the rat race. Saturday is just as good, but Sunday is knowing the rat race is returning. Great song for a very poppy song.
The Cure has that really unique sound that makes all their songs catchy. For your next Cure song in 2023 lol...I always liked "Pictures Of You". Also "Just Like Heaven" has one of those classic guitar riffs that will stay with you forever. Both great songs.
Ray Charles recorded What'd I Say Part 1 & 2 on this day 73 years ago. There is a 6:28 minute Stereo Remaster on Rhino Atlantic. :)
I am old enough to be your mother. I love music so much. I don't care if it's Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Cyndi Lauper, The Misfits, Danzig, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Dolly Parton, I LOVE music.
But The Cure is IT for me. Since I was a literal child the only three bands I was stuck on were The Cure, Metallica and The Talking Heads.
But The Cure are really it. Love to see a young person discover them.
Such a pure happy sound
From the beginning, Robert has always had the ability write a good single or two, no matter how dark the mood of the rest of the album may be.
The guy really knows what he's doing.
Good reaction.
I am a 66 year old geezer, a terrible cynic, and I adore this joyous song. I like the lyrics. This is a song that I loved the first time I heard it, and it still makes me want to dance. Truly one of my favorite songs of all time because of the way it makes me feel.
Suggestion for song review: Van Morrison's "Why Must I Always Explain." It's another song I loved on first listen. Lyrics I continue to relate to. Another all time favorite.
YES! that's what a cure song sounds like. ☺
Gloomy Cure; One Hundred Years (Live) , Shake Dog Shake (Live). The Cure are best listened to Live, they've got amazing stage presence and great sound.
A Cure song that was palatable for a wider audience. It's very bright and poppy for The Cure, but then the 'real' Cure sound will always depend on which phase you started to listen to them (post-punk beginnings, the 'goth' years or the 'pop' albums), it just goes to show the variety of this band!
More "Cure" please.
And yes this is still played heavily on Fridays on classic rock stations all over America. Makes Friday and that anticipation of the weekend all the more special.
Yes! A truly fun number. The lyrics aren't really too deep. You'd like the original video (there's one low quality and one high quality I've found on UA-cam).
I've been a Cure fan for over 30 years, and few bands mean more to me, personally. They're also an *incredibly influential* band that deserves many reactions! :-) Many of their songs are much, much darker than this one, but I love the "happy" Cure too-- it's the brilliant sunshine after the storm! For the *emotional opposite* of this song, though, try "One Hundred Years" or "The Figurehead." *Stunning, powerful* songs!
The song they did for the film The Crow would be an interesting choice. It's called "Burn".
Here’s some wonderful gloominess from the Cure:
* Seventeen Seconds
* The Drowning Man
* Disintegration
* If Inly Tonight we Could Sleep
* Cold
* A Hundred Years
* Faith
* Doing the Unstuck
* Untitled
*Fascination Street
* The Perfect Girl
* How Beautiful You Are
* Charlotte Sometimes
*The Caterpillar
*10:15 Saturday Night
* Same Deep Water As You
* Grinding Halt
* Three Imaginary Boys
*Seventeen Seconds
* M
* Secrets
There’s A LOT more where that list came from 🤍🪐
Boys Don’t Cry is a great early gloom fest.I would also recommend Killing An Arab.It’s based on Camus’ existential novel The Stranger.Unfortunately lunkheaded fans used it for unsavory purposes and the band stopped playing it.Here is a great early live versionua-cam.com/video/y7lULaE6kv4/v-deo.html
It's a brilliant song.
For a time, Robert Smith was also in The Glove and Siouxsie & the Banshees.
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Oh, how I wish I got that Friday feeling again ...
You're a Cure fan, Danny. I approve! Listen to Just like Heaven, Love Cats, Lullaby (kinda spooky) , Boys Don't Cry,...etc. Truly original, genius art music. Robert Smith voices himself in an old episode of South Park.
Great suggestion mom!!! 💛
How appropriate for today being Friday! But no I'm not in love! I love this band. It's got such a fun feeling! I also like Love Song and Just Like Heaven! This is a winner!
Wait a minute Brendan Just like heavens your favourite cure song! Great reaction and insight Daniel. Have you reacted to the bat for lashes song Daniel yet?
Ooh that's a good one!!
The Cure will always get you in a good mood
The problem with the CURE is that one could go on for a while just hitting the foundational and unique cuts from them. The different personas of Robert Smith and the Cure are on display through their discography, the genius is that the CURE make CURE music not commercialize.
A good list for reactions who are just discovering the CURE.
"Boys Don't Cry"
"A Night Like This"
"Primary"
"Jumping Someone Else's Train"
"In Between Days"
"The Walk"
"Caterpillar"
"Lovecats"
"Let's Go to Bed"
"Just Like Heaven"
"Why Can't I Be You"
"Catch"
"One More Time", (should add that one to the gloomy list)
"Thousand Hours" (gloomy and sad)
"Like Cockatoos"
"The Kiss" (add to the banger list"
"Untitled"
"Plainsong"
"Prayers for rain"
"Letters to Elise"
"High"
"Mint Car"
"The 13th"
"Last Days of Summer"
"Out of this world"
"Close to Me"
"Hot, Hot, Hot"
"Hey You"
Oooooo, gloomy, dark, Cure....I'd suggest From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, the title track off Disintegration, or Strange Days. The Cure has so many songs I adore that fall into the the "gloomy" category, these three are just among my favorites. My personal favorite song by them is A Letter to Elise.
The song Disintegration, oh hell yeah!
They're masters at building tracks and layering melodies, imo. I happily began performing what I could remember of this -minus the middle - after an attractive young woman asked me about it, if I knew it at an open-stage/jam.
This is the best friday song. Smith is not always depressed.
I think you'll prefer their earlier punk/post-punk sound on songs like 10:15 on a Saturday Night, So What, Boys Don't Cry, A Forest (live at the Werchter festival), but would eventually get into their later stuff as well.
Great reaction to a great song by a great band, Daniel ! .. One of my favourites by them .. But PLEASE check out the brilliant and impactful "Boys Don't Cry" from 1979 .. And for a dark, brooding, atmospheric number, you should hit their "Charlotte Sometimes" .. It sounds great and has a very interesting subject matter .. Wayne
This song is probaby one of their most happy pop songs. Their music is normally darker and beautiful. It is one of my favorite songs by them 'tho, but listen to "A Forest", "Pictures of you", "Just like Heaven", "In between days". The Cure are very very good!!!!
Could you react to "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran? Thanks!
I like this part:
Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throw out your frown
And just smile at the sound
Sleek as a shriek, spinning 'round and 'round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's Friday, I'm in love
Just Like Heaven is an interesting mix of the gloomy and poppy. Fascination Street, Pictures of You, Lullaby...all off that same album, I think...and all gloomy and dark. Earlier there's Head on the Door, Killing an Arab, The Forest. They have had a very, very long career and their sound has changed quite a bit over the years.
Friday is definitely one of The Cure's happier tracks, and it's great! But it isn't representative of their typical sound. Their entire album, Disintegration, is perfection (IMO). You did Love Song, but I would continue with Lullaby, Fascination Street (GREAT bass riff!), Pictures Of You & Disintegration. Earlier tracks like Push, Just Like Heaven, A Forest are classics. Later tracks like Burn (features on The Crow soundtrack), and From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea.
Fantastic group!! Great reaction.
This is The Cure's "Shiney Happy People" song (see R.E.M.). Is it representative of the bands sound? I think so, Robert wrote it and he is in the band:).
(Im being snarky because as a Cure-ist we are suppose to be glum and snarky)
Seriously though, The Cure had basically three big hits "Love Song" (which youve done), Friday Im In Love and Just Like Heaven (their biggest hit). All three are love songs and dreamy obsession lyrically. And catchy as hell.
Someone mentioned this is a bi-polar persons description of being in love. Pretty much yes. So not all shiney. Not all happy as it may seem on the surface. Erratic love relationship if you really listen.
The music is the manic part and the lyrics are the rather depressed part. I mean the guy is only able to keep it together on Friday;).
Robert at his best could write amazing love songs like this that are complete earworms. You should complete the trinity and do "Just Like Heaven".
After that maybe do an entire album such as "Pornography" or "Disintegration" to get The Cure that Cureheads are talking about.
The band is tied so much to the goth movement that they pretty much wrote the book on the gloomy, foggy, dusky, dreamstate genre.
That dark gloomy period started with the album "Seventeen Seconds" and then "Faith" (my favorite Cure album overall) ended the dark trilogy really with "Pornography" as Robert Smith was tiring of the dark direction the band was taking. Still many of the later songs and albums have a dark sound. But after the dark trilogy Robert and the band made a concerted effort to become more catchy and poppy. And they did that well with the next couple of albums.
Then they returned to form to make a more enduring album with what many consider to be their masterpiece...
"Disintegration"
That is the album I would react to if I were to choose one entire album,
One other note. This band and so many others including U2 owe a huge debt to one band:
"Joy Division"
I dont know if you have reacted to Joy Division. But I suggest "Transmission" (the live version) or "She's Lost Control"
(Every reactor does "Love Will Tear Us Apart" great song but for some reason youtubes fidelity sucks on that song and is a crap shoot to try and find a decent sounding video)
But yes, Joy Division would be cool because you can see going backwards where many of the famous early post-punk bands of the 80s got their sound.
Try their earlier, edgier material: “Let’s Go To Bed”, “Shake Dog Shake”, Hanging Garden”, “Charlotte Sometimes”
Friday parties, saturday hangovers AND parties. Then hangovers 'till tuesday. '80's.
A Forest! Would recommend a live version from 1992, easy to find on UA-cam, you’ll love it, trust me 🤩🎸
Do you want darker, moodier cure songs? Well, just check 95% of their catalogue. At least. Hahaha. No mistake! My sugestions are: Pictures of You, Lullaby, Fascination Street, Close to me, A Forest, The Hanging Garden, Charlotte Sometimes, Catch, Push and Inbetween Days. Thanks for reacting to this band. They left a extraordinary legacy in pop music for the last 40 years or more. A great band.
Not your typical Cure song. Why Can't I Be You, the 13th, Mint Car, Boys Don't Cry, Let's Go to Bed, Love Song.
Oooooooh, can’t wait for The Forest…. Jam session
You want gloom...Try the song “Cold”.... very dark and atmospheric
Gloomy dark Cure (official video) "Lullaby". Also 'In Between Days' is great. Great channel Daniel.
If only tonight we could sleep ( deftones does a great cover!)
Egde of a deep green sea
Letters to Elise
A strange day
In-between days
3 imaginary boys
How beautiful you are
Fascination street
The exploding boy
Yep, the deftones were influenced quite a bit by The Cure.
I don't know any other Cure songs to suggest, but if you want a song about waiting for the weekend, you could try Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend". 😊
Gloomy&dark? Try "A Forest", "Charlotte sometimes", "Fire in Cairo" for starters.
“Fascination Street”
I think you'd really like their album Disintegration - lots of moody, atmospheric music and lyrics.
Try not to cry challenge? 🥲🙂
The Avett Brothers - Ballad of Love and Hate (live)
Aurora - Murder Song 5,4,3,2,1 (live at the Nobel peace prize concert)
Band of Horses - No one’s gonna love you
Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Just like heaven pleeeeeeese
I like this happier stuff too, but try " high" off that same album, or Boys Don't Cry. My favorite " jumping someone else's train"
This is their most popular song, but it's not the overall sound they're known for. In the early 80's they did some post punk/goth albums before they got into new wave/pop. Try listening to "A Forest" "Charlotte Sometimes" or "Lullaby" for some examples of their darker vibes.
Love your reaction channel Daniel. Try the live 1992 version of A Forest.
Favorite Cure song: Fascination Street
I love the Cure. Check out Lullaby, you won’t be disappointed.
and monday i'll have friday on my mind .... the easybeats
This is their best song
Just like heaven is their best in my opinion
@@samwilson2046 I forgot it for a moment, there are so many, but you are right.
I'd have to mention 'The Kiss', if only for the brooding brilliance of the intro!
@@Katehowe3010 yes, they’re great at sounding dark and atmospheric.
I love the Cure. Next: Boys Don’t Cry; Just Like Heaven; Charlotte Sometimes; Love Cats... all of them!
If you have the time, watch the Cure Unplugged concert.
Please react to either or both of these songs. One is by Brenda Lee called "If You Go Away" release on the album "Johnny One Time" in 1969. Very emotional and beautifully sung. The second is by Potliquor called "Cheer" from the album "Levee Blues" released in 1972. Great vocals, drums, piano, guitars, and horns. Fast moving, loud with a great message. Both are available on UA-cam. I'd leave a URL but they often don't work. Thank you!
Awesome new channel for me. Yippee
Even though it may also be considered an atypical song, I really recommend The 13th off their Wild Mood Swings album. Some older songs that I think would be good to react to: Fire in Cairo, Lullaby, Close to Me, Let's Go to Bed, and Catapillar.
check out their track Twilight Garden - it's superb
Great pop song... very catchy. But you've gotta check out (In Between Days) Without You. It was kind of the precursor for this kind of upbeat poppy style but it's got such great guitar licks. I hope you listen to it! It's not one of their gloomy songs... I prefer their upbeat poppy songs because they often clash with their downbeat lyrics.
Great song 🎵 you need to listen to "just like cocatues " in between days, let's go to bed, catapiller girl, lovecats, and so many more fantastic songs by the cure.
Check out Just Like Heaven
Liste to the whole album start to finish it's a masterpiece, my opinion is it's their best ..
Massive fan of The Cure - but this is only one side of them - please check out 10.15 Saturday Night / A Forest / Other Voices / The Hanging Garden / The Caterpillar / Close To Me / Catch* / Lullaby / A Letter To Elise / This Is A Lie / Watching Me Fall / Lost / The Perfect Boy
This list being one selected fave from each of their albums - Watching Me Fall is my all time fave.
*Why Can't I Be You would be my choice if Catch didn;t have such deep personal roots....