This album is hands-down one of the greatest full album listens of all time… Spellbinding and timeless body of work. If you love this, I HIGHLY encourage you to backtrack to their early 80s era. Their 2nd-4th albums (Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography) are some of the most astounding post-punk/gothic rock albums of all time…
lullaby is about a story Robert Smith's uncle would tell him as a child to scare him about a spider man who eats children. So no, its not about the spiderman you're thinking of :)
Desintegration, the song, is just a master piece ... its basically the tragedy of losing a love story to whatever you get addicted to ... "Through the eye of the needle it´s easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel hole again"... "now that I know that I´ll break into pieces, I´ll pull out my heart and feed it to anyone, crying for simpathy, crocodiles cry, for the love of the crowd and three cheers from everyone"...
The Cure has been my favorite band since I was a child. When Disintegration came out, I was a 15-year-old goth girl. I still remember the tears streaming down my face from how absolutely gorgeous the first song (Plainsong) was. The Same Deep Water as You also brought tears. Disintegration has a massive expanse of sound. It was a game-changing album at the time of it's release in 1989. I'm also very happy I got to see them in concert in 1989! All their albums from 1979 to 1992 are absolutely perfect gems, each uniquely distinct and a clear arc of Robert Smith's growth as a songwriter. So glad you've finally discovered them. They're the band that all other bands love and have influenced since the late 70's!
Check out "Flowing Glower" by Deadsy. I feel like this might have been influenced directly by this song. They're also a Goth Rock band or at least they were when they debuted.
You ever love something so much, you feel the need to scream about it from the top of your lungs to the world? That’s what this album is like for me. I love this album so much- I could go on for hours but I don’t think I could find the words to even describe the pure and raw emotion I feel from this album. My favorite line is from home sick, “I trembled stuck in honey, honey, cling to me” Aughhhh it’s just amazing. This album will have me crying, dancing, naming, soaring through space and time- it’s such a whirlwind of emotions. Absolutely an amazing album, I’ll never get tired of it, I’ll never get tired of hearing the interpretations everyone comes up with
Lullaby is about a recurring nightmare which Robert had as a kid. (A nightmare where he was being eaten by a giant spider). The whole song is therefore about the fear of sleep (it’s basically an anti-lullaby)
I just realized the Cure had dark sounding music 2 weeks ago and I am absolutely addicted. They are now my favorite band and it was the deftones prior but I now realize where they got their entire style from.
Have you seen the video of Deftones covering If Only We Could Sleep by The Cure in front of Robert Smith? Search for it and add "MTV Icon" to the search.
I didn't see anyone address Lovesong in the comments, though may've missed it of course. It was about his wife, written as his wedding present to her. They were together for over a decade, married, and have been married for 35 years.
To me, this album is about getting older. Each day that passes is one day closer to death. Closedown, Last Dance, and the title track Disintegration are the most obvious to me with this theme. Robert Smith turned 30 when they were making this album and it was the realization that his youth is gone and the only thing that makes him feel young, fun, and whole again is his lover, which is basically what Lovesong is about.
@@mr.dirtydan3338it’s not that 30 isn’t still young, because it is, but it’s a clear demarcation that your youth is officially over and, whether you like it or not, you’re a full grown adult at that point.
I was sooooooo lucky to be of high school age when this album came out... an art room goth freak outsider this album was everything to us.... we felt like we had ownership over the cure back then but i'm glad it's found a new life
I was lucky to see these guys live at the Hollywood Bowl this May with a friend. All of their songs were amazing but the songs off of Disintegration that they played (they played a LOT) were heartstopping. I never wanted it to end. The vocalist and one consistent band member, Robert Smith, is an angel with a beautiful voice. Hope you dive into more of their albums soon!!!
Heard this album for the first time in high school the year it came out. 6 months later and had 10 or so cassettes. Disintegration, Porn0graphy, and Faith are timeless. I do enjoy some of thier lighter stuff too, but those three albums are core to me.
the flaming lips- the soft bulletin one of the greatest albums ever made. Magnificent, grandiose, opulent, beautiful, majestic, inspiring. ushered in a new genre of psychedelic music, and its production is amazing.
I was kinda of the same opinion as you about Lullaby at first. The creepy, whisper vocals definitely took some time to grow on me, but it did. I vibe with that song now and it’s one of their best live I think.
this album was a tough first listen to me (i somehow thought it was boring?!?!), but after seeing your reaction to plainsong i know you'll get it right away. amazing album.
The theme you’re reaching for is right there in the title - Disintegration. That and an overwhelming sense of ennui, tinged with the desire to find something more from a finite spell we have.
Saw them twice on this tour and honestly no words. One of the best tours I’ve ever seen. They would start out with Plainsong and as corny as it sounds, it was magical. This is an album you have to listen to from beginning to end. Incredible. I’d recommend Head on the Door after this.
Hey, I’m a huge fan of The Cure. I saw your video come up and I’ve never watched you before, but I just wanted to say I love your content and how you react to stuff. It’s nice to see people truly love and delve deep into music, especially with a record that requires that kind of dedication and passion like the Disintegration album. As for the song Disintegration, I think it’s about the breaking apart of oneself (glass breaking) and aging. The whole album holds similar themes to that in my opinion, but in different shades. “Pictures of You” feels nostalgic and wistful, “Fascination Street” feels intense and sinful (like you said), “The Same Deep Water As You” feels like a hopeless and desperate (and a little coercive) love song. “Prayers For Rain” feel as if the singer is pleading for passion and excitement in his life, saying their counterpart is “so stale it kills”. I think it’s about the existential crisis that comes with aging and feeling like you’ve lost the intensity and vibrancy in your life. I think you’re totally right on the song “Disintegration” being like a whole story, and I think it’s the perfect title track. There’s so much text painting in this album too. Everything is just so tasteful and perfect. It really does envelope you. Thank you so much for your video!! This was so cool and nice to watch :)
!992 my father passed away and I was separated from my wife the felling in me was so so low and I would listen to the CD on the way to the funeral parlor and I cried in the private moments of my car because boys don't cry! Memories!!!
1 song in and I know this is an AMAZING reaction! An epic album to start The Cure journey with. Look forward to watching your other Cure album reaction! 💯
Lullaby is a song about depression and addiction, which is one of the main themes of the album. The main vocalist was an addict at that time, and spiderman is a metaphor for his anxiety and depression, that always follows him and creeps up on him
i saw them live and i swear it was the best night of my life. i had no joke been waiting my whole life (all 20 years of it almost lmfao) to see them and it was just as magical and amazing as i imagined it would be
i smoked before watching this and i'm loving this video 😭 i'm a huge fan of this album and the cure in general, and i really liked what you had to say about it also u had me laughing out loud which was a nice surprise considering the tone of album 💀
Men im so glad that You did reaction for this magnificent album, i really enjoyed the video in fact that I would love to relive the day when I first listened to this album again. Trust me, you must listen to this album many times to comeplitely understand all this tracks i know it cause im a big fan of the cures music. Btw it will be amazing to see another the cures album reaction by u ; )
Great to see a young guy´s reaction to one of my favorite albums of the Cure . I started listening to them when I was 14 and became a big fan for many years. Still have a great love for dark emotional music
I bought this album on CD when I was 13 years old and was experiencing my first heartbreak. It was winter, shortly after Christmas, and I knew nothing about this album when I bought it. I went home, put the album on, and layed down in my bed with some christmas lights being the only thing illuminating my cold room under the roof. it was perfect.
The music is so melancholy but The Cure's incredible pop sensibility will have you bopping while crying. It's masterful stuff that I never get tired of hearinng. Coincidentally you said you have been adoring the sound which segues into me saying you should react to Adore by Smashing Pumpkins which is an album that has a huge influence from The Cure.
I'm so excited you popped your The Cure cherry! They have been my favorite group for around 35 years. Desintegration is near perfection. Wish & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me are great too but Head on the Door is early The Cure and fairly different from their modern work. I hope you check out more of their albums. If you get a chance to see them in concert you should, I've seem them 3 times & it's worth, they played for 3 hours last time I saw them
I can't explain to you what this album was to me. I was a college freshman, just learning how to be an independent person. I was looking for identity..I was a huge metal guy, but then I found this. Everything in my world changed. I dont have the vocabulary to tell you what I went through, but I can tell you I long for that feeling again everyday of my life...
Gonna come back and check this out after I watch the TMNT movie with my kids. Looking forward to this one, The Cure are legendary. Some other albums for your consideration: Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam Animal Collective: Centipede Hz. Animal Collective: Time Skiffs Brand New - Science Fiction 🍻
Suggestions for future Album reactions, INXS: KICK, Depeche Mode: Violator, Metallica: And Justice For All, The Cure: Wish, I also had never listened to Disintegration before this video and now it's definitely one of my favorites now! Thanks for the Content!
Fascination Street was written after a wild night on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Disintegration used to be played really fast live back when Boris Williams was the drummer. The current drummer, Jason Cooper, played it the best he's ever played it on this last tour. It sounded so good. Go watch the video for Lullaby and it'll make more sense.
I’m happy you liked the album from the very first song which is my most favorite. Most of all this album is top tier. I’m happy I got to see them play live Robert’s voice is still AMAZING
My first concert was the cure in 1992 when I was 13. I was In 7th grade at the time, and this jock kid used to pick me up and put me in the trash every day for having a picture of Robert smith in my locker. In the early 90’s it was a much bigger deal to be a dude who was a fan of a guy wearing makeup. I never took that photo down tho! If you wanna try another band in this vein, check out siouxsie and the banshees. I’d suggest the album juju to start. Robert even played guitar for them for a bit, and did a side project with their bassist called the glove.
Lullaby isn’t about Spider-Man, but a dream the lead singer had as a child about being eaten by a giant spider. I’m loving your commentary. Lubing your ears up got me. This album contains some of my favorite songs - I’ve listened to them since I was a teenager in the 90s.
Thanks for this reaction!!! Love it. If u pay attention on Prayers for rain he was waiting for that rain, and next song starts with rain sounds. That was an excellent introduction to the song. Sorry if my english isnt the best. 30:23 love that face u really enjoyed it
been bingeing your reactions today, there's so many albums you've reacted to that I absolutely love and it's been very entertaining. would love to see one on Skinty Fia by Fontaines DC, I think you'd really like it. best album of last year for me.
Definitely not a happy album, haha. But one of the greatest of all time. I highly recommend that you look into/react to some other albums by The Cure. Based on your reactions here, I think you'd really enjoy Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. Those are kind of known as "the dark trilogy" of the Cure. While they also have some very poppy songs, such as Just Like Heaven (arguably the greatest pop-rock song of all time), Friday I'm in Love, Boys Don't Cry and Inbetween Days, they are most known for being icons to the goth community. Not just through their music (some of which can be considered gothic rock), but also for their visuals and sentiments. I can see why you possibly like Lullaby the least. It also took me some time to fully appreciate it. The "spiderman" within the lyrics is definitely not the superhero. Imagine it as a human sized spider monster that's trying to eat you. Like a sleep paralysis demon and you can't move. The song was allegedly inspired by a nightmare Robert had. So the entire atmosphere, the lyrics in it and the hauntingly whispered delivery all fit that really well.
Great Album!!! Now you gotta do their earlier albums… but no rush one at time. They’re sound evolved each time just like Public Image Ltd (which is also a great band which I recommend) Thanks Smags for the reactions👍👍
This album gets me everytime - having listened to The Cure throughout the 80's I believe this album is the real masterpiece - no one can create an atmosphere like the Cure - the lyrics, the intrumentation and of course the vouice of Robert Smith mixed with what might be some reflections/inspiration from Joy Division - fantastic
One of the best albums ever ❤ I really enjoy watching and waxing nostalgic. Except! Unless we had liner notes, lyrics were a total crap shoot. Sometimes you'd catch them, sometimes you made your best guess and committed to it. 😊
On release I worked at a record shop, "I bought it" and thought screw it, put it on, in the shop pretty loud whilst the manager was at the bog. LOL, at first he was pissed but then after he "tuned" into the album he was like "man, I`d forgotten how good the Cure are", so we listened to the album pretty much on repeat during my shift. Great time, some customers were like "lets get outta here", but surprising how many from different eras pricked up their ears and enquired what the tunes were and who it was. Remember many reserved copies and they waiting outside to get it, sold really well.
When you said you had to turn the volume up in the beginning was it because you saw the liner notes that say “this music was mixed to be played loud - so TURN IT UP”?
I love your channel so much. I've watched constantly since discovering it at the weekend. You're basically reacting so far to a constant 90% of my music collection. Please react to some Mogwai. All their albums are incredible but Another Country's Sun, Happy Songs for Happy People, Hard-core Will Never Die But You Will or The Hawk is Howling or Young Team. Aargh they're all great. Also check out My Father My King it's just one long track but it's mind blowing!
Bro is too good at reaction content 🔥 In all honesty tho, absolutely insane that you keep this conciatency up, keep it up and you’ll hit it big soon, at least we hope 😅 Recommendations as always: Silent Alarm by bloc party, and Toxicity by System of a down
Oh! And from The Cure's album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, there's a song called How Beautiful You Are... that is an absolutely gorgeous pop song with profoundly sad lyrics. You'll appreciate it! That album also has their biggest hit of all time Just Like Heaven. You might even recognize it. :)
Literally this was my coming of age CD. Only a couple entire Cd's i can listen to from feont to back. This one/ Pearl Jam 10/ GNR Appetite and STP Core
A few random comments: Robert said Untitled was the key song on the album - reiterating the themes of failed communication and being overwhelmed by a sense of the futility of existence. (There's one infamous live recording of it where, in a very intoxicated state, he drops most of the lyrics and instead mumbles verses from his self-recriminatory epic Watching Me Fall.) Prayers For Rain is a metaphor for depression and the urge to commit suicide. Cue the next song... I've always interpreted The Same Deep Water... as a couple committing suicide by drowning but ending up in a cryogenically frozen state - hence the perpetual kiss. Disintegration (the song) - I can't find the reference online now, but it's been identified as a close rewrite of someone else's poem. Fascination Street is about scoring hallucinogenic drugs in New Orleans (not coincidentally, two years later their friendly-rivals The Mission released a more manic song on the same subject) Closedown is a song about world weariness and diminished emotional receptivity - surely another key song. Re: Lullaby and Lovesong - these might be rare instances where watching the video helps. It's clear that these songs are deadly serious - almost a decade later Robert could lose his composure onstage and be fighting back tears whilst singing Disintegration or Deep Water... (admittedly I'm thinking of certain gigs where he was obviously tripping and/or tipsy - then again he showed similar tendencies, sober, in 1981... ).
this monolith of an album drags its songs out and is soooo much better for it. the reverb, the watery guitars, the synths, the fucking GLOOMY atmosphere... let it lead the way and just fall in and you'll be rewarded with one of the best albums of the 80s.
My album request would be Khonnor's "handwriting". A song request from it would be kill2. I think you'd enjoy a lot of it. Constructed by a 17 year old with meager means in his bedroom in 2004. Release notes from Type Records provide a good synopsis.
Hello Mr. Smags great video. I would like to suggest something a bit different from what you normally react to. Blackwater Park by Opeth is one of the albums of all time. If you haven’t heard of Opeth, I recommend going in with no precognition. It will be an experience, good or bad, we’ll see.
I have been The Cure Fan since the 70 's. Robert Smith has never shied away from delving into deep difficult dark emotional subjects. He uses a lot of symbolism and metaphors and dream like imagery. Loss, addiction, depression, hopelessness ,paranoia & questioning ones purpose, and how the journey of life got me here, are threaded throughout his work. ( As for 'Lullaby' go deeper, less tropey. This is not a reference to a super hero) My advise is do not listen to The Cure if you are depressed already. With Many songs, I have to be guarded and listen to them & be in the proper frame of mind for my own mental health. Much is painful and so apt to strike an uncomfortable nerve so to speak. I have many times used their music as a kick start into my own introspection dives. I truly enjoyed your discovery of The Cure. I think you may not have been prepared for such a deep journey at first. There is so much more to discover with their massive number of recordings.
BTW, Lovesong is a track he wrote for his wife Mary. They've been together since Robert Smith was 14 years old! Regarding Lullaby.... You have to see the video! Makes the song make more sense. It's AWESOME and creepy!
This album is hands-down one of the greatest full album listens of all time… Spellbinding and timeless body of work. If you love this, I HIGHLY encourage you to backtrack to their early 80s era. Their 2nd-4th albums (Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography) are some of the most astounding post-punk/gothic rock albums of all time…
I like The Smiths - QID more
@@thoru4367 That’s fair! Love them immensely…
Robert will come for you!@@thoru4367
Is their weakest album@@thoru4367
I saw the Cure recently and apparently it was their most successful tour ever. They killed it
This last tour was amazing
@@AtomicVampire1I saw both Montreal shows.Finally got to see them for the first time not once but twice.Amazing shows.
I saw them in Dallas. It took me back to 1989, same venue. The only difference was the amount of people. Packed!
saw them in london last december, they were so good
I agree, they are amazing, I saw them in June in Montreal!
Not enough people react to this, one of the best albums ever, thank you.
Stan Marsh agrees.
lullaby is about a story Robert Smith's uncle would tell him as a child to scare him about a spider man who eats children. So no, its not about the spiderman you're thinking of :)
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I’ve always felt it was about a victim of abuse, I like your explanation so much more.
@@edwardlosty549 its very possible that its a double meaning to be fair. but according to robert smith this is what inspired the song
Never heard that one, but might be true. Always struck me as the only ‘fantasy’ lyric on the album.
It’s an actual storybook. I have a copy of it myself 😊
Desintegration, the song, is just a master piece ... its basically the tragedy of losing a love story to whatever you get addicted to ... "Through the eye of the needle it´s easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel hole again"... "now that I know that I´ll break into pieces, I´ll pull out my heart and feed it to anyone, crying for simpathy, crocodiles cry, for the love of the crowd and three cheers from everyone"...
I prefer the entreat version, I think it just hits it home harder... ua-cam.com/video/zpG4HhhDg60/v-deo.htmlsi=jYdIZgjEI4CKXRZk
"This is gorgeous" is the best description I have ever heard of Plainsong.
Lullaby is about the fear of sleep, he refers to Spiderman as a Monster not the superhero.
I saw The Cure live on the Disintegration tour (1990) and it was absolutely magical.
I saw them in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium in Aug 89. The Pixies opened for them. IT WAS AWESOME!
Saw them live last month and seeing them open up the show with Pictures of you might have been the best moment of my life.
The Cure has been my favorite band since I was a child. When Disintegration came out, I was a 15-year-old goth girl. I still remember the tears streaming down my face from how absolutely gorgeous the first song (Plainsong) was. The Same Deep Water as You also brought tears. Disintegration has a massive expanse of sound. It was a game-changing album at the time of it's release in 1989. I'm also very happy I got to see them in concert in 1989! All their albums from 1979 to 1992 are absolutely perfect gems, each uniquely distinct and a clear arc of Robert Smith's growth as a songwriter. So glad you've finally discovered them. They're the band that all other bands love and have influenced since the late 70's!
Same! I was 15 when I bought the single for Fascination Street, and after that I bought and listened to everything they did.
Check out "Flowing Glower" by Deadsy. I feel like this might have been influenced directly by this song. They're also a Goth Rock band or at least they were when they debuted.
Same deep water is a beautiful song and transports me to teenage years. Really anything off this album does.
You ever love something so much, you feel the need to scream about it from the top of your lungs to the world? That’s what this album is like for me. I love this album so much- I could go on for hours but I don’t think I could find the words to even describe the pure and raw emotion I feel from this album. My favorite line is from home sick, “I trembled stuck in honey, honey, cling to me” Aughhhh it’s just amazing. This album will have me crying, dancing, naming, soaring through space and time- it’s such a whirlwind of emotions. Absolutely an amazing album, I’ll never get tired of it, I’ll never get tired of hearing the interpretations everyone comes up with
Me too bro, me too
@@ethank4820 you understand;-;
One of the Greatest records of all time. Perfect for the near autumn and its grey skies.
Lullaby is about a recurring nightmare which Robert had as a kid. (A nightmare where he was being eaten by a giant spider).
The whole song is therefore about the fear of sleep (it’s basically an anti-lullaby)
The video sums it up nicely
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I just realized the Cure had dark sounding music 2 weeks ago and I am absolutely addicted. They are now my favorite band and it was the deftones prior but I now realize where they got their entire style from.
Have you seen the video of Deftones covering If Only We Could Sleep by The Cure in front of Robert Smith?
Search for it and add "MTV Icon" to the search.
I didn't see anyone address Lovesong in the comments, though may've missed it of course. It was about his wife, written as his wedding present to her. They were together for over a decade, married, and have been married for 35 years.
To me, this album is about getting older. Each day that passes is one day closer to death. Closedown, Last Dance, and the title track Disintegration are the most obvious to me with this theme. Robert Smith turned 30 when they were making this album and it was the realization that his youth is gone and the only thing that makes him feel young, fun, and whole again is his lover, which is basically what Lovesong is about.
I do agree. But i do find it funny how people dont see 30 as young
@@mr.dirtydan3338 Based on other people I’ve bumped into, mostly online, when they turned 30 it was like a pre-midlife crisis for them.
@@mr.dirtydan3338it’s not that 30 isn’t still young, because it is, but it’s a clear demarcation that your youth is officially over and, whether you like it or not, you’re a full grown adult at that point.
That’s the actual meaning! Robert smith has said it’s about loosing and growing away from his youth :)
I was sooooooo lucky to be of high school age when this album came out... an art room goth freak outsider this album was everything to us.... we felt like we had ownership over the cure back then but i'm glad it's found a new life
💯 agreed
I was lucky to see these guys live at the Hollywood Bowl this May with a friend. All of their songs were amazing but the songs off of Disintegration that they played (they played a LOT) were heartstopping. I never wanted it to end. The vocalist and one consistent band member, Robert Smith, is an angel with a beautiful voice. Hope you dive into more of their albums soon!!!
Heard this album for the first time in high school the year it came out. 6 months later and had 10 or so cassettes. Disintegration, Porn0graphy, and Faith are timeless. I do enjoy some of thier lighter stuff too, but those three albums are core to me.
Seventeen Seconds though…
i know a lot of people enjoy SS, but that one misses the mark for me!@@samstevenson5328
@@samstevenson5328 amazing album as well. Forest alone is one of the best Cure's songs.
Live!!!!@@rexmandrake4182
Robert Smith wrote Love Song for his wife Mary. As South Park said, Disintegration is the best album ever.
the flaming lips- the soft bulletin
one of the greatest albums ever made. Magnificent, grandiose, opulent, beautiful, majestic, inspiring. ushered in a new genre of psychedelic music, and its production is amazing.
i second this! 10/10 album.
I was kinda of the same opinion as you about Lullaby at first. The creepy, whisper vocals definitely took some time to grow on me, but it did. I vibe with that song now and it’s one of their best live I think.
It’s a song about Robert Smith’s spider phobia as a child. He imagined that a giant spider “the spider man” would eat him alive
@@HerveBoisde I know what the song is about. I was talking about the song itself, not the lyrics.
@@mr.noride7226 just adding context. The content creator was a bit confused
this album was a tough first listen to me (i somehow thought it was boring?!?!), but after seeing your reaction to plainsong i know you'll get it right away.
amazing album.
funny profile pic
i’m so jealous of you getting to hear this album for the first time.
would LOVE to see more Cure reactions, I loved seeing you hear the entire album! :)
Love this album. Hope you cover Siouxsie and the Banshees (there is some overlap with Cure)
The theme you’re reaching for is right there in the title - Disintegration. That and an overwhelming sense of ennui, tinged with the desire to find something more from a finite spell we have.
Awesome reaction, have you ever heard Fever Ray - Fever Ray? Incredible atmosphere and vibe and incredible songwriting.
Saw them twice on this tour and honestly no words. One of the best tours I’ve ever seen. They would start out with Plainsong and as corny as it sounds, it was magical.
This is an album you have to listen to from beginning to end. Incredible.
I’d recommend Head on the Door after this.
Hey, I’m a huge fan of The Cure. I saw your video come up and I’ve never watched you before, but I just wanted to say I love your content and how you react to stuff. It’s nice to see people truly love and delve deep into music, especially with a record that requires that kind of dedication and passion like the Disintegration album.
As for the song Disintegration, I think it’s about the breaking apart of oneself (glass breaking) and aging. The whole album holds similar themes to that in my opinion, but in different shades. “Pictures of You” feels nostalgic and wistful, “Fascination Street” feels intense and sinful (like you said), “The Same Deep Water As You” feels like a hopeless and desperate (and a little coercive) love song. “Prayers For Rain” feel as if the singer is pleading for passion and excitement in his life, saying their counterpart is “so stale it kills”. I think it’s about the existential crisis that comes with aging and feeling like you’ve lost the intensity and vibrancy in your life. I think you’re totally right on the song “Disintegration” being like a whole story, and I think it’s the perfect title track. There’s so much text painting in this album too. Everything is just so tasteful and perfect. It really does envelope you.
Thank you so much for your video!! This was so cool and nice to watch :)
!992 my father passed away and I was separated from my wife the felling in me was so so low and I would listen to the CD on the way to the funeral parlor and I cried in the private moments of my car because boys don't cry! Memories!!!
1 song in and I know this is an AMAZING reaction! An epic album to start The Cure journey with. Look forward to watching your other Cure album reaction! 💯
Lullaby is a song about depression and addiction, which is one of the main themes of the album. The main vocalist was an addict at that time, and spiderman is a metaphor for his anxiety and depression, that always follows him and creeps up on him
Loved this reaction to this epic album and one of my favourite bands.
Your my faborite UA-camr right now bro and like all the albums you listen to are great and you never miss ever dude
Thank You!!
What a fantastic review. Thank you so much X x
i saw them live and i swear it was the best night of my life. i had no joke been waiting my whole life (all 20 years of it almost lmfao) to see them and it was just as magical and amazing as i imagined it would be
And they usually give you three hours of that. I dont know any other band that does that...I love them so much!!
i smoked before watching this and i'm loving this video 😭 i'm a huge fan of this album and the cure in general, and i really liked what you had to say about it
also u had me laughing out loud which was a nice surprise considering the tone of album 💀
Men im so glad that You did reaction for this magnificent album, i really enjoyed the video in fact that I would love to relive the day when I first listened to this album again. Trust me, you must listen to this album many times to comeplitely understand all this tracks i know it cause im a big fan of the cures music. Btw it will be amazing to see another the cures album reaction by u ; )
So glad your first experience with Disintegration was so similar to all the rest of us when we heard it. 💪🏼❤️🎸
Great to see a young guy´s reaction to one of my favorite albums of the Cure . I started listening to them when I was 14 and became a big fan for many years. Still have a great love for dark emotional music
I saw them live in Stockholm a year ago, i have never cried as much as i did when they played pictures of you
I bought this album on CD when I was 13 years old and was experiencing my first heartbreak. It was winter, shortly after Christmas, and I knew nothing about this album when I bought it. I went home, put the album on, and layed down in my bed with some christmas lights being the only thing illuminating my cold room under the roof. it was perfect.
The music is so melancholy but The Cure's incredible pop sensibility will have you bopping while crying. It's masterful stuff that I never get tired of hearinng.
Coincidentally you said you have been adoring the sound which segues into me saying you should react to Adore by Smashing Pumpkins which is an album that has a huge influence from The Cure.
I'm so excited you popped your The Cure cherry! They have been my favorite group for around 35 years. Desintegration is near perfection. Wish & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me are great too but Head on the Door is early The Cure and fairly different from their modern work. I hope you check out more of their albums. If you get a chance to see them in concert you should, I've seem them 3 times & it's worth, they played for 3 hours last time I saw them
Disintegration is a masterpiece ❤. Robert Smith is a genius. Thanks, nice video.
I can't explain to you what this album was to me. I was a college freshman, just learning how to be an independent person. I was looking for identity..I was a huge metal guy, but then I found this. Everything in my world changed. I dont have the vocabulary to tell you what I went through, but I can tell you I long for that feeling again everyday of my life...
Gonna come back and check this out after I watch the TMNT movie with my kids. Looking forward to this one, The Cure are legendary.
Some other albums for your consideration:
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective: Centipede Hz.
Animal Collective: Time Skiffs
Brand New - Science Fiction
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Suggestions for future Album reactions, INXS: KICK, Depeche Mode: Violator, Metallica: And Justice For All, The Cure: Wish, I also had never listened to Disintegration before this video and now it's definitely one of my favorites now! Thanks for the Content!
I am DYING at your reaction to lullaby 😭💀
You neeeed to listen to Cocteau Twins, Heaven or Las Vegas was their first album I heard but they're all good
Yeah he should totally do Heaven Or Las Vegas since he liked the production on this so much.
I’ve already listened but I need to relisten
Fascination Street was written after a wild night on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
Disintegration used to be played really fast live back when Boris Williams was the drummer. The current drummer, Jason Cooper, played it the best he's ever played it on this last tour. It sounded so good.
Go watch the video for Lullaby and it'll make more sense.
I’m happy you liked the album from the very first song which is my most favorite. Most of all this album is top tier. I’m happy I got to see them play live Robert’s voice is still AMAZING
My first concert was the cure in 1992 when I was 13. I was In 7th grade at the time, and this jock kid used to pick me up and put me in the trash every day for having a picture of Robert smith in my locker. In the early 90’s it was a much bigger deal to be a dude who was a fan of a guy wearing makeup. I never took that photo down tho! If you wanna try another band in this vein, check out siouxsie and the banshees. I’d suggest the album juju to start. Robert even played guitar for them for a bit, and did a side project with their bassist called the glove.
"That song made me feel like I'm like a ballerina"SOUNDBITE! :D
This came out on my first birthday in 1989. The title track (and Pictures of You and Untitled) are the BEST.
Ive been a fan since I was 13 in 1982. Lovesong was written for his wife Mary. They've been together since high school.
Lullaby isn’t about Spider-Man, but a dream the lead singer had as a child about being eaten by a giant spider.
I’m loving your commentary. Lubing your ears up got me. This album contains some of my favorite songs - I’ve listened to them since I was a teenager in the 90s.
Thanks for this reaction!!! Love it.
If u pay attention on Prayers for rain he was waiting for that rain, and next song starts with rain sounds. That was an excellent introduction to the song. Sorry if my english isnt the best.
30:23 love that face u really enjoyed it
been bingeing your reactions today, there's so many albums you've reacted to that I absolutely love and it's been very entertaining. would love to see one on Skinty Fia by Fontaines DC, I think you'd really like it. best album of last year for me.
Cheers Lionel. I could listen to this album all night long.
Fascination Street is about Bourbon Street in New Orleans
Definitely not a happy album, haha. But one of the greatest of all time. I highly recommend that you look into/react to some other albums by The Cure. Based on your reactions here, I think you'd really enjoy Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. Those are kind of known as "the dark trilogy" of the Cure.
While they also have some very poppy songs, such as Just Like Heaven (arguably the greatest pop-rock song of all time), Friday I'm in Love, Boys Don't Cry and Inbetween Days, they are most known for being icons to the goth community. Not just through their music (some of which can be considered gothic rock), but also for their visuals and sentiments.
I can see why you possibly like Lullaby the least. It also took me some time to fully appreciate it. The "spiderman" within the lyrics is definitely not the superhero. Imagine it as a human sized spider monster that's trying to eat you. Like a sleep paralysis demon and you can't move. The song was allegedly inspired by a nightmare Robert had. So the entire atmosphere, the lyrics in it and the hauntingly whispered delivery all fit that really well.
This was a amazing reaction:)
In my top ten albums, for sure. 🖤
Great Album!!! Now you gotta do their earlier albums… but no rush one at time. They’re sound evolved each time just like Public Image Ltd (which is also a great band which I recommend) Thanks Smags for the reactions👍👍
This album gets me everytime - having listened to The Cure throughout the 80's I believe this album is the real masterpiece - no one can create an atmosphere like the Cure - the lyrics, the intrumentation and of course the vouice of Robert Smith mixed with what might be some reflections/inspiration from Joy Division - fantastic
One of the best albums ever ❤ I really enjoy watching and waxing nostalgic.
Except! Unless we had liner notes, lyrics were a total crap shoot.
Sometimes you'd catch them, sometimes you made your best guess and committed to it. 😊
you should do one on Black Celebration by Depeche Mode!
Great pick, all the others from the poll are great too
On release I worked at a record shop, "I bought it" and thought screw it, put it on, in the shop pretty loud whilst the manager was at the bog. LOL, at first he was pissed but then after he "tuned" into the album he was like "man, I`d forgotten how good the Cure are", so we listened to the album pretty much on repeat during my shift.
Great time, some customers were like "lets get outta here", but surprising how many from different eras pricked up their ears and enquired what the tunes were and who it was. Remember many reserved copies and they waiting outside to get it, sold really well.
When you said you had to turn the volume up in the beginning was it because you saw the liner notes that say “this music was mixed to be played loud - so TURN IT UP”?
I absolutely love The Cure! This album, Kiss Me Kiss Kiss Me,Head On The Door, all of there music is 🎉
The most creative album of the 90s. I listened to it over and over. Nothing like this album. Good for you to review it.
I thought the same way, until i heard seventeen seconds and it took the first place spot for me. Way darker and more meaning
Lol “shout out to this guy’s depression.” Thanks for sharing the ride!
I love your channel so much. I've watched constantly since discovering it at the weekend. You're basically reacting so far to a constant 90% of my music collection. Please react to some Mogwai. All their albums are incredible but Another Country's Sun, Happy Songs for Happy People, Hard-core Will Never Die But You Will or The Hawk is Howling or Young Team. Aargh they're all great. Also check out My Father My King it's just one long track but it's mind blowing!
crazy thought you heard the cure all your life based on what you like 😄
Can’t believe I haven’t
Bro is too good at reaction content 🔥
In all honesty tho, absolutely insane that you keep this conciatency up, keep it up and you’ll hit it big soon, at least we hope 😅
Recommendations as always: Silent Alarm by bloc party, and Toxicity by System of a down
Thank U!
@@smags1082yess pls do SOAD
Oh! And from The Cure's album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, there's a song called How Beautiful You Are... that is an absolutely gorgeous pop song with profoundly sad lyrics. You'll appreciate it! That album also has their biggest hit of all time Just Like Heaven. You might even recognize it. :)
cocteau twins- the moon and the melodies Is a very interesting listen
Amazing band
Also, love Roberts Smiths personality and stage presence. I got to see them in salt lake. Blood flowers and violent moodswins are fire
A real masterpiece... My favorite album ever!
This album has one of the best 1 2 punches ever IMO. Plainsong and Pictures of You are like my two favorite Cure songs.
30:20 when that bass hit 😩
Literally this was my coming of age CD. Only a couple entire Cd's i can listen to from feont to back. This one/ Pearl Jam 10/ GNR Appetite and STP Core
I like your interpretations
A few random comments:
Robert said Untitled was the key song on the album - reiterating the themes of failed communication and being overwhelmed by a sense of the futility of existence. (There's one infamous live recording of it where, in a very intoxicated state, he drops most of the lyrics and instead mumbles verses from his self-recriminatory epic Watching Me Fall.)
Prayers For Rain is a metaphor for depression and the urge to commit suicide. Cue the next song...
I've always interpreted The Same Deep Water... as a couple committing suicide by drowning but ending up in a cryogenically frozen state - hence the perpetual kiss.
Disintegration (the song) - I can't find the reference online now, but it's been identified as a close rewrite of someone else's poem.
Fascination Street is about scoring hallucinogenic drugs in New Orleans (not coincidentally, two years later their friendly-rivals The Mission released a more manic song on the same subject)
Closedown is a song about world weariness and diminished emotional receptivity - surely another key song.
Re: Lullaby and Lovesong - these might be rare instances where watching the video helps.
It's clear that these songs are deadly serious - almost a decade later Robert could lose his composure onstage and be fighting back tears whilst singing Disintegration or Deep Water... (admittedly I'm thinking of certain gigs where he was obviously tripping and/or tipsy - then again he showed similar tendencies, sober, in 1981... ).
this monolith of an album drags its songs out and is soooo much better for it. the reverb, the watery guitars, the synths, the fucking GLOOMY atmosphere... let it lead the way and just fall in and you'll be rewarded with one of the best albums of the 80s.
I would really recommend Let Love In by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds a great post punk record
My album request would be Khonnor's "handwriting". A song request from it would be kill2. I think you'd enjoy a lot of it. Constructed by a 17 year old with meager means in his bedroom in 2004. Release notes from Type Records provide a good synopsis.
Hello Mr. Smags great video. I would like to suggest something a bit different from what you normally react to. Blackwater Park by Opeth is one of the albums of all time. If you haven’t heard of Opeth, I recommend going in with no precognition. It will be an experience, good or bad, we’ll see.
what genre is it?
@@smags1082 Progressive Death Metal :)
I would love you to listen to Bon Iver, the self-titled or/and 22, a million
I have been The Cure Fan since the 70 's. Robert Smith has never shied away from delving into deep difficult dark emotional subjects. He uses a lot of symbolism and metaphors and dream like imagery. Loss, addiction, depression, hopelessness ,paranoia & questioning ones purpose, and how the journey of life got me here, are threaded throughout his work. ( As for 'Lullaby' go deeper, less tropey. This is not a reference to a super hero) My advise is do not listen to The Cure if you are depressed already. With Many songs, I have to be guarded and listen to them & be in the proper frame of mind for my own mental health. Much is painful and so apt to strike an uncomfortable nerve so to speak. I have many times used their music as a kick start into my own introspection dives.
I truly enjoyed your discovery of The Cure. I think you may not have been prepared for such a deep journey at first. There is so much more to discover with their massive number of recordings.
I LOVE U DUDE SO MUCH
I even love their earlier.....more punk style of music!
My favourite album of all time
BTW, Lovesong is a track he wrote for his wife Mary. They've been together since Robert Smith was 14 years old!
Regarding Lullaby.... You have to see the video! Makes the song make more sense. It's AWESOME and creepy!
One of the greatest acts ever and Disintegration is one of the greatest albums ever.
Shout out to this guy’s depression 😂 I’m dying as I wear my literally disintegrating Cure tee.