@@mournblade1066 Could be. Just listened to it for the umpeenthmillionth time (with MANY more to come) and it sounds like you might be right! But the official lyrics are ''It doesn't matter if we all die.'' Tough call. It's really hard to tell, if you ask me. One way or another, the song and the album are brilliant.
The darkest thing about this album is how luring it is. The sound is depressing and dark yet equally, so beautiful and calming at the same time. Well to my ears.
It's listenabllity is what made me really want to talk about it above The Cure's other work. Everyone talks about "dark" and "disturbing" albums but all they end up talking about is edgy distorted messes with no substance. What makes Pornography so dark is the real emotion and situations behind it. Giving the darkness a much more real and haunting perspective.
@@graymads This album is one of my personal favorites of the Cure. It’s interesting to hear what Robert Smith was experiencing and thinking during this time. My knowledge of his motivations was limited to the Bio Book; 10 Imaginary Years. After Disintegration I am not familiar with much. For a solid decade the Cure was an influence on my life and music.
I think 17seconds and Faith are the perfect mix of darkness and pop. I love them both, anytime..But you have to be in the right setting or mood to listen to Pornography. It’s almost too much..
The first I heard of The Cure was "Charlotte Sometimes", which I instantly fell in love with, so I bought "Pornography", which was their most recent album at the time. On first listen I was horrified! It was so bleak and claustrophobic. But it really grew on me. It has a way of just pulling you in. It has long been one of my favourite albums, not just from The Cure, but of any band. A masterpiece.
This is the first glance of the Cure my dad showed me many many years ago. I'll still never forget the first time I heard the merciless drum machines on "One Hundred Years."
I first heard this album when I was 14. It was the scariest thing I'd ever heard in my life, even if I didn't understand what the songs were really about. I heard it on a CD player which had a translucent plastic door through which you could see the CD spinning and and when the album ends with that reversed sound, the CD itself stopped and it haunted me for life. 15 years later, I decided to hear it as a 30 year old and I bawled my eyes out cause I finally knew the place that Robert Smith wrote this album from, and it's absolutely terrifying. It's an unbelievably powerful album. Also, I always felt that the lyrics of the title track was inspired by Psycho (references to murder and showers). That sort of ties in with the rest of the album because that film is about how someone, even a good person, can suffer so much that they end up losing their mind and commiting murder. I think a lot of people who've been in Robert's position during the making of this album have felt like they were on the brink of madness and it wouldn't surprise me if Robert had that film in his subconscious when he was writing it.
Pornography is without a doubt my favorite The Cure album. Another savagely dark and depressing album is Closer, by Joy Division. There is beauty in sadness and obscurity. Nice video.
@Sharks I really don't agree with the rip off part, of course it takes inspiration on Joy Division, but Pornography is way more elaborate and grand, Closer on the contrary is bare bones.
The Cure's, Pornography album was a "tour de force" of the Goth music scene back then, through until now. They produced the perfect sound in complete syncopation, making it's disruptive nature that aesthetic many bands emulate. I normally dislike narrated retrospectives, but this was so clean and accurate, it's something that I truly enjoyed watching.
This one is also by far their best album. Bought this album on vinyl some months ago and I've already spun this record waaay too many times lmao. It just has such a special, mezmerizing sound to it and it really is one of the most influential albums for Post-Punk and Goth, ever. Also, found you some days ago through your Dir En Grey video. Love your work, keep it up!
This is actually one of my favorite albums of all time. Yes, its bleak, but it is so original and atmospheric. A real game changer. It’s a masterpiece.
Fantastic video, awesome seeing more content about The Cure made. It’s always funny seeing that clip of Robert Smith saying that the general public’s taste is vile. The band really didn’t expect to be famous or revered by the public, yet they went on to create some of the most recognizable and acclaimed pop hits of their time. I think how they were able to create such an emotionally bleak and devastating record, while maintaining some level of accessibility is remarkable. It really shows what a talented and unique songwriter Robert Smith is, and what a special band The Cure are.
@@graymads Really? Self-titled is one of my least favourites. Disintegtation, Pornography, 17 seconds, Faith, Head on the Door, Kiss Me, kiss me, kiss me and the b-sides are my favourites.
I've always felt that the end of the song 100 years suddenly burst out with an almost healing energy before collapsing back into the claustophobic feeling of the rest of the album. It's almost like yelling out your frustration and the carthartic effect that has on your mental well being.
And there's a similar moment in the last minute of the album. "I must fight this sickness / Find a cure / I must fight this sickness." The oppressive atmosphere momentary cleans up, and the narrator has a moment of clarity, realizing he has to end his depression. But the voices return, stronger than before, and the album ends. So either this is the artist releasing his frustrations through the music, or the narrator has settled on a more... permanent solution.
"It doesnt matter if we all die ambition in the back of a black car in a high building there is so much to do... ...over and over we die one after the other" most dark lyrics to start a record ever...what a song ! One hundred years and the Figurehead are the best dark wave songs ever written...!
True, but nothing Joy Division ever did sounds like “100 Years” at all… could say the same for “The Figurehead”, “The Hanging Garden”, and most of the album, never mind the Title Track!
When I listen to this album for the first time, I was expecting it to be dark and unlistenable. It was certainly dark, but I found myself absolutely captivated from the first track and then becoming absolutely riveted by the end. The cure does darkness and beauty like no other band that I have listened to. Somehow, even in the depths of gloom, I can’t help but feEl soothed as well. It’s a really odd sensation to describe. I absolutely love this!
While The Top was the next full album release - before that Robert also released Let's go To Bed, Lovecats, The Walk, Hyaena (with the Banshees), The Glove (with Steve Severin) before The Top was recorded. And that's quite a diverse range of styles there..
I can lose myself in chinese art or american girls Everytime i lose me in this dark please do it right Run into the night i lose mysepf tomorrow crimson pain my heart explodes
I love this band I listen to them every day for years .I don't understand all their speech because I don't have a good enough level in English but I love their music which is catchy for me and calms me down .
I was introduced to the Cure by my older sister when I was 8 or 9 years old back in late 80's (probably with Desintegration). I was already a fan of music, but I will never forget how their style, music and Robert's voice made an instant impact on me. The amount of great albums and songs they have is ridiculous (in a good way) compared to others. To this day, they still are one of my favorites bands of all time.
This is one of those albums that feels like a horror movie, but a hardcore horror movie DONE WELL. I've been impressed since the first second w Robert's guitar work in this album, it feels so expressive and it nails the feeling of the lyrics. Schopenhauer would be proud xdxdxd
This album is my absolute favorite from the band and shows the true genius of The Cure. Pornography gives us angst, delusion,depression, bleakness and despair all in poetic meter and rhyme. It is the Shakespearian epitome of albums and leaves a lasting and indelible psychological impact once you comprehend its beauty.
My favourite album. Glad there is a video finally discussing this album. It is a perfect album. The lyrics and melody is so enchanting and the title is an interesting choice.
Another thing I want to add is that when recording, on top of the band being in an already terrible atmosphere, they willingly put themselves in a worse one. There were many hangovers in the studio, & some of the songs were recorded in disgusting public restrooms, where they ended up immersing themselves in further dread. An incredible hardship that I sorrow from them, but came out so very rewarding years down the line. Pornography remains one of their absolute best albums, and one of the best albums ever in my opinion. Love for Robert Smith, Love for The Cure, Love for Music.
Here's the way I lived it: Boys Don't Cry hooked me in, and Faith and Seventeen Seconds prepared me. Pornography made the impression no album has since. If you were down on the world, and it came into your life, it felt like something plugged into the most basic truth. Time and years would ultimately lead you elsewhere, but the bond from that period will always remain.
I first heard Siamese Twins in a bookshop while visiting Uruguay, four or five years ago. It absolutely mesmerised me. At the time, there was no way to listen to the album on Spotify, for some reason, and I used to put it on loop as an MP3. This year I bought it on CD, finally. Its one of my prized possessions.
@@graymads Yeah I certainly agree-usually most people will either only talk about Disintegration and brush over the other albums when referring to how the band came to make it which is a shame because there’s a lot of good stuff in albums like this and Faith as well as a lot of the others-still though-I’m glad their best album’s now been covered :D
One Hundred Years is that song that changed my life. I will never forget how I was listening to the whole The Cure discography and finally came up with Pornography. From the beginning to the end it sent shivers down my spine and I was like "wow, this is so dark yet so beautiful...". Despite the fact that Disintegration is still my favorite The Cure album Pornography is and always will be the most played The Cure album. Thank you for your work!
100 Years kind of did the same for me, when I first heard this album it was the only song I liked, but because of that I kept coming back until I finally understood the rest of the record.
@@zyzir some time after that, and Disintegration remains my favorite album by them…and to hear it reflected with a lyric in prayers for rain was just amazing.
Enjoyed this as it's one of their top 3 albums & a masterpiece but surprised he didn't mention the album actually ends on a tinge of hope,However slight with the lyrics 'I must fight this sickness...Find a cure...I must fight this sickness'..
Great video! I really like your way of talking about albums, discussing the band, the circumstances surrounding the recording process, and the songs themselves. You should absolutely do a video about Disintegration
Cold is my favorite song off of the album. Its dark, brooding, industrial aura just hits you like a truck. Pornography is an amazing album by The Cure.
I first discovered this album in college and was instantly hooked. Definitely one of the most haunting, dark, beautiful albums of all time. Even as a Cure fan who loves most of their stuff, this is one I always return to.
@@graymads Yeah great vid...Really interesting how Cure records have traces of the past and future in them...obviously...but still really cool how evolutionary they are. Really loved all your non Cure background tracks...Would you be able to list what else you used besides George Clanton?
Great review of a beautifully dark and depressing album. Glad I came across this! My favorite by them and one of all time. I’m a give it a listen now as today it fits perfect….nice work!
Havent listened to The Cure in years, i remember trying to get into them as a kid and being too annoyed by the goth try hards to keep caring. I should definitely give em another listen.
Funny how some put so much blatant effort into what comes naturally for their unwilling pioneer. Smith was just doing what he wanted to, check out how the Cure got their first record deal ;) Don't listen to them for the elitist regime, listen to them for you, for me and, again, for you. Put on some headphones rip a couple tokes, or many, or none, and get swallowed and filled by something really special.
I have memories of waking up (still under the influence of drinks/drugs) on the floor in some friends house, after faling to sleep whilst listening to this album. You could say this album is a huge part of the soundtrack of my youth and the experimentation that came with it. Love this record to death because of that 🖤
this is my favorite album from the cure coming as a lifelong fan. it's the album that hits closest to me. even though it's my favorite, I don't listen to it regularly. ill pick and choose some songs occasionally, but the entire album evokes so many emotions. when seeing them live in November the band played cold. I was already so emotional just to see my favorite band, but to hear one of my favorite songs from that album got to me. I had never felt so much before that moment. the album does remind me of times that were similar to Robert's own when writing the album. I want to thank Robert for such beautiful music.
If you can find Live Paris you won’t be disappointed, you’ll be surprised how much love there is for these songs 10 years later. Great video from an old Cure Head
A beautifully narrated critique. Such a haunting and maudlin masterwork. Almost like a corpse, cold in the morgue, that still retains a slight heartbeat. Tony F. Corpse (Post Mortem Superstar)
Great analysis of my favourite album by the cure. The only thing I would've done differently is the random 80's music and artists in the background. Oh well. But still. My really favourite album. I can still remember a group of friends just sitting and listening to this album. The athmosspere was just something else. We just sat there, in the middle of the night and listened thru the whole album.
“Is it always like this? This album got me through a very dark time in my life yet anytime I introduced/recommended this album to anyone it would quickly be one of their favourites, best cure album and definitely in my top 5 (whatever that means) also suddle nice touch on the silent hill 2 ost in the background, subscribed
I first listened to that album last year while in a deep depression and the song a short term effect will always stay in my mind it was so eerie and it made me feel emotions I didn’t think I could
this album and joy division's stuff (and bastard by tyler, lol) hit massively in high school for me. i need to remember to donate to you when i own more than 10 dollars, cause i'm so impressed by your content and especially how unmonetizable by youtube a lot of it is. important stuff that needs to exist, it's like trash theory but consistently about albums that touched me personally
Please please please make more about the cure. Maybe disintegration, the album, but holy hell any of them works. I just love this band and their beautiful lyrics so much
I started out listening to Van Halen, ZZ Top, Pat Benetar, Billy Squire....One day, back in 84, my older brother told me and my friend about some different music. He mentioned The Smiths and The Cure. I said I would buy a Smiths cassette and my friend bought The Cure. Needless to say, it completely blew our minds and changed everything for us. There was only a small group of kids listening to different music so you felt like you were part of something special. Even though I was a huge Smiths fan, The Cure was just so eighties for me. Dark, melodic and moody and still takes me back to what I feel is a better time.
I've been thinking for a long time that a movie could be made about this album. Seeing the dirt of rock as in Sid and Nancy or Control, would be very dark.
so simple and perfect.i got it and understood more about the world and poetry at 11 years old ..ohh 1988 the lights turned on behind my eyes. My dad had this record but never listend to it, ..i gravitated to the cover and the song titles..i remember when i turned on the stereo not really knowing how to operate it i put this record on..at first the RPM's were too slow. made the adjustments. then slowly dissolved, left this plane and was left spoeechless for about and hour..i was different..not new but different./thanks guys.
This album has helped me though a tough time. There’s nothing like this album, and I don’t think there’ll ever be anything like this album again. The first listen hit me like a truck, “it doesn’t matter if we all die” it’s such a shock you are kinda forced to listen to the rest of the album, because it just escalates there.
Really enjoyed your video. I've been into the Cure since an older girl at school got me into them. I don't think I knew what hit me. I was 11, it was 1988. Funny. But at the same time very serious. I went to a boarding school and ended up getting locked into a room on my own after lessons, something to do with being disruptive. Once i got the dreaded prep out of the way, I started writing down the lyrics to Three Imaginary Boys, Killing an Arab - my stepfather was actually from Egypt, giving that particular song a distinct piquancy, and of course Boys Don't Cry (but of course they do, in my case, quite often, raging tearful eruptions through to hot wet sobs). Many, many Cure related memories. A recent one is of watching them in Hyde Park 2018. I'm biased, but they were simply fabulous. The sound production was stellar, as was the delivery of every song, bar none, both vocally and instrumentally. I have a few of their most recent albums to properly discover, and cannot wait for the new album. 35 years of listening to the Cure. Wow, just wow.
Yes! Ive always loved this one.... Already a huge Cure fan from the previous releases. First time I heard Pornography when it was released, was just wow.... I could listen to "short term effect", "figurehead" and "strange day" on a continual loop....
My favorite Cure album by far. Maybe because it still echoes in my brain after all these years. I used to walk around Berkeley in the late 80’s with my Walkman frying on 2 hits of acid listening to this album. I was always more of a thrasher and metal head. Maybe that’s why I’m drawn towards their “darkest” album. The weight of it still reverberates in the deepest recesses of my mind. I thought it was an absolutely brilliant album. I didn’t care for much of their “happier” poppy stuff that followed. There was definitely some good stuff after Pornography. But never anything with this kind of weighty depth. I will always have an infinite fondness for this album.
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I love how when The Cure was playing some of his darkest music, Robert Smith was often wearing a pink shirt.
He’s pure gold, that’s why.
And white Reeboks!
Robert who?
So sad that Siouxsie threw it into the sea😞😞😞
@@Hairspraynerdwdym by that?
Any album that starts out with "It doesn't matter if we all DIE" is a great album
Not to mention how meta it gets with the last few lines of the Title Track
Except he clearly sings, "Doesn't it matter if we all die?"
And it’s true, it doesn’t matter.
@@mournblade1066 Could be. Just listened to it for the umpeenthmillionth time (with MANY more to come) and it sounds like you might be right! But the official lyrics are ''It doesn't matter if we all die.'' Tough call. It's really hard to tell, if you ask me. One way or another, the song and the album are brilliant.
@@MegaMkmiller it’s honestly quite symbolic when you think about it
The darkest thing about this album is how luring it is. The sound is depressing and dark yet equally, so beautiful and calming at the same time. Well to my ears.
It's listenabllity is what made me really want to talk about it above The Cure's other work. Everyone talks about "dark" and "disturbing" albums but all they end up talking about is edgy distorted messes with no substance. What makes Pornography so dark is the real emotion and situations behind it. Giving the darkness a much more real and haunting perspective.
@@graymads agreed 100%
@@graymads This album is one of my personal favorites of the Cure. It’s interesting to hear what Robert Smith was experiencing and thinking during this time. My knowledge of his motivations was limited to the Bio Book; 10 Imaginary Years. After Disintegration I am not familiar with much. For a solid decade the Cure was an influence on my life and music.
I think 17seconds and Faith are the perfect mix of darkness and pop. I love them both, anytime..But you have to be in the right setting or mood to listen to Pornography. It’s almost too much..
Closer by Joy Division is the darkest album ever made. But both of them are masterpieces.
The first I heard of The Cure was "Charlotte Sometimes", which I instantly fell in love with, so I bought "Pornography", which was their most recent album at the time. On first listen I was horrified! It was so bleak and claustrophobic. But it really grew on me. It has a way of just pulling you in. It has long been one of my favourite albums, not just from The Cure, but of any band. A masterpiece.
This is the first glance of the Cure my dad showed me many many years ago. I'll still never forget the first time I heard the merciless drum machines on "One Hundred Years."
Hell of a way to start lol
it feels like you're trapped in a cult and they're chasing cus you ran away. + i was listening to this album sitting in the toilet, intense af
@@ochiai3 Nothing like a good shit ;)
It’s nice to hear someone truly talk about the music and not just the band
Music is the most important part.
@@graymads especially on this album, is the atmosphere what matters
Exactly
while true i think its also good to talk about the band as what they were going through in their lives also helps explain the music of the album
Just love siamese twins!!
"Sharp and open, leave me alone, I'm sleeping less every night."
The Figurehead - My personal favourite from the album and IMO definitely among the Cure's top 3 songs!
I first heard this album when I was 14. It was the scariest thing I'd ever heard in my life, even if I didn't understand what the songs were really about. I heard it on a CD player which had a translucent plastic door through which you could see the CD spinning and and when the album ends with that reversed sound, the CD itself stopped and it haunted me for life.
15 years later, I decided to hear it as a 30 year old and I bawled my eyes out cause I finally knew the place that Robert Smith wrote this album from, and it's absolutely terrifying. It's an unbelievably powerful album.
Also, I always felt that the lyrics of the title track was inspired by Psycho (references to murder and showers). That sort of ties in with the rest of the album because that film is about how someone, even a good person, can suffer so much that they end up losing their mind and commiting murder. I think a lot of people who've been in Robert's position during the making of this album have felt like they were on the brink of madness and it wouldn't surprise me if Robert had that film in his subconscious when he was writing it.
Pornography is without a doubt my favorite The Cure album. Another savagely dark and depressing album is Closer, by Joy Division. There is beauty in sadness and obscurity. Nice video.
@Sharks I really don't agree with the rip off part, of course it takes inspiration on Joy Division, but Pornography is way more elaborate and grand, Closer on the contrary is bare bones.
Both those albums are nearly perfect. Also cocteau twins garlands and love and rockets seventh dream of teenage heaven, though the latter less dark
The Cure's, Pornography album was a "tour de force" of the Goth music scene back then, through until now. They produced the perfect sound in complete syncopation, making it's disruptive nature that aesthetic many bands emulate. I normally dislike narrated retrospectives, but this was so clean and accurate, it's something that I truly enjoyed watching.
Watching Me Fall would be a track that revisits this album, and could easily be positioned as their most definitive dark track.
This is one of the important album for me. It got me into the cure and the whole goth scene. A perfect album. Filled with dread and nihlism so dark.
This album is the coolest item I've purchased at a Walgreen's. What a way to discover this great band.
damn! good buy!!
This one is also by far their best album. Bought this album on vinyl some months ago and I've already spun this record waaay too many times lmao. It just has such a special, mezmerizing sound to it and it really is one of the most influential albums for Post-Punk and Goth, ever.
Also, found you some days ago through your Dir En Grey video. Love your work, keep it up!
Thank you so much! Glad you are enjoying the videos!
there is no 'too many times'.
The Cure have such a unique sound, such an iconic band
Absolutely brilliant album. One of the greatest expressions of the darker side of the human condition in an art form. This album can cut to the soul…
This is actually one of my favorite albums of all time. Yes, its bleak, but it is so original and atmospheric. A real game changer. It’s a masterpiece.
agree
facts completely agree
Fantastic video, awesome seeing more content about The Cure made. It’s always funny seeing that clip of Robert Smith saying that the general public’s taste is vile. The band really didn’t expect to be famous or revered by the public, yet they went on to create some of the most recognizable and acclaimed pop hits of their time. I think how they were able to create such an emotionally bleak and devastating record, while maintaining some level of
accessibility is remarkable. It really shows what a talented and unique songwriter Robert Smith is, and what a special band The Cure are.
He's right though. Most popular opinion is absolutely mindless shit.
THIS IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ALBUM FROM THEM 🙏🙏
Its tied with the Self-Titled album for me.
same
@@graymads Really? Self-titled is one of my least favourites. Disintegtation, Pornography, 17 seconds, Faith, Head on the Door, Kiss Me, kiss me, kiss me and the b-sides are my favourites.
Yeah, the same titled never quite got me. Three imaginary boys is my fav, faith , pornography, bloodflowers come all next.
@@TheTobyjamesdawson
Mine too.
Wild Mood is my least favorite.
I've always felt that the end of the song 100 years suddenly burst out with an almost healing energy before collapsing back into the claustophobic feeling of the rest of the album. It's almost like yelling out your frustration and the carthartic effect that has on your mental well being.
The reprieve if you will lol
And there's a similar moment in the last minute of the album. "I must fight this sickness / Find a cure / I must fight this sickness." The oppressive atmosphere momentary cleans up, and the narrator has a moment of clarity, realizing he has to end his depression. But the voices return, stronger than before, and the album ends. So either this is the artist releasing his frustrations through the music, or the narrator has settled on a more... permanent solution.
"It doesnt matter if we all die
ambition in the back of a black car
in a high building there is so much to do...
...over and over we die one after the other" most dark lyrics to start a record ever...what a song ! One hundred years and the Figurehead are the best dark wave songs ever written...!
So many great songs and albums. Music for nearly every mood. The Cure are legendary.
Every album was a shake up, part of their magic.
@@graymads Well said. Wild Mood Swings is vastly different from an album like Pornography but there are treasures on there too.
One of my favorite albums. You cannot deny the influence Joy Division played on it’s sound and darkness
True, but nothing Joy Division ever did sounds like “100 Years” at all… could say the same for “The Figurehead”, “The Hanging Garden”, and most of the album, never mind the Title Track!
@@hw343434Inspiration mate, inspiration
Absolutely
When I listen to this album for the first time, I was expecting it to be dark and unlistenable. It was certainly dark, but I found myself absolutely captivated from the first track and then becoming absolutely riveted by the end. The cure does darkness and beauty like no other band that I have listened to. Somehow, even in the depths of gloom, I can’t help but feEl soothed as well. It’s a really odd sensation to describe. I absolutely love this!
Robert Smith is a man among men.
“ I must fight this sickness, find a cure. I must fight this sickness.”.
The whole album is a master piece
I felt alot beautiful pain listening to that album i was overwhelmed by that album
While The Top was the next full album release - before that Robert also released Let's go To Bed, Lovecats, The Walk, Hyaena (with the Banshees), The Glove (with Steve Severin) before The Top was recorded. And that's quite a diverse range of styles there..
True very true
jumping someone else's train and killing an arab try to request either of those
And The Top is a pretty terrible album.
@@masentaja8344 The Top is amazing. You're nuts.
@@zoeherriot Just my opinion. Pornography is amazing, The Top is not.
The Figurehead is so good, can listen to it 100 times nonstop !
Definitely one of my favorites too.
Siamese twins is also monumental
@@robertocaba5915 yes for sure !
@@graymads It's probably an album which doesn't have weak spots in my opinion (it's short, but, man, what a record).
I can lose myself in chinese art or american girls
Everytime i lose me in this dark please do it right
Run into the night i lose mysepf tomorrow crimson pain my heart explodes
I love this band I listen to them every day for years .I don't understand all their speech because I don't have a good enough level in English but I love their music which is catchy for me and calms me down .
Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers are absolutely brilliant.
Faith
@@tizianoparlanti7005 Hell yeah!
@@tizianoparlanti7005 Exactly
Cures dark stuf is the best why the never stuck with it? It worked for skinny puppy android lust ladytron boy harsher & Lebanon hanover
@@mikejett2733 This new album is being described and the closure to the Trilogy and is supposed to be dark as hell. We'll see.
Robert, i have been loving you since 1982...nothing else to say..❤
I was introduced to the Cure by my older sister when I was 8 or 9 years old back in late 80's (probably with Desintegration). I was already a fan of music, but I will never forget how their style, music and Robert's voice made an instant impact on me. The amount of great albums and songs they have is ridiculous (in a good way) compared to others. To this day, they still are one of my favorites bands of all time.
Great video!! Words cannot describe what this album means to me
It's an underrated master piece that paved the way for so many.
This is one of those albums that feels like a horror movie, but a hardcore horror movie DONE WELL.
I've been impressed since the first second w Robert's guitar work in this album, it feels so expressive and it nails the feeling of the lyrics.
Schopenhauer would be proud xdxdxd
This album is my absolute favorite from the band and shows the true genius of The Cure. Pornography gives us angst, delusion,depression, bleakness and despair all in poetic meter and rhyme. It is the Shakespearian epitome of albums and leaves a lasting and indelible psychological impact once you comprehend its beauty.
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Disintegration and Pornography are my favorite Cure albums. Cold is my favorite song off of Pornography.
Cold is legendary.
thank you for making this video, i absolutely love it. i have such a deep admiration for this album!!
this is my favorite album of all time. So happy to have finally found more videos talking about it.
Thank you for spreading the history of the band's music as well as adding your own personal connection and opinions. Very great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My favourite album. Glad there is a video finally discussing this album. It is a perfect album. The lyrics and melody is so enchanting and the title is an interesting choice.
Another thing I want to add is that when recording, on top of the band being in an already terrible atmosphere, they willingly put themselves in a worse one. There were many hangovers in the studio, & some of the songs were recorded in disgusting public restrooms, where they ended up immersing themselves in further dread. An incredible hardship that I sorrow from them, but came out so very rewarding years down the line. Pornography remains one of their absolute best albums, and one of the best albums ever in my opinion. Love for Robert Smith, Love for The Cure, Love for Music.
Also I am so happy to hear content talking about this album in beautiful depth, thank you so much!!!
Here's the way I lived it: Boys Don't Cry hooked me in, and Faith and Seventeen Seconds prepared me. Pornography made the impression no album has since. If you were down on the world, and it came into your life, it felt like something plugged into the most basic truth. Time and years would ultimately lead you elsewhere, but the bond from that period will always remain.
I first heard Siamese Twins in a bookshop while visiting Uruguay, four or five years ago. It absolutely mesmerised me. At the time, there was no way to listen to the album on Spotify, for some reason, and I used to put it on loop as an MP3. This year I bought it on CD, finally. Its one of my prized possessions.
Honestly such a good album; incredibly underappreciated so I’m glad that you’ve made a video about it now! Thank you :)
Thats what made me want to make a video on it. I love The Cure but feel a good chunk of their records don't get enough love.
@@graymads Yeah I certainly agree-usually most people will either only talk about Disintegration and brush over the other albums when referring to how the band came to make it which is a shame because there’s a lot of good stuff in albums like this and Faith as well as a lot of the others-still though-I’m glad their best album’s now been covered :D
This analysis / breakdown was great ! Really loved the vid and help me better understand some songs
Glad you liked it!
One Hundred Years is that song that changed my life. I will never forget how I was listening to the whole The Cure discography and finally came up with Pornography. From the beginning to the end it sent shivers down my spine and I was like "wow, this is so dark yet so beautiful...". Despite the fact that Disintegration is still my favorite The Cure album Pornography is and always will be the most played The Cure album. Thank you for your work!
100 Years kind of did the same for me, when I first heard this album it was the only song I liked, but because of that I kept coming back until I finally understood the rest of the record.
I first heard this album back in 1989 and was changed forever. Brilliant in ways I can’t describe.
did u go out and buy disintegration after that
@@zyzir some time after that, and Disintegration remains my favorite album by them…and to hear it reflected with a lyric in prayers for rain was just amazing.
Enjoyed this as it's one of their top 3 albums & a masterpiece but surprised he didn't mention the album actually ends on a tinge of hope,However slight with the lyrics 'I must fight this sickness...Find a cure...I must fight this sickness'..
Great video! I really like your way of talking about albums, discussing the band, the circumstances surrounding the recording process, and the songs themselves. You should absolutely do a video about Disintegration
Thank you! I plan on covering that album and Wish for sure!
God, thank you for this. This album is literal perfection and changed my life at an early age.
It opened me up to much darker music at an early age.
Cold is my favorite song off of the album. Its dark, brooding, industrial aura just hits you like a truck. Pornography is an amazing album by The Cure.
I first discovered this album in college and was instantly hooked. Definitely one of the most haunting, dark, beautiful albums of all time. Even as a Cure fan who loves most of their stuff, this is one I always return to.
Nice use of ESPRIT. Good video !
Pretty surreal seeing you here. George in general is a hero of mine. Wonder Gently is my all time favorite song.
@@graymads the algorithm works in mysterious ways.
@@graymads Yeah great vid...Really interesting how Cure records have traces of the past and future in them...obviously...but still really cool how evolutionary they are. Really loved all your non Cure background tracks...Would you be able to list what else you used besides George Clanton?
Right on! Dark, eerie, heavy in its own way
Such an masterpiece
Great review of a beautifully dark and depressing album. Glad I came across this! My favorite by them and one of all time. I’m a give it a listen now as today it fits perfect….nice work!
Havent listened to The Cure in years, i remember trying to get into them as a kid and being too annoyed by the goth try hards to keep caring. I should definitely give em another listen.
Robert Smith is the King
The Cure is the greatest band of all time ever, barr none
Funny how some put so much blatant effort into what comes naturally for their unwilling pioneer. Smith was just doing what he wanted to, check out how the Cure got their first record deal ;) Don't listen to them for the elitist regime, listen to them for you, for me and, again, for you. Put on some headphones rip a couple tokes, or many, or none, and get swallowed and filled by something really special.
@@nathanielnicholson559 this is beautiful 😍
One of my all-time favorite albums! Good video. Funny that you're showing visuals of the Cure In Orange from The Head On the Door tour.
I come back to this video at least once a month, this album is just so fantastic and this video is so perfect I just have to come back to it
I have memories of waking up (still under the influence of drinks/drugs) on the floor in some friends house, after faling to sleep whilst listening to this album. You could say this album is a huge part of the soundtrack of my youth and the experimentation that came with it. Love this record to death because of that 🖤
this is my favorite album from the cure coming as a lifelong fan. it's the album that hits closest to me. even though it's my favorite, I don't listen to it regularly. ill pick and choose some songs occasionally, but the entire album evokes so many emotions. when seeing them live in November the band played cold. I was already so emotional just to see my favorite band, but to hear one of my favorite songs from that album got to me. I had never felt so much before that moment. the album does remind me of times that were similar to Robert's own when writing the album. I want to thank Robert for such beautiful music.
If you can find Live Paris you won’t be disappointed, you’ll be surprised how much love there is for these songs 10 years later.
Great video from an old Cure Head
Nothing beats Roberts god-like poetic lyrics, Pornography album is my favorite along with Wish
Wish is next level. Nothing beats the song Cut.
@@graymads The live version of End (from Show) has one of the most apocalyptic sounds - I saw it live in 92 and I felt it in every bone of my body.
@@zoeherriot i love End , live version, tbh almost every cure song i prefer Live , they're godlike live performers
I love bootlegs from their 1982 european tour. You can feel the depression and the emptiness. It's so strange.
To me "The Figurehead" is the quintessential Cure song. It's perfect
Most disturbing album ever. It will either push you over the edge or pull u away from the edge. Listen at your own risk
The lyrics were all so haunting and memorable. A great album
A beautifully narrated critique. Such a haunting and maudlin masterwork. Almost like a corpse, cold in the morgue, that still retains a slight heartbeat.
Tony F. Corpse
(Post Mortem Superstar)
Great analysis of my favourite album by the cure. The only thing I would've done differently is the random 80's music and artists in the background. Oh well. But still. My really favourite album. I can still remember a group of friends just sitting and listening to this album. The athmosspere was just something else. We just sat there, in the middle of the night and listened thru the whole album.
Personally, the older I get, the more Bloodflowers becomes the record that truly haunts me.
Porno is depressing but bloodflowers is sad. These records are best
39 is all time!
Cold is my favourite Cure track, chills everytime I hear it. I've seen them 15 times and still never heard it 😢
I saw them do it live on the Wild Mood Swings Tour in Cardiff 👍
I was taking a piss, heard the beginning of Cold, pinched it off and ran back to the show😊
worst song on the album
@@joeldukes303 You were taking a piss? Pics or GTFO.
So....................Cold gives you chills.........................uh, no pun intended?
I must fight this sickness
Find the Cure
“Is it always like this?
This album got me through a very dark time in my life yet anytime I introduced/recommended this album to anyone it would quickly be one of their favourites, best cure album and definitely in my top 5 (whatever that means) also suddle nice touch on the silent hill 2 ost in the background, subscribed
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One off the best albums off all time
Agreed.
I first listened to that album last year while in a deep depression and the song a short term effect will always stay in my mind it was so eerie and it made me feel emotions I didn’t think I could
Strange Day 🤯💥
The drums on Pornography are the best contribution Tolhurst made to the band.
Most people i talk about this, don't even know this album. Very underrated. Love it
this album and joy division's stuff (and bastard by tyler, lol) hit massively in high school for me. i need to remember to donate to you when i own more than 10 dollars, cause i'm so impressed by your content and especially how unmonetizable by youtube a lot of it is. important stuff that needs to exist, it's like trash theory but consistently about albums that touched me personally
I got the 40th year anniversary vinyl a couple months ago, so beautiful! Fantastic album 👌
Please please please make more about the cure. Maybe disintegration, the album, but holy hell any of them works. I just love this band and their beautiful lyrics so much
I fucken love the cure
Great vid as always
Thank you!
THE BEST ALBUM BY THE CURE, HANDS DOWN. Way ahead of its time and as dour and depressing as I like it.
One hundred years is about existential angst after the death of his grand father- who he loved.
Pornography, Faith and Seventeen Seconds are all just sublime albums.
Unbeatable, I completely agree
I started out listening to Van Halen, ZZ Top, Pat Benetar, Billy Squire....One day, back in 84, my older brother told me and my friend about some different music. He mentioned The Smiths and The Cure. I said I would buy a Smiths cassette and my friend bought The Cure. Needless to say, it completely blew our minds and changed everything for us. There was only a small group of kids listening to different music so you felt like you were part of something special. Even though I was a huge Smiths fan, The Cure was just so eighties for me. Dark, melodic and moody and still takes me back to what I feel is a better time.
Heard this album on a college radio station in 1982 and has been one of my favorite albums ever since.
Indeed, meant to get a The Cure tee.
He also did a solo album called the glove in the 80s
Blue sunshine-Perfect Murder Robert Smith lyrics
This is my all time favorite album. Also, the very first completely goth full album. The music itself is genius. ❤️🖤
I've been thinking for a long time that a movie could be made about this album. Seeing the dirt of rock as in Sid and Nancy or Control, would be very dark.
Thank you Robert for sharing your amazing gift with us 💕
A masterpiece 💜
so simple and perfect.i got it and understood more about the world and poetry at 11 years old ..ohh 1988 the lights turned on behind my eyes. My dad had this record but never listend to it, ..i gravitated to the cover and the song titles..i remember when i turned on the stereo not really knowing how to operate it i put this record on..at first the RPM's were too slow. made the adjustments. then slowly dissolved, left this plane and was left spoeechless for about and hour..i was different..not new but different./thanks guys.
This album has helped me though a tough time. There’s nothing like this album, and I don’t think there’ll ever be anything like this album again. The first listen hit me like a truck, “it doesn’t matter if we all die” it’s such a shock you are kinda forced to listen to the rest of the album, because it just escalates there.
Love this! Thank you❤❤
Really enjoyed your video. I've been into the Cure since an older girl at school got me into them. I don't think I knew what hit me. I was 11, it was 1988. Funny. But at the same time very serious. I went to a boarding school and ended up getting locked into a room on my own after lessons, something to do with being disruptive. Once i got the dreaded prep out of the way, I started writing down the lyrics to Three Imaginary Boys, Killing an Arab - my stepfather was actually from Egypt, giving that particular song a distinct piquancy, and of course Boys Don't Cry (but of course they do, in my case, quite often, raging tearful eruptions through to hot wet sobs). Many, many Cure related memories. A recent one is of watching them in Hyde Park 2018. I'm biased, but they were simply fabulous. The sound production was stellar, as was the delivery of every song, bar none, both vocally and instrumentally. I have a few of their most recent albums to properly discover, and cannot wait for the new album. 35 years of listening to the Cure. Wow, just wow.
Just realised a couple of weeks ago that it has lasted, fitting to our times even better.
Yes! Ive always loved this one.... Already a huge Cure fan from the previous releases. First time I heard Pornography when it was released, was just wow.... I could listen to "short term effect", "figurehead" and "strange day" on a continual loop....
Damn straight this is the darkest album ever made
Definitely one of them
My favorite Cure album by far. Maybe because it still echoes in my brain after all these years. I used to walk around Berkeley in the late 80’s with my Walkman frying on 2 hits of acid listening to this album. I was always more of a thrasher and metal head. Maybe that’s why I’m drawn towards their “darkest” album. The weight of it still reverberates in the deepest recesses of my mind. I thought it was an absolutely brilliant album. I didn’t care for much of their “happier” poppy stuff that followed. There was definitely some good stuff after Pornography. But never anything with this kind of weighty depth. I will always have an infinite fondness for this album.