My follow-up thoughts, one week+ after listening: ua-cam.com/video/-2_qxuFM7-E/v-deo.html My follow-up thoughts, 4 years after listening: ua-cam.com/video/3sMAN_kpzlc/v-deo.html More THE CURE Reactions: Three Imaginary Boys: ua-cam.com/video/_yecXZp0wF4/v-deo.html Seventeen Seconds: ua-cam.com/video/yQ2dC8tVrTE/v-deo.html Faith: ua-cam.com/video/ut2SMOY6PwU/v-deo.html Pornography: ua-cam.com/video/t50YcUQmXns/v-deo.html Japanese Whispers: ua-cam.com/video/McKDkNEgaL0/v-deo.html The Head on the Door: ua-cam.com/video/CPByU74swpM/v-deo.html Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me: ua-cam.com/video/GC9Zv6WjiUE/v-deo.html Wish: ua-cam.com/video/4Rvbrn48RLQ/v-deo.html Songs of a Lost World: ua-cam.com/users/live7KmyFRv5VcA Carnage Visors: ua-cam.com/video/nP6KVIZlg14/v-deo.html
Although Disintegration is one of my favorite albums, I find that the right listening environment is essential. Listening to it in a hot room in the middle of the day, in the middle of summer is probably the worst environment possible. At a minimum, this is a nighttime album, and better yet, enjoyed in the dead of winter, bundled up against the dread chill of death waiting outside your door. Bonus points if you can listen to it in the midst a major breakup, after a funeral or as the world is ending. Well, I think you get the idea. :)
Autumn! It's an autumn album. When nights are beginning to draw in, rain is falling and winter is coming - but not yet arrived. When memories of the good times/summer are still within touching distance (but you know they're gone).
Andy Williams I give this a sunset album because when I was going on a road trip with my girlfriend and her family, this song played on the radio while the sun was about to set on the plains.
The songs “disintegration”, “fascination street”, and “lullaby” will forever be my top three for this album! Especially disintegration, it’s so beautifully played, I can’t even put into words how good it is 😍
Absolutely love this album. I fell in love while listening to it during the cool summertime night's with a beautiful star-lit sky with a great group of friends. It's different for everyone. My favorite songs by them tend to be the ones NOT played on the radio. The environment is a must while listening to this album as a another person commented. ➡️ edit: Just now watching a documentary on The Cure. In it, Robert Smith states the title of the album, Disintegration was "...picked for the effect it would have on everybody after listening to it." He also added that it helps everyone focus to what the end results would be. disintegration-noun •the act or process of disintegrating. I think his statement is so accurate to what many people here have said about processing this album over a period of time not just in one sitting. (Yes, I also watched your update.) 🎵
Even though they’re a multi decade band, Do Depeche Mode 80’s Album black celebration or music for the masses. Even though they’re best Album IMO was from 93’ songs of faith and devotion.
Thanks for the listen to Disintegration, it isn't an easy album and stopping and starting between tracks doesn't do it justice, but understand you needed to do it for the review. I think the segue between Plainsong and Pictures of You is perfect. The long intros set a mood in readiness for the vocals, which become more poignant when you read the lyrics. Would have been interesting to get your opinion of Robert Smith's voice, I used to think it a bit overdone but now understand how it cuts like ice and is full of emotional intensity. I had the great honour of attending the Disintegration Anniversary Concert at the Sydney Opera House (album played in its entirety along with B sides) 4 weeks or so ago, it was astounding. The Cure in concert is not like listening to an album, it's an event, catch footage on UA-cam from the Wish Tour in '92 'A Forest', it is ambitious and mighty. Glad you are going to have another listen to Disintegration, play it LOUD, on a cold night, on your own and just let the whole thing wash over you.
I'm steeped in The Cure - so, not the commenter Alex wants - but I have to say something. The concept of intros and codas is irrelevant to this album - songs like Plainsong and Homesick (where the vocal is just another element) have plenty of predecessors and successors in the Cure catalogue. There are also songs where the vocals are incomprehensibly low in the mix, or strangely treated (17 Seconds famously has both of those, close together). This album was meant as a major statement - Robert Smith was very controlling of the band during this era. The then-Paul Thompson doesn't really stand out on this album (except on Homesick maybe) - all those lead guitar lines are Robert's. Officially, Tolhurst isn't on it (but recollections differ - and Homesick sprang from a Lol riff). Robert may be prone to depressions but that's only the start of it. He seems to undergo existential crises as regularly as women have periods - he had "disassociated identity"/"traumatic memory-recovery" episodes during the making of the 2004 album, and, to judge by this album (and The Top and Wish), they weren't unprecedented. Song comments: Re the theories as to what Lullaby is about - well, I'll equivocate and say "look it up on songmeanings.com" The unintentional double-entendre in Fascination Street - Rob's the first to admit it! In theory it's merely a drug song. Prayers For Rain was a live highlight for years because he'd hold a high note on the last verse (he really really can't do that nowadays!) Same Deep Water and Untitled were highlight on the 1989 tour because Rob had a few "breaking down in tears" moments during these song - in later gigs, by contrast, he's often seemed too disengaged from them. Guitar solo during Untitled has a callback to Lullaby - interesting touch.
91 degrees and sunny isn't quite the setting, yeah. My preferred setting for listening to the Cure is walking outside on an October evening with headphones on.
Please do another listen around midnight in fall. It will quickly become one of your favorite albums of all time. Imo this is one of the best and most emotional albums ever made next to Hounds Of Love. Skip Kiss me and listen to Faith, it’s their best album imo.
Very interesting to see someone listen to this for the first time, and the reaction to as you said, the more progressive and post rock aspects. I never thought of it that way. Keep it up man! btw ya boi still hoping for dots and loops by stereolab. ;)
I liked The Cure songs growing up in the 80s but never really got into them. Was more into Duran Duran. Finally listened to this album last year and was amazed!
For me it’s less about how complex the songs are and more so the simple melodies, feel and message. Same reason I love Head on the door. HOTD has a lot of loops and so does this album.
Comparing The Smiths to The Cure is inane. He doesn't get it. Not once has this guy discussed the relationship of the lyrics to the music. Simple, straight-forward, gut-wrenching and heart-breaking lyrics (i.e. "If only I'd thought of the right words, I could of held on to your heart." Pictures of You).... married to simple chords from each instrument that slowly build layers over time creating a dark ether for the listener to drown in as he/she thinks of their own personal heartbreak. That's why several of the songs are 6 minutes plus...That is the genius of Robert Smith. It is the ultimate example of dreariness you can slit your wrist to. Disintegration is one of the greatest albums of all time.
Thanks for this comment. If you say he doesn't get it, and you obviously do, I'm going elsewhere. This is my number one album of all time, even beating Tool who I've loved since i was 17 (now almost 40).
If you really want to understand The Cure you have to listen early albums in particular the dark trilogy in order Seventeen (1980) seconds, Faith (1981) and Pornography (1982), they are the basement, THE sound of the cure, and they are short 35/45mn , for a complete vision of the different period Kiss me is the good one, it's a double album with an extraordinary eclectisism .... You talk about Friday I'm in love, for the older fan like me (I'm 45) it's probably one of the worst song of the cure, Robert Smith have a particuliar sense of humour he calls this genre of song : Stupid songs.... and finally you really have to see them live, they are outstanding, I recommend you to see/react this different live from different periods : 1980 ua-cam.com/video/uBoJGOovQH8/v-deo.html 1981 ua-cam.com/video/F-L9_IDjtH0/v-deo.html 1986 ua-cam.com/video/DhkogCVob1U/v-deo.html 2003 probably one of the most impressive live song by the cure ever.... ua-cam.com/video/7Eh6_FFUSg4/v-deo.html
@@AlexHaitz Absolutely, their first punky album Three imaginary boys is a little gem too, the golden age of the cure is between 1978 and 1989, they are particulary "Cult" in France, their first tv ever was a concert shoot in France in 1979, with a 20 angry Robert Smith, here an exemple : ua-cam.com/video/welNcCrXuJE/v-deo.html
@@AlexHaitz Agree with the comments above and below. The alternative album "Boys Don't Cry" (released in Feb 1980) is better than three imaginary boys (Robert Smith was unhappy with the choice of of songs for three imaginary boys). Boys Don't Cry was the release outside of the UK. There is a huge change from these two albums to Seventeen seconds. So getting you views on the progression would be great.
Pornography definitely comes to mind as a strong recommendation, especially given your experience with Joy Division and The Smiths, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me has a really rounded journey with some real gems. Faith has some serene, minimal beauty, but needs even more time and Patience than Disintegration. Love the feel of your concept, dude.
The best album ever. No words. Only the first seconds of Plainsong put me in a very particular mood, its like a blue dark warmth place where I can rest from the cold outside, and float there. Not a teen anymore, but I miss those days where music was so intense that you could drown in it. Give It a listen without pressure, for me The Smiths are irrelevant compared with The Cure.
1989 was a stellar year for amazing music. It was a very special time and place, and Disentigration was the perfect soundtrack for that time; an appropriate wrap-up for the 80s.
I used to listen to this album especially 'the same deep water as you' back in 2020 when I moved to London. Moving from a hot country to a dreary wet gloomy chilly place. It fit so well. I couldn't stop!
Sitting alone in a well lit room emotionally detached you can not appreciate the cure. Eyes closed in deep emotional reflection is best. Luckily i was with someone that I loved dearly with xtasy heightening our senses. During any song, 30 years later clean of any drugs even tobacco since 2008, if i close my eyes any song is a deeply emotional experience.
Totally understand the Friday I'm in love thing at work. There's a lot of great stuff in the Cure's music though. Yeah, he been married and I don't know, it's probably the eyeliner and makeup he wears. For some reason I really like the track on the edge of the deep green sea. Please do some pink floyd, even if you've heard some. By the way no such thing as too dramatic.
Three albums that definitely deserve to be reacted to in their entirety- Appetite for Destruction G'n'R, Where You Been Dinosaur Jr., Dying is Your Latest Fashion Escape the Fate.
Musically it's not something I particularly consider incredible but the atmosphere of the album is just stellar, especially the opener and the ending. Definitely something to listen to in Winter in order to really feel it.
It feels like an album that has always existed, but was just waiting for the right moment to be revealed. It is monumental, inevitable, and a world without it inconceivable. The record The Cure were born to make.
@@zoedecoster7838 meh... i never have had a "little goth part" (whatever that means) inside of me, and yet i still 'get' them. you sound like you're just gatekeeping their music and acting like only emos understand it (even though The Cure was one of the largest bands of the 1980s...)
Pearl Thompson (formerly, Porl), guitarist for The Cure, accompanied Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on rhythm guitar during their Unledded tour, in the mid ‘90s. They often incorporate Lullaby into their sets, amid Led Zeppelin tracks. You can find several versions of this on UA-cam. I just thought I’d mention that, since you’re currently on your Led Zeppelin journey, and I just happened to watch this particular reaction, today, which brought said piece of trivia to mind.
I would have suggested The Head On The Door, which is probably more accessible. I wouldn't jump straight to Pornography, its one of their more challenging albums.. `17 Seconds is a good companion to Disintegration
You have to listen to the album without starting and stopping to experience it. There are a few tracks I like as part of the whole album and some that I can listen to on their own like Lullaby.
Best cure album EVER is “three imaginary boys” ( even if Smith hates it ) . 10.15 Saturday night, fire in Cairo, grinding halt, meathook etc..still otherworldly as you would expect but more raw and direct ( being their debut) and their best songs ( the type they never wrote again)... 17 Seconds is pretty great as well..the globally popular Mid to late 80s cure never really did it for me as much and I tuned out after that.
I was at the pub last night and a fellow patron was intently watching a football game. He'd bet like $100 or something on the game. Unfortunately, his team lost, and he was down some money. He wasn't upset, though. You wanna know why? My friend, who was bartending at the time, played "Pictures of You" twice in a row for this guy, and he immediately perked right up. Disintegration is so good that it can make people forget they lost a bet lmao
Being in high school and experimenting with mind altering substances helps when listening to this music. It becomes an experience more than just an album. And now it’s a feeling that you’ll never forget!!
Seeing these two on your list made me smile: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays & Murmur - R.E.M. Although I'd much sooner recommend The Moon and Antarctica by Modest Mouse on your list in place of the Lonesome Crowded West.
I always really liked the first album "Three Imaginary Boys" which was repackaged in America as "Boys Don't Cry". There is some really great stand outs like "Fire in Cairo".
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is more of the same. I wouldn't recommend it. The only one I can listen to since I stopped being a depressed teenager is Head on the Door which is pop perfection.
do not do velocity design comfort, it is an overrated album. try deathconsciousness by have a nice life instead, it's shoegaze but also post punk and it's a masterwork
I remember when looking at the tracks beforehand when I was getting to listening to all the tracks, The Same Deep Water As You being 9 minutes long seemed very intimidating cause I'm not one for long albums, but then I just fell in love with every song and that track was my favourite of them all and it kinda flew in for me. I think I was lucky that I listened to this album in a good environment being in a dark room with nothing but me and the music and it just swallowed me whole.
9:24 You may have been confusing Smith from 'The Cure' with Boy George from 'Culture Club'. The fact both bands are 80s new wave/rocky type bands from England with band names starting with 'Cu' may have done it.
I recommed Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me for further Cure. Pornography is a bit uncompromising, and given your distaste for punky elements, I don't think it'll sit as well.
I feel like people are giving you a hard time in the comments but I definitely know what you mean here. It’s easy (and sort of fun) to dig up some really old piece of art that objectively is considered good, and try to figure out why exactly. It’s like you force yourself to listen to it over and over with the hopes that it’ll eventually click and you can see the genius that everyone else is talking about. This album did click with me but also it’s just so atmospheric that trying to pay attention to ONLY the chord progressions & track lengths is really taking away from the big picture.
For over 3 years.. ok computer by Radiohead has been my favorite album of all time and nothing has topped it till earlier this year when I actually started to listen to The Cure a lot.. and I have to admit… Disintegration is my favorite album ever to me now.. don’t get me wrong Radiohead is still my favorite band.. but The Cure is a close close CLOSE second
Robert is the. king of Goth and melancholy. You are not at all focused on the greatness of the Cure. Ask Trent Reznor. It's about Sadness. Your insulting the Cure. Without The Cure there would be no Lincoln Park or U2 or Blink or Greeenday. Get a job at Taco Bell.
You should check out Ceres and Calypso in the Deep Time by Candy Claws. Ultra-dense neo psychedelic shoegaze but an ultimately catchy and rewarding listen that you may definitely enjoy given your tastes.
If you listen to it lying on your back on the floor in the dark. And just drift off meditating with green and blue water reflections bouncing around hypnotic caverns inside your mind.
Please react to pornography, it’s their best and most unique album IMO. It’s extremely dark, Robert Smith was struggling with drug addiction/contemplating suicide at the time of recording and the band had almost broken up. I prefer early cure prior to them going toward a more pop and radio friendly direction. I think you’d prefer their earlier releases for that reason. (albums: 17 seconds, faith, pornography. After pornography they kind of lost their edge) albums like kiss me, and disintegration are good but generic and overplayed. They don’t have the same appeal/are more generic sounding so I don’t go back and listen to them as much. I was pretty much indifferent toward the cure until I began to comb through their discography more. They have so many different sounds/eras, the only consistent thing is Robert’s distinct vocals.
My follow-up thoughts, one week+ after listening: ua-cam.com/video/-2_qxuFM7-E/v-deo.html
My follow-up thoughts, 4 years after listening: ua-cam.com/video/3sMAN_kpzlc/v-deo.html
More THE CURE Reactions:
Three Imaginary Boys: ua-cam.com/video/_yecXZp0wF4/v-deo.html
Seventeen Seconds: ua-cam.com/video/yQ2dC8tVrTE/v-deo.html
Faith: ua-cam.com/video/ut2SMOY6PwU/v-deo.html
Pornography: ua-cam.com/video/t50YcUQmXns/v-deo.html
Japanese Whispers: ua-cam.com/video/McKDkNEgaL0/v-deo.html
The Head on the Door: ua-cam.com/video/CPByU74swpM/v-deo.html
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me: ua-cam.com/video/GC9Zv6WjiUE/v-deo.html
Wish: ua-cam.com/video/4Rvbrn48RLQ/v-deo.html
Songs of a Lost World: ua-cam.com/users/live7KmyFRv5VcA
Carnage Visors: ua-cam.com/video/nP6KVIZlg14/v-deo.html
Take a one hour drive at night and listen to this album. You'll get it
Or hot bath in hotel pretty amazing experience
3 years later....
Where am I?
This 🫶🏻
Although Disintegration is one of my favorite albums, I find that the right listening environment is essential. Listening to it in a hot room in the middle of the day, in the middle of summer is probably the worst environment possible. At a minimum, this is a nighttime album, and better yet, enjoyed in the dead of winter, bundled up against the dread chill of death waiting outside your door. Bonus points if you can listen to it in the midst a major breakup, after a funeral or as the world is ending. Well, I think you get the idea. :)
I’ll certainly be giving this album the good ole college try at the end of the year.
Autumn! It's an autumn album. When nights are beginning to draw in, rain is falling and winter is coming - but not yet arrived. When memories of the good times/summer are still within touching distance (but you know they're gone).
yep, one of my fave albums. but kids that came of age in 90s have different tastes. coldplay? please, spare me
Andy Williams I give this a sunset album because when I was going on a road trip with my girlfriend and her family, this song played on the radio while the sun was about to set on the plains.
robicenco1 mmm, maybe... I think disintegration is for winter and bloodflowers for autumn
"Disintegration" is timeless, perfect and outstanding.
since nearly 40 years i listen the cure and it never gets boring...^^
You're listening to this like it's work. Disintegration is an 'experience' that has to happen organically, not because people are telling you to.
Exactly.
One of the best albums of all time
I'm an avid Tool fan but even Aenima comes in second on my list to Disintegration.
I have to disagree, it's THE best. 🥰
The songs “disintegration”, “fascination street”, and “lullaby” will forever be my top three for this album! Especially disintegration, it’s so beautifully played, I can’t even put into words how good it is 😍
Disintegration is easily my favorite album of all time and the song itself is my favorite song of all time
Absolutely love this album. I fell in love while listening to it during the cool summertime night's with a beautiful star-lit sky with a great group of friends. It's different for everyone. My favorite songs by them tend to be the ones NOT played on the radio. The environment is a must while listening to this album as a another person commented.
➡️ edit: Just now watching a documentary on The Cure. In it, Robert Smith states the title of the album, Disintegration was "...picked for the effect it would have on everybody after listening to it." He also added that it helps everyone focus to what the end results would be.
disintegration-noun
•the act or process of disintegrating.
I think his statement is so accurate to what many people here have said about processing this album over a period of time not just in one sitting. (Yes, I also watched your update.) 🎵
It's not a consumer's album.
The song Disintegration is 9 minutes of absolute perfection.
You listen to this album on while driving at night.. And you listen to Pornography when its bitterly cold and dark outside
You got to just let it play uninterrupted. This album is an experience.
Do velocity : design : comfort by sweet trip. I’ve seen others suggest it. It’s like a mix of my bloody valentine and aphex twin.
i second this
Yes definitely this!!
think you might have had Robert Smith and Boy George from Culture Club mixed up
Or Freddie Mercury🤔
@@176piet totally different decade my brother.
@@jensenmac.8416 The Cure has been around since the late 70s and stll going.
@@jensenmac.8416 i listen the cure since nearly 40 years, what decade you mean...?
lil piet wasn’t Freddie bisexual?
Disintegration is one of the best albums of all time.
Even though they’re a multi decade band, Do Depeche Mode 80’s Album black celebration or music for the masses. Even though they’re best Album IMO was from 93’ songs of faith and devotion.
Thanks for the listen to Disintegration, it isn't an easy album and stopping and starting between tracks doesn't do it justice, but understand you needed to do it for the review. I think the segue between Plainsong and Pictures of You is perfect. The long intros set a mood in readiness for the vocals, which become more poignant when you read the lyrics. Would have been interesting to get your opinion of Robert Smith's voice, I used to think it a bit overdone but now understand how it cuts like ice and is full of emotional intensity. I had the great honour of attending the Disintegration Anniversary Concert at the Sydney Opera House (album played in its entirety along with B sides) 4 weeks or so ago, it was astounding. The Cure in concert is not like listening to an album, it's an event, catch footage on UA-cam from the Wish Tour in '92 'A Forest', it is ambitious and mighty. Glad you are going to have another listen to Disintegration, play it LOUD, on a cold night, on your own and just let the whole thing wash over you.
Damn, Plainsong gives me goosebumps every time
I'm steeped in The Cure - so, not the commenter Alex wants - but I have to say something.
The concept of intros and codas is irrelevant to this album - songs like Plainsong and Homesick (where the vocal is just another element) have plenty of predecessors and successors in the Cure catalogue. There are also songs where the vocals are incomprehensibly low in the mix, or strangely treated (17 Seconds famously has both of those, close together).
This album was meant as a major statement - Robert Smith was very controlling of the band during this era. The then-Paul Thompson doesn't really stand out on this album (except on Homesick maybe) - all those lead guitar lines are Robert's. Officially, Tolhurst isn't on it (but recollections differ - and Homesick sprang from a Lol riff).
Robert may be prone to depressions but that's only the start of it. He seems to undergo existential crises as regularly as women have periods - he had "disassociated identity"/"traumatic memory-recovery" episodes during the making of the 2004 album, and, to judge by this album (and The Top and Wish), they weren't unprecedented.
Song comments:
Re the theories as to what Lullaby is about - well, I'll equivocate and say "look it up on songmeanings.com"
The unintentional double-entendre in Fascination Street - Rob's the first to admit it! In theory it's merely a drug song.
Prayers For Rain was a live highlight for years because he'd hold a high note on the last verse (he really really can't do that nowadays!)
Same Deep Water and Untitled were highlight on the 1989 tour because Rob had a few "breaking down in tears" moments during these song - in later gigs, by contrast, he's often seemed too disengaged from them. Guitar solo during Untitled has a callback to Lullaby - interesting touch.
91 degrees and sunny isn't quite the setting, yeah. My preferred setting for listening to the Cure is walking outside on an October evening with headphones on.
Weather is finally starting to cool down here in western Colorado, so I'll certainly be giving it some more listens in the coming months.
Please do another listen around midnight in fall. It will quickly become one of your favorite albums of all time. Imo this is one of the best and most emotional albums ever made next to Hounds Of Love.
Skip Kiss me and listen to Faith, it’s their best album imo.
This is the album that made me a Cure fan. I avoided them for a long time thinking they just made pop songs. I also enjoy the album Pornography.
One Hundred Years!!!!!
that's why it's legendary, you can just feel it. fear, getting old, time passing. listen on a dark stormy night. it's an experience.
You should listen to The Cure- Head At The Door Albums.
Very interesting to see someone listen to this for the first time, and the reaction to as you said, the more progressive and post rock aspects. I never thought of it that way. Keep it up man! btw ya boi still hoping for dots and loops by stereolab. ;)
I liked The Cure songs growing up in the 80s but never really got into them. Was more into Duran Duran. Finally listened to this album last year and was amazed!
For me it’s less about how complex the songs are and more so the simple melodies, feel and message. Same reason I love Head on the door. HOTD has a lot of loops and so does this album.
Comparing The Smiths to The Cure is inane. He doesn't get it. Not once has this guy discussed the relationship of the lyrics to the music. Simple, straight-forward, gut-wrenching and heart-breaking lyrics (i.e. "If only I'd thought of the right words, I could of held on to your heart." Pictures of You).... married to simple chords from each instrument that slowly build layers over time creating a dark ether for the listener to drown in as he/she thinks of their own personal heartbreak. That's why several of the songs are 6 minutes plus...That is the genius of Robert Smith. It is the ultimate example of dreariness you can slit your wrist to. Disintegration is one of the greatest albums of all time.
Thanks for this comment. If you say he doesn't get it, and you obviously do, I'm going elsewhere. This is my number one album of all time, even beating Tool who I've loved since i was 17 (now almost 40).
we get it man, you like the album jesus
please react to 'The Sound - Jeopardy'. really UNDERRATED post-punk record
yes a 10/10 album or from the lions mouth too
If you really want to understand The Cure you have to listen early albums in particular the dark trilogy in order Seventeen (1980) seconds, Faith (1981) and Pornography (1982), they are the basement, THE sound of the cure, and they are short 35/45mn , for a complete vision of the different period Kiss me is the good one, it's a double album with an extraordinary eclectisism .... You talk about Friday I'm in love, for the older fan like me (I'm 45) it's probably one of the worst song of the cure, Robert Smith have a particuliar sense of humour he calls this genre of song : Stupid songs.... and finally you really have to see them live, they are outstanding, I recommend you to see/react this different live from different periods :
1980
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1981
ua-cam.com/video/F-L9_IDjtH0/v-deo.html
1986
ua-cam.com/video/DhkogCVob1U/v-deo.html
2003 probably one of the most impressive live song by the cure ever....
ua-cam.com/video/7Eh6_FFUSg4/v-deo.html
Thanks for the gargantuan comment! Is their debut worth a look?
@@AlexHaitz Absolutely, their first punky album Three imaginary boys is a little gem too, the golden age of the cure is between 1978 and 1989, they are particulary "Cult" in France, their first tv ever was a concert shoot in France in 1979, with a 20 angry Robert Smith, here an exemple :
ua-cam.com/video/welNcCrXuJE/v-deo.html
@@AlexHaitz Agree with the comments above and below. The alternative album "Boys Don't Cry" (released in Feb 1980) is better than three imaginary boys (Robert Smith was unhappy with the choice of of songs for three imaginary boys). Boys Don't Cry was the release outside of the UK.
There is a huge change from these two albums to Seventeen seconds. So getting you views on the progression would be great.
Great selection.
Pornography definitely comes to mind as a strong recommendation, especially given your experience with Joy Division and The Smiths, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me has a really rounded journey with some real gems. Faith has some serene, minimal beauty, but needs even more time and Patience than Disintegration.
Love the feel of your concept, dude.
Thanks!
I’ve actually reacted to many more Cure albums since doing Disintegration. I have them linked in the pinned comment of this video.
One of the best albums ever. I think it was the first album I ever bought.
The best album ever. No words. Only the first seconds of Plainsong put me in a very particular mood, its like a blue dark warmth place where I can rest from the cold outside, and float there. Not a teen anymore, but I miss those days where music was so intense that you could drown in it. Give It a listen without pressure, for me The Smiths are irrelevant compared with The Cure.
My recommendation would be Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins
1989 was a stellar year for amazing music. It was a very special time and place, and Disentigration was the perfect soundtrack for that time; an appropriate wrap-up for the 80s.
I used to listen to this album especially 'the same deep water as you' back in 2020 when I moved to London. Moving from a hot country to a dreary wet gloomy chilly place. It fit so well. I couldn't stop!
Plainsong, Same Deep Water as You, Homesick, and Untitled are my favorite tracks on this one.
Same Deep Water As You and Disintegration are my absolute favorites. A perfect album to listen to when it's cold and raining.
Please do a reaction to the first 2 brilliant Echo and the Bunnymen albums, “ Crocodiles” and “ Heaven Up Here” . Both post punk masterpieces.
you speak truth.
Sitting alone in a well lit room emotionally detached you can not appreciate the cure. Eyes closed in deep emotional reflection is best. Luckily i was with someone that I loved dearly with xtasy heightening our senses. During any song, 30 years later clean of any drugs even tobacco since 2008, if i close my eyes any song is a deeply emotional experience.
If you think the songs are long try going to one of there concerts so amazing encore after encore easily 3 to 4 hours sometimes 😀
I think this deserves a standalone follow-up video. Great reaction.
That sounds like a good idea. I've been listening to the album somewhat regularly, and have formed new thoughts on it.
@@AlexHaitz Yeah honestly, this album is a SUPER slow burner
Totally understand the Friday I'm in love thing at work. There's a lot of great stuff in the Cure's music though. Yeah, he been married and I don't know, it's probably the eyeliner and makeup he wears. For some reason I really like the track on the edge of the deep green sea. Please do some pink floyd, even if you've heard some. By the way no such thing as too dramatic.
Three albums that definitely deserve to be reacted to in their entirety- Appetite for Destruction G'n'R, Where You Been Dinosaur Jr., Dying is Your Latest Fashion Escape the Fate.
Although I appreciate you putting time in to do your reviews we are just on such different pages.
I’ve warmed up to this one quite a lot, and plan on doing a good portion of Cure albums in the future.
Musically it's not something I particularly consider incredible but the atmosphere of the album is just stellar, especially the opener and the ending. Definitely something to listen to in Winter in order to really feel it.
Musically not incredible? Are you dense?
@@jens2049 A lot of dragging out with few chords repeated on most of the songs, yeah no not particularly incredible in general.
It feels like an album that has always existed, but was just waiting for the right moment to be revealed. It is monumental, inevitable, and a world without it inconceivable. The record The Cure were born to make.
If you don't have that lil goth part in you, you won't get the cure🤷🏻♀️
@@zoedecoster7838 meh... i never have had a "little goth part" (whatever that means) inside of me, and yet i still 'get' them. you sound like you're just gatekeeping their music and acting like only emos understand it (even though The Cure was one of the largest bands of the 1980s...)
Pearl Thompson (formerly, Porl), guitarist for The Cure, accompanied Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on rhythm guitar during their Unledded tour, in the mid ‘90s. They often incorporate Lullaby into their sets, amid Led Zeppelin tracks. You can find several versions of this on UA-cam. I just thought I’d mention that, since you’re currently on your Led Zeppelin journey, and I just happened to watch this particular reaction, today, which brought said piece of trivia to mind.
I would have suggested The Head On The Door, which is probably more accessible. I wouldn't jump straight to Pornography, its one of their more challenging albums.. `17 Seconds is a good companion to Disintegration
You have to listen to the album without starting and stopping to experience it. There are a few tracks I like as part of the whole album and some that I can listen to on their own like Lullaby.
Best cure album EVER is “three imaginary boys” ( even if Smith hates it ) . 10.15 Saturday night, fire in Cairo, grinding halt, meathook etc..still otherworldly as you would expect but more raw and direct ( being their debut) and their best songs ( the type they never wrote again)... 17 Seconds is pretty great as well..the globally popular Mid to late 80s cure never really did it for me as much and I tuned out after that.
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I was at the pub last night and a fellow patron was intently watching a football game. He'd bet like $100 or something on the game. Unfortunately, his team lost, and he was down some money. He wasn't upset, though. You wanna know why? My friend, who was bartending at the time, played "Pictures of You" twice in a row for this guy, and he immediately perked right up. Disintegration is so good that it can make people forget they lost a bet lmao
if that is an energy drink you could never fully appreciate the album
Mountain Dew Black Label.
And I included it in the video ironically.
@@AlexHaitz Lol you were drinking a monster in a hot room while listening to Disintegration
Maybe that is the true conditions to appreciate the album
Try a cértain track.............get a feel for them...................they are the darkest band ever............Jack in work !
Being in high school and experimenting with mind altering substances helps when listening to this music. It becomes an experience more than just an album. And now it’s a feeling that you’ll never forget!!
Seeing these two on your list made me smile: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays & Murmur - R.E.M. Although I'd much sooner recommend The Moon and Antarctica by Modest Mouse on your list in place of the Lonesome Crowded West.
Already heard Moon and Antarctica. Fantastic album.
I always really liked the first album "Three Imaginary Boys" which was repackaged in America as "Boys Don't Cry". There is some really great stand outs like "Fire in Cairo".
Jumping someone else's train
Have you gotten any requests for a Red House Painters reaction? Ocean Beach or Down Colorful Hill would be great.
They've been brought to my attention a handful of times, but I've never decided on an album to listen to. Maybe I'll throw one in the list.
This is the kind of music that would be in my head if I was in the void or something.
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is more of the same. I wouldn't recommend it. The only one I can listen to since I stopped being a depressed teenager is Head on the Door which is pop perfection.
andrew dumbrill Kiss Me is more of the same? It’s literally the polar opposite to this album lol. If anything Kiss Me is pop perfection!
Lost me at 91° - this album is best appreciated in a cold winter storm. The summer album was 'Wish'.
do not do velocity design comfort, it is an overrated album. try deathconsciousness by have a nice life instead, it's shoegaze but also post punk and it's a masterwork
Wilhelm II he should do both
HOLY SHIT YOU ACTUALLY DID IT!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
I remember when looking at the tracks beforehand when I was getting to listening to all the tracks, The Same Deep Water As You being 9 minutes long seemed very intimidating cause I'm not one for long albums, but then I just fell in love with every song and that track was my favourite of them all and it kinda flew in for me. I think I was lucky that I listened to this album in a good environment being in a dark room with nothing but me and the music and it just swallowed me whole.
This album is Robert turning thirty years of age and convincing himself this was the culmination/end of everything he worked toward.🤷♂️
In 1989!!🤯
Í despise the Smith's.......
Built To Spill / Perfect From Now next, this is a bop no one knows about
Sonic perfection
"I have a hate-like relationship with The Cure." That means you're a fan.
9:24 You may have been confusing Smith from 'The Cure' with Boy George from 'Culture Club'. The fact both bands are 80s new wave/rocky type bands from England with band names starting with 'Cu' may have done it.
I was getting a massage one time and they played an instrumental version of "lullaby."
I recommed Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me for further Cure. Pornography is a bit uncompromising, and given your distaste for punky elements, I don't think it'll sit as well.
I feel like people are giving you a hard time in the comments but I definitely know what you mean here. It’s easy (and sort of fun) to dig up some really old piece of art that objectively is considered good, and try to figure out why exactly. It’s like you force yourself to listen to it over and over with the hopes that it’ll eventually click and you can see the genius that everyone else is talking about. This album did click with me but also it’s just so atmospheric that trying to pay attention to ONLY the chord progressions & track lengths is really taking away from the big picture.
@@Purpleracehorse Understandable! Here are my more recent thoughts on the album: ua-cam.com/video/3sMAN_kpzlc/v-deo.htmlsi=ZCogMW3XzWJww7ig
The Cure's "Pornography" album is REALLY good.
For over 3 years.. ok computer by Radiohead has been my favorite album of all time and nothing has topped it till earlier this year when I actually started to listen to The Cure a lot.. and I have to admit… Disintegration is my favorite album ever to me now.. don’t get me wrong Radiohead is still my favorite band.. but The Cure is a close close CLOSE second
you should do a reaction to psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain!!
Yes, please, please, please do this. Short and so sweet!
I do love this album, but I slightly prefer 17 Seconds for my favourite Cure album
Head on the door is stronger
Great call! That album saved my sanity. As a 6th Grader.
"Sad is art, boi." - Me
I read a lot of the comments here.....a person that only eats at McDonalds in life only thinks McDonalds food is good.....dis dude is this
A rainy day album 😉
Lullaby is my favorite song from this album! Love "The Cure"!
SiouxsIe and the banshees- juju
Yes!! Kaleidoscope
Yes yes yes!
Astoníshing albúm...............try them all........particularly Pornography............have a nice Christmas.............
I've driven with the same deep water as you bellowing on the sound system my golf R. The length somehow doesn't matter in certain moments
React to Pornography by the cure
Please please please react to The Holy Bible by Manic street preachers! Amazing album.
I've never heard this album but I can play it on my guitar.
Lullaby is one of my favourites, it’s just so unique and interesting
he stopped a beautiful song like Pictures Of You just to say he thinks Robert Smith was gay, back then it was common for men to wear makeup, god
Robert is the. king of Goth and melancholy. You are not at all focused on the greatness of the Cure. Ask Trent Reznor. It's about Sadness. Your insulting the Cure. Without The Cure there would be no Lincoln Park or U2 or Blink or Greeenday. Get a job at Taco Bell.
You should check out Ceres and Calypso in the Deep Time by Candy Claws. Ultra-dense neo psychedelic shoegaze but an ultimately catchy and rewarding listen that you may definitely enjoy given your tastes.
If you listen to it lying on your back on the floor in the dark. And just drift off meditating with green and blue water reflections bouncing around hypnotic caverns inside your mind.
Pls react Pornography of the cure
A woman now standing where once there was only a WHAT?
(Right answer reads: Girl)
Even the Cure doesn't like "Friday I'm in love".
Mostly smith
Lovesong was tacked on after the album was done because the record label wanted a “hit,” so it’s out of character from the rest of the album.
Start with Sioxsie Sioux and go to Sex Pistols and Clash and get a clue.
"Where once there was only a goat" 😭
What’s the song playing in the background of the intro :)?
The House of Red and Gold, track 7 off of my 2020 album. ua-cam.com/video/uCSOh6PDVoA/v-deo.html
@@AlexHaitz thanks! i really like those guitar parts at the end
@@anatawaniwatori Thanks a lot!
Please react to pornography, it’s their best and most unique album IMO. It’s extremely dark, Robert Smith was struggling with drug addiction/contemplating suicide at the time of recording and the band had almost broken up. I prefer early cure prior to them going toward a more pop and radio friendly direction. I think you’d prefer their earlier releases for that reason. (albums: 17 seconds, faith, pornography. After pornography they kind of lost their edge) albums like kiss me, and disintegration are good but generic and overplayed. They don’t have the same appeal/are more generic sounding so I don’t go back and listen to them as much. I was pretty much indifferent toward the cure until I began to comb through their discography more. They have so many different sounds/eras, the only consistent thing is Robert’s distinct vocals.
Been watching a this all day! do Head on the door. Finish Galaxie 500 This is our music! and do Echo and the Bunnymen 1st 5 albums