The Cure - "Plainsong" | Live at Sydney Opera House
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2019
- Watch “Plainsong” from The Cure’s landmark performance of Disintegration at Sydney Opera House on 30 May 2019.
Directed by Nick Wickham
Post-production by The Joint
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The Cure - "Plainsong" | Live at Sydney Opera House
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@dav67820000 9⁶o⁶o98⁶⁷ : ⁷⁷o⁷⁷7
I so relate!!!!!!
I have had the gift to see the Cure on six occasions, and in my 60 years on planet earth I have never seen a band so word and note perfect, they get better with age.
Yep! This whole album!
@@robertbrimage472 awesome!
one of the cure’s most beautiful songs
THE most beautiful song
Mozart great
Thier most gorgeous and moving song.
On the best album ever made
And a great opening for a concert...
This song always takes my breath away. It's absolutely divine.
Love Their music!
Agree 100 % ♥
I remember hearing this album at 13 going on 14 yrs of age and I absolutely fell head over heels....
Thirty years later, this is still one of my top 5 Cure songs...
*and you smiled for a second*
I just love this song! So beautiful!
100 likes!...👏🏾😌
this saved me a million times, this music is a soft pillow in a hard night
Disintegration. Best album of the 80's.
Absolutely flawless. Good music is the best medicine. 😃😃
While listening to this album, I've been in a euphoric state of being. I've also been beyond intoxicated and an absolute mess. That required one hell of an album to take me to both the Gates of Heaven and Hell.
So, so, so, fricking true~
❤❤❤
One of the best songs they have ever produced. The lyrics are intense and fragile. This song is a masterpiece. Deserves a place in the top 200 of the world's best songs ever.
The Cure..... a band of brilliant musicians fronted by a genius
What he said ⬆️
Well said, one of those rare times when it’s not a meaningless quip :-)
Ditto.
I had this song in my dream last night, stunning.
YES!
one of the finest songs of all time
when I close my eyes and listen to it.i.feel like I can see the big bang happening before my eyes
@@charlieblfa9303 ♥
@ 💜✌🏼
It transcends!
I gotta say, they're better live with this song, it's amazing how they still sound so damn good, his voice is still living in the 80s, I've grown to like these lately, what a song
Plainsong has this awesome power to captivate me, pull me over and through huge waves of emotions and then reduce me to tears. And decades on, it never fades. It feels like time travel, it’s pure magic. This performance is gorgeous
Very well described, Mariel. This song will always take hold of me and for a brief moment in time and my mind, body and soul are 19 again. It just gave me chills right now as the music dropped. That is something rare in music but that's why I keep coming back again and again.
Indeed very well discribed.
Also to me😢💙
32 years later, this song, this album, still gives me the feels.
Lucky enough to see them live, When love cats came on everyone was jumping up even older people like me like cats, know its not on distegration, What a Night! Love you Robert Smith!
the most important song from the most important album of my life.
Yep!
Vansen 401
From the most important band...
The memories!,,
I prefer "Faith", but this is the best song from a great album.
Thank you! My S.O. and I get into heated discussions because they think this isn't a great, beautiful song, when, in fact, it's pure PERFECTION.(imho, anyway)
Glad to know I'm not alone, nice to meet you all!🙋♀️✌🏼
Robert still has the ability to send shivers down my spine with his unique/beautiful voice - so much passion and soul given to word...
True that for sure, listen to them everyday ,so many iconic beautiful songs he has made over the years ,makes me feel great!
Yeah; what she said!
(Thank You Girl!)
Same. His voice has just gotten more beautiful with age.
Bohemian Raphsody referense? :v
The Cure still the greatest in 2020.
Better now than ever and simply the best live band that as ever been!
@@steve261brown 3 new albums coming soon!
@@botramduuze7188 Great 👍
I love them soooooo much ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This band is in my heart 4Ever.
There are no words to describe the emotions listening to this song
None at all!!!!!!!!
yes, i seem to have no emotions listening to this song. kinda missed me by the mile or im maybe not in the mood or stoned enough...
Absolutely
It's ok in boring mundane way.
@@lordelpus2099 Wendy's(trademark) is boring. The Cure and "Plainsong" are ephemeral.
"I think it's dark and it looks like rain, " you said
"And the wind is blowing
Like it's the end of the world, " you said
"And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead"
Then you smiled for a second
"I think I'm old and I'm feeling pain, " you said
"And it's all running out
Like it's the end of the world, " you said
"And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead"
Then you smiled for a second
Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
"It's just the way I smile, " you said
Thank you for the lyrics ❤
This song is so meaningful to me.
Disintegration was the very first CD I ever bought. I got it just after release in 1989. I was in my late teens. I was so excited to try out the new CD player I bought with my own hard earned money. The CD was $16.99 way back in 1989 ($41.85 in 2023 dollars) which was a lot of money for a teenager back then. I carefully held the CD by the edges which was recommended at the time, put it into the tray. Turned the volume up, shut the lights off and laid on my bed looking at the ceiling.
Now for the real part of the story....
My mind drifted in and out mostly thinking about a girl I really liked at school.
As a teen, there were two things I just hadn't figured out yet...
1) How to push away my shyness
2) Find the courage to start a conversation with this girl, more than just a "hi"
Sad part is that I never did get that courage until in my 20's, but not talking to her is still one of my biggest regrets of the heart.
She vanished about 6 months before graduation. I think she must have moved. I have no idea where she ended up. But I think of her often and think what might have been.
_"and you smiled for a second"_
Thank you for listening. and thank you The Cure for helping us navigate our emotions with your powerful music.
Reading this gave me chills. I’m about ten years younger based on your description, but totally relate otherwise.
I listened to this song on repeat on my discman in HS. Shy guy here (at least, in my teens) and I feel like I missed a great opportunity. I’m Glad Mr Smith can write songs for my own soul.
It's weird...I have almost the same story but from the opposite angle. I was 100% metalhead at the time, complete with mullet, and terrible with girls. Until one night at a small house party, where I only really knew one other person there, I decided to pitch my normal shyness & hesitation and be the rude, overconfident guy that always seemed to get the girls I was interested in...and it worked. Or at least, it worked for a while...got her number, and a first kiss, that night, took her out that weekend, spent many a night over the rest of the summer driving around with her, on the phone with her, thinking about her. And then the summer ended, and I went off to college, and she stayed there to finish high school, and we fell out of touch as our lives grew in different directions.
She was the one who got me into what we then called "alt rock", bands like The Cure, and Depeche Mode, Echo & The Bunnymen, Souixsie and the Banshees. And yet all these years, and many other "loves" (to varying degrees), later, this song in particular still makes me think of her and that last summer before childhood officially ended and growing up truly started.
_It's just the way I smile, she said_
@@Harv72b Thanks for sharing your story! There are some songs that really sink in deep, and later recalled as memory time travels. I listen to *some* current music, but my playlists are songs of yesteryear. I now understand how my parents mostly listened to Elvis, Sinatra and The Beatles for so many years.
You have more to share....
Something about this song both sang to my heart in 1990 and it still sings to my heart today....
It's about as perfect as a song can get, you know?
“It’s about as perfect as…” is a thought I have about way too many cure songs . Unbelievable talent
Of course we know...😊
My best friend died two weeks ago... Our first concert was The Cure in Essen/Germany 1989 and I remember this song, and how I felt when the lights went on at 2:05
That is a memory to cherish. I’m sorry for your loss.
Mir auch 😭
Tears of joy listening to this masterpiece
This guy is a legend
'it's just the way I smile' is a perfect ending to this song. Incredible.
I cant breath, I cant smile, I only cry. But its okay. This band and Pink floyd's songs are always hitting me in few seconds
One of the few 80s bands that can still fill stadiums. That tells you something. Truly unique.
I know you also smiled when seeing Robert smiling at the beginning.
OptimusXian Prime ..Yeah!!... I smiled.😁...I was even happier than Robert I think!!! LOVE 💜PLAINSONG!!!
@@nancysmith4217 and you replayed that scene twice huh?
i cried
Me too
It's really nice
The Cure were one of the first "alternative" bands I listened to way back in 1986, when I was attending journalism school for the U.S. Navy. Over the next couple of years I added to my collection bands like Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and many others. Music I still listen to today. In my last year in the Navy -- 1992 -- my ship, the USS Independence, made a visit to Sydney which was one of the greatest moments of my life. I believe we were there to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Coral Sea. My ship was an aircraft carrier, and I was on the main deck as we came through Sydney Harbor, and one of the first things I saw was the Sydney Opera House. What a moment that was.
Scott Smith ........our city is very spectacular especially from the harbour, and the Sydney Opera House is my favourite venue to see live music. I have so many fabulous memories from that venue! I have been hooked on The Cure since their very first album in 1979, and seen them live on three occasions here in a Sydney, but was unable to see them on the last tour in 2019 at the Opera House. The tickets were so sought after that a ballot system was the only option, so I was one very disappointed follower to not get a ticket. The trade off was a live stream of the concert. I share your love of those other great alternative bands, and am glad you were able to experience Sydney from such a wonderful perspective.
You missed the boat mate!
note . all british bands
Yes, i started to listen this bands in the same year.
How awesome.
I think it's dark and it looks like it's rain, you said
And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world, you said
And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead
And you smiled for a second
I think I'm old and I'm feeling pain, you said
And it's all running out like it's the end of the world, you said
And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead
And you smiled for a second
Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
It's just the way I smile, you said
Such clever lyrics. Nobody else writes songs like this.
Thank you so much for the lyrics!!! Greetings from Germany.
@@applebutter4036 it's just the way she smiles......
Yas............!
I could listen to this song all day.
Everytime when I listen to Disintegration which is my personal number one album of all time, I know what happens. I know the windchimes, I know what follows, I know everything. But then, everytime the same story, it hits me like a hammer when the keyboards, the bass and the drums enter the room suddenly.
I know what it does with me. I know that this simple song touches me so deeply everytime I listen to it. It's an absolute unbelievable song. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this specific song. It shivers down my spine. And then you know: There is nothing more that you will ever need.
Plainsong will stay one of the best songs that I know.
you are not alone, when and how you use these words 'everytime' 'windchimes' 'know what follows' 'know everything' 'bass' 'simple song' 'touches' 'spine' 'nothing' & 'plainsong' ~ i hear you, same same
God bless henning
Welcome to the new world
You capture EVERYTHING about Plainsong so eloquently....Thank you for your amazing ability to convey what many of us feel and KNOW about this masterpiece 😻
Love how he combs the crowd at the beginning, in a way showing his gratitude to his allegiance of fans, now and forever
The bassist knows that this is the real bass, this is the bedrock of any song.
Nothing plain about this song more you hear it just gets better and better
Takes me back to the days of my youth. How I miss those days.
I remember listening to this album over and over as I fall asleep at night.
@@lasinonedog I hadn't been in an airplane in over 20 years. Had to put this album on to chill me out. It worked along with some alcohol! I was 12 years old when it came out and listened to it daily.
so many great gothic, grunge, metal bands at that time and the youth today has to listen bieber, gaga or hip hop shit... so sorry for them...^^
ok so their performance made me cry but seeing nostalgic comments from someone who really really spent their youth together with them made me cry harder :(
His posture and gestures when saying "it's just the way I smile", like saying "I know it's weird but this the best I can do, and can you say it's not beautiful? So let's live"
Why is this song so underrated?
Maybe it's just me but I think by standing on stage from the start he helps giving the rest of the band the right credit they deserve. He's not playing on anticipation to jump on stage. Chapeau.
This is easily one of their best songs, the keys in the beginning with the bass (which is played on guitar live haha) and then simon starts playing the guitar bit. Then the cherry on top of an already perfect symphony, Robert starts singing. Just beautiful
Bigger (not fat), slowly, gray... and together were getting older. The great and so shy Robert and me. The Cure were always on my side.
Love the words you said is lovely
I would literally cry if I ever heard this song live
I did
It was amazing!
I ugly cried so hard. It was transcendent.
This song is pure love.
The Cure has this ability to sing youth. Sound of dream. Visions. Forever. Beautiful. Shinny. Bright. Warm. Cold. Landscapes. Light. Death. Eternety.
Love all the words you described of them so well
Everyone forgets Simon Gullup His Bass melody is perfect! So Emotional. A ture Artist, Rocker 🎸 Til The End
Saw them in 89....Opened with Plainsong....Never been anything quite like that rush since!!! Powerful stuff!!
It's unreal how perfect this sounds live. The difference between good and legendary bands IMO
This is the music of heaven
I too
"It's just the way I smile" you said. PURE MAGIC.
The Cure helped me get through Desert Storm and even these days I find myself still needing to "Trance Out" with Disintegration. Thank you for posting this
I was also in DS (Task Force Ripper - USMC) I had a portable CD player and I remember listening to this song while staring at the stars.
@@Joelfcfan1 Semper Fi. Thank you for your service.
So cool,glad he has helped in so many ways,I cannot Express how I feel about this man,just pure luck on my part to find him in my times of need
@@Joelfcfan1 Also listening to this while killing innocent civilians for oil..?
Henry Rollins isn’t it interesting how people who completely differ from Robert smith’s philosophy on war and violence would claim be into his music this much? Either they’re casual fans or they’re too vapid to interpret his lyrics... or both...
What an album!! Plainsong transitioning onto Pictures of You has to be one of rock's top song combos ever. So beautiful
Yes!
I know exactly what you mean. I think actually Disintegration is some kind of conceptalbum.
The cure is coming to Philadelphia, 2023. Wells Fargo , June 24th. Yes I will be there, and with someone who truly appreciates one of the best groups ever and a lead singer who has made great lyrics music that you can't get enough of. The cure, music hall of Fame, and one of the best bands to come out of 80's..
❤😊😊
The synths are mindblowing. The Best, ever.
Their opening song first time I saw them live...what an amazing performance
You can just feel the emotion that Robert Smith was feeling at around the 3.45 mark when he looks up into the audience.
My favourite album "Disintegration" by: The Cure. 1989 was a great year for music. I was 18 and loving this album from my favourite band.
You're right... what a great year 1989 was in music. Pleased we can still enjoy it 30 years on in this spectacular setting. 🙏🏻
We're the same age and my name is Jerry too lol. I also LOVE the Cure to this day
"Disintegration" is by far the greatest Cure album.
@@EndoftheTownProductions 👍
I was born a year after in 1990, my father was a Cure fan, more so Pink Floyd, U2, Fleetwood Mac ect, the list goes on. But Listening to The cure in my younger days left a mark that will never leave me. Robert is an absolute genius with his lyrical ambiguity! Oh and my favorite song is by far "The Same Deep Water".
opening shot is amazing.
Combination voice, bass guitar, keyboard lyrics - band always yearning . Perfect
My absolute favourite song by The Cure - brings me to heights of joy out of depths of despair. Best album from the best band. Full stop.
To this day, every time I hear the beginning of this song in particular I get chills from head to toe
It sounds like heaven ❤️
The soundtrack to my teenage fantasy years. So many carefree memories.
best song from the best album every written.
I just bought my ticket for their show in Seattle and I'm SO excited :)
this is the definition of amazing
It truly is.
The Cure pack a lifetime of emotions in just one song. They are the best of the best 🤍
I love Robert Smith...so down to earth, brilliant, a beautiful poet and he has such wonderful smile...but his voice...THE BEST!
This song literally brings me to tears every time I hear it..!!! There is a certain beauty in the melancholy that Robert projects
When I first heard it back in the 80s I didn’t appreciate the magic
are you kidding me, this is the best version of plainsong ever recorded, and yes i feel the sails of sydney opera house open right before the pandemic,
after everything we have all been through, to see sydney lit up like that, and the sails at the opera house, what will you not help someone you don't like
disagree…great but better live versions
Hell yeah
A masterpiece in a "masterplace"!
Oh, we see what you did there... we will take that! :)
@@SydneyOperaHouse Congratulations, you have (are) a world wonder!
@@AGA039 they had the best band in the world also
@@Luxarium Come on, you're playing safe... let's take a chance: best band in the Universe! :)
I feel every chord of this
Masterpiece
I'm going to see then for the first time, in a week. I'm so excited, I hope they play Plainsong that night!
😊❤❤
I'm always at a loss for words when I watch this, at the point of weeping.
The Cure hasn't changed a bit all these yrs & will never change they can still back a stadium or arena man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🖤
(LONG LIVES THE CURE)
💀🖤💀🖤💀🖤💀🖤💀
🤘🖤🤘🖤🤘🖤🤘🖤🤘
Just hearing this makes the world a better place
I was at this gig. Bucket list for damn sure. I've had a 45 year adoration of this band. Sublime. I remember being at this gig and thinking when they do The Same Deep Water As You I'm probably going to die and if there's a nuclear attack I'm gonna ignore it and just transcend into one of the most important bands/musical troops ever and I'll be ok cuz it's The Cure. Love these boys and don't even start me on Robert's lyrics, singing, guitar and Gallup's bass playing and the glacial keyboard washes and the thoughtful tight drumming. A complete band which in my humble opinion outshine the Beatles EVERY SINGLE TIME.
What a magnificent show to have seen. Very lucky.
An astonishing track, performed magnificently live. The imagery is just beautiful as well. Can't wait to see them in 2023!!
Just saw them last week and this is the song that still haunts me. The performance of the lyrics was so pleading and accepting at the same time.
... the moment when you are at a Cure concert and you hear the jingle... and you know they are opening with Plainsong & POY and everything is gonna be fine... just priceless!
Shut up. You were not at any Cure concert.
The moved and sweetest Robert's smile makes sense to my whole life spent listening the Plainsong 💖
Takes me back to being a student, trying very hard to get my barnet to backcomb to perfection. Quite possibly the Cure's best song 🎵.
Epic opening, those pics on the walls, absolutelly amazing !
With his way of transmitting love to the public Robert Smith he' s simply fantastic 💖
Man the lead sounds so good on bass instead of guitar, and it's nice to hear the vocals without all the delay. It really says something when a live version of a song is just better.
Roger o,donell its the star in this tune!. Brilliant on keyboards
Still amazing after all these years!
The Cure,,,so sublime!!! 💜 💜 💜
this is one of the best live versions of this amazing deep methodical song.
That grinding slow beat is, is... what he world needs, now, ASAP!
there is a list with things you have to do in life, at least once. listening to this song live one day is one.
2023...
It's strange how time passes. I bought this 1991 as a young teen and it I listened to it every day until Wish came out and my mom bought me that one. Now, I listen to these songs with my kids, some who are not kids anymore. In fact, every now and then we do music sessions and play a few of the pop radio songs from the 80's and 90's and then play the Cure and Depeche Mode and a few others that I loved so long ago, and I am so pleased that my kids can hear what I heard and like what I liked. The Cure is timeless and just the thing for a few of us in each generation.
These guys are so badass live. 100 Years in Orange. My god. Ive got goosebumps now. The CD sez this music was mixed to be played loud and they weren't F***ING JOKING.
Caps on the GOD.
Funny…I’ve seen The Cure 3 times..years ago, in the beginning it was so intimate in a small space in Toronto. It was all underground, punks, black, Mohawks etc. Then I saw then a few years later in a bigger venue, Half full of mostly college students I suppose. Then third time was at a huge concert stadium and it was mostly a younger crowd, almost kids ! We’ve all grown up I suppose. What I wouldn’t give to see them just one more time. Robert although quirky is an obvious genius, and the same for the rest of the players with him through the years. The Cure ❤️🎶❤️
Sidney opera in Disentegration picture, brilliant
This is no 'plain song', man. RS pure genius. Accept it, Robert. It's easier
He is indeed a genius but shy brilliant man that knows his music all these years,just fantastic
The drone shot of the roof is so mesmerizing. Would make a lovely large poster.
So much passion, dedication, talent and love in such a modest and humble person , Robert Smith.
So agreed, been thru alot but he has helped immensely, can't be ever more grateful to this man for his music
This song really give me goosebumps!!!
This makes me fly and dream ☺️
used to listen to this album on repeat back in 2006 sitting in the glassed-in porch staring at an eternity of snowy fields in front of me during sunsets in Sandwich, Illinois. AMAZING.
So cool, love your story and just keep listening to this awesome man and his lyrics and music are priceless
so many versions of this song, the intro here is beautifully crafted, perfectly delivered throughout
Oh. My God. No words.
Oh the Graceful Grandiosity!
This song still stops me in my tracks. Its like hes bottled up every feeling of life and love and put it into this song
the guy on bass enjoys the music so much he can barely stand still
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