Saw them in 2016. Robert Smith is low key(which sucks) Hands down top 10 sing songwriter. With the exception a few. No one person can write EVERY type of genre and it's always THE CURE. Mint car,kiss me kiss me,let to to bed,why can't o be you,the end of the world. Before three etc. None of are NOT cure songs
I love that old clip of Robert saying they'd play for 3 hours just because they were having that much fun. I saw them in 2016 and they did indeed play for 3 hours. Never change Robert Smith
My poor husband. He likes their music and thinks they put on an amazing show, but 3 hours was just too much for him 🤣 I was in heaven though as I'm an actual fan!
This is the kind of album i would play when the homies aren't around. From the lyrics to the musical arrangement & sound design. Everything just feels very personal & heartfelt.. Im no musician or had any musical background but something about this record just really resonates with me as a listener. both in a thematic & musical sense.
Lullaby and Homesick have always been my favorite songs off this album but Disintegration may have taken that over. It might be their best work instrumentally and it sounds like pure anguish. I saw them perform it live a few nights ago and was a transcendent experience.
Just found out about this channel and it's almost like every single video caters to all of my niche interests. Disintegration is the best rainy day record for me, and The Cure is an incredibly important group. Excellent vid!
The Cure has a lot in common with Motorhead: highly iconic looking alcoholic frontmen with a ever rotating band lineup putting out albums and performing a bang up live show for 40 years.
I hope they do another tour. I missed out on the ticket sales of this oast one and i was devastated to find out most the tracks played were from Disintegration and even Burn from The Crow.
I've been a fan of The Cure for 30+ years. Disintegration is an incredible album. Mortality and loss of youth is the theme of a good chunk of their current show/tour. Lots of sad, major losses for them.
"Last Dance" and "Homesick" weren't on the original vinyl LP. The first CD pressings listed them as bonus tracks, despite their places as 5th and 11th out of 12 songs. Personally my least favourite songs, but an interesting tidbit.
I just saw The Cure this week for the first time with my dad (they were his favorite band in the 80s). Incredible fucking show! They sound incredible live still
Robert Smith was still dabbling in acid at the time of the albums creation, Smith reflects "There were maybe three times in the Eighties, when I just went through periods of … “self-exploration” would be a euphemistic way to do it. I was just pushing myself to see how far I could go. It was a big deal to me to be turning 30. I thought, This is it. This is my last chance to create something really meaningful in my life. Disintegration was recorded in a very concentrated burst late in autumn 1988 in the English countryside. It was melancholy. The whole atmosphere was completely different. It was very, very somber."
every time i listen to disintegration i get this otherworldly feeling, i can’t believe the cure is an actual band with this much success in the kind of world we live in, god it’s so beautiful
It must suck thinking 30 is basically where you peak in life, especially when you're creating music and art. How old was Maynard when Tool launched 10,000 days? It's crazy how Robert thought that 30 was peak because a lot of musicians put out their best work after 30, I feel.
People have this odd view on age, as if it matters when it comes to creation. As long as you keep yourself sharp and pushing forward, you can continue to create great art. But people have this odd idea in their heads that once you hit 30 its over, its now going down to like 25 thanks to tik tok pushing even younger people to the forefront. Just create, if its good and resonates with people, young or old you will make it.
That's exactly where I am. I'm 31 and at this point a failed musician and I don't see it getting better as virtually ALL of my favorite bands made it in thier late teens/early 20s, late 20s at the latest.
F*** that, what about swans? You ever heard "bring the sun" or "screen shot" from to be kind???? It is life, it is d**th, it is everything.....he was in his 50s, I'm fairly certain. That song of all songs.
This record is part of my personal Top 4 albums of all times, along Dark Side of the Moon, OK Computer and the first Rage against the Machine. What a gem, a true masterpiece! Those songs were an integral part of my beginning adulthood, maybe that is the reason why I "keep it deep in my heart". ❤❤❤
Fascination street is my favorite song from disintegration! It’s so fun and I can’t help but dance to it- and then I immediately sit and cry to prayers for rain. But god I love the turning point it has
Another interesting add to your video is that you say that this is not the darkest Cure album by far, but now that I'm entering the age as well I can certainly feel what it's about unlike I did when I was younger. One might think Pornography is the darkest but there is so much reaistance, so much "f*ck you", as Robert said on it, ending with "I must find this sickness, find the cure", while this album ends with "I'll never dream of you again". So, I must say, even though the music is calmer, like your attitude when you are older, Disintegration is a much more hopeless album than Pornography so now it feels much darker than other Cure albums.
17:30 The 80s were the decade of Generation X, not the Boomers. Generation X are the ones who grew up in the 80s, and who "lust after that bygone era" where the 80s are concerned. Why does everyone keep forgetting there was a whole other generation between the Boomers and the Millennials?
I just get more and more the feeling that music from that decade (80s and 90s) had a much bigger cultural impact than any other music after - let's say 2010 ever will.
You could say the same thing about 50’s/60’s/70’s. The power of recorded music died when it stopped being physical, scarce, and mysterious. We live in a completely different time and now it’s just another flavor floating through the endless stream of “content.” Kids don’t want to be rock stars anymore, they want to be streamers.
@@PM-vv3uc here's a weird thing to think about, who is more famous, a bans that plays 30 concerts a year for 1,000 people or a streamer who plays a videogame to 50,000 every night?
I recently got into The Cure and Disintegration is my favorite album of theirs. It came out one year before I was born, and listening to it, I realized that when I was a child, Lovesong and Lullaby were playing all the time on the radio. I didn't actually know that it was The Cure but they kind of were there all along with me. Now, I am a tiny bit older than Robert was when he wrote it but I resonate so much with this album. I am glad I found it at this time in my life, because I felt like I needed it. It's a masterpiece.
This time next week I’ll be seeing the cure for the third time and I am so EXCITED!! They’ve been my favorite band since I was a young teenager back in the late 90s
I think a video on the evolution of The Killing Joke would be interesting. Their earlier sound was quite different from what I recall them sounding like when I was young in the 2000s, and now. I really like revelations.
When I first heard The Cure it was the song Love Cats. It wasn't bad but I wrote them off as some cheesy 80s band, then I heard my mom listening to Lullaby and was hooked and they became one of my all time favorites.
My daughter and I saw the cure for the first time back in May. It was one of the best concerts I've been too and glad I was able to experience that with my daughter.
I was at the Houston show. I’ve seen them 3 times over the years. This time I brought a friend who’s never been to a concert before(he’s late 40’s) and he was blown away.
Don't forget that "Fear of ghosts" is (one of the) best songs "on the album"! 🤣 Plus I feel that "Homesick" has way more significance on it as it is stated here. It almost feels like a tender touch on accepting death. Or deep sorrow, at least. It's one of those ethereal songs that make you feel the end of the world. And "Fear of ghosts" is the musical presentation of "moonlight in the morning wake up in shivering cold". Can't believe it was left off the album, it is so visceral, cuts like a knife!
My absolute favorite cure song is Babble. One of the B-sides off the fascination street single. I’ve often thought the same thing about it and “out of mind”, they’re so good why aren’t they on the album?! But, I’ve come to realize that Disintegration flows so smoothly, as it is, there just isn’t a proper space for them. I kinda feel that way about “fear of ghosts”, too, though I think it would be the easier of the 3 to make work.
Thanks for the content! Because of this, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole and discovered Pornography for the first time. 100 Years has been on repeat ever since then. Haha. 😍 It's like the perfect moody song that I secretly hoped The Cure had made, but never knew it existed, ya know what I mean? I can totally see how something like that could have influenced Deftones, for sure.
I don't know what fanboys will dis you for calling this their greatest album. For such an amazing, landmark disc there's surprisingly relatively little good discussion about it here on RU-vid (which is why I was glad to find this video!) Despite it's sadness and regret, "Untitled" is a somewhat hopeful song. How can it be with that monster-gnawing pain never leaving? I recently heard a quote from Robert about this album that explained something I only kind of half-understood before. He said, these aren't love songs, they're songs about obsession. And I would add, there's a selfishness that permeates most of these songs. As much as he's singing about the objects of his love, he's stuck in his own head. You have to be stuck in your own head to be that obsessed, to make such dramatic paintings of all of these topics. Compared to all that, Untitled is just about the most honest moment for the narrator on in the album. He's just honest about what he's done and not done, but the the tone and feeling of the song, the sober and reflective feel, says he's honest about how to keep all of that in proper perspective. So Untitled is not just another ending, and it's not a happy ending, but it's an honest and therefore redemptive one. That's my take, anyway. Thanks for the video!
Oh my fucking god, this album changed my perception of music, to think we went from the romantic "Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me" to this melancholic masterpiece only 2 years later in 1989, very proud to have seen The Cure live in Birmingham.
I, for the longest time could only get into Pornography, Faith, and Seventeen Seconds, as well as their Self Titled album to an extent. Lately however Disintegration has begun to sound right to me. I've found the darkness within the album, and I'm loving it. Its not as desolate as Pornography (perhaps the finest Goth album ever made) but it still feels similar at times.
Great video!!! I saw them for the second time almost a week ago...best concert of my life. To listen to disintegration live again was perfection. And Robert still has his beautiful voice unchanged.
Came back to say this is a fantastic video! 🖤 one of my favorite song lyrics comes from pornography’s the hanging garden. “Catching haloes on the moon, gives my hands the shapes of angels”. My personal favorite song has always been Siamese twins from the same album.
It's not bullshit that most rock artists release their best material in their 20s. It was true for RS, and for about 99% of other rock artists. You've got maybe up to 35 and after that, i struggle to find an artist that made their best work past that age. Also it's generally xers that annoyingly champion the 80s as being the best decade ever. Well let's say younger boomers and xers. People born between 1960 and 1978 or so. I'm gen X so i should know....
Your a great channell it seems that your veiws are verry inconsistant based on the topic but your whole channel os good and informative and iv found new music because of you.
The track "Boys Don't Cry" is not on the Three Imaginary Boys album, but on the Boys Don't Cry album released 1 year later but the songs were recorded at the same time than the ones on Three Imaginary Boys The album Boys Don't Cry is originally a version of Three Imaginary Boys for the US market By the way, the title Three Imaginary Boys for the album Three Ilaginary Boys came later... When it was released, the album and the songs had no titles
The whole make-up thing really was genius. It allowed Robert, known to be a very reserved and private person who was in it purely for his art and not ego or fame, to also live a relatively anonymous everyday life as 'most' ppl wouldn't have recognised him in the supermarket without all the makeup and the strong image it created.
@@graymads I’ve seen most, the video on 9 inch nails made me appreciate the album even more. Also, have you heard the cure’s faith? I realize most people don’t give it as much acclaim as pornography or disintegration but in my opinion it’s better. The song “faith” itself is amazing, especially the live versions as they’re longer and have more lyrics sometimes.
at 40 I finally "got" the cure. I can listen to any of their albums, any of their songs. That isn't even true of some of my lifelong favorite bands. Pretty strange as I really couldn't stand them when I was a young man.
This is such a great video on such a great album! Whilst it’s rap, another album that touches on depressive themes and drug addiction is Watch My Back by Lucki, you might want to do a video on it.
10:09 In a-nut-shell, The Cure in the UK and Europe is Pop Music. So Robert is Half right not liking the "Goth" term. But he does smells like a goth, never mind that. Here in America he is not pop, but Underground goth alternative music. So over there in Europe he can brag about being POP Cheese. NOT here in America. And he does cater us well.
Damnit I love this album. I'm amazed how often you, Graymads, give attention to subjects so close to me. Which is weird considering how far removed from mainstream most of it is. That being said... Skinny Puppy? Any chance you're a fan and that we might see some content on the subject... from you... Graymads.
Great video. Ever since this album came out, the song, Disintegration, has been one of my favorites. Can't wait to hear their final album, Songs of a Lost World. Dropping through sky Through the glass of the roof Through the roof of your mouth Through the mouth of your eye Through the eye of the needle It's easier for me to get closer to heaven Than ever feel whole again I never said I would stay to the end I knew I would leave you with babies and everything
