The Cure - Lament 

there is Gary Numan aswell

Arber Ahmetaj so perfectly and nicely put !

+Arber Ahmetaj Well put...one of the bands from the 80's that sounds great. His voice is so...sympathetic, like a ghost's yearning for something lost singing from a place from a long time ago...creepy but enchanting all at once.

You said it! :)

C´mon man..you went so far... it is just a pop band

Same

Idem !

Same ❤

*Right there with you friend* My little girl is about to have a kid, *I'm gonna be a Grandpa....* *WHERE DID THE YEARS/DECADES GO??*

I’m here to remember back too

Check out Sunshine Blind’s album Love The Sky to Death

It s called "JAPANESE WHISPERS"....

​@@politicallyincorrect5802Eh, the rest of the _Japanese Whispers_ compilation doesn't have this track's vibe.

​@@Brendan-Blackwell, it's called Pornography. It feels very close to The Figurehead to me

Yeah, Pornography is about as close as you’re going to get. Maybe Faith.

I discovered them, and fell in love at the age of 14 as well! Their music has been the constant soundtrack to the decades since, and the love is still deep, strong, and beautifully sad. Thank you Robert & company, for all the gorgeous heartache.

I was 11 when i bought Wish in '92 and i've been a huge fan since that wonderful day. I have all the albums and i hope Robert Smith & boys will release new album soon... ...it's been almost a decade since their latest.

Me too! I love them since I was 13 or 14 and this love is unbroken and lasts forever!

Mano Saarinen Same! 92 changed my life...

Me too, i saw them live back in 1987 and my life changed....i was only 14.....

When I moved to Portland Oregon in 2000 I used to walk around the city in all the misty and fog and rain listening to this on repeat. It's an audible time capsule I can open any time I choose.

this was tbe last album i collect from them as i had all the albums by 1992 i was 14...something about the white plastic tape and one page cover was intentionally genericly decieving to hide the potency.....i realized this song would never not be important to me..steve severen and robert smith co wrote this and it was something i dont think either of them couda made alone so timing was everything...that they had been friends and got slong ect...and then this song was allowed in from the either..i duno

blues4365 awesome imagery

Sounds familiar as you said. Melancholy ? I used to listen to 'sister Christian ' by knight rangers a lot that way. Now cars don't even have disc players. I guess you could see across the channel on a better day crossing. I guess about that time 1982 to 1983 the band and robert split leading to evocation of past memory he had about a body pulled from a river.. I am sure that was not in your mind atv17.!!. I understood then after losing Simon almost Robert did have suicidal thoughts but he never did it thankfully.

Pergect conclusion

Me too

I've been adoring this song for more than 30 years now. It has that something special which makes it so different ....

+Da. Greg. Thanks for your comment. You are welcome curefriend! Have a nice day!!

commentaire fin et adapté

Da. Greg. It becomes even more beautiful when you hear about the sad history behind such a song...

It's wonderful you guys in France supported a band largely ignored in the UK, who couldn't find the success here, because of trash pop from The Hit Factory blocking their material from the higher end of the British Music charts. I recall finding two Cure Vinyls in a hypermarket outside Boulogne!!

Agreed Folky Seven...................

So touching

When I listen this music never can`t stop my tears drop...

accurate

And Walking After Midnight by Patsy Cline.

Even better to ride a bike through the city at 3 AM.

Creepy comment.

@@clvrswineWhy? People have all kinds of different reasons for walking around at night. Not all of them are sinister or dubious. For many years when I was bartending I had a 2 mile walk home every night at 2:30-3am, and I would frequently listen to stuff like this on my Walkman during that time. Those are actually some of my fondest memories, and the best part… no one was harmed.

One of the first cassette tapes i bought...and i was hooked immediately.

i think the whole album might be a hidden pearl...

for myself, personally, this is one of their best albums...

joydivisiongirl the same for me, a great album very underrated ;)

joydivisiongirl Was originally on a 4 track 12" single with The Walk.

Me too since always !

:)

Oui avec just on kiss

+texasBMXer Komakino has drums like this.

Joy Division...you're right! Good call =)

Yes. Joy division. You know well. These go hand in hand. Try some later bowie, heathen album. Same vibe. Excellent.

You are right...

LOL what year?

@@MrAgmoore 2035

Totalement en accord avec toi!

Deux de mes morceaux préférés !

Vu en concert dernièrement sur Montpellier, groupe incroyable

@@olivsmiraglia2424 moi aussi je les ai vu à Montpellier en novembre 2022, je n’oublierai jamais ce concert il était fabuleux, il y avait eu A Strange Day mais pas The Figurehead c’est mon seul regret. Le temps est passé mais Robert a conservé sa voix, les Cure est un groupe de légende dont les morceaux uniques sont intemporels. Ce concert fut tellement plein d’émotion et j’avoue avoir versé des larmes quand ils ont joué A Strange Day car c’est avec ce morceau que j’ai découvert les Cure et The Figurehead m’a fait comprendre que j’aimerais ce groupe toute ma vie, Pornography restera toujours mon album préféré.

@BoatingGuy was just mentioning to someone how the chorus/melody in wailing wall is one of the most beautiful things Robert has written

+Lino Rosi es brutalment bòna!!!

Same

He apparently writes a lot of songs by starting with the bass. I’m pretty sure he wrote the fascination street bass line (it’s basically the same on his home demo).

Agree also the drums

the awesome, more haunting and fluty flexipop version is also available on the join the dots album

Knowledger... ;)

Whose is it?

Steve Severin on bass

@@sixtedetoro4901 Thanks.

@@sixtedetoro4901 it's actually Robert Smith. i've been thinking about this lately, i think Robert may have written a lot of the basslines that Simon Gallup played, though i am guessing Simon wrote much of the earlier bass parts like on Seventeen Seconds & Faith

Jumping Some else train

Anna, stop it!

SO you have to listen Funeral party

No, it's perfect for walking into La Ment

Adrian Borland ( The Sound ) did that.

and keybords too