The Cure: TOP 5 HIDDEN GEMS From Robert Smith and Co | Pop Fix | Professor of Rock

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The Cure is one of the greatest bands in the history of music. They are exquisitely unique and frankly unrepeatable. Though Robert Smith and company have influenced scores of bands that have followed they have created music that is so intensely magical and so deliciously soul invigorating it’s almost impossible to try and define it I’m sure that my story with this band is no different than your own. They were one of the musical institutions that saved me in the youthful coming of age period of deep confusion and overpowering despair that is high school. Robert Smith is one of the most gifted poets and singers of any era going back centuries. I will spend many more hours in the future, celebrating their deep and expansive collection of songs and albums but today I focus on 5 hidden Gems, from some of their greatest albums like Disintegration, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and The Head on the Door, also non singles, album tracks, b sides, the Cure has so many that are better than their hits and I want to cover 5 today that you should either discover or re visit as they are life changing and massively essential. Let’s get into it.
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Find out 5 hidden gems from the Cure that you should add to your life. These are fantastic songs that were never singles but are every bit as great with the stories behind them next on Professor of Rock.
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@jamescallis4532 3 года назад

Dude, acknowledging The Cure as one of the greatest bands ever...now you got my respect.

@deadinthewater218 3 года назад

Adam loves 80s and 90s music. The Cure is the 80s and 90s.

@jamescallis3910 3 года назад

@@deadinthewater218 The Cure is the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s...and going!

@KatieDawnJacobs 3 года назад

That is exactly how I feel!

@nicemosaics 3 года назад

I loved you on Battlestar Galactica.

@jamescallis3910 3 года назад

@@nicemosaics I don't get it.

@philr696 3 года назад

A night like this. The passion in Roberts voice when he belts out "I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night". I could listen to that song every day for the rest of my life.

@BudSchnelker 3 года назад

I could have picked just about anything off "The Head On The Door". What an astounding range of musical styles, almost all done to perfection.

@magorzatasandecka554 3 года назад

A Night LIke This is my favourite Cure song ever.

@EM-cg4iy 3 года назад

Yes!

@yellowstrange 3 года назад

That’s a very special song to me too my ex shared that song when she had to leave to another state. It’s such a good song

@joeldukes303 3 года назад

The sax at the end is a nice touch too, great tune

@mikeyj.3605 3 года назад

Picking 5 underrated Cure songs is absolute rubbish. There is like 50 of them.

@RayEttler 3 года назад

always awesome to see the term underrated at work here on yt!

@aliceson73 3 года назад

Haha! Agreed! SO many great underrated songs😻

@user-of4kk4in9f 3 года назад

letter to Elise...

@enterfil 3 года назад

Exactly hahahaha

@angebiasable 3 года назад

aaaa.. 🐡🐡 @@RayEttler

@thomasnoel5943 2 года назад

Not only is Robert Smith a musical genius, but an absolute humble gentleman. !!

@yungmisha5730 3 года назад

As a young person, barely turned 13, I love the cure from the bottom of my heart and I'm so grateful that my father showed me their music.

@michaelgask 3 года назад

So cool. Thank you Misha's Dad 🙏🏻 I'm really pleased he showed you this.

@yungmisha5730 3 года назад

@@michaelgask I'm happy too, without him I wouldn't find the things I like now

@christianamaya6272 3 года назад

your dad gave you priceless inheritance, must be proud to be his son

@yungmisha5730 3 года назад

@@christianamaya6272 haha, definitely agree

@donatelladelpriore3375 Год назад

You're lucky

@TheActionslaxx 3 года назад

“From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea”from Wish

@jamescallis4532 3 года назад

YES!

@Skeezer66 3 года назад

@@jamescallis4532 Hahahaha!!!! I'm laughing because as soon as I saw "From the Edge . . ." I thought "YES!", and you beat me by 7 minutes!! LOL!!

@jamescallis4532 3 года назад

@@Skeezer66 Great taste tastes alike. Great fucking song....spoke to me back in the day although I had been into Cure from the beginning as I am old. : )

@Skeezer66 3 года назад

@@jamescallis4532 I'm 54 so you can't be that much older, lol!

@jamescallis4532 3 года назад

@@Skeezer66 Haaaa....I'm May 1966, 54 years old...still going to shows....at least before shitty virus and politicians. Saw Tool x2 just before the dookie hit the fan. Nice to meet ya...

@tanyakordek5545 3 года назад

It's so wonderful to connect with others that know that Robert Smith is one of the best Lyricists ever!!

@se9f282 Год назад

He is a poet, yes.

@patrickcrady904 Год назад

Bigfoot, and the Cure. Wow! Me too ♥ from Louisville, Ky

@mommaluna4211 Год назад

He’s an incredible musician and artist. The music he composes is amazing. I love listening to the cure on my headphones to pick apart each instrument and then to hear it blend together. It’s magical sometimes ❤

@BeyondPostal 8 месяцев назад

100% agree, these are my people that get it! :)

@christopherwalker2228 7 месяцев назад

Best lyricist but also best songwriter completely. Let's not forget that he writes most of the music, plays lead guitar on most, plays bass (even plays 6-string bass as a guitar sometimes), keyboards. He is the singular greatest and most important musician of modern music (ie music once lyrics were added). No one, no team of people, compate to him. He's like the Highlander. There can be only one lol.

@1A_-. Год назад

I feel so privileged that I got to grow up listening to Robert🥰 He shaped my life

@MR-gl1fs Год назад

What a fabulous band. Love them for almost 40 years. Love them,!

@rgs8970 3 года назад

Disintegration's liner notes read: "this album has been mixed to be played loud, so turn it up." Listening on headphones is truly a spiritual experience

@ASortedCollection 2 года назад

Agreed.

@anthonyrippa686 2 года назад

there music is like something from another dimension of rock, and yes, spiritual too

@Bobklijn 2 года назад

Maybe that is the last album before the Loudness War started in the nineties. It REALLY has to be turned up to experience the great stereo sound and dynamics at full.

@whenfatkillsfat803 2 года назад

Not just spiritual but the unique and worldly soundscapes his songs have had. Robert doesn't get enough appreciation for the latter whether it's the oriental Kyoto, Latin flavor of The Blood and Last Dance and the mideastern vibe of Drowning Man.

@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_ Год назад

As i have read this,..i thought it is joke,...cuz couldnt believe that they realy printed it,.. So did they really mixed the album to be played loud??

@ltplounge8318 3 года назад

Plainsong still gets me. We saw them in 1989 for the Prayer tour at Shoreline. They opened with Plainsong and I still get shivers thinking about how that made me feel to hear the windchimes and the opening chords. Interestingly enough, they also played The Perfect Girl at that show. Hidden gems: To the sky, Secrets, To wish impossible things, Just one kiss, A chain of flowers....

@ProfessorofRock 3 года назад

Oh how I wish I could've seen that exact show.

@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_ Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock i wish i could have seen the trilogy Show,...that was unbelievable,just imagine,..u know what comes next,...u listen to a short term effect,..and then,..next highlight,..i when DISINTEGRATION starts,.u listen to closedown,.and u know in a bunch of minutes u will listen to same deep water as you,....ahhhhhh fabulous

@badius377 Год назад

Plainsong is epic! The build in the beginning. The sound of the chimes. "It's just the way I smile she said" this song defines the Cure. Dark with a hint of light.

@roland6253 Год назад

Absolutely agree it’s just the way I smile, she said - god I’ve heard it a thousand times and I always wait for it with such anticipation.

@seanoriordan77 3 года назад

I remember the first time I listened to Disintegration and heard the opening bars of Plainsong. I got shivers down my spine. I knew straight away the LP was going to be epic. The man is a genius and also Simon Gallup is as important to The Cure's sound, as Peter Hook is to New Order's.

@roland6253 Год назад

Ahh Plainsong I share your love of this song. It’s unspeakably beautiful

@astoncrew6087 3 года назад

“All cats are Grey”...I love the list, this song should be added as the 6th gem!

@stickersamurai2272 3 года назад

Same.

@GeorgeGeo 3 года назад

Can't argue with these selections.. adding A Strange Day

@antzona 3 года назад

A Strange Day is the best song of all time.

@mightyV444 3 года назад

Eek! I think I might need to have my eyes checked! I had read "skeletons" at first, probably also because of the skull image in the corner of my left eye x-))

@russellramsay515 3 года назад

I was anticipating that A Strange Day would have been included, too.

@buddamylynn 3 года назад

MY HEART. A Strange Day. Glorious. At 17, I wanted my boyfriend’s band to cover it...and they tried...and it was too hard for them to learn. (I was a writer and actor, not a musician.)

@minstac1530 3 года назад

That's my favorite Cure song!!I loved it since I first heard it at 16 yrs old

@shanewright2772 3 года назад

5. Killing an Arab (add The Drowning Man if KAA is too well known) 4. A Short Term Effect 3. Play for The Day 2. The Hanging Garden 1. The Holy Hour.

@membear 3 года назад

It's Play for Today.

@thomasmore1964 3 года назад

Push, Disintegration, Burn, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, A Letter to Elise

@Lady_Liberty1977 3 года назад

My favorites

@Starlesslight 3 года назад

I feel like Burn gets forgotten because it was outside of their heyday, and it was made for a movie soundtrack and not on one of their albums. The Crow soundtrack was awesome period, but this song was my favorite on it.

@Lunatic4Bizcas 3 года назад

@@Starlesslight : ¡ Burn ! Absolutely. A gloriously Gothic tune without a doubt.

@christopherdieudonne 3 года назад

Yeah, "Push" ! That one's GREAT !

@heatherfyffe3618 3 года назад

I was never *overly* moved by Burn... until I saw them perform it live. That song is INCREDIBLE live.

@tynadarco9038 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this. The Cure is just hands down the most amazing band ever. I listen to them and realize their music has filled most of my life. Robert Smith is the closest thing on this earth as to what Heaven must be like. I remember fist hearing him sing and thinking this is love . This is what love sounds like and feels like. Pure beauty.

@natebroadus8474 3 года назад

Thank you for including The Same Deep Water As You. On an emotional record, that was the most emotional song. It's beautiful, it's dark, it's tragic--it's everything that makes The Cure... The Cure. It's a song that I can't imagine coming from any other group.

@christyler6234 3 года назад

I’m so surprised that Burn didn’t make the list. There is nothing else like that song and it’s my favorite from The Cure.

@optimoblunt2894 3 года назад

My favorite song by the cure of all time

@lucianogoyenechea8704 3 года назад

yes

@TheHiddenNarrative 3 года назад

Did you hear the recent live versions they do of it? I think it sounds better than the studio one. It's not as ghostly as the studio version but it sounds fuller and the lyrics have been tightened up a bit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3fSPMezUj9Q.html

@rikkihill22 3 года назад

Absolutely phenomenal song. Gets overlooked so often because bit wasn't on an official Cure album which is tragic as its an amazing piece of music.

@levisguy53 3 года назад

prolly cos' the title of the video is hidden gems, not singles, promos etc.

@liquidninja6654 3 года назад

Robert Smith reminds me a lot of Prince because they basically can do ANYTHING musically

@mightyV444 3 года назад

Like he said himself: As long as his voice is in a song, it's a Cure song :-)

@michaelmoraga2926 3 года назад

Big up the Purple Yoda and Robert Smith!

@andrewlowden322 3 года назад

I believe he wrote the Kyoto song bc he found an instrument that he actually couldn't figure out how to play while he was there. It was in their bio "Ten Imaginary Years" (someone can correct me if Im wrong but I think it was this song)

@mightyV444 3 года назад

@@andrewlowden322 - That's a good book, too! Many great photos in there! :-)

@michaelmoraga2926 3 года назад

@@andrewlowden322 I have always loved Kyoto Song... Strange to think that when I was young in the 80's I never dreamed I would live there for 10 years. Greetings from Kobe.

@cdec6314 9 месяцев назад

I’m 51, my First Album was, The Top! I felt like Scotty beamed me Up, to a whole other Dimension! It was roughly 7th grade, so 12 years old, and my mind was blown! That Boy kept giving me Cure Albums. It was 1984. Led Zeppelin was my Musical MUSE, for Genius level, Journey too, but this Cure band, Holy Shit Snikeys, did I fall hard in the Alternative Music channels, soon after, however, they’re all pretty Great, I just knew, this is a Once in a Lifetime kinda Band, Song Writer, music writer, producer, its on the Teeter of Perfect! Robert Smith’s voice can comfort me in seconds! This Melodic Group, puts music together like Angels! I absolutely Love All of them! The Guitar Riffs, Percussionist, Bass, Horns- the FULL PACKAGE! Timeless Band, unconditionally Loved Group! Thank You, for the Masterpieces! ❤🎼🎵🎶

@hunterdavis3003 3 года назад

Most of “join the dots” a box set of undiscovered gems is incredible...their cover of Depeche Mode is fantastic! Seriously all four discs have been on repeat in my car for a few months now, The Cure is one of those bands that you can always “discover”

@nicholask388 3 года назад

“The Exploding Boy” B-side to “Inbetween Days”. Priceless

@therecordplayer2001 3 года назад

My #1 hidden gem

@Badger101 3 года назад

Yes! Great song!

@oscarlagos7832 3 года назад

El mejor lado B de The Cure

@davidlepont9401 3 года назад

Magnifique

@thewhistlingpixie 3 года назад

Came here to say that. And a Few Hours After This. My heart explodes.

@mictest12 3 года назад

#5 01:45 Six Different Ways #4 04:44 The Same Deep Water As You #3 08:03 The Perfect Girl #2 11:12 Harold And Joe #1 14:41 Plainsong

@daniknispel 2 года назад

Oh! One more! “Push” from Head on the Door is AMAZING! I will never understand how this song wasn’t more popular 🥰🥰🥰

@daverei1211 3 месяца назад

Yes - nothing better than soulfully and loudly singing this when driving late at night when no-one else can care.

@boomerbobable 3 года назад

Plainsong is one of the best songs ever written, sung and performed. You are spot on sir! I think an entire episode could be done on just this one song - or at least the album.

@gregduch2453 3 года назад

This was FANTASTIC! Maybe you give some screen time to Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy and Cocteau Twins next? These proto goth artists seem on the verge of being completely forgotten...and it is breaking my heart.

@JC-yz1sf 3 года назад

So true.. soundtrack of my later teen years. Sooo many good songs.. ah memories 🖤😈

@MrERLoner 2 года назад

The Cocteaus will NEVER be forgotten

@briantherockandmetaladdict1173 3 года назад

I have to say you've done it again. All 5 of these songs are truly great and why no matter how or when u listen to the cure ,u just fall into another world completely. I never get tired of them . A few of my faves are Like cockatoos, Caterpillar girl, and disintegration. Keep up the great work professor

@joemcpike1 3 года назад

Like Cockatoos is a great song

@rafaelsida5155 Год назад

One of my favorite bands, I've seen them 11 times, they never disappoint! Thank you, I love your channel!

@NESADDICT 3 года назад

I’ve always loved the line “ it’s so cold, cold like you were dead....then you smiled for a second”

@Tiyev 2 года назад

So ambiguous, but chilly either way...

@mrg0826 3 года назад

Love this, do more! My ex hated The Cure but liked "The Perfect Girl". Never understood him I guess. Unfortunately now I see that song as corny. These are my hidden gems: 1. Ariel - Robert Smith Demo 2. Just One Kiss 3. The Caterpillar 4. The Snakepit 5. Splintered in her head I 100% agree with Same Deep Water as you, so I didn't add it

@andrewlowden322 3 года назад

when we were in HS my mom came in to our room and the Snakepit was on. Her response: "WHAT IS THIS???? SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE WALLOWING INTO A TIN CAN!!!!!!!!"

@stevens1646 3 года назад

Agree with you on a Perfect Girl. I usually skip that track. It's too literal for me if that make sense. I think Robert's biggest gift is his effective use of metaphors and imagery in his lyrics.

@janetg.c6606 3 года назад

Many songs catch My heart, they are fabulous the cure is incredible.

@dr.santiagojorbabasave2584 2 года назад

That incredible feeling of being aware of our most dark feelings, and at that same time, the cure somehow is able to be with us then and just smile for a second. Just opens a light to be in the world of being the observer of any feelings, instead of judgement and feeling supresion.

@hubbatrixable 3 года назад

Push, Kyoto song, The upstairs room, Plainsong, Closedown. The Cure have more hidden gems than most bands.

@HexNottingham 3 года назад

True dat!

@musicfav-kpoppiano6054 3 года назад

I try to think to make it slow - was that the Kyoto Song

@hubbatrixable 3 года назад

@@musicfav-kpoppiano6054 Yes.

@musicfav-kpoppiano6054 3 года назад

@@hubbatrixable I was 14 when this album came out and I finally got to see the Cure Live in 2007 in Singapore. A pretty epic 3 hour set

@vsander09 3 года назад

Props for The Upstairs Room. It’s just outside my 5 hidden gems behind Just One Kiss.

@davidellis5141 3 года назад

Here are my five ( wish I had 10 ! ) Other Voices , Secrets , A Strange Day , End & The Snakepit. I wholly agree The Same Deep Water As You would have cracked my five. One very last thing before I go , The Cure were the Best Band of the 80's !

@stevens1646 3 года назад

Secrets, thumbs up. Love M as well.

@smtcharlie 3 года назад

End Totally

@michaelgask 3 года назад

Other Voices is a great track.

@jonhorton8266 Год назад

Strange attraction is one of my fave deep cut, the story is amazingly sad and the music is just beautiful.

@seanhansz2864 Год назад

I love all of your choices deeply. I too was a misfit toy of the ‘80’s and listened desperately to each album searching for the answer to the question of ‘why?’ Faith, the Top, The Head on the Door, and especially Disintegration we’re my everything for years. When they played Plainsong at a concert some 25, 30 years ago I remember the blissful peace that encompassed me.

@ILoveItLoud96 3 года назад

Great vid! Never listened to The Cure until I watched the "Pictures of You" video you did, now I'm really digging them

@saritadeagua 3 года назад

I'll add "Doing the unstuck" and "Halo"... Even if they're not really hidden gems, those two songs have a special place in my heart.

@captainfeedback1 Год назад

If you like Halo, you should listen to Mesmerise by Chapterhouse - it's what Robert Smith stole for Halo.

@katemaloney4296 3 года назад

My late ex loved The Cure. He dedicated one of their "slow" songs to me, but I can't remember the name (I may have blocked it out of my brain). Other than The Cure's two songs that are constantly played on the '80s on 8', I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to any of their songs, so I'm not familiar with the songs. I clicked on this for him. And though it hurt, the pain wasn't as bad as I expected. Don't know when I'll ever listen to a full CD, but I thank you for posting this video. P.s. That girl from your childhood? Her loss. You are a rare gem!

@Utubesanarc 3 года назад

Start with wish...it'll blow you good

@mikebarrett4423 3 года назад

Man, you have opened me up to so much great music just by your sheer passion for it. I LOATHE ‘80s music, but your exuberance and intelligence describing it makes me give it a second listen. Thank you so much

@bara4234 Год назад

I don’t know what I would do without the cure they really changed my life

@christianhelwig 3 года назад

My 5 Gems off the top of my head: - Untitled (Disintegration) - 2 Late ("Love Song" b-side) - Kyoto Song (Head on the Door) - Perfect Girl (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) - Play for Today (Seventeen Seconds) Honorable: Shake Dog Shake (The Top)

@A_Foolish_Arrangement 3 года назад

Kyoto song ! Yes ! I must listen to it right the fuck now. 2 Late is a favorite for a lot of Cure fans.

@dounis79 3 года назад

I was never a huge fan of Shake Dog Shake until seeing it performed live... Nice and heavy. So So GOOD!

@christianhelwig 3 года назад

@@A_Foolish_Arrangement Preach!

@christianhelwig 3 года назад

@@dounis79 I always like it, but like you, when I saw The Cure In Orange is when I really got into it

@gb4626 3 года назад

Great list of songs. One I would add is A Thousand Hours. It’s just so beautiful.

@scottc6946 3 года назад

I keep going back to the last three songs off disintegration: the title track, homesick, and untitled. I love the layering of instruments that weave together so beautifully. Disintegration is so powerful in its remorseful and frantic rant of love gone wrong

@josephramirez9779 3 года назад

Nailed it with Plainsong at number 1 and yes, Disintegration is the best album ever. Thanks for the countdown, Professor.

@jonbays-broils598 3 года назад

You need to make a Spotify list of your "perfect mix tape" I always enjoy time machines that pull me out of adult life.

@strictmachine7468 3 года назад

Good picks. I would have to add "Untitled" from Disintegration - simple, mesmerising, gentle and heartbreaking all at once. I like the line, "Never quite said what I wanted to say to you." I could always relate to that feeling.

@tracyintexas4743 3 года назад

So many but one not mentioned that I can't go long without listening to after all these years is "A Thousand Hours" from Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me...GENIUS!

@nancysmith4217 3 года назад

I think A Thousand Hours is my favorite..but it’s so had to pick just one!!

@RolfAronsson 3 года назад

Two simple but beautiful songs, both musically and lyrically, are Untitled and Trust. I love to play them on the old harmonium at my in-laws house, or wherever there's a piano around. Very sentimental.

@thomasandersen1784 3 года назад

Great topic and great great picks! I must throw a song in here: From The head On The Door, my favorit track has always been: The Push! What a magnificent (almost) stadion rock anthem. I could pick a hundred more, but iv'e leave it with that one song. Cheers from Denmark

@membear 3 года назад

It's "Push" not The Push.

@jeffreysargent Год назад

The Same Deep Water is You is hands down my favorite Cure song. Chills every time.

@MsShellie2U 3 года назад

At 6:45. This is why he is a genius and he can put into words everything we hear and need to hear. You did a great job on this piece! Thx

@iambobbins 3 года назад

Is a constantly changing list, but for 5 at now : la ment, a thousand hours, just one kiss, the empty world, pirate ships

@katrinapure9986 3 года назад

“If only tonight we could sleep” haunts me every day

@JorgeTillo 3 года назад

I was telling myself I will not put a list of my own. But here you are, asking for it, so here they are. Sugar Girl / The exploding boy / Pilbox Tales / Piggy in the mirror / Treasure . I am seriously thinking to have Treasure played at my funeral. Your list is great by the way. I always felt Plainsong, The same deep water as you, Prayers for rain and Untitled tells a story going from inafuation to despair.

@rejasond 3 года назад

what is Treasure ?

@JorgeTillo 3 года назад

@@rejasond from Wild Mood Swings ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-weT9Sj3FADc.html

@Something_Found- 3 года назад

Piggy in the Mirror and Birdmad Girl and of course Dressing Up!!! The Top was so underrated.

@ominousvoid82 Год назад

Professor of Rock should have way more than 822K subscribers. The topics he discusses is very open to all genres. He should be called the professor of music to be very frank.

@TKJoyRide 9 месяцев назад

I think I've listened almost all the cure songs in existence and trust me this guy knows what he's talking about. Good suggestions of songs to explore more of The Cure 10/10 video.

@mattbetz2758 3 года назад

Great list Prof Rock. I am surprised no one has mentioned: "To Wish Impossible Things". This was a very unrated and epic love song. The opening is so melancholy and chilling and flows into this nebulous, sadden-love trance. I really hope the live version from "Show" if ever re-released includes this song like the original concert film VHS.

@benjaminwachold3736 Год назад

“This Twilight Garden “ is considered one of their greatest songs that never made a record it’s a B side song.

@bigproductions2089 3 года назад

Props to you Prof, you’re killing it! I can’t get enough of The Cure!! On a funny note, every time you wear the shirt of the band you’re discussing, I can’t help but think of Droz in PCU!!

@MrERLoner 2 года назад

Dont be that guy

@beckoutloud4364 3 года назад

I am loving these Cure videos! Rarely can i now or ever talk to anyone about my love for them! Disintegration will always be the greatest album ever made. Loved the trip from the songs you picked and they are excellent choices. I would like to formerly nominate untitled from Disintegration as an honorable mention. Thank you again for the video and the stories behind the music. It made my day just a bit brighter!

@Bratzenthusiast 8 месяцев назад

I love the disintegration album all the songs fit so well together and anytime It comes on it just feels like a cold snowy day when I hear it I can’t really explain why

@Fakeaorta 3 года назад

I see from the comments that some of these people are angry that their ensure is lumpy and that kids keep walking on the sidewalk in front of their house. The Cure is in my top 10 along with Floyd, Queen, The Clash, and AC/DC plus others. Great job Professor!

@mbgrafix 3 года назад

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@rvfiasco 3 года назад

Haha...I hate lumpy Ensure.

@ChrisStokes07 3 года назад

Keep wearing that face diaper sissy

@Fakeaorta 3 года назад

@@ChrisStokes07 Still sad about the orange POUTUS loosing the election?

@AEYRivera 3 года назад

"Jumping Someone Else's Train"

@bschuler6216 3 года назад

Again, and again, and again...

@StruwwelHexe Год назад

It feels so good to listen to you talk about the Cure. Someone else to finally get the gorgeousness of the Cure and put it into words.

@jlacko Год назад

Often in plainsong and plainchant music of the past, a composer would use an old chant, but slow down and draw out the notes to create a new song. I always felt that this was elemental in The Cure’s Plainsong title choice as it is a clear slowing down of A Thousand Hours off of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

@JMG72ARG 3 года назад

The number 1 Cure hidden gem for me is This Twilight Garden, b-side from the Wish era.

@iscariote315 3 года назад

Hard to choose 5 songs. For me The Cure is worth it from “Three Imaginary boys” till “Wish”

@killercat268 3 года назад

I EXPLODED when you said six different ways. Great list!! A few of my favorite hidden gems are Treasure off of wild mood swings and To Wish impossible Things

@michaelehrhart9670 Год назад

Disintegration is the greatest album ever recorded. In my 53 years of listening closely to music, it is the only perfect album I have ever heard. Thank God for Robert Smith.

@eduardomolinayourmac.repai614 3 года назад

"In between days" is one of the most beautiful songs of all the time.

@suesutton9226 3 года назад

Yep! And Love song and Pictures of you and my favourite would probably have to be Trust from the Wish album ( so beautifully haunting )

@nigelfellows7525 Год назад

Thank you, I enjoyed listening to your thoughts on these 5 classic hidden gems from the greatest band ever. My top 5 hidden gems of The Cure are: 1. The Drowning Man 2. At Night 3. Bare 4. Out of This World 5. Push There are so many so I have to have honourable mentions to the next 5...The Loudest Sound, It Used To Be Me, To Wish Impossible Things, Truth, Goodness and Beauty and A Thousand Hours.

@ineedanewname9595944 3 года назад

Love! The cure! Since I can remember, they have been one of my favs! My graduation present to myself was to see them live in 1992!! But had been listening since i was a pre teen!!!

@wolfganggopnik8357 Год назад

Beautiful Selection ADAM....wonderful !!!

@lenoraGrayce Год назад

Prof, I think we would have become best friends in high school!! You love all the same bands that I did and, of course, The Cure was and is still my favorite band of all time. I just saw them again this summer and they still fill me full of emotion and joy, the same way they did when I was a teen. I think Robert is the reincarnation of John Keats. More than a song writer. More than a singer. He truly is a Poet!

@brentshipley 3 года назад

The Kiss was never a single and it is to me their most powerful song and shows how brilliant Smith is at playing guitar.

@mikexnivax6369 3 года назад

True! This is the best guitar theme from The cure!

@shoesoffbootson5317 Год назад

One of the things that hits me hardest about Disintegration as an album is that it has an absolutely lovely, perfect beginning AND end. It starts with the twinkly windchime sound and that CRASH, and ends with an incredibly sad lyric and then the fading music that sounds like someone giving up, and then it resolves into a decisive end. And then you just want to sit for a few minutes with your feelings. Fun fact: I Am Kloot did a song in 2003 called "The Same Deep Water as Me" that doesn't sound like The Cure musically, but has a similarly melancholy feel. It's very worth a listen. Finally: Seaside 84 did a cover of "Plainsong" with some soaring electronic instrumentation. It's not better than the original--of course--but it's a wonderful cover.

@bschuler6216 3 года назад

The Cure had a streak of magnificent opening songs, starting with The Kiss, then Plainsong, Open & Want.

@siintube Год назад

This Twilight Garden :)

@jorgeharmstrong 3 года назад

Brilliant analysis. Amen. Ditto. I have nothing to add or take away.

@ohnoitsthecatman738 3 года назад

I discovered the Cure at 14 when Disintegration was released and Im 45 now, its still my favourite album. I was raised born again christian, i couldnt get a Madonna record in the house but i managed to get a Cure album

@rvfiasco 3 года назад

I love the "Let's Go to Bed" (Milk Mix) also on the Never Enough single.

@Utubesanarc 3 года назад

I want a milk shake now😋

@jacksonmcmordie7163 3 года назад

its so incredibly sad that music like this isnt made today. sure theres good music, but nothing could ever compare.

@mrkmca3401 3 года назад

Everything up through Disintegration. The earlier years are my favorite.

@jamesanderson348 3 года назад

Ok. I dont think I could be as expressive as you when you describe your thoughts on those deep cuts, but I applaud you. The Cure have always hit my emotions when I needed to figure out a way to navigate the paths that lay ahead of me. My emotions and psyche were a lot different as a 13 year old in 1968 as opposed to the Cure talking to you when you were 13. Depressing as the world was tumbling in that year, I turned to the Beatles, Sly, and James Brown to help me try to make since of the world at that time. The year 2020 was 1968 on double steroids. Anyway, the Cure entered my life at age 30 in 1985 as I was graduating college and they stuck an emotional nerve that still drives me today. Btw, I have all those releases and have listened to them with awe and wonderment. They ARE that good. For me Pictures of You just nails Disentigration entire for me. The sweep and the arc of that song floors me everytime. Regret never sounded so lush. Happy New Year from Chicago Jas

@wolfmauler 3 года назад

Man...I just found this channel and I find you are expressing my deepest feelings about this music. CHEERS!

@Dapperin 4 месяца назад

Exploding Boy will forever be a favorite of mine.

@jasonmac8206 2 года назад

Disintegration was one of the most important albums that got me through some difficult times as a teenager. I would listen to it through headphones (on my sony discman!) with all the lights off. It helped me get through a period of love lost, loneliness and the rest of all that teenage angst. Professor, I really love how much passion you put into describing the songs and artists you love.

@denabob9200 3 года назад

"Play" from the "High" CD single.

@raulfranco420 3 года назад

Bare, Open, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Harold & Joe.

@johncrow5552 Год назад

he spoke for all of us.....he spoke to us!

@theoconstantinou2839 3 года назад

Listening to your passion when discussing THE CURE is chilling you sound like me. I absolutely love the cure I love Disintegration & I love you. Awesome

@Dinsdale_Piranha_Innit Год назад

It’s hard for me to ever beef with the inclusion of ‘Plainsong’ on any list, but it’s not exactly a hidden gem - it leads off one of the most highly regarded albums ever made, and was used very effectively in Ant-Man (I lost my shit in the theatre when it came on, hearing it that loud just went right through my body)…also, two songs from one record on a 5 song list? My ‘hidden gem’ pick is ‘A Few Hours After This’, b-side to the ‘In Between Days’ 12” single. ‘Staring At The Sea’ is a great singles comp, and a lot of kids’ introduction to The Cure in the mid-80s, but the best version of that was called ‘Standing On A Beach’, and it was cassette only, twice as long and had all the b-sides on the flip, with ‘A Few Hours After This’ coming very near the end. Huge and orchestral, tympani drums rumbling, perfect melancholy lyrical fade at the end…just ideal, even now, almost 40 years after I first heard it. Damn.

@clarkbarrett6274 Год назад

Also loved when Plainsong came on during Ant-Man. It's my favorite song...period.

@CarlosTehJackal Год назад

Harold & Joe is not only onw of my favourite Cure songs, it's one of my favourite songs of ever!

@chickenusmechanicus6268 Год назад

Difficult but these five are something else: Breathe, A Chain of Flowers, A Strange Day, Sinking and The Drowning Man

@rhanemann9100 3 года назад

The whole of Disintegration is a masterpiece. Even the creators of South Park gave it a shout out. Here's are my favorite Cure hidden gems: Push, Baby Screams, & Burn

@byCRUZIN 2 года назад

felt like I'd see 2 Late on this list, but still solid! Just discovered you love this channel man keep the cure vids going please!

@literaljones 2 года назад

A Thousand Hours and One More Time both from Kiss Me, Kiss, Me, Kiss Me and, honestly, everything from Disintegration. That entire album is magical.

@tarkiss 4 месяца назад

I don't know how hidden or overlooked these The Cure's jewels may be, but "Lament" from the album Japanese Whispers and "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" from the album "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" are considered absolute masterpieces in my all-time favorite playlist of The Cure's greatest songs ever.