The truth is musical expression is not linear it goes round and returns, I mean we are speaking of humanity and how and when it chooses to express it's self.
I went to a The Cure concert in 1987, and when I realize that that was 34 years ago, it feels impossible! So I get your point 100%. And yes, to me as well, their songs are timeless.
sadly, the cure was introduced to me by a girlfriend...we were madly in love, we broke up when I joined the Army....I can not listen to the cure without thinking about her....I fought in four wars, she fought breast cancer. I am still here ...so the cure is still special to me... I miss this music, it was a special time for us all.
My friend, similar situation here but my girlfriend became my wife who became my ex-wife. Before we got married I would walk across town listening to Charlotte Sometimes and Standing on a Beach while walking knee deep in snow wearing combat boots, Skull jeans and a Misfits tee shirt and black peacoat. I'd get to her house and do snow demons (I used to call them that, lolol) on her parent's lawn and they'd let me in likely knowing how in love I was. Since then I'm retired Marine Corps. I would lie in the rack when I was active duty listening to Pictures of You or Love Song because she introduced me to The Cure too. We were together through my active duty days but not much longer after. I still love her with all my heart and I think she loves me too. I think she's happily remarried and all I want for her is to be happy. Knowing love in your life is so special, a real treasure that is priceless. I hope you either get back together or find peace with your love for her and your appreciation for The Cure. They are very special... Knowing that you've loved is incredible my friend.
Thank you for your service! Amazing how powerful music is. It can define a pinpoint or a period of time our lives. That feeling from a song or album can make a memory in your life that will last forever. I ran away from home at 14. I had a Sony Walkman cassette player. The Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Depeche Mode tapes I had, got me through and I survived. After, I went through years of burnout on Zeppelin and the others. Now that I’m older, I listen to these songs and albums and the feelings I had back then. Pretty sure music saved my life
When you said 'Army" i thought BTS army for one second. Im gen X and i wish there was no smart phones and social media. a better world we had before. hahaha
How simple and pure this music is. No Autotune, no chichi... The Cure were my companion in the darkest times of my adolescence. Joy Division followed...
I was born in 82, my mum was and is a huge fan and regularly played around the house so so many fond memories of the cure, I can’t comprehend how much his voice has stayed on point to this day! For me one of the best bands in the world, ever.
Seriously. I love looking back at this now. When this video was made, my young self literally digested every single nanosecond of this band I could get my hands on. If Robert Smith said boo, I would flinch. At the time it felt so amazing to love a band that nobody in America knew about if they only listened to the radio.
Wow throwback! I recorded this song on one of many custom-mix cassette tapes I made in the early ‘80s. -Anyone else remember the excellent TDK metal frame clear tapes?! Thanks for posting this brother! 👌🏼
@@bobdoubter2977 - I get why he did; the image suited the time, but yeah it was overindulgent. I never liked cure fans so they put me off the band. The songs on ‘Kiss Me..’ transcended the band so I really enjoyed that one, but I never saw this video before - it makes me appreciate them even more as a working band. Considering Robert’s self-deprecating sense of humor it never made sense to me how he indulged his fans. It gives me a queasy ambivalence about them. They could be as off-putting as they were brilliantly original.
@@tiefensucht they are real drums. i'm saying the way they used to record and add post production to them back then gave them the "cheap" drum machine aesthetic sound
This is really excellent. I've been listening to the Cure for years and never heard this. Flavours of A Forest and incredibly melodic. How was this not a bigger hit?
Anyone else that was curious about Roberts 'Fender Jazzmaster' as played in this song/video : .... "Watched a late 70's Cure performance and noticed an odd middle pickup on his Jazzmaster. Looked it up and it's a Teisco pickup from his first guitar. Apparently when he went to record their first album the producer hated it and bought him a new Jazzmaster (to which he immediately installed the pickup)" - [ source ; Discussion in 'Pickup Forum' started by 'Class A Knob' Jun 30, 2018 ]... That aside, this is a historical music gem, youth will always rule.
Cuando escuche a the cure por primera vez... Me dije tengo que aprender tocar guitarra.. Fome mi banda y tocábamos las mejores canciones de esta banda en el cole y fiestas.... Era alucinante.... Un grupo de chicas pintadas y con el pelo a lo the cure era COOL... El la uni quise hacer lo mismo no fue igual....
I had been looking for this, so thank you. It used to be on TH-cam many years ago like 2008 and then it disappeared. I decided to check again and here it is.
It saddens me that so much early Cure stuff like this is effectively stuck in the VHS age. Surely fans deserve to finally have the entire Staring At The Sea compilation on DVD, instead of just "highlights" of it crammed onto the later Greatest Hits set?
“A reflection” makes me envision a brightly colored living room with fancy furniture, and one large mirror covering a whole wall. Seeping through the mirror, struggling to be set free, a malicious spirit.
@@edson720 we have 2 VHS players and they work like a charm. You can still find them online. We get some great videos at thrift stores, flea markets and pawn shops. We used to buy them off amazon too. 😊
This was my favorite period of their music; both Seventeen Seconds and Faith had a dark and romantic feel to them. Contrast those two albums against the ominous and depressing Pornography record, the weirdness of The Top, and the beginning of the pop sound witnessed on Head On The Door.
17 Seconds was the essence of early 80s, change from prog rock and punk clowns to a darker more serious review of the world - man sucked into the machine.
I wonder if he was worried about not being taken seriously, as a musician. Duran Duran was not taken seriously by critics at the time because they were considered too good looking. Robert Smith's make-up covers up his very handsome face!
@@marisol3827 I agree lol he looks attractive here and I never liked him with the make up and the funny hair (I generally don't mind men with make up tho, it just doesn't suit him personally)
I remember my cousin Ian had given me The Cure's Seventeen Seconds for my 13th birthday and I listened to the first two tracks. (reflection, and secrets. I really do like Secrets now,) As a 13 year old, I remember dismissing it for being too mellow and throwing it in my drawer. I revisited it a year later. Blew my mind and I went down the music rabbit hole and its splintered off into a bunch of other discoveries. I will always love this album.
Wow!! So THAT'S what they look like! One of the greatest bands, with the most amazing and unique sound. Still timeless after all these years!! Never get tired of listening to the Cure, and I don't care what my kids say! :)
The cure one of the best bands of all time first seen them live at the Apollo Manchester 40 yrs ago and have stood the test of time and Robert smith such a lovely guy
@@wilcopeperkamp I know - I have the entire show on DVD and CD (in glorious 24-bit 'lossless' - no less) -Apeldoorn Zumerfest [The headliner was a Clown Act no less] The Cure opened... I think that's where Robert learned to do makeup ... I love the sick thick bass tone on this one... my fav from 1980
Convenient how he looks so different without any makeup and his signature hairstyle, when he just wants to go to the store or out to dinner or something without being recognized.
I grew up in an 80s new wave household especially with the Cure. I distinctively remember going to a barbecue and they were blasting "killing an arab" from a big speaker, I was about 4 or 5 years old. Another random tidbit of my life revolving around this band. I (somewhere) still have a copy of "Kiss Me. Kiss Me. Kiss Me" that my mom gifted my dad when they were dating. It's old and worn out. It's just the cassette without a case.. Still is a worthwhile memento.
In my opinion, The Cure has to be in the top 10 bands of all time
First two albums are classics
Yes sir jerod. that's beyond opinion- thats Fact! whether others agree or not- The Cure are a top 10 band of all-time.
THIS Cure, ok, the "Friday I'm In Love" Cure, definitely NO
Por lo menos en mi vida es top 3
@@wintherr3527 Boooooo ! ( just kidn wint)
It’s strange to think this was performed over 40 years ago. That said, their songs will never sound dated to me.
That's called a "classic". To be a classic, it needs class not just time. ;)
Art is that way.
The truth is musical expression is not linear it goes round and returns, I mean we are speaking of humanity and how and when it chooses to express it's self.
I went to a The Cure concert in 1987, and when I realize that that was 34 years ago, it feels impossible! So I get your point 100%. And yes, to me as well, their songs are timeless.
@@leftright6054 To be a classic, it just needs to come from "17 Seconds"...
One of the most distinctive voices in music history.
sadly, the cure was introduced to me by a girlfriend...we were madly in love, we broke up when I joined the Army....I can not listen to the cure without thinking about her....I fought in four wars, she fought breast cancer. I am still here ...so the cure is still special to me... I miss this music, it was a special time for us all.
The cure is just for guys like you
My friend, similar situation here but my girlfriend became my wife who became my ex-wife. Before we got married I would walk across town listening to Charlotte Sometimes and Standing on a Beach while walking knee deep in snow wearing combat boots, Skull jeans and a Misfits tee shirt and black peacoat. I'd get to her house and do snow demons (I used to call them that, lolol) on her parent's lawn and they'd let me in likely knowing how in love I was. Since then I'm retired Marine Corps. I would lie in the rack when I was active duty listening to Pictures of You or Love Song because she introduced me to The Cure too. We were together through my active duty days but not much longer after. I still love her with all my heart and I think she loves me too. I think she's happily remarried and all I want for her is to be happy. Knowing love in your life is so special, a real treasure that is priceless. I hope you either get back together or find peace with your love for her and your appreciation for The Cure. They are very special... Knowing that you've loved is incredible my friend.
Thank you for your service!
Amazing how powerful music is. It can define a pinpoint or a period of time our lives. That feeling from a song or album can make a memory in your life that will last forever. I ran away from home at 14. I had a Sony Walkman cassette player. The Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Depeche Mode tapes I had, got me through and I survived.
After,
I went through years of burnout on Zeppelin and the others. Now that I’m older, I listen to these songs and albums and the feelings I had back then.
Pretty sure music saved my life
When you said 'Army" i thought BTS army for one second. Im gen X and i wish there was no smart phones and social media. a better world we had before. hahaha
I absolutely love getting depressed listening to the cure
I love this version of Robert's on-stage persona, kind of sneering and clearly punk influenced.. the way he says "you're always crying", classic!
Seventeen Seconds was a very post punk album
Robert Smith deserves his own signature jazzmaster
Agreed , but somewhere on it , it should say "Woolworth's"
Verdade😆😆😆
@@rorogogo6241 yes
@@rorogogo6241 sold
@@6pin66 Straight up! That Top 20 pick up is a key component to add to any Robert Smith signature Jazzmaster.
*The Cure* is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and they are also the most underrated band ever.
Wow, Robert Smith looks impossibly young and unrecognizable.
How simple and pure this music is. No Autotune, no chichi... The Cure were my companion in the darkest times of my adolescence. Joy Division followed...
My favorite band of the 80s. Strong bass lines, perfect guitar work, eerie keyboard accompaniment. I’m glad they are still around.
Just love this song. The guitar riffs are sensational.
Yes! Reminds me, in a good way, of REM's later song Boxcars (A Carnival of Sorts).
@@Billkwando I agree. Early Cure/R.E.M. are the best
Oh my what a flashback, when we were in our youth, ahh the 80’s 😎🤘
the best time for music. never to be repeated :(
I was born in 82, my mum was and is a huge fan and regularly played around the house so so many fond memories of the cure, I can’t comprehend how much his voice has stayed on point to this day! For me one of the best bands in the world, ever.
There’s never enough of The Cure on TH-cam. Never Enough.
I see what you did there 😀
phenomenally clever.....absolutely brilliant.....
I love how Robert is on the verge of smiling during half of this, but fighting it. 💋💋💋
Seriously.
I love looking back at this now. When this video was made, my young self literally digested every single nanosecond of this band I could get my hands on. If Robert Smith said boo, I would flinch.
At the time it felt so amazing to love a band that nobody in America knew about if they only listened to the radio.
You're beautiful 😍😍😍
Are you on instagram? 😍😍
Never has a song about narcissism and amorality been so hauntingly catchy. We all play our parts in the play for today.
Amazing! You can hear over 40 yrs ago their music style was already clearly defined as unique, uncompromised and complete.
Wow throwback! I recorded this song on one of many custom-mix cassette tapes I made in the early ‘80s. -Anyone else remember the excellent TDK metal frame clear tapes?! Thanks for posting this brother! 👌🏼
Yup!
still got a couple :) they were the best. i played through my Alpine car cassette player LOUD
One of my favorite Cure songs 🖤🔥
I remember buying 17 Seconds in the summer of 1980 & thinking this was what I had been waiting for !
Great song, I’ll never get used to Robert Smith looking “normal” for want of a better word. He looks like a different person.
He should have kept this look. Why he went monster goth I'll never get.
@@bobdoubter2977 - I get why he did; the image suited the time, but yeah it was overindulgent. I never liked cure fans so they put me off the band. The songs on ‘Kiss Me..’ transcended the band so I really enjoyed that one, but I never saw this video before - it makes me appreciate them even more as a working band. Considering Robert’s self-deprecating sense of humor it never made sense to me how he indulged his fans. It gives me a queasy ambivalence about them. They could be as off-putting as they were brilliantly original.
Like the fact that the drummer's up front
the 80s goth "cheap" drum machine sounding drum aesthetic are my fav drums
looks like real drums to me^^
@@tiefensucht they are real drums. i'm saying the way they used to record and add post production to them back then gave them the "cheap" drum machine aesthetic sound
I think they used synare electronic drums. Parts of it. Not a machine rythms box
Yes very 80s. I don't remember that decade cuz I was an infant but it sounds rad.
TBH that's the part I never liked, how they play cheap mode
The sound on this recording is exceptional!
Mike Hedges was a godlike producer and engineer
I was lucky to born in 1972 and enjoy the best music from hundred of bands form the world
Best birth year
GenX
Best music
Best childhood
He's amazing the same voice never changed .
This is really excellent. I've been listening to the Cure for years and never heard this. Flavours of A Forest and incredibly melodic. How was this not a bigger hit?
It really sounds like a first draft of A Forest.
The transitions (I'm not musically trained, obviously) and stark percussion evokes A Forest to me somehow.
Ah the ever rare 4 speaker Roland JC-140 classic amp. I think they spent the whole budget on amps and instruments
Oops meant the JC-160 the 4 speaker model
As they should.
@@esltogo6898 don’t you just love the insanely bright and clean tone Robert got from his jazz master in the early days, crazy unique sound!
And Robert is so intelligent as well. I've heard him in interviews. I just love this guy. Love THE CURE!
Anyone else that was curious about Roberts 'Fender Jazzmaster' as played in this song/video : .... "Watched a late 70's Cure performance and noticed an odd middle pickup on his Jazzmaster. Looked it up and it's a Teisco pickup from his first guitar. Apparently when he went to record their first album the producer hated it and bought him a new Jazzmaster (to which he immediately installed the pickup)" - [ source ; Discussion in 'Pickup Forum' started by 'Class A Knob' Jun 30, 2018 ]... That aside, this is a historical music gem, youth will always rule.
There's a channel called Circle Of Tone where the guy discusses the gear and sound of The Cure. Check it out.
Still one of my favourite songs from one of my favourite albums. Simply wonderful ❤️
Cuando escuche a the cure por primera vez... Me dije tengo que aprender tocar guitarra.. Fome mi banda y tocábamos las mejores canciones de esta banda en el cole y fiestas.... Era alucinante.... Un grupo de chicas pintadas y con el pelo a lo the cure era COOL... El la uni quise hacer lo mismo no fue igual....
I had been looking for this, so thank you. It used to be on TH-cam many years ago like 2008 and then it disappeared. I decided to check again and here it is.
3:26 - great chord & rhythm progression right there.
As much as I love their poppier stuff like Kiss Me and The Head on the Door, this trilogy of albums was unmatched
all those harmonics at the start of the song are gorgeous sounding!
It saddens me that so much early Cure stuff like this is effectively stuck in the VHS age. Surely fans deserve to finally have the entire Staring At The Sea compilation on DVD, instead of just "highlights" of it crammed onto the later Greatest Hits set?
there’s unlikely to be high quality source for this stuff
@@basehead617 Upscaling is a wonderful thing, and even without it, it's the durability and portability of DVD over VHS that I was thinking of.
It doesn’t get much better. I’ve loved the Cure all my life.
"A Reflection" is such a cool opening song. I think Robert is one of the most underrated guitarists in rock.
“A reflection” makes me envision a brightly colored living room with fancy furniture, and one large mirror covering a whole wall. Seeping through the mirror, struggling to be set free, a malicious spirit.
So many of us got this recommended. Love this song. Love the cure🖤
I had the VHS staring at the singles tape. It's gone now. My little 10 yr old nephew. Is the prime suspect.
Wow...I had that cassette, didn't know there was a VHS tape!
Completely forgot, but I have the VHS tape too from the late 80’s, as well as live in Orange. Now just need to figure out how to watch it. Lol.
@@edson720 we have 2 VHS players and they work like a charm. You can still find them online. We get some great videos at thrift stores, flea markets and pawn shops. We used to buy them off amazon too. 😊
Well, at least you know they have great taste in music.
As we age, so does time...hearing this takes us back, to a simpler time! Thanks for that!
Aah...the days when I was in love. 😍
one of my favorite songs
Love early cure. First 4 albums are too good. ✌✌
We had proper bands back then A great cool bands music time,
Its been canceled ......no
More good music
that ended for us awhile ago hold on to these memories and talents
Robert is a hottie! I was only 7 when this song was released. Starting hearing their music when I turned 10. Fan been a fan ever since.
How gorgeous was he without the scarrrry makeup!
They produced a lot of good music over the years...still fun to listen to today.
This is madtastically best of British hell yeahhhh
...1980s it shoulda never ended and now its all over....theres no cure
These guys play amazing music! So much energy. Reminds me of camden Town in the 80s when i was a teenager.
This was my favorite period of their music; both Seventeen Seconds and Faith had a dark and romantic feel to them. Contrast those two albums against the ominous and depressing Pornography record, the weirdness of The Top, and the beginning of the pop sound witnessed on Head On The Door.
17 Seconds was the essence of early 80s, change from prog rock and punk clowns to a darker more serious review of the world - man sucked into the machine.
This is so great.
So good...still.
The cure are so amazing just love Robert music his voice is incredible to what a talented artist.
They were all babies back then. I was still in High School too.
I believe that Robert never needed the whole lipstick/eyeliner thing to get popular. If this is his personal preference, fine.
I wonder if he was worried about not being taken seriously, as a musician. Duran Duran was not taken seriously by critics at the time because they were considered too good looking. Robert Smith's make-up covers up his very handsome face!
@@marisol3827 I agree lol he looks attractive here and I never liked him with the make up and the funny hair (I generally don't mind men with make up tho, it just doesn't suit him personally)
I dont think he did it to get popular. As an intensely shy person...more used it to hide behind.
I remember my cousin Ian had given me The Cure's Seventeen Seconds for my 13th birthday and I listened to the first two tracks. (reflection, and secrets. I really do like Secrets now,) As a 13 year old, I remember dismissing it for being too mellow and throwing it in my drawer. I revisited it a year later. Blew my mind and I went down the music rabbit hole and its splintered off into a bunch of other discoveries. I will always love this album.
Wonderful to see. Thanks for sharing.
I love the Seventeen Seconds album....
Wow! This is the cure!!!!
On my tombstone, it will say... still waiting for a Bluray of The Cure in Orange concert.
Wow!! So THAT'S what they look like! One of the greatest bands, with the most amazing and unique sound. Still timeless after all these years!! Never get tired of listening to the Cure, and I don't care what my kids say! :)
Man, thanks TH-cam, for helping me stumble on this! WOW!!!!!
The cure one of the best bands of all time first seen them live at the Apollo Manchester 40 yrs ago and have stood the test of time and Robert smith such a lovely guy
One of Simons first gigs - he's so nervous he can't face the crowd ...
His bass lines were so good.
Start of the video is from a concert they gave in the Netherlands.
@@wilcopeperkamp I know - I have the entire show on DVD and CD (in glorious 24-bit 'lossless' - no less) -Apeldoorn Zumerfest [The headliner was a Clown Act no less] The Cure opened... I think that's where Robert learned to do makeup ... I love the sick thick bass tone on this one... my fav from 1980
@@dernvader6876 Damn Them clowns, great concert
holy fuck where did this footage come from who ever had this and posted this my friend you are a SERIOUS BAD ASS THE SUPER PROPS TO YOU!!
these were really good times !!!!! now, I look back and realize how I was happy !
Its like Joy Division covering the Smiths, with Ryan Reynolds on vocals.
exactly! :)
Haha. Nice.
Lmaooo
More like the Cure covering Joy Division (who came earlier) with young Peter Gabriel (face and voice) singing. But with less sonic imagination.
@@hotelfoxtrot4979 he doesn't look like a young peter gabriel
Simon. 'Nuff said.
I almost didn't recognize Robert without the long spiked hair.
Wow! Excellent. 😎👍Thx for the share.
Wow this takes me back to my youth and Bobs youth gosh he looks so young. Play for today is one of my favorite Cure songs
Holy Shit. I was 8 years old when the song came out...
What a gem. Thank you!
The CURE ARE DEFINITELY ARE THE BAND THAT WAS THE 1980'S TRUE GREATS 👍
OLD CURE IS THE BEST CURE.
This is the best I have heard from them. Like this look better also!
Where are these four decades gone? That was my youth! And the tap drips, drip, drip, drip...
who would have thought he would play batman many years later
Seriously! Could be twins!
Disintegration is the best album ever!
My favorite has got to be "Pornography "...
Nope. Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me. Nothing better that that :)
@@mikexnivax6369 so wrong
@@SuperWorstEver me too
South Park
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE THIS BAND! Have done since 1980. Yes, I'm old, but whatever.
Convenient how he looks so different without any makeup and his signature hairstyle, when he just wants to go to the store or out to dinner or something without being recognized.
Amazing song
Teenage Robert ❤️
One-of-a-kind voice
Ahh to be young again the 80's were awesome
Robert, this is special.
Wow it's great they look so normal!!! Should have retuned to that look.
what a treasure- thanks for posting
Simon is one of the best bassist in the world👍🏼
Magical back then
I bought the VHS in 97 I think. Love the cure, were my main muse for years!
One of the best songs of the best band all over the space!
He’s good looking 🥰
Such an awesome clip. I love TH-cam for keeping this bank
Wow he was 🔥
I grew up in an 80s new wave household especially with the Cure. I distinctively remember going to a barbecue and they were blasting "killing an arab" from a big speaker, I was about 4 or 5 years old.
Another random tidbit of my life revolving around this band. I (somewhere) still have a copy of "Kiss Me. Kiss Me. Kiss Me" that my mom gifted my dad when they were dating. It's old and worn out. It's just the cassette without a case.. Still is a worthwhile memento.
Certified Hood Classic
Real niggaz be bumpin the cure fr fr
Robert Smith is the only singer whose British accent is obvious when he sings.
Arctic Monkeys.
XTC Andy Partridge?
Billy Bragg
The Proclaimers
mick jagger
Isn't he darling!
Wow !! Una joya !! Que excelente calidad de audio.