Thank you for all the hard work put into this. There is no greater human than Robert. These films show how honest he has always been as an artist and as a human. I cannot wait until Glasgow!
for me The Cure as above and beyond any other musical group. They have been my favorite for over 25 years. Robert had a vision from the start. He knew what he wanted and knew how to get it. He made music because he had something to say, not because he had 3 albums left on his contract. There were plenty of times Robert could have just sold out and made a cash grab but he didn't, and he won't. It's been 40 years and Robert still does things the way he wants. I am very lucky that I chose this band because they are still going strong. Still making music and still touring, and sounding better than ever. PS.....how was Glasgow for you?
Lots of great stuff I've never seen before. Funny how Robert is always playing down the importance of the look and it's all about the music, then he goes to extreme lengths to create his bonkers hair and make up lol 😊❤ Thanks again for posting these excellent films.
Funny how The Cure was the biggest underground act I have ever known.. They were played on radio, but were college monsters, underground monsters and they were the antithesis of the hair band 80's... Loved them!
Was recommended this by a friend of mine and I’m absolutely in love with the film, i never knew this entire side of Robert. I grew up with the cure thanks to my siblings and I’ve been a fan since then. This is a masterpiece in all
That is the version of " if only tonight we could sleep " ..how many fabulous songs they created can be stretched and tweaked away from the bombast or tinny we old folks enjoyed or endured. They're the VDGG of the 80s or 90s , no compromise. ( Peter Hammill on TOTP ? ). Love from Wessex on Sea
Interesting analogy. Love Hammill/VdGG, too, but more importantly feel there are thankfully a number of such groups/artists who subscribed to the same 'no compromise' sensibility found so often lacking in music. Think The Cure were heavily informed by punk in this sense, the same as Swans, Nick Cave, Wire or Einsturzende Neubauten, for example, but now and again artists possessed of such vision, drive and attitude enter the fray regardless, such as Johnny Cash, Can, Scott Walker, Kate Bush, Aphex Twin, Robert Wyatt, Bowie (we can forgive his '80s misadventures), Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Bjork or Ghostpoet (okay, Bjork came out of punk, too...). Of course, it's embedded in less charted music as well, but it's good these people are out there, or have been, highlighting possibilities outside the generally tired accepted parameters. One of The Cure's best assets is that this is how they are to me and yet to others they'll be seen as, simply, a quirky pop group. I still see them as contemporaries of The Stranglers, ATV, Mark Stewart, New Order, Killing Joke, PIL, etc. Like all of those, they found their own way. Much respect!
Richo Johnson Thankyou for not deriding my Lumpy comparison of the two bands ( VDGG hardly aspired to be a Smash Hits poster band ) but for understanding the creative angle I was getting at 😀. I know Smith didn’t want to be a Stadium band but on looking out at the crowd one day had had to accept things as they’d become but on seeing them recently perform “ under the deep green sea “ ( ? I lost touch with them after Kiss Me .. ) one wonders why he hadn’t attempted something more ‘ proggy ‘ after hearing a Hammock tune called Claroty - which is Cure-esq ! I must go. Regards 👍
i love how the creators didnt use the most well known sonsg to feature through the documentary, I'm a huge cure fan but i still learnt few new songs thru watching the series!
WOW!! Great job on the documentary everyone!! I really enjoy when you mix all the different years of the same song!! All of the different lineups of the Cure have such amazing talent! Thank you!!
Gr8 stuff right here. The most awesomest ting bout the Cure is they got Better. That's a rare thing in rock, usually the freedom of youth allows for your best work but when they followed up Disintegration w arguably their best album Wish with hard gut punching tracks like From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Cut, & End, I knew they would be in my Walkman forever... 😚🤩
they're simply one of the greatest bands of all time. innovators, truly original. look at the following bands: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Metallica.... that's just about the corner stone of every genre and what it spawned. they are iconic.
I don't suppose for one moment that Robert Smith has ever listened to King Crimson's Coda: Marine 475, but compare it to the live version of End in this documentary. It has all those same qualities of a stumbling, drunken juggernaut; a bewildered mammoth careering over the steppes, poweful and unstoppable but barely holding itself together. It's the kind of music I love.
Amazing documentary! Thanks for sharing my friend! I wonder if Robert saw this now that he's preparing a Cure film with Tim Pope. He would be inspired :)
Thank you so much for all the Play Out footage! I don't think it was ever released on DVD, and my videocassete went missing many a long year ago. That was my favorite Cure video for all of the candid footage of the band. I wonder why interviews with The Cure are so few and far between. Whenever I get the chance to see any, I feel like I've caught a magical creature in its natural habitat - just for a moment - then it's gone! Never have felt like I've ever known what any of the members are really like as regular people. I suppose that's something they just keep private about - and I don't blame them - though I'd really have loved to know anything about their home lives. I remember reading once Robert saying that 90% of anything he says in interviews is bullshit just to make fun, so I take it all with a grain of salt when I hear him talking, but it's fun to guess which details might be true! :) Thanks so much for this!
I've never heard the instrumental version for "happy the man" used in this clip (29-33 minute mark). It's magical. Does anyone know where I can find source?
Hi @Inga Hiltunen! This is A Dark Affair off Lost Wishes: th-cam.com/video/DNYvWbzIMbw/w-d-xo.html (music videos typically get banned by TH-cam after just a couple seconds, so I found that it helped to sync it to different music, slow it down, re-cut, play backwards, etc...)
This is a compilation of every Cure vid, but it isnt in order so it's like it wasnt edited yet, I dont know. LOve listening anyway, havet seen most of these in many years.
Rainier Rodriguez it was always impossible to find! I hadn’t heard it prior to finding it on TH-cam. A guy named Brian Hansen did a great remaster of all the tracks.
Reeves is a great guitarist but since now I don't like the way he arranged the Cure songs ... by my side Pearl is the best one .. and then Perry was more in line with the Cure sound ..
Being a man of (ahem) a certain age, I loved The Cure from "Three Imaginary Boys" through to "Pornography". I thought the "Let's Go To Bed", "The Walk" and "The Lovecats" were good as pop but not a patch on the earlier material. Other than that, I probably only like (but not love) a half dozen other songs by them post "Lovecats" and these songs all come from the "Top" and "Head On The Door" era. I can't stand the "I'm Mad Me", "Wackiness" of The Cure from "The Head On The Door" onwards. For me, they were only great as a Post Punk group.
Also, if you're enjoying these, I'd recommend watching the updated Part 1 - it has more earlier footage pre-Head on the Door. th-cam.com/video/ZPgu9V3L-7M/w-d-xo.html
Are these all the original band members? From the first part? Were they all together through the success and shared it? I know during The Cure Rock in Roll Hall of Fame, Robert Smith i think said said a remembrance of a former band member??
The band members changed during the years, Robert being the only consistent member followed by Simon, Lol, Pearl, and Boris.The person that passed away was drummer Andy Anderson. At this point, Lol was out of the group, replaced by Perry who was a longtime guitar tech.
@@BearWithNoFace thought I’d heard every cure song in existence. Missed one! I think I know now where Drab Majesty got the idea for their song Ellipsis...th-cam.com/video/LjBo82hQXFA/w-d-xo.html
@@BearWithNoFace great job on this doc. What a perfect tribute to the best band in existence. Have been enjoying watching every episode on this Sunday. So much footage I’ve never seen before.
@@BearWithNoFace would love if you gave a listen to my music project Ghost Cards. Influences are obvious ;)...ghostcards.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-cards. (Also on SoundCloud and Spotify)
Our world needs THE CURE. Thank you so much for helping us to live and keep on finding odds and ends of splendor in our despair.
I’m much more of a metal/hard rock guy but to me the Cure are magic. Robert Smith is a true visionary
@Conner Alfonso doesn’t sound like you’re a “good friend”
You two asswipes are the same person
Same here pal! Hard core rock n roller with a huge love of the Cure👍
Yes, friend. That is. I think so, i lo e your music a d his actitud. Kiss for you.
Thank you for all the hard work put into this. There is no greater human than Robert. These films show how honest he has always been as an artist and as a human. I cannot wait until Glasgow!
for me The Cure as above and beyond any other musical group. They have been my favorite for over 25 years. Robert had a vision from the start. He knew what he wanted and knew how to get it. He made music because he had something to say, not because he had 3 albums left on his contract. There were plenty of times Robert could have just sold out and made a cash grab but he didn't, and he won't. It's been 40 years and Robert still does things the way he wants. I am very lucky that I chose this band because they are still going strong. Still making music and still touring, and sounding better than ever.
PS.....how was Glasgow for you?
Agreed!!!
JubeProductions I loved it.
Lots of great stuff I've never seen before. Funny how Robert is always playing down the importance of the look and it's all about the music, then he goes to extreme lengths to create his bonkers hair and make up lol 😊❤ Thanks again for posting these excellent films.
It's too funny! Dazzle camouflage.
@@BearWithNoFace Excellent Documentaries presented in a Totally different way and lots of Rare stuff. Great work
extreme lengths...LOL! Ever met a girl?!
Seriously the best Documentary and I have seen Them All. This has made Quarantine bearable. Thank you so much for this Magnum Opus.
Thank you @Staci!
Love Porls guitar in never enough.
Same...
You had me at, “love Porl’s guitar.”
Funny how The Cure was the biggest underground act I have ever known.. They were played on radio, but were college monsters, underground monsters and they were the antithesis of the hair band 80's... Loved them!
Just brilliant! Best documentary ever, no jokes. It’s a must see for cure fans. Thank you 🙏🏻
Great acoustic version of The Walk! Never heard it before.
It's so good! The footage is from the documentary PLAY OUT (1991). It's a rehearsal for Mtv Unplugged, I believe.
True artists. Respects. Rob Smith is a genius. He's a Legend now 🖤🎼🎶🎤🎸
Was recommended this by a friend of mine and I’m absolutely in love with the film, i never knew this entire side of Robert. I grew up with the cure thanks to my siblings and I’ve been a fan since then. This is a masterpiece in all
Dudes! What an amazing work you've done here! This doc series should be awarded!
Thanks Luis!
That is the version of " if only tonight we could sleep " ..how many fabulous songs they created can be stretched and tweaked away from the bombast or tinny we old folks enjoyed or endured. They're the VDGG of the 80s or 90s , no compromise. ( Peter Hammill on TOTP ? ). Love from Wessex on Sea
Interesting analogy. Love Hammill/VdGG, too, but more importantly feel there are thankfully a number of such groups/artists who subscribed to the same 'no compromise' sensibility found so often lacking in music. Think The Cure were heavily informed by punk in this sense, the same as Swans, Nick Cave, Wire or Einsturzende Neubauten, for example, but now and again artists possessed of such vision, drive and attitude enter the fray regardless, such as Johnny Cash, Can, Scott Walker, Kate Bush, Aphex Twin, Robert Wyatt, Bowie (we can forgive his '80s misadventures), Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Bjork or Ghostpoet (okay, Bjork came out of punk, too...). Of course, it's embedded in less charted music as well, but it's good these people are out there, or have been, highlighting possibilities outside the generally tired accepted parameters. One of The Cure's best assets is that this is how they are to me and yet to others they'll be seen as, simply, a quirky pop group. I still see them as contemporaries of The Stranglers, ATV, Mark Stewart, New Order, Killing Joke, PIL, etc. Like all of those, they found their own way. Much respect!
Richo Johnson Thankyou for not deriding my Lumpy comparison of the two bands ( VDGG hardly aspired to be a Smash Hits poster band ) but for understanding the creative angle I was getting at 😀. I know Smith didn’t want to be a Stadium band but on looking out at the crowd one day had had to accept things as they’d become but on seeing them recently perform “ under the deep green sea “ ( ? I lost touch with them after Kiss Me .. ) one wonders why he hadn’t attempted something more ‘ proggy ‘ after hearing a Hammock tune called Claroty - which is Cure-esq ! I must go. Regards 👍
They are amazing live performers. Even to this day forty years later! See you in NYC Robert 💋
Mixed up is my favorite cure record. It introduced me to good dance music and I’ve never left.
How to be hard workers and having fun in the same time ? Ask Rob Smith and The CURE 🖤💋🖤💋
Wow, this is so great! Thank you so much for putting this together!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
So much work!! Wow!
Mixed up was so underated, it's my most played album of theres, not my favorite but definitely the most played.
As a longtime cure fan, this is is one of the best collections cure footage(the whole series). I have been truly mesmerized. such good work...Bravo.
Yeah ! Let's have a drink before working 🙂 cheers Robert Smith and The Cure
Thank you bear with no face for posting these documentaries there brilliant love them
i love how the creators didnt use the most well known sonsg to feature through the documentary, I'm a huge cure fan but i still learnt few new songs thru watching the series!
WOW!! Great job on the documentary everyone!! I really enjoy when you mix all the different years of the same song!! All of the different lineups of the Cure have such amazing talent! Thank you!!
Thanks for playing good Cure music over the Friday I’m in Love video.
Ha! Yeah that was partly out of necessity to avoid being blocked, but it was a welcome necessity.
Bear With No Face what is the music in that segment please?
@@nathanielmellors4857 Sorry I just saw this comment - it's A Dark Affair off Lost Wishes
Bear With No Face thanks! I’m amazed this isn’t an official doc.; brilliant work.
Thank you so much for this series. It is so intimate, so transparent, I especially enjoyed hearing Robert Smith talk. Love the song montages
Their best line-up, IMO. I cant count how many times I've heard that "Doing the unstuck" from that live record
Gr8 stuff right here. The most awesomest ting bout the Cure is they got Better. That's a rare thing in rock, usually the freedom of youth allows for your best work but when they followed up Disintegration w arguably their best album Wish with hard gut punching tracks like From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Cut, & End, I knew they would be in my Walkman forever... 😚🤩
Thank you so much for this - what a treasure it is.
I love the part when Pearl was giving them welcome kisses as they got reunited 43:54 again when the 3 lads arrived via QE2.
Absolutely wonderful! Just one more part to go! Thank you so much for bringing back such great memories!
5 brilliant musicians in that band and not one of them owns a hair brush.
So many songs I never heard before that are fantastic! Thanks!
Big time props to the channel owner!!! ❤️
I agree with that!!
An absolute love letter. THANK YOU!!!!!….and thank you for not playing Friday I’m in Love 🤗
I haven't listened to The Cure in so long, and this was a fun reintroduction, thanks
8:33 Boris goofing around without missing a beat
they're simply one of the greatest bands of all time. innovators, truly original. look at the following bands: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Metallica.... that's just about the corner stone of every genre and what it spawned. they are iconic.
And QUEEN
I don't suppose for one moment that Robert Smith has ever listened to King Crimson's Coda: Marine 475, but compare it to the live version of End in this documentary. It has all those same qualities of a stumbling, drunken juggernaut; a bewildered mammoth careering over the steppes, poweful and unstoppable but barely holding itself together. It's the kind of music I love.
the editing on this thing
Amazing documentary! Thanks for sharing my friend! I wonder if Robert saw this now that he's preparing a Cure film with Tim Pope. He would be inspired :)
Thank you DrowningManH! I was just thrilled to hear he's working on it again! Can't wait to see that unseen footage...
Thank you for excellent work!
Thank you so much for all the Play Out footage! I don't think it was ever released on DVD, and my videocassete went missing many a long year ago. That was my favorite Cure video for all of the candid footage of the band. I wonder why interviews with The Cure are so few and far between. Whenever I get the chance to see any, I feel like I've caught a magical creature in its natural habitat - just for a moment - then it's gone! Never have felt like I've ever known what any of the members are really like as regular people. I suppose that's something they just keep private about - and I don't blame them - though I'd really have loved to know anything about their home lives. I remember reading once Robert saying that 90% of anything he says in interviews is bullshit just to make fun, so I take it all with a grain of salt when I hear him talking, but it's fun to guess which details might be true! :) Thanks so much for this!
Fantastic! Thank you.
6:25 peppeppepe pereppeppe peppe pereppeppe... Take Me for a walk!! 😂😂
Very sexy Robert's voice
Brilliant.
Ah 25.20 I never seen a repeat of this on this part 3...good!
It's never enough 🙂🖤👍👍👍
I've never heard the instrumental version for "happy the man" used in this clip (29-33 minute mark). It's magical. Does anyone know where I can find source?
Its A Dark affair, from th-cam.com/video/DNYvWbzIMbw/w-d-xo.html
This is A Dark Affair from Lost Wishes, an instrumental cassette - th-cam.com/video/KAsMxQxzQzA/w-d-xo.html
At 25:10 there's a different version of "A Foolish Arrangement", does someone know where it can be found?
This is HK off Lost Wishes th-cam.com/video/RC_4b1EtcEY/w-d-xo.html
Why The MTV Unplugged was never out officially on CD and Vinyl ? Really saddddd
I think it was because Mtv was charging a fortune for licensing.
Hello, great work! What is playing 28:00 - 33:09? Scary sound :)
Hi @Inga Hiltunen! This is A Dark Affair off Lost Wishes: th-cam.com/video/DNYvWbzIMbw/w-d-xo.html (music videos typically get banned by TH-cam after just a couple seconds, so I found that it helped to sync it to different music, slow it down, re-cut, play backwards, etc...)
Thank you
JeUs this is awesome. 4 parts? Wow
Still believe Robert Smith took inspiration from Syd Barett, look at the cover of Opel, uncanny. Saw them around 91 or so, amazing.
Whats the end song, starting at 51:20? Great doco series btw :)
That's "Bastard" off Lost Wishes
th-cam.com/video/UrmsobhklIo/w-d-xo.html
@@BearWithNoFace Thank you so much!
If you are looking for the source, find the vhs The Cure Play Out (1991)
🤔 @3.00 I already saw that part on part 1 of 4 of this docu music media. 😂😉
03:05 RIDE!!!! love those guys
Wow, where did you get the "A foolish arregment" demo? Great work
@Paco Heres Thank you! That came from this link: th-cam.com/video/RC_4b1EtcEY/w-d-xo.html
@@BearWithNoFace Thanks!!!
Musical geniuses. Above the average left brain mentality! Another dimensional consciousness!
Right brain: creative and imaginative; Left brain: logical and analytical. Clearly, they have both.
Who's the pianist/guitarist/saxophonist who plays at mtv and live in minute 24:00? I thought he was Roger O'Donell but...
I believe it's Perry playing guitar and whatever woodwind instrument he's playing at the MTV show.
@@BearWithNoFace yess now I'm sure 🙋
That is Perry
Does someone knows the name of the song at 28:15?
I love this one - it's A Dark Affair off Lost Wishes th-cam.com/video/KAsMxQxzQzA/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful song indeed!
ty very much!!! wonderful, amazing and all!!
My youth. 😔🖤👍
Excellent ❤️
I like the part where Perry plays the giant pepper grinder
This is a compilation of every Cure vid, but it isnt in order so it's like it wasnt edited yet, I dont know. LOve listening anyway, havet seen most of these in many years.
Cool
Lovely stuff! Would anyone happen to know the song played at 41:32 ish?
@scratchyhamster that is T7 from Lost Wishes: th-cam.com/video/1Ki-7ecar5E/w-d-xo.html
Just to see Robert
At 10:03, what is that instrument he's playing? Anybody?
Nevermind. It's a bass recorder if anyone is interested.
Thanks! I wasn't sure.
25:35 wow he predicted it
what's the song at 25:06 called?
That's HK off Lost Wishes - it's an instrumental version of A Foolish Arrangement.
Who knows what track is between minute 28:00 and 33:08?
Florin Medrea A Dark Affair
@@BearWithNoFace thank you!
Can someone tell me what song is that with the funny instrument around 9 min??
The Walk (acoustic rehearsal for Mtv unplugged)
Where was the unplugged show
Mtv studios, London
@ 30'00" = AMAZING!
what's the song at 2 minutes? I can't find that music video
it sounds like metro stations i wish we were older and i'm trying to confirm or deny that
trying to confirm or deny their really bad rip off
It's A Forest off the Mixed Up album - video is Close to Me off the same album
th-cam.com/video/RLFyOWZqvt0/w-d-xo.html
23:35 wild mood swings
What was the ending track?
Bastard off Lost Wishes
@@BearWithNoFace how have i never heard lost wishes!?? Thanks!
Rainier Rodriguez it was always impossible to find! I hadn’t heard it prior to finding it on TH-cam. A guy named Brian Hansen did a great remaster of all the tracks.
Home!
💜 ♥️
52.00 another repeat from part 1. 😑
❤
I love The Cure, but the unplugged they did in the 90's was awful! I still remember Robert's expression when Perry hit the wrong notes in The Walk! XD
I thought it was great.
Reeves is a great guitarist but since now I don't like the way he arranged the Cure songs ... by my side Pearl is the best one .. and then Perry was more in line with the Cure sound ..
Japanese Whispers.
Cover here : th-cam.com/video/IiwQKVxZc-Q/w-d-xo.html
The Walk is clearly a rip of Blue Monday. It's a great song but someone did it before.
"The Walk" was written and recorded before "Blue Monday", albeit released afterwards. Hence no legal action was never taken.
You clearly don't know Blue Monday by New Order!
Being a man of (ahem) a certain age, I loved The Cure from "Three Imaginary Boys" through to "Pornography". I thought the "Let's Go To Bed", "The Walk" and "The Lovecats" were good as pop but not a patch on the earlier material. Other than that, I probably only like (but not love) a half dozen other songs by them post "Lovecats" and these songs all come from the "Top" and "Head On The Door" era. I can't stand the "I'm Mad Me", "Wackiness" of The Cure from "The Head On The Door" onwards. For me, they were only great as a Post Punk group.
That's still a lot of songs to like.
Also, if you're enjoying these, I'd recommend watching the updated Part 1 - it has more earlier footage pre-Head on the Door. th-cam.com/video/ZPgu9V3L-7M/w-d-xo.html
two words: bed head haha
Are these all the original band members? From the first part? Were they all together through the success and shared it? I know during The Cure Rock in Roll Hall of Fame, Robert Smith i think said said a remembrance of a former band member??
The band members changed during the years, Robert being the only consistent member followed by Simon, Lol, Pearl, and Boris.The person that passed away was drummer Andy Anderson. At this point, Lol was out of the group, replaced by Perry who was a longtime guitar tech.
What song is around @30:00
The song is A Dark Affair
Wow thank you so much! I only have part four to watch and I’ve loved them all so far!
I’m so glad! There is also a Part 5 that was uploaded at the beginning of this year!
Thank you, I found that one and watched it too haha! Thank you for posting!
What’s the song at 25:00?
That's HK off Lost Wishes, but it became A Foolish Arrangement. th-cam.com/video/RC_4b1EtcEY/w-d-xo.html
@@BearWithNoFace thought I’d heard every cure song in existence. Missed one! I think I know now where Drab Majesty got the idea for their song Ellipsis...th-cam.com/video/LjBo82hQXFA/w-d-xo.html
Jesse Lyon very cool and similar!!
@@BearWithNoFace great job on this doc. What a perfect tribute to the best band in existence. Have been enjoying watching every episode on this Sunday. So much footage I’ve never seen before.
@@BearWithNoFace would love if you gave a listen to my music project Ghost Cards. Influences are obvious ;)...ghostcards.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-cards. (Also on SoundCloud and Spotify)
What is the song at 29.00??????
Gabriel Youmans A Dark Affair off Lost Wishes
@@BearWithNoFace Thank you! Best Doc. Ever!!!