So far ahead of the pack. Curve would find their true place and appreciation among the metal crowd these days. They were seriously heavy and sound as fresh and vital now as they did 30 years ago, unlike most of their peers. A phenomenally talented band with an absolute goddess of cool up front.
Just. Wow. Sounds better than ever, 5/5 to me 30yrs later, doesn't get much better. Incredible impact. The whole image - magnificent too. I think Garbage used Curve as a style blueprint, and cashed in, but the original thing is superior.
Always and forever thank you to Great Britain, the British people and their creativity for giving the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as Curve and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands?
As a Brit I say thanks Bruno for such a kind comment. I am sure you will know many of these bands but if not please have a listen to the following, mostly Brit bands:- Slowdive, The Cure, Lush, Echobelly, Flock Of Seagulls, Human League, Ladytron, The Stone Roses, The Fauns, Haelos, Stereophonics, Miniatures, Diiv, Tamaryn, The Beloved, PinkShinyUltrablast, New Order, M83, Loveblind (lead singer ex of stunning German Shoegaze band Seasurfer), Chromatics, Seasurfer, The Verve, Sleeper, Ride, James, Marsheaux, Public Service Broadcasting, Above And Beyond, Leftfield, Minor Victories, Ultra Vivid Scene, The Farm, Flowered Up, Alvvays, High Flying Birds. Ian Brown, Heart Throbs, Portishead, Beady Eye, Pulp, Oasis, Mazzy Star, Jesus And Mary Chain, Hope Sandoval, Cocteau Twins, Autumns Grey Solace, Velocity Girl, Shura, Of Monsters And Men, Ocean Colour Scene, The Naked And Famous, The Charlatans, I Break Horses, Dark Orange.
@@nickrobinson8339 Thanks Nick Robinson. Although I know most of the bands you mention (Cocteau Twins being my favourite one) there are a number of bands in your list that I do not know so I'm going to give them a listen.
@@benedettobruno1669 Glad to chuck some new bands your way. I am sure you are aware that Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins sung on an amazing track called Song To The Siren by This Mortal Coil. If you do not know the track it shows her vocal brilliance away from the Cocteau's. She also collaborated with Massive Attack. I used to sit up after midnight night after night for years in the 80s and 90s listening to a famous Brit DJ called John Peel who played, basically, everything that the mainstream radio programmes would not. He was a legend among people like me who were into indie, Punk and Reggae music to name a few types. I am now almost 60 but still have not lost my love for new bands unlike all my friends who cannot be bothered any more. Also, before I forget, a band called Xymox and also Clan Of Xymox created some amazing tracks from the pop like hit called Imagination to much darker gothic offerings. Have fun exploring Bruno.
@@nickrobinson8339 You British have a saying that goes "you're preaching the converted/the choir", haven't you? I adore This Mortail Coil and many 4AD bands, but most of the Massive Attack's songs get into one of my ears and out f the other. I used to listen and love John Peel's radio programmes. Nowadays I also listen to his son Tom Ravenscroft on BBC Radio 6 from my home in Sicily - ah! the joys of the internet! Clan Of Xymox you say Nick? The best band that ever came out of the Netherlands I reckon!
Years of TH-cam rabbit holes, hundreds of different artists and this is the first time the brilliant Curve popped into my recommended (from within a Cocteau Twins mix). Honestly, it must be 10 years since I've heard this banging tune and was singing along like it was yesterday. Somehow I'd forgotten about the band. Now I've gotta find the album this track was off again.
This video is so good. Toni's glare at the camera, attitude to match her lyrics, the stark black & white, the moody flamenco lady trying to out-face Toni, the band thrashing it out like they mean it in smoky slo-mo, etc etc,... still one of my favourite vids from any band
Saw them on the Doppelganger tour at the Junction in Cambridge, apart from Motorhead, they were the loudest band I've ever heard, my ears were ringing for a week. Also Miss Halliday wore a very tight one piece rubber suit, I honestly thought my family jewels were going to explode she was so hot.
Ah Toni Halliday, face of a goddess, voice of a goddess, the moves of a punch-drunk heavyweight boxer. She dances as badly as me, yet somehow this makes her even more attractive.
I never stopped listening to Curve since their singles came out! My favourites from them are all early releases such as the gloomy "Ten Little Girls" with JC001, the classic shoegazing "Coast Is Clear", the powerful "Clipped" and "Fait Accompli" and the fabulous shining "Horrorhead". I still have Curve videos from MTV Europe's 120 Minutes with Paul King, and everytime I watch them I still feel like it was 1991 or 1992, with all the other bands of the time such as Lush, Slowdive, Ride, etc.
Got to agree with a lot of the comments here. So, so underrated. I love their sound where it is like the guitars are battling each other for supremacy. Saw them live in the early 90s in London. Fell in love with the sound, the band and of course Toni. Thank you so much.
First heard Curve on Gary Crowley’s Greater London Radio Saturday afternoon alternative rock show, in the early 90s, when he played the extraordinary track Horror Head! Went and bought the CD single immediately!
One of my favourite songs of the early 90s The indie scene between the late 80s and mid 90s was fucking brilliant, Best time of my life, No idea how many bands I saw, how many gigs I went to and the amount of quality drugs was awesome, Also, normal, good looking, non pretentious girls, This isn't a rose tinted glasses, nostalgic retro view of things, Being into that scene back then really was cool as f**k.
Have every CD released by Curve. Even have the solo stuff of Toni's and State of Play and Recoil. Paid $200 U.S. for the Superblaster single. Rare as hen's teeth back then. I love the lyric about insomnia in Fait. The most perfect description of a crippling condition. This song gives it a sense of beauty. I love Shirley Manson and Garbage , however , kind of think they took Curve's sound and made it more marketable . Good luck to them I guess.
Finally i have found this song! i had completely forgotten the band name all i knew was that it had a french title, after nearly a week of trying to remember Fait Accompi just popped in my head. Bloody loved this tune first heard on my locals juke box in the early 90s and used to get the barmaid to crank it up, great days indeed! Now what other gems have i forgotten about??
Ah the band that invented an entire sound for the 90's. Hugely influential, still as they no doubt sit in their mansions now members have to admit this is where it all started.
Light years ahead of the game... love Oasis "Definitely Maybe" but these bad girls/boys were pushing the acoustic envelope two years before. Hard edged blasting bass & reverb, set against a Soft Cell darkness, and a massive sound intelligence. Pure bass, clean vocal, and a frankly perverse heavy edged guitar sound that, fell (FELL) against the vocal mix ... get in!
I agree about the light years, therefore the Oasis comparison doesn't make any sense to me. Oasis were a good-ish trad band, altogether an anachronism, with zero apport in sound innovation department.
CURVE please reform and tour! So many of my favourite bands are except you :( My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Blur, PiL, New Order, Suede. A lot of us missed out on seeing CURVE live the first time around!!!
You have no idea how close that nearly came to be a couple of years ago. It was all arranged, but Toni pulled at the last minute due to big nerves of performing live again. A friend of mine had it all arranged
Curve splitting up promoted me to start a band.. we toured everywhere and even got signed for 5 minutes. Literally changed my life..that’s some debt. 🙏🏻
Oh god this takes me back to when i was a young chip on shoulder black mood all the time ladette complete with long black coat DMs n beret !!!! Awesome track oh i feel a big moody cloud acoming.....thanks for posting .
My abiding memory of this is the portentous tones of Tommy Vance introducing it on the Top 40 countdown on Radio 1... it was, of course, miles better than anything else that week
The missing link between ... Nirvana, Pulp, Mondays ... oh Mama ... so good ... so BASS ... so LOUD and GOOD... massively intelligent guitar and vocal sound....there is always a force for good that is not recognised for the beauty they are and remain ... xx to Curve ... in 92 and 2019 ... AAA1 work ... proper Stone Roses GOOD ... xx
I discovered this band now, though they are from 90's, and a grew up on bands of 80's-90's. and listen a lot Depeche Mode, Inxs, U-2, NitzerEbb, Faith no More, A-ha, Camouflage, e.t.c. What a shame, I did not know this gorgeus band... But other thing is that now in 2015, when there are less interesting bands, it is a treasure to discover something new from the past. At this moment I like this song most os all, and video is also good) It goes good with music. Also, I want to say, if you're not impressed with music today, check old bands, thanx for webs like TH-cam and people that have time and insperation to share music!!!
No... don't tell me they played in Cov... I am genuinely gutted, especially as I never did see them live in their heyday... almost once, supporting The Sisters of Mercy (what a gig that would've been), but on the night it was someone else.
I saw them in Edinburgh Queens Halls at some point in like ... 1991 or something. These bands were and still are *far too loud* . It was just varying degrees of pink and white noise with some loud banging going on. Couldn't hear the lyrics or anything. Bloody ears were ringing all night afterwards. It appears that I may have just become my own grandfather.
Seen them Northampton Irish centre wicked live band.toni is beautiful fancied arse of her then a little while later they were on Lollapalooza tour unreal.
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its 2024 I wanna go back to 1992 #Genx
I'll go!
Whoever is listening to this in 2023, I salute you.
I'll second that x
It's 2024... still listening
@@soffsegtraddict Been listening since it first came out, don't intent to stop soon.
2024 !
🤗💜🙂
Id beam back to the 90s in a blink of an eye if i could, everything was better especially the music. 50yr old .
it's time to bring 90s back in music industry!
@@user-mm3sd3uh6y agreed--swagger! substance! music needs that again . . .
How can a track written over 30 years ago still sound really futuristic...?
😆🤗🙂
The camera just loves Ms Halliday.
Mesmerising.
Curve/The Banshees... My most favourite bands ever.
The Flamenco dancer in the clip doesn't get enough love - she is friggin'g awesome.
Everybody in this clip doesn't get enough love. They are all friggin'g awesome!
So far ahead of the pack. Curve would find their true place and appreciation among the metal crowd these days. They were seriously heavy and sound as fresh and vital now as they did 30 years ago, unlike most of their peers. A phenomenally talented band with an absolute goddess of cool up front.
I just wish it was still the 90,s
this before the morning coffee....who needs cofffee? "ive come to make u feel good"
MOST UNDERRATED BAND ON THE PLANET!! Grew up on Curve, still love them. One kickass band, Everything Flood produced back then was high class..
So good u2 used him
So good Depeche Mode used him several times
Flood and Alan Moulder are seriously under-rated producers,,,,
They are incredible
Just. Wow. Sounds better than ever, 5/5 to me 30yrs later, doesn't get much better. Incredible impact. The whole image - magnificent too.
I think Garbage used Curve as a style blueprint, and cashed in, but the original thing is superior.
I saw Curve several times back in the day live, they were amazing, a really strong live band, would love to see them reform
No chance...unfortunately
This is an absolut blaster! Used to spin this back in the day n still sounds so fresh. Too bad not many remember Curve
Yes agree, they probably need to reform.
Well true
@@danielpayne500 I was in the UK when my friends told me Curve had broken up. 1997/8. Still annoyed!
I've been looking for this song. Was searching for "my name is fait". Love the song and love her.
Always and forever thank you to Great Britain, the British people and their creativity for giving the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as Curve and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere.
What would our lives have been without British bands?
I'm from Great Britain and this comment made my heart sing.
As a Brit I say thanks Bruno for such a kind comment. I am sure you will know many of these bands but if not please have a listen to the following, mostly Brit bands:-
Slowdive, The Cure, Lush, Echobelly, Flock Of Seagulls, Human League, Ladytron, The Stone Roses, The Fauns, Haelos, Stereophonics, Miniatures, Diiv, Tamaryn, The Beloved, PinkShinyUltrablast, New Order, M83, Loveblind (lead singer ex of stunning German Shoegaze band Seasurfer), Chromatics, Seasurfer, The Verve, Sleeper, Ride, James, Marsheaux, Public Service Broadcasting, Above And Beyond, Leftfield, Minor Victories, Ultra Vivid Scene, The Farm, Flowered Up, Alvvays, High Flying Birds. Ian Brown, Heart Throbs, Portishead, Beady Eye, Pulp, Oasis, Mazzy Star, Jesus And Mary Chain, Hope Sandoval, Cocteau Twins, Autumns Grey Solace, Velocity Girl, Shura, Of Monsters And Men, Ocean Colour Scene, The Naked And Famous, The Charlatans, I Break Horses, Dark Orange.
@@nickrobinson8339
Thanks Nick Robinson. Although I know most of the bands you mention (Cocteau Twins being my favourite one) there are a number of bands in your list that I do not know so I'm going to give them a listen.
@@benedettobruno1669 Glad to chuck some new bands your way. I am sure you are aware that Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins sung on an amazing track called Song To The Siren by This Mortal Coil. If you do not know the track it shows her vocal brilliance away from the Cocteau's. She also collaborated with Massive Attack. I used to sit up after midnight night after night for years in the 80s and 90s listening to a famous Brit DJ called John Peel who played, basically, everything that the mainstream radio programmes would not. He was a legend among people like me who were into indie, Punk and Reggae music to name a few types. I am now almost 60 but still have not lost my love for new bands unlike all my friends who cannot be bothered any more. Also, before I forget, a band called Xymox and also Clan Of Xymox created some amazing tracks from the pop like hit called Imagination to much darker gothic offerings. Have fun exploring Bruno.
@@nickrobinson8339
You British have a saying that goes "you're preaching the converted/the choir", haven't you?
I adore This Mortail Coil and many 4AD bands, but most of the Massive Attack's songs get into one of my ears and out f the other. I used to listen and love John Peel's radio programmes. Nowadays I also listen to his son Tom Ravenscroft on BBC Radio 6 from my home in Sicily - ah! the joys of the internet!
Clan Of Xymox you say Nick? The best band that ever came out of the Netherlands I reckon!
Toni Halliday was the new Debbie Harry of indie rock n roll !!!! Dean's pumping bassline gives this tune total fucking power!!!!!
Years of TH-cam rabbit holes, hundreds of different artists and this is the first time the brilliant Curve popped into my recommended (from within a Cocteau Twins mix). Honestly, it must be 10 years since I've heard this banging tune and was singing along like it was yesterday. Somehow I'd forgotten about the band. Now I've gotta find the album this track was off again.
This woman gave me serious twitchings in my nethers when I was in my late teens/early 20's.
She still does.
god yeah
This still rocks the shit out of anything. Rediscovering after seeing them in the 90s. Fuck yeah
I dunno qotsa are pretty fxcking amazing
@@bumpyjason certainly are, totally rock out
Snarling writhing rumbling this is the best music video in the world
This video is so good. Toni's glare at the camera, attitude to match her lyrics, the stark black & white, the moody flamenco lady trying to out-face Toni, the band thrashing it out like they mean it in smoky slo-mo, etc etc,... still one of my favourite vids from any band
It's a moody flamenco _pikey_ , they always look like that.
Directed by Sophie Muller.
Tool, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails & Curve. My 5 favourite bands
I like your style.
Their best song, just jerk on this fantastic song with my ears
Damn, this is a fucking cool video. And the song, of course.
Watching this at high volume through TH-cam and my AV system and big speakers!
Stunning!
I always identified with this track it's sound it's power is definitely a reality in life
Saw them on the Doppelganger tour at the Junction in Cambridge, apart from Motorhead, they were the loudest band I've ever heard, my ears were ringing for a week.
Also Miss Halliday wore a very tight one piece rubber suit, I honestly thought my family jewels were going to explode she was so hot.
🤣🤣🤣
Phil, did you go to Chesterton?
Excellent. Really gets me going. Gotta listen to these guys !
Ah Toni Halliday, face of a goddess, voice of a goddess, the moves of a punch-drunk heavyweight boxer. She dances as badly as me, yet somehow this makes her even more attractive.
this is the most romantic love confession i've ever read
she's sexy as hell
Listening to this full blast will cure what ails you.
Le morceau n'a pas vieilli. Un groupe en avance sur son temps !
These guys are legends. I just picked up EP' clipped and Frozen. I got hooked on the sound all over again..I want all.the releases now.
An awesome sound. Crank this one up and revel in the dark bliss.
Guitars rock 😊 🎸 🎸 🎸 ❤
I never stopped listening to Curve since their singles came out!
My favourites from them are all early releases such as the gloomy "Ten Little Girls" with JC001, the classic shoegazing "Coast Is Clear", the powerful "Clipped" and "Fait Accompli" and the fabulous shining "Horrorhead".
I still have Curve videos from MTV Europe's 120 Minutes with Paul King, and everytime I watch them I still feel like it was 1991 or 1992, with all the other bands of the time such as Lush, Slowdive, Ride, etc.
Doppleganger is all killer no filler.
It will never get old.
Got to agree with a lot of the comments here. So, so underrated. I love their sound where it is like the guitars are battling each other for supremacy.
Saw them live in the early 90s in London. Fell in love with the sound, the band and of course Toni. Thank you so much.
First heard Curve on Gary Crowley’s
Greater London Radio Saturday afternoon alternative rock show, in the early 90s, when he played the extraordinary track
Horror Head!
Went and bought the CD single immediately!
What a masterpiece!!
Timeless...
Curve were magnificent. Especially Ms Halliday 😍
2024, Why didn't we listen to this, rather than the pap that got chart blips?
Because of who controls the music we hear.
One of my favourite songs of the early 90s
The indie scene between the late 80s and mid 90s was fucking brilliant,
Best time of my life,
No idea how many bands I saw, how many gigs I went to and the amount of quality drugs was awesome,
Also, normal, good looking, non pretentious girls,
This isn't a rose tinted glasses, nostalgic retro view of things,
Being into that scene back then really was cool as f**k.
And then there was Britpop...☹️
Yeah. Shoegazin for ever.
Hear hear 👏
Have every CD released by Curve. Even have the solo stuff of Toni's and State of Play and Recoil. Paid $200 U.S. for the Superblaster single. Rare as hen's teeth back then. I love the lyric about insomnia in Fait. The most perfect description of a crippling condition. This song gives it a sense of beauty. I love Shirley Manson and Garbage , however , kind of think they took Curve's sound and made it more
marketable . Good luck to them I guess.
Wow what a woman !!!!
My favourite female singer of all time! ❤️
Finally i have found this song! i had completely forgotten the band name all i knew was that it had a french title, after nearly a week of trying to remember Fait Accompi just popped in my head. Bloody loved this tune first heard on my locals juke box in the early 90s and used to get the barmaid to crank it up, great days indeed! Now what other gems have i forgotten about??
That must’ve been a cool pub! Other 90s… how about Sneaker Pimps Six Undergriund ?
Ah the band that invented an entire sound for the 90's. Hugely influential, still as they no doubt sit in their mansions now members have to admit this is where it all started.
Light years ahead of the game... love Oasis "Definitely Maybe" but these bad girls/boys were pushing the acoustic envelope two years before. Hard edged blasting bass & reverb, set against a Soft Cell darkness, and a massive sound intelligence. Pure bass, clean vocal, and a frankly perverse heavy edged guitar sound that, fell (FELL) against the vocal mix ... get in!
I agree about the light years, therefore the Oasis comparison doesn't make any sense to me. Oasis were a good-ish trad band, altogether an anachronism, with zero apport in sound innovation department.
why mention Oasis? (oh, asked already)
Great band. Loved their live shows too. Way ahead of their time. 4 years later Garbage where replicating this.
Sorry but Oasis does not fit in the sentence with Curve at all.
Doppelganger, Loveless and Honey's Dead are the greatest 90's albums, and still the sound of future
Saludos from 2024 🎉
CURVE please reform and tour! So many of my favourite bands are except you :( My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Blur, PiL, New Order, Suede. A lot of us missed out on seeing CURVE live the first time around!!!
You have no idea how close that nearly came to be a couple of years ago. It was all arranged, but Toni pulled at the last minute due to big nerves of performing live again. A friend of mine had it all arranged
I’ve listened to them from the ground up still innovative and ahead of their time
Indy GEN X
xo
one of the greatest bands ever.
Curve splitting up promoted me to start a band.. we toured everywhere and even got signed for 5 minutes. Literally changed my life..that’s some debt. 🙏🏻
God haven't heard this in nearly 20 years. Toni still as hot as I remembered. Why the hell is there a sheep? Didn't remember that!
My driving at night song.
Cool Song, like it. 👍🙃
Oh god this takes me back to when i was a young chip on shoulder black mood all the time ladette complete with long black coat DMs n beret !!!! Awesome track oh i feel a big moody cloud acoming.....thanks for posting .
Damn good..always out there..dark sublime grunge esque 💖💖💖😈
My favourite band forever.
My abiding memory of this is the portentous tones of Tommy Vance introducing it on the Top 40 countdown on Radio 1... it was, of course, miles better than anything else that week
PUre Love! Curve and especially "Fail Accompli" are great!
The missing link between ... Nirvana, Pulp, Mondays ... oh Mama ... so good ... so BASS ... so LOUD and GOOD... massively intelligent guitar and vocal sound....there is always a force for good that is not recognised for the beauty they are and remain ... xx to Curve ... in 92 and 2019 ... AAA1 work ... proper Stone Roses GOOD ... xx
25065 views, and 25000 of them are probably from me .............. awesome!!!!!
Masterpiece
Doesn't get any better than this
I discovered this band now, though they are from 90's, and a grew up on bands of 80's-90's. and listen a lot Depeche Mode, Inxs, U-2, NitzerEbb, Faith no More, A-ha, Camouflage, e.t.c.
What a shame, I did not know this gorgeus band... But other thing is that now in 2015, when there are less interesting bands, it is a treasure to discover something new from the past. At this moment I like this song most os all, and video is also good) It goes good with music. Also, I want to say, if you're not impressed with music today, check old bands, thanx for webs like TH-cam and people that have time and insperation to share music!!!
Simple I came to this band via Depeche Mode, Toni sang on one of Alan Wilders Recoil LP's
Sounds as good today as the day it was released.
Goticos dos anos noventa que saudades
Saw these at the Coventry Ticktock club in the early nineties and she was so fit it was untrue. Music wasn't bad either.
No... don't tell me they played in Cov... I am genuinely gutted, especially as I never did see them live in their heyday... almost once, supporting The Sisters of Mercy (what a gig that would've been), but on the night it was someone else.
I saw them in Edinburgh Queens Halls at some point in like ... 1991 or something. These bands were and still are *far too loud* . It was just varying degrees of pink and white noise with some loud banging going on. Couldn't hear the lyrics or anything. Bloody ears were ringing all night afterwards.
It appears that I may have just become my own grandfather.
I'm lost for words, let alone tapping on keyboards......
2020. August. Still here.
MOC !
This has aged well
my name is... FAIT!
still one of the best songs and performances ever!
Miss You ! XXX
Lots & Lots
Pure class - god I miss this band....
Curve are right; every day has darkness
Great song
One of my favourite tracks growing up.
Only recently been introduced to this song and I LOVE it!
I love you
@@M9Diry i’m still regularly listening to it 4 years later!
Love this video, one of the top Indie bands, never tire of them. Revival tour Toni??
Proper Tune
I used to have the Blinfold Ep 12 inch. Long gone now though. Bought it in 91
That's a lot of Fender Jazzmasters.
I believe the correct collective noun is a 'shoegaze of Jazzmasters'.
Ha ha, two years late the party but Imma steal this for my own use if that's ok.
Uma obra prima sonora
Отлично.
that whoooo synth in the background
Love this so much . Loved this song so much when I was a kid and forgot all about it for years
still fkn love this song...timeless classic....
That sheep just makes it special somehow...lol
1984
I can see this song be played on the crow movie. It has such a goth industrial vibe to it.
Não sei como ela esta hoje em dia, mas ela era muito linda e tinha uma grande banda indie da epoca!!!!
Seen them Northampton Irish centre wicked live band.toni is beautiful fancied arse of her then a little while later they were on Lollapalooza tour unreal.
Awesome. Just fuckin' awesome xx
This is good stuff
Their best video ever and you can't view it in USA (A Gravina) ? Toni never looked better!
White noise its awesome
Tune