Probably the most enjoyable reaction video to the Cure I've seen so far. Disintegration is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's just atmospheric perfection.
DISINTGRATION is an emotional MASTERWORK. Any Cure fan must own the TRILOGY DVD which shows the concert performances of DISINTIGRATION, PORNOGRAPHY and BLOODFLOWERS in their entirety. Filmed in Germany in 2002.
"Plainsong" was the first song I heard by the Cure and the one that made me instantly fall in love with it. The music, the melody and the vocals came together in perfect harmony there. There is something very nature-like about "Plainsong" - it's like the sound of the wind and the music that you hear in your head when you look at the starry sky and the guitar part is like the sea waves rolling on the shore. Sound idiotic, perhaps, but that's how I see it :)
Not idiotic at all. You captured it. Musically and lyrically, Plainsong it’s like standing on a rugged cliff on a bleak, windy day or early evening, looking out over the ocean. I wish I was more articulate, but this is always what I’ve pictured when listening to it…
The bassline on Fascination Street is played all on the E string as well, which helps with that driving tone. But on that song, there is only one bass played live, there might be double tracked on the studio recording, but both Robert and Pearl are playing 6 string guitars live on it. You should watch the live video from Australia where they performed the whole thing live to get a feel for how it is performed. A quick breakdown: Plainsong: one six string guitar, one 4 string bass that plays the melody in the beginning Pictures of You: one guitar (live I have seen it be a six string, a 12 string, and an electric sitar) , one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines Closedown: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines (this is really the main config for the album for the more atmospheric numbers) Love Song: two six string guitars, one 4 string bass Last Dance: one electric guitar, one 4 string bass Lullaby: one electric guitar, one bass VI for leads, one 4 string bass Fascination Street: 2 electric guitars, one 4 string bass Prayers for Rain: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines Same Deep Water as You: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines Disintegration: Initially, live: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines. Then, at some point, Robert Smith took his Bass VI part and played it on a standard six string guitar Homesick: one electric six string, one acoustic/electric 12 string, one 4 string bass for the leads/bass part you heard Untitled: originally, one six string guitar, one Bass VI, and a 4 string bass. Then after the Trilogy release, they moved to two Bass VIs with the lead played in harmony, it is very nice. OK, I got far too long winded, lol. Here is the Sydney Opera House show from 2019 where not only did they do the whole album, but all of the B-Sides and the outtakes too. Luckily I had added it to a playlist, because it is now "unlisted", and it is BEAUTIFUL. ENJOY! th-cam.com/video/z9uSPf9WDbw/w-d-xo.html
So glad you did this! Thanks so much. I’m trying to learn bass ( v slowly) to keep up with my godson who is learning guitar and is becoming a huge Cure fan. Thanks so much for posting…
Dude. You are covering some great stuff. I'm 40 so I grew up with much of this stuff. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's beautifully constructed.
"This is so sad and so beautiful." You get it. This album is one of the best, most influential of all time. The '80s? Yes, 1989. This is one of the albums that defined the post-new wave, neo-romantic sound. I must say, however, it's very ironic that you're wearing a Smiths shirt while listening (and loving) this album. Why? I'll let you figure that out.
Lol....yeahh, famous, famous...... Morrisey: "What a whingebag Robert Smith is...." Smith: “Morrissey's so depressing if he doesn't kill himself soon, I probably will.”
These are some of the more honest reactions I've seen. I like that your takes on the music are your own and original, but also relatable. Lullaby and the title track are my favorites off this record!
Thanks for the awesome memories you have triggered for me & my partner. I was born in 1973 & my partner in 1968 so we grew up with amazing bands like The Cure everyday! Roberts voice is so distinctive & emotive! I Love The Cure so much.
Your reaction to Plainsong was so sweet. I think you totally get The Cure. Imagine being 13 years old and listening to Disintegration for the first time. 🤯 It was basically like being brainwashed.🖤 Also - they played the whole album for its 30th anniversary, at the Sydney Opera House 🙌🏻
If you want to heard the real sound of the cure check the dark trilogy album in order Seventeen seconds (1980) Faith (1981) an Pornography (1982) they made The Cure legendary cult....
@@tonywhitburn you' re welcome... listen to the tracks "Spintered in her head" it's a b-side from "Charlotte sometimes" single (1981), one of their best doomed track !
Love Pornography and Faith, these are the best. I was addicted to that for 20 years in a row. Disintegration is great too, so melancholic and beautiful!!!
I was in 9th grade when this album came out and can't fit on two hands the number of friends I had who spent a summer indoors blasting this album and moping. Sometimes it would take them years to discover it, but it affected all of us the same way - catatonic sadness.
I grew up as a teenager cemented in The Cure... unless you were an 80's child you will never truly understand the music of the The Cure...it was a way of life...
Guitar duties are evenly divided between Porl (later Pearl) Thompson and Robert Smith. It's easy to distinguish their lead/soloistic lines - Thompson is the more fluent of the two, Robert tends to be "lots of right-hand action but few actual notes" Fascination Street - fellatial double-entendre notwithstanding - is really about tripping on LSD during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Around the same time Wayne Hussey of the Mission wrote a song on the same theme (which was much more nightmarish in tone). The present writer may be too much a product of that time-period, but...I really don't-at-all hear this as "so very '80s". It doesn't really have any of the sonic signatures of that decade which are actually looked down upon or regarded with amusement (gated reverb, eventide harmonizers, over-boosted percussion) - the timbral and production "cliches" present here are only those which have entered the general global vocabulary of music-making.
Probably because most of what they used in the studio was still their same old Boss Pedals, which are timeless. But I still think that Eventides were used for quite some time, and depending on how they were used, are not that dated sounding.
Most of the guitar work you're hearing is Robert. He played all of the 6 string bass and the melodic guitar parts. But Porl / Pearl Thompson is credited as guitarist during this era.
Pearl played plenty of stuff, trust me. And when Tony mentioned it, he was talking about Pearl's playing on Last Dance, an arpeggiated part. Just as Pearl plays a rhythmic part on Lullaby and Love Song too.
@@eboethrasher It's hard to say who played those specific parts - it could have been either guitarist. But I would totally believe those arpeggiated parts are Pearl. It's just that for some reason there is a belief that any guitar part of any complexity was Pearl or Perry - when Robert sometimes re-recorded or just did those parts due to an "incompatibility" with their sound. i.e. Never Enough, or Edge of the Deep Green Sea. Robert has complained previously how Perry's picking style didn't match his playing and Pearl had her amps so loud you couldn't be in the same room, and so he just did the parts because he knew what he wanted. It was of course not always the case.
A book has recently appeared........Curepedia....,...absolutely everything connected to the Cure.......a little pricey, so suss around........if you like them, you gotta get it...........
PLEASE react the ‘pornography’, it’s their best album IMO, and their darkest/most ‘goth’ album. It’s pivotal to listen to when getting into the cure and going through their discography. Robert Smith was contemplating suicide and struggling with drugs at the time of its release and was certain pornography would be the cures last record (this is very evident when listening to some tracks). Every song is so beautiful and cathartic , it got me through tough times.I haven’t seen any reactions to it:-( sadly. If you enjoyed disintegration I think you would like it!
Mi banda favorita de todos los tiempos. Sin dudas, la obra cumbre de The Cure. Fue a los 14 años que escuché el disco entero. Una experiencia inolvidable y perfecta. Convirtieron las melodías letárgicas y atmosferas oscuras en una forma de belleza inigualable. Dejaron la vara muy alta. Cuando suena "The Same Deep Water As You", todo se vuelve hermosamente denso. Te recomiendo para las próximas reacciones que escuches "Faith" de 1981, quizá su álbum más gris y depresivo, y "Wish" de 1992, muy influenciado por el "Loveless" de My Bloody Valentine. Ambos, junto a "Disintegration", son mis tres favoritos de The Cure. Y sumado a la saga de shoegaze, tendrías que reaccionar a "Nowhere" de Ride. Debut brutal de una de las tres bandas más importantes del shoegaze junto a Slowdive y MBV. Por cierto, adoro tu canal. La reacción al "Grace" de Jeff Buckley, uno de mis discos favoritos de todos los tiempos, fue suficiente para suscribirme. Saludos desde Argentina, Tony.
Liked the Cure since I first hear them in 79-80 but never loved them until 'Head On The Door' album and didn't think they would better it but in this they did... Apart from 'Mixed Up' I like all the albums, very few week tracks... Not really thought of them as a goth band since the early 80's though... Good album review... subbed... The main guitarist is Robert Smith...
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"It's like a breakup that didn't happen to you but you feel it." That sums it up perfectly. Nice work.
Especially since it didn't happen to Robert either, that is how great of an evocative writer he is.
Probably the most enjoyable reaction video to the Cure I've seen so far. Disintegration is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's just atmospheric perfection.
I agree!!
"Sad and beautiful at the same time" sums up Robert and the music perfectly. The OG of alternative
DISINTGRATION is an emotional MASTERWORK. Any Cure fan must own the TRILOGY DVD which shows the concert performances of DISINTIGRATION, PORNOGRAPHY and BLOODFLOWERS in their entirety. Filmed in Germany in 2002.
That dvd is wonderfully haunting!
"Plainsong" was the first song I heard by the Cure and the one that made me instantly fall in love with it. The music, the melody and the vocals came together in perfect harmony there. There is something very nature-like about "Plainsong" - it's like the sound of the wind and the music that you hear in your head when you look at the starry sky and the guitar part is like the sea waves rolling on the shore. Sound idiotic, perhaps, but that's how I see it :)
Not idiotic at all. You captured it. Musically and lyrically, Plainsong it’s like standing on a rugged cliff on a bleak, windy day or early evening, looking out over the ocean. I wish I was more articulate, but this is always what I’ve pictured when listening to it…
My first song was Fascination Street.
I was sold the moment I heard that bassline! :))
Plainsong is perfect
Best basslines
The bassline on Fascination Street is played all on the E string as well, which helps with that driving tone. But on that song, there is only one bass played live, there might be double tracked on the studio recording, but both Robert and Pearl are playing 6 string guitars live on it. You should watch the live video from Australia where they performed the whole thing live to get a feel for how it is performed. A quick breakdown:
Plainsong: one six string guitar, one 4 string bass that plays the melody in the beginning
Pictures of You: one guitar (live I have seen it be a six string, a 12 string, and an electric sitar) , one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines
Closedown: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines (this is really the main config for the album for the more atmospheric numbers)
Love Song: two six string guitars, one 4 string bass
Last Dance: one electric guitar, one 4 string bass
Lullaby: one electric guitar, one bass VI for leads, one 4 string bass
Fascination Street: 2 electric guitars, one 4 string bass
Prayers for Rain: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines
Same Deep Water as You: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines
Disintegration: Initially, live: one guitar, one Bass VI for leads, 4 string bass for basslines. Then, at some point, Robert Smith took his Bass VI part and played it on a standard six string guitar
Homesick: one electric six string, one acoustic/electric 12 string, one 4 string bass for the leads/bass part you heard
Untitled: originally, one six string guitar, one Bass VI, and a 4 string bass. Then after the Trilogy release, they moved to two Bass VIs with the lead played in harmony, it is very nice.
OK, I got far too long winded, lol.
Here is the Sydney Opera House show from 2019 where not only did they do the whole album, but all of the B-Sides and the outtakes too. Luckily I had added it to a playlist, because it is now "unlisted", and it is BEAUTIFUL. ENJOY! th-cam.com/video/z9uSPf9WDbw/w-d-xo.html
So glad you did this! Thanks so much. I’m trying to learn bass ( v slowly) to keep up with my godson who is learning guitar and is becoming a huge Cure fan. Thanks so much for posting…
Never liked the Cure until I heard this album. Changed my tune overnight, been a huge fan since.
Dude. You are covering some great stuff. I'm 40 so I grew up with much of this stuff. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's beautifully constructed.
"This is so sad and so beautiful." You get it.
This album is one of the best, most influential of all time. The '80s? Yes, 1989. This is one of the albums that defined the post-new wave, neo-romantic sound. I must say, however, it's very ironic that you're wearing a Smiths shirt while listening (and loving) this album. Why? I'll let you figure that out.
yeah thought the exact same!
"Post new wave neo romantic" sounds like someone parodying the absurdity of music genre classification.
@@Croyles Lists, cannons, rankings, It's all really absurd isn't it
Lol....yeahh, famous, famous......
Morrisey: "What a whingebag Robert Smith is...."
Smith: “Morrissey's so depressing if he doesn't kill himself soon, I probably will.”
Sometimes there probably are 2 basses being played. I’m pretty sure Robert occasionally plays a 6 string bass as well as Simon
These are some of the more honest reactions I've seen. I like that your takes on the music are your own and original, but also relatable. Lullaby and the title track are my favorites off this record!
i really enjoyed this reaction
Thanks for the awesome memories you have triggered for me & my partner. I was born in 1973 & my partner in 1968 so we grew up with amazing bands like The Cure everyday! Roberts voice is so distinctive & emotive! I Love The Cure so much.
Thanks to you two for watching. I hope you guys are doing well and keep enjoying excellent music. Cheers!
i really love ur face when u r enjoying!!! go on with The Cure
Omg watching you experience Plainsong is bringing tears to my eyes!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Your reaction to Plainsong was so sweet. I think you totally get The Cure. Imagine being 13 years old and listening to Disintegration for the first time. 🤯 It was basically like being brainwashed.🖤 Also - they played the whole album for its 30th anniversary, at the Sydney Opera House 🙌🏻
By the way if you want an album that has a similar magical feeling to it listen to Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
FUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YEEEEEEEESSS
One of my all time faves.
If you want to heard the real sound of the cure check the dark trilogy album in order Seventeen seconds (1980) Faith (1981) an Pornography (1982) they made The Cure legendary cult....
Thanks, man. I'm just getting into The Cure, so I'll check them out and perhaps react to them.
@@tonywhitburn you' re welcome... listen to the tracks "Spintered in her head" it's a b-side from "Charlotte sometimes" single (1981), one of their best doomed track !
Love Pornography and Faith, these are the best. I was addicted to that for 20 years in a row. Disintegration is great too, so melancholic and beautiful!!!
@@jean-christophelebachelet5926 Don't allow him to leave out Carnage Visors, it is such a MOOOOOOOD
@@eboethrasher 28 minutes of doomed bass..... À must 😉
Amazing reaction bro. Thoroughly enjoyable
Thanks for your words, mate. Cheers!
Great reaction
I was in 9th grade when this album came out and can't fit on two hands the number of friends I had who spent a summer indoors blasting this album and moping. Sometimes it would take them years to discover it, but it affected all of us the same way - catatonic sadness.
Thankfully someone who appreciates Robert Smith the God of Goth. Without the Cure there would be no Blink or Green day or U2. This could be Heaven.
U2?
Umm, U2 already existed.
In my top five all time albums!!!
The CURE - WISH- Album Yeah!
My personal favourite album ever made. Greets from germany, beautiful reaction !
You've said it GENIOUS!!!
Este disco es una obra maestra. Saludos desde Chile
We will never have music like this anymore. New artists don’t have soul or imagination
Good reactions. Subscribed!
The Cure Disintegration is classic
I grew up as a teenager cemented in The Cure... unless you were an 80's child you will never truly understand the music of the The Cure...it was a way of life...
So true!
No, the music is timeless. Saying you need to be an 80s child to “truly understand the music” is pretentious and very gate-keepy
@@stevena7945 it does help to have a time and place.... it's just that the time and place can be right now
Buena reaccion uno de los mejores discos de The Cure, saludos desde Chile
Gracias, hermano. ¡Saludos desde México!
Guitar duties are evenly divided between Porl (later Pearl) Thompson and Robert Smith. It's easy to distinguish their lead/soloistic lines - Thompson is the more fluent of the two, Robert tends to be "lots of right-hand action but few actual notes"
Fascination Street - fellatial double-entendre notwithstanding - is really about tripping on LSD during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Around the same time Wayne Hussey of the Mission wrote a song on the same theme (which was much more nightmarish in tone).
The present writer may be too much a product of that time-period, but...I really don't-at-all hear this as "so very '80s". It doesn't really have any of the sonic signatures of that decade which are actually looked down upon or regarded with amusement (gated reverb, eventide harmonizers, over-boosted percussion) - the timbral and production "cliches" present here are only those which have entered the general global vocabulary of music-making.
Probably because most of what they used in the studio was still their same old Boss Pedals, which are timeless. But I still think that Eventides were used for quite some time, and depending on how they were used, are not that dated sounding.
So good!!
Most of the guitar work you're hearing is Robert. He played all of the 6 string bass and the melodic guitar parts. But Porl / Pearl Thompson is credited as guitarist during this era.
Pearl played plenty of stuff, trust me. And when Tony mentioned it, he was talking about Pearl's playing on Last Dance, an arpeggiated part. Just as Pearl plays a rhythmic part on Lullaby and Love Song too.
@@eboethrasher It's hard to say who played those specific parts - it could have been either guitarist. But I would totally believe those arpeggiated parts are Pearl. It's just that for some reason there is a belief that any guitar part of any complexity was Pearl or Perry - when Robert sometimes re-recorded or just did those parts due to an "incompatibility" with their sound. i.e. Never Enough, or Edge of the Deep Green Sea. Robert has complained previously how Perry's picking style didn't match his playing and Pearl had her amps so loud you couldn't be in the same room, and so he just did the parts because he knew what he wanted. It was of course not always the case.
Tony, on this album the guitars are played by Robert Smith and Porl Thompson. Two basses? Robert sometimes plays Fender VI, a six-string bass.
A book has recently appeared........Curepedia....,...absolutely everything connected to the Cure.......a
little pricey, so suss around........if you like them, you gotta get it...........
PLEASE react the ‘pornography’, it’s their best album IMO, and their darkest/most ‘goth’ album. It’s pivotal to listen to when getting into the cure and going through their discography. Robert Smith was contemplating suicide and struggling with drugs at the time of its release and was certain pornography would be the cures last record (this is very evident when listening to some tracks). Every song is so beautiful and cathartic , it got me through tough times.I haven’t seen any reactions to it:-( sadly. If you enjoyed disintegration I think you would like it!
Agree… and damn I’m so glad it wasn’t his last. To think what we got afterwards, huh? Including Disintegration. Peace, man :)
Mi banda favorita de todos los tiempos. Sin dudas, la obra cumbre de The Cure. Fue a los 14 años que escuché el disco entero. Una experiencia inolvidable y perfecta. Convirtieron las melodías letárgicas y atmosferas oscuras en una forma de belleza inigualable. Dejaron la vara muy alta. Cuando suena "The Same Deep Water As You", todo se vuelve hermosamente denso. Te recomiendo para las próximas reacciones que escuches "Faith" de 1981, quizá su álbum más gris y depresivo, y "Wish" de 1992, muy influenciado por el "Loveless" de My Bloody Valentine. Ambos, junto a "Disintegration", son mis tres favoritos de The Cure. Y sumado a la saga de shoegaze, tendrías que reaccionar a "Nowhere" de Ride. Debut brutal de una de las tres bandas más importantes del shoegaze junto a Slowdive y MBV. Por cierto, adoro tu canal. La reacción al "Grace" de Jeff Buckley, uno de mis discos favoritos de todos los tiempos, fue suficiente para suscribirme. Saludos desde Argentina, Tony.
"Mr. Pinkeye".. or "A Few Hours After This".. Cure love.. Hear these.
There are a lot of words to describe this album. Incredible, Masterpiece, etc.. But personally, I prefer Magic.
the guitarist is Robert haha, great reaction tho
And Perl!
Robert Smith lead vocals and 🎸
The halo reference is worthy of a sub
Love the t-shirt 😍👌
First listen really should be in a dark room
Thanks for your prety comment
Liked the Cure since I first hear them in 79-80 but never loved them until 'Head On The Door' album and didn't think they would better it but in this they did... Apart from 'Mixed Up' I like all the albums, very few week tracks... Not really thought of them as a goth band since the early 80's though... Good album review... subbed... The main guitarist is Robert Smith...
When he was saying the guitarist, he was referring to Last Dance, and those parts are all Pearl.
You should react to head on the door.
Robert doesn't have any children
🤔🤔.. How can this dude be wearing a "Smiths" t-shirt but not know about The Cure??..
Anybody who knows The smiths must know The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, and Joy Division. That's how it works.
Well, he said he knew some cure songs, so he already knew the band.
React to jane's addiction- 3 days
A cure album review with a smiths shirt on is borderline Blasphemous 😮
Like your reaction friend BUT for christs sake ! can you deliver a better audio on the tunes !
Don't worry, mate. I changed gears and in my most recent videos you can hear the improvement on the audio quality.
Thanks for watching!