Play For Today live 1980
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- The Cure - Play For Today live in Apeldoorn Berg en Bos Festival (Netherlands) on 18 July 1980. The original audio track of this video was replaced with a better sounding source from that same performance.
I was 17 years old then. Now I'm 57 and looking back The Cure was not only a great band but a big support in difficult times.
i’m the same age as you. my first Cure record was Happily Ever After. i’d come home from school and play this record on the family room stereo. oh Lord did i drive my mom crazy LOL.
we were so lucky back then in Los Angeles because we had KROQ and Rodney Bingenheimer. he played all the great English punk and new wave bands.
You're 3 years older than be, so I'm thinking you must have been 15 in 1980...
@@mjoet731 he literally said he was 17 back then😂
happy 60th birthday man
@@mjoet731the comment was written three years ago,now he’s 60 to assume
this early stuff is like crack
Dear god, they were so tight even then. Easily one of the best bands ever.
they are the best band ever
they are the best one ever. Light years ahead of the competition...
Fucking phenominal! I wouldn't believe the quality if it wasn't the best. But fuck. This was the year I was born!
@Skullchewer - Which really surprises me, too: How Lol's drumming could be this tight while moving in his strange way is a mystery to me!
Robert Simon Laurence the Best line up pour moi
Fucking bass is awesome
bass line to live by , my favourite Cure song :-)
simon gallup is awesome!!!! :)
Simon's bass tone here is killer.
Always 🤛🏽
Simon always had the best bass tones. Always sounded amazing and was always flawless live which is something that is very very important in a three piece band where there is normally a lot of room for error. Perfect and reliable bass player. Technicality isn’t always everything.
@@jagaz1239 i hate the sound he uses for latest shows
Simon is the Cure soul .. the one and only ❤️💙
@@miragemiria yeah that flanger is way too much bring back this punchy precision bass tone
Simon Gallup Great Bassline👍🏻👍🏻
Dear Oliver, he is a very underrated bass player. I have to agree with you.
Only band in the world where all instruments and the voice are equally prominent both then and even now.
first four cure albums are my life
And live gigs
I think that even when this tracks were more focused on something and attractive, following a theme, which is cool. The last songs are way elaborate, like masterpieces. (I mean, I could hear one of the last albums but only a few songs)
They were the best. Still are.
love robert's guitar playing in this song
His voice and pitch are great also! ...not to mention that bass! :-)
"Play For Today"
It's not a case of doing what's right
It's just the way I feel that matters
Tell me I'm wrong
I don't really care
It's not a case of share and share alike
I take what I require
I don't understand ...
You say it's not fair
You expect me to act
Like a lover
Consider my moves
And deserve the reward
To hold you in my arms
And wait
And wait
And wait
For something to happen
It's not a case of telling the truth
Some lines just fit the situation
Call me a liar
You would anyway
It's not a case of aiming to please
You know you're always crying
It's just your part
In the play for today
Thanks a lot for the lyrics ! 👍
That´s the keyboard tone this song must have.
one of my favorites ever,Simon's bassline is always so fantastic
It's Michael Dempsey's Baseline
@@david_post_punk I remember Michael left before they made the 17 seconds album.
@@joshen6010 No, Michel Dempsey from 1979
The Cure - Play For Today (First Performance) (1979 08 29 Bournemouth)
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I love the way Robert Smith uses the harmonics in the intro.Always been one of my favourite Cure songs.Great upload!
Other bands I've let go of, from my past... Never let go of the Cure. Great band. Love this early stuff.
Agreed……you can always return to the forest 🌳
My sentiment exactly - of all the music and bands I have listened to and loved, only the Cure remains. Saw them the other day live with 15,000 others - as good as ever. My only regret is that I didn't see them then. Regrettably I didn't discover them until Kiss Me. Love their early stuff.
It's crazy but this might be my favorite video on youtube.
Shades of Frederick Nietzsche and Albert Camus.
It's so cool to see them from those days. A privilege to have such a great quality video. And an awesome performance of a great song!
One of my favourite songs of all time
I like Robert smiths guitar playing, it’s not the most technical playing, but he created very unique guitar techniques and his style sounded like it was traveling through the song
Absolutely amazing 😍 I love the cure
41 years ago and still going strong - never seen this clip b4, wow wow wow
When did crowds started singing the ohs? Since they clearly do it yet in 1980. I think it adds to the song and is a bonding thing between fans and band. You know you doing something right when its not just ppl singing along but adding to the music.
@Michael Anderson - I had first heard it on the 'Paris' live album. Great version, too! Also the one of 'At Night' 😀
@Michael Anderson - But I think there actually *are* a few people singing along to the synth line here, too! 😀
Favorite song of all time from one of their first albums... Amazing n that bass line the best!
Robert is one of the only people who consistently through out the years sounds just amazing if not more amazing in concert then he does on a edited album cut. This and M are so great I can not get over it
TheBoneDaddy-Absolutely agree.Hes beyond an amazing guitarist too.
It is always a joy when a live performance exceeds the album recording.
Great song, terrible de buen sonido, listen to 2019?
Закрой за мной дверь я ухожу 🔥🤘
Does SIMON GALLOP ever smile?
I've seen him smile in *one* photo, in all those years, and it was from that era :-)
@Dustin Void No it's Simon Gallup...... Dempsey leave before 17 seconds album !
only band that ever made me want to play a bass guitar..i remember playing killing an arab out loud when i was werking in Jordan back in 1983..silly boy I was 🙃
robert smith is marvelous on the guitarr and gallups bas is amazing...brilliant song
for the longest time, i thought it wasn't Lol actually playing the drums on the recordings, but some sort of drum machine... this video convinces me otherwise. damn. he's a metronome!
@mitchell dries - The way it *looks* when he's drumming, it should be anything but tight. But amazingly, it is!
I've always loved way Simon's bass sound, especially live, could almost rattle the fillings out of your teeth.
Pieces of my soul literally sticked to that bassline. Love this song
great bass sound
Ohhh yes! :-)) I'm always a bit disappointed when the bass is too low in the mix in some of their live videos.
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They’ve always sounded incredible live
no gimmicks, no over cute looking, just play music straight to the edge. dunno why they changed the style afterwards.
A great live version of one of my favorite songs of the Cure, and such good quality! Thank you.
This version is way better than the studio one: here we have a killer bass!
The cure makes me sing cry scream and have fun the Legendary Cure😂
Это созвучие которое создали парни около 20 лет а Именно Толхрсет,Смит,Гэллап и Хартли
Оно просто гениальное,это пронизывающий каждую молекулу пространства звучание 🥵🥵
Витя Цой
I saw them in 1980, Excellent
now that is what I call playing the bass
The Cure - Play For Today (First Performance) (1979 08 29 Bournemouth)
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they look like The Stranglers here and this one song sounds very much like them
Agreed......very Cure to though
To think if the cure just stuck to this sound and look, they would of died out I guess, like the rest of the early post punk 80's bands, changing the sound and direction the band were heading in was the right choice, its still hard to think that is Robert Smith, I see him as a complete different person back there without the hair and make up.
Yeah completely different but equally talented! amazing!
Don't really care so much about the look, and being born 11 years after they made Seventeen Seconds I suppose it being dead's not been a concern, but in a way it's kind of a shame they changed their style. I do love their later stuff, though I'm a massive fan of Seventeen Seconds to Pornography. I love the raw energetic style they had at the time and Simon's bassline that just bites through the song.
They've always been a massive influence on me, but I feel they lost something special when they became more poppy. I'm glad they're still about and making music, though.
Sure. let the sound change, but the "look"...sorry, Bob, ditch the dodgy lippy and thatch, FFS. Superb song, btw, just killer.
Eso se llama TALENTO
No se aprende, no se compra, no se imita.
Sencilla y maravillosamente, ES.
También es trabajo duro.
The final chords sound like the guitar riff in the Damned's version of Alone Again Or.
закрой за мной дверь, я муха жук...
The final always hits me.
Another great Cure song which can't be allowed to slip through the cracks. Really early on in their career here. The musicianship is excellent and I see a hunger to succeed here. Fantastic.
Love the mullets ....looks like me 35 years ago
The video is great quality, congratulations!
But I think you should put this video because since early've got a little cut
Excuse my English, I am Brazilian and I'm using google translator.
It is a MASTERPIECE!❤❤❤
My God, DAT BASS!!
EXCELLENTTTT!!! Force and song! The Cure!!!
Just love these song.
tolhurst
El rey de reyes... New wave punk .... Lo mejor de lo mejor.... Te amamos Robert
Lol said on a podcast that he wrote this one - I am assuming he's meaning the lyrics. That may have been a more common practice earlier in the band. Or perhaps more often than I realized, assuming Robert was the primary songwriter most often. But that's cool.
This song reminds me, I need to return some video tapes
Sorry this is a year old but i laughed so much LOL
probably the best bass
I love the cure all my homies love the cure
Love the cure. Not a day goes by I don't listen to this amazing song. ✌
what a great band and bassist
Lol was one The Best drummers.
LOL.
I saw them live in the eighties. Live changing for me ❣️
All the best songs are simple. They make it look so effing easy!!! And Robert Smith looks like he just bunked off school....
Standing on the beach/ staring at the sea ; The singles includes this version, one of the best !!
quel look en 1980! à l'image du son brut de décoffrage pas d'édulcorant le top!
The cure was at its Peak in music at this point in my Opinion. All the same band members should have stayed it would have been incredible to see them live.
Much preferred early cure,,,saw them 3 times, 79/80
epic...! so 80's
Wow, Thats Robert Smith!
Mathew and Simon are 20 years old, Robert and Lol 21...
VHS MTV 120 minutes was the first time I was this video.
Mueroooooo.... Muerooooo... Mueroooooo....
So Fucking Awesome !!!
When you see the crowds for recent concerts, it seems bizarre to see the Cure playing to a small audience.
esto es oroooo
Кино - Закрой за мной дверь, я ухожу.
Bought TIB's then wowed by SS. Faith was always on the turntable.
Loved all this stuff and three imaginary boys era, didnt like goth image
Lol needs to come back to The Cure. Robert, do the right thing...
Lo maravillosamente sorprendente es que en este año que corre, suenan casi igual 🎉🎉🎉
ben afleck had a The Cure tribute band. who would expect that !
Scary how much he and the "younger" Robert look alike.
This is great old stuff. Thanks for posting it.
This sounds fucking incredible.
One of the greatest band of my life... 2021, still enjoy it
lol parece mi amigo fosas nasales
Excelente performance, de um disco muito bom!
What's Lol doing now?....That awful Levinhurst ruining early Cure songs!
How?
simon gallup just *beep*ing rules
bass = GallupGOD super FAST!
thank you for posting
Play for today, play for today...
I will always love you....
This the cure I fell in love with as a young man.
good job @impressionofsound
mas que impresionante !! el bajo de gallup es infernal !!
My fav Cure track when I was at college on this release. To me the first 4cure lps, pre Goth tag, are the best. So clean bleak and if the time
Robert Smith antes de su transformación física radical... I won´t never understand his change!!
Húú.. De fiatal volt még Kovács Robi
Is it me, or does the bass player look like that guy from the Vapors?
The other way 'round! Simie was there first! 😄
@@mightyV444 i had a feeling it wouldn't be him, but still, they looked a bit similar, thought it was funny
@@mfc4afos - Sorry mate, *my* bad! I had assumed they were a more recent band, and I was thinking of a particular one too, but now I see they were actually around between '78 and '81, so it could've actually been well possible it's the same person. And you're right, they did look very similar, too! 😀
@@mightyV444 don't worry about it, i get why you could've thought so. Besides, The Vapors aren't the best known band around anyway lol
@@mfc4afos - Okay 😄 I'm having a hard time figuring out what the name of the band was that I actually had in mind! They had a female bassist and the singer had a mohawk; They had one or two hits in the 2010's 🤔