"It's like a breakup that didn't happen to you but you feel it." That sums it up perfectly. Nice work.
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
Especially since it didn't happen to Robert either, that is how great of an evocative writer he is.
@nikolaiquack85485 жыл бұрын
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.
@calvin208775 жыл бұрын
I agree!!
@garycurtis46784 жыл бұрын
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.
@devinrogers79786 ай бұрын
That dvd is wonderfully haunting!
@ryancassano76892 жыл бұрын
Never liked the Cure until I heard this album. Changed my tune overnight, been a huge fan since.
@thecoogs5 жыл бұрын
"Sad and beautiful at the same time" sums up Robert and the music perfectly. The OG of alternative
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
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! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGrYhIOcbrx3mNk
@Shelsight3 жыл бұрын
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…
@margareta61034 жыл бұрын
"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 :)
@Shelsight3 жыл бұрын
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…
@nightshadespectre4093 жыл бұрын
My first song was Fascination Street. I was sold the moment I heard that bassline! :))
@louiemeister96462 жыл бұрын
Plainsong is perfect
@Bradford6593 жыл бұрын
Sometimes there probably are 2 basses being played. I’m pretty sure Robert occasionally plays a 6 string bass as well as Simon
@keyfiender7992 жыл бұрын
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 🙌🏻
@jenniloumack4 жыл бұрын
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.
@KingOfTheBeez5 жыл бұрын
Best basslines
@JR-bu8fq3 жыл бұрын
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!
@davidlaymanpiano4 жыл бұрын
"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.
@aspect574 жыл бұрын
yeah thought the exact same!
@Croyles2 жыл бұрын
"Post new wave neo romantic" sounds like someone parodying the absurdity of music genre classification.
@davidlaymanpiano2 жыл бұрын
@@Croyles Lists, cannons, rankings, It's all really absurd isn't it
@mariocalvete7259 Жыл бұрын
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.”
@d.s.96923 жыл бұрын
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.
@aryanbianca31894 жыл бұрын
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.
@tonywhitburn4 жыл бұрын
Thanks to you two for watching. I hope you guys are doing well and keep enjoying excellent music. Cheers!
@patrickcrady904 Жыл бұрын
The Cure Disintegration is classic
@Onche5184 жыл бұрын
By the way if you want an album that has a similar magical feeling to it listen to Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
FUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YEEEEEEEESSS
@fridastwin4 жыл бұрын
Omg watching you experience Plainsong is bringing tears to my eyes!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@jean-christophelebachelet59265 жыл бұрын
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....
@tonywhitburn5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, man. I'm just getting into The Cure, so I'll check them out and perhaps react to them.
@jean-christophelebachelet59265 жыл бұрын
@@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 !
@didgeridoothedeepmechanics4 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
@@jean-christophelebachelet5926 Don't allow him to leave out Carnage Visors, it is such a MOOOOOOOD
@jean-christophelebachelet59263 жыл бұрын
@@eboethrasher 28 minutes of doomed bass..... À must 😉
@david.majchrzak70694 жыл бұрын
The CURE - WISH- Album Yeah!
@TheLeocure924 жыл бұрын
i really love ur face when u r enjoying!!! go on with The Cure
@stevenweisman36364 жыл бұрын
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.
@godisgay95424 жыл бұрын
U2?
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
Umm, U2 already existed.
@Thesortvokter4 жыл бұрын
One of my all time faves.
@wnpesao725 ай бұрын
Este disco es una obra maestra. Saludos desde Chile
@abbott80075 жыл бұрын
i really enjoyed this reaction
@holgerschink13413 жыл бұрын
My personal favourite album ever made. Greets from germany, beautiful reaction !
@willchristopher18992 ай бұрын
The Cure at their very best. Plainsong is one of the greatest openers in music history. A very nice review ... well done.
@patrickcrady904 Жыл бұрын
In my top five all time albums!!!
@omgck86465 жыл бұрын
Amazing reaction bro. Thoroughly enjoyable
@tonywhitburn5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your words, mate. Cheers!
@jorgecampos965910 ай бұрын
We will never have music like this anymore. New artists don’t have soul or imagination
@harripalomaki87963 жыл бұрын
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.
@zoeherriot4 жыл бұрын
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.
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
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.
@zoeherriot3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@meigacha42835 жыл бұрын
Great reaction
@dhmfilmsltd5 жыл бұрын
You've said it GENIOUS!!!
@williamandres10425 жыл бұрын
Good reactions. Subscribed!
@lauticureboca92773 жыл бұрын
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.
@ttcostadc4 жыл бұрын
"Mr. Pinkeye".. or "A Few Hours After This".. Cure love.. Hear these.
@Grithron25 жыл бұрын
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.
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
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.
@oscarlagos78324 жыл бұрын
Buena reaccion uno de los mejores discos de The Cure, saludos desde Chile
@tonywhitburn4 жыл бұрын
Gracias, hermano. ¡Saludos desde México!
@Hi-qe9gt3 жыл бұрын
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!
@Shelsight3 жыл бұрын
Agree… and damn I’m so glad it wasn’t his last. To think what we got afterwards, huh? Including Disintegration. Peace, man :)
@brunomarechal50404 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your prety comment
@patrickcrady904 Жыл бұрын
Robert Smith lead vocals and 🎸
@spiderpig97772 ай бұрын
best album ever
@ste.60264 жыл бұрын
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...
@eboethrasher3 жыл бұрын
When he was saying the guitarist, he was referring to Last Dance, and those parts are all Pearl.
@berniehoe99604 жыл бұрын
the guitarist is Robert haha, great reaction tho
@kevincorgan15764 жыл бұрын
And Perl!
@john-ek9gv2 жыл бұрын
The halo reference is worthy of a sub
@williamcolgin19874 жыл бұрын
First listen really should be in a dark room
@williamwilkes9873 Жыл бұрын
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...........
@matthewjaco8474 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of words to describe this album. Incredible, Masterpiece, etc.. But personally, I prefer Magic.
@oregonhighroller51784 жыл бұрын
So good!!
@godisgay95424 жыл бұрын
You should react to head on the door.
@carlthiem42124 жыл бұрын
Love the t-shirt 😍👌
@LMfromBakutoUK Жыл бұрын
Robert doesn't have any children
@lawla764 жыл бұрын
React to jane's addiction- 3 days
@Rsilva53354 жыл бұрын
🤔🤔.. How can this dude be wearing a "Smiths" t-shirt but not know about The Cure??..
@godisgay95424 жыл бұрын
Anybody who knows The smiths must know The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, and Joy Division. That's how it works.
@godisgay95424 жыл бұрын
Well, he said he knew some cure songs, so he already knew the band.
@jasonalexander1753 Жыл бұрын
A cure album review with a smiths shirt on is borderline Blasphemous 😮
@BrixtonTone5 жыл бұрын
Like your reaction friend BUT for christs sake ! can you deliver a better audio on the tunes !
@tonywhitburn5 жыл бұрын
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!