I got lost in the music! First Time Hearing - The Cure - A Strange Day Reaction/Review

[@Groggen]

This album is a masterpiece. I have listened to it a million times for well over 30 years and it never gets old.

[@gregoryparisot6374]

It's a chakra cleaner for real.

[@jensz9360]

The Cure doesnt have a bad album, you can just listen to them back to back and replay them and they never get old. Pornography, Disintegration, Wish, Seventeen Seconds just to name some of my favorites. The sounds are unique. The thing is it depends on what kind of mood you are in as to which album you prefer at the time, but you cant go wrog with any of them. Robert Smith is a genius.

[@Gothgalactica]

One of my MOST FAVORITE songs of theirs! Ive heard this song thousand times and I still get goosebumps and euphoric chills all over my body. SUCH a good album. To me the concept of this song makes feel like its a spiritual psychadelic experience.. This album, Pornography. Seventeen seconds and Faith are crazy good

[@Vic-zg3xb]

my favorite album of the cure 🖤🖤🖤

[@cherylreichardt]

Robert could sing that he's mowing the lawn. Who cares. Their music is pure hypnotic. Could listen on and on. Cool Josh. Thanks for the experience. ✌❤

[@lilalila213]

Accurate: yes, its hypnotic

[@smarieintn5955]

Please watch A Strange Day via the live in Orange, France concert.

[@Hi-qe9gt]

This song has gotten me through tough times (depression) as well as the entire album ‘pornography. Robert Smith has even said that he’d never be able to create something as emotional as pornography because of how bad his mental state was during the writing process ( he had contemplated suicide, , which in my opinion is clearly reflected in the lyrics of this song).

[@najinsky]

Respect. You came across a hidden masterpiece, and you totally got it.

[@33interzona]

You are going through the right path to know The Cure. Yes, somebody told you about Cold. Try also Faith, one of their sadest songs and Robert Smith favorite Cure's song

[@Johnathansyt]

To sum it up...The protagonist in the song contemplates suicide, then takes his own life. He speaks of an idolized life that still leaves him in despair. “Give me your eyes that I might see, the blind man kissing my hand”...Then describes, very vividly, the moments leading to his death. “The sand and the sea grows, I close my eyes. Move slowly through drowning waves, going away on a strange day”. The protagonist then walks out to sea to take his own life and experiences his final moments; “My head falls back and the walls crash down. The sky and the impossible explode. Held for a moment, I remember a song. An impression of sound...and then everything is gone forever”......THIS is why The Cure stands out leaps and bounds beyond the rest. They are unlike no other, and no other does it like them......Since you listened to A Strange Day, I strongly suggest the song that follows, called “Cold”. It is every bit the dark trancelike masterpiece you just enjoyed.

[@Hi-qe9gt]

Perfect analysis of the lyrics !!!! Also I second your recommendation, ‘Cold’ is super underrated in their discog. And one of my favorites from ‘Pornography’. ETA: some other good cure songs, ‘the drowning man’, ‘one hundred years’ ‘the funeral party’ (the latter being one of my favorites, the synths are beautiful. I get completely lost in that song).

[@samuelhutchison8433]

you put it so well my friend..

[@GarnetDart]

I took it as a day at the beach while on good acid. Either way its one of my favs

[@zodiac_blue9116]

I am just seeing this now, and I love all the reactions to the most popular Cure songs, but man when someone listens to this , these songs… I love it, awesome!

[@martinigold1940]

Please be the first one to react to their 81 single Charlotte Sometimes. I can’t for the life of me comprehend why noone has yet reacted to this masterpiece of one of their earlier singles.

[@lilalila213]

i love it too...

[@tutsybassista]

My fellow musician named his daughter Charlotte! And, I almost named my oldest daughter Charlotte as well....

[@jensz9360]

"Sudden hush across the water, and we're here again" Amazing lyrics. All The Cure's albums you can listen to start to end and you will replay it again. No bad songs. Robert Smith is a genius.

[@axelusul]

Watched Cure in Orange amazing live concert from France one night and this song blew me away 35 years ago, watch that version.

[@nuevoamanecer9873]

Mejor momento de la vida

[@jimbombadill]

💚 absolut masterpiece. Still chills hearing it over 30 years later

[@axelusul]

Keep coming back to your reaction LOL, you must be one of the few that get the Cure and this brilliant song. It changed the way I listened to music.

[@ijustneedmyself]

Pretty amazing when artists can have that impact on you. I was born in '84 when The Cure and similar bands were in their heyday. In my teens I shunned "80s music" as a whole thinking it was so cheesy. It wasn't until I heard bands of the early 00s (who I'd come to learn were heavily influenced by bands of the 80s). I dug into those influences and my whole world opened up. A lot of people thought those bands were derivative and many were, but they were absolutely instrumental in my discovery of 80s post-punk, punk, goth, and indie rock. I'm forever grateful.

[@axelusul]

@@ijustneedmyself I too "found the Cure" at a period in my life where I needed to reset , open up and start again. I still love particularly L`Orange "Strange Day" it just chimed with being thrown out of college and losing loved ones and girlfriend trouble all at 17 LOL. Luckily I went to a new New College and moved on.

[@Noir-Tesseract]

Great choice. I just found this song 2 weeks ago and I can’t stop playing.

[@dek86s]

hello, you need to react SINKING from the head on the door album!! and the baby screams!! so good!! you will love it

[@gordieparenteau6555]

React to the first song from this album, Pornography. It's called "One Hundred Years".

[@LawSuth]

One of the greatest tracks on that album. If you enjoy rich, dark songs, you might react to the Virgin Prunes' Ulakanakulot & Decline and Fall ('83 album version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4iWq2huaN14ps0

[@a_mil]

Best regards from Cracow, Poland Thanks so much

[@flugsven]

I just claimed two other of their songs were along my all time favourites. This is my fav Cure song. Saw/heard it live in Hultsfred rockfestival (Sweden) 1996. The whole concert was pure magic ✨

[@whitneyschuster2439]

bless you for being so honest and open and vulnerable about how The Cure affects you!!! i wish more people could interface with music in this way, you absolutely made my day 💖

[@claudioguglielmi8211]

Magic suond great reaction 👏👏🌃🌃🌃🌃🎸🎸🎸🎸🎵🎵🎵🎵

[@vincentrojas8617]

One of the greatest songs in history.

[@LMfromBakutoUK]

The lyrics are as mesmerising as the music... the whole song is a work of art.. the song is about suicide I heard...

[@Roger-ss2lk]

My all time favorite Cure song... it's got all the right elements of a great Cure song Nice reaction and ummm, you're adorable 😏

[@iainweller452]

Your right about the music you get totally lost in it, Robert Smith was in a bad place mentality at the time due to drug use and in band fighting so this undoubtedly contributed to the dark depressing feel of the lyrics, check out “The Figurehead” it’s from the same album Pornography and is a fantastic piece of music with interesting lyrics

[@tutsybassista]

I played Simonette in a Cure tribute band for 7 years! Best time of my life! 🥳 The Cure's catalog is so broad and HUGE that there's literally a song for every feeling you can think of! So, I want people's opinion on this one. I don't think they'd put this on their setlist these days.... It's "Killing an Arab." Can you spot what it's about? 🤔

[@glcuriste]

The title of this song is misleading. There is no racism at all. It is based on the best seller novel "The Stranger" by French Nobel prize winner Albert Camus. Robert Smith has been inspired by many authors throughout his carreer. This song (their first single) is one of their most popular. In their latest shows, they changed the title into "Killing Another" to avoid any confusion.

[@williamwilkes9873]

​@@glcuristethis messes many up!

[@cb1nof]

What I like is that you get the drum pattern right away at 5:27 while listening to it for the first time. As Faith (album) is for me around bass guitar, P0rn0graphy (album as well) is made of drums. Your video reminded me of the first time (back in 1988) I had the chance to listen to it for the first time.

[@sakex22]

Burn. from ‘The Crow’ soundtrack. Amazing.

[@smarieintn5955]

The first time I heard the Cure I was so young but I remember saying something like this is what I've always wanted to hear I think it was seventeen seconds, primary n faith. Mind you I had seen some of their playful videos and upbeat music, let's go to bed , love cats and the greatest video ever made, close to me. The first time I tried an opioid or opiate, I said this is how I've always wanted to feel. Those are the only two times in my life, even though they were over thirty years apart that I said something like that. Go figure. The Cure will make you endlessly happy opioids will drive your life off the rails. Oh sweetheart please Google, snow in summer. I had a mixtape back then with that 😅😅song and a few others that have never been released it was so amazing that I can't remember the others even though I love them just as much but I remember snow in summer. Robert said he was trying to capture a feeling and he didn't feel like he did. He always captures the feeling and snow in summer meant a lot to me. I hope you like it and you have to hear push and the upstairs room and countless others I envy u and your virgin ears.❤

[@Darren-sl7rp]

Haven't known for decades what the lyrics mean, im not even sure robert does..but that sound is so dark and beautiful and brooding i dont even care what it means. The sound itself kind of tells me.

[@iggyeo6458]

he's said before it's about the moment before being blown apart by an atom bomb

[@Mx.RumpusParable]

One fo my favorites

[@GarnetDart]

This is one of my favourites. If you've taken acid on a perfect summer's day, I think you will understand why.

[@zachariahlloyd6043]

Definitely one of their oddest entries from their prime.... He wrote a song about what it is like to hate life, and it worked!!

[@zachariahlloyd6043]

Nice to hear someone get a little deeper into *The Cure's* catalogue!!

[@vsander09]

Why is it odd? Most if the album is stranger than this. It’s probably the catchiest song on the album.

[@CaffeineNightOwl]

one of their best imho.

[@smarieintn5955]

Im subscribing because you get it and it's so fun to watch.

[@BigALquitti]

Please listing the LIVE-Versions... amazing.

[@haydenwittig8877]

Josh before i go watch the Cure Live in Orange from 1986 filmed in the roman theatre in Orange province in the french countryside perhaps the bands greatest performance, full concert on youtube including this song.

[@MarkMrBishop]

vup

[@glcuriste]

This song is intense indeed. But compared to the previous ones on the album, it is rather calm. I suggets you react to the preceding tracks "Siamese Twins" and "The figurehead" which are mesmerizing from the very beginning and more intense.

[@taniamendieta1192]

Excelent reaction!

[@Brian.Murphy]

Check out some Catherine Wheel - maybe Mad Dog, Crank, etc. It's all about the texture.

[@williamwilkes9873]

Poetícal........íncisive.......& a beautiful bañd to drink & fall in/out of love to............. another strañge day, if yóu live in north London or France........

[@bleaksnatcher]

Great reaction you need to hear lullaby it's just a perfect song his voice. How about something new? Something absolutely mind blowing react to Nightwish Ghost Love Score Live at Wacken 2013 you will not believe it you will disappear down a rabbit hole I promise you.

[@ChucksGhost01]

This is a cool song.

[@haydenwittig8877]

Josh 2 songs from them i would react to is LAMENT from 1983 and Charlotte Sometimes 1981.

[@vincentrojas8617]

It’s about witnessing the end of the world

[@dire12343]

Robert smith was a huge consumer of LSD...thats prolly why

[@tutsybassista]

Check out "Heroin Face."

[@frankgeeraerts6243]

YEAH...........................THE LOST WORLD of a LOST GENERATION............

[@lostinsweden5039]

Love this song. Love this album, (although I love Faith just a bit more!)

[@pflynn581]

Just waiting for someone to ask for Friday I'm in Love.Aaaaaaaargh.

[@onclebob2178]

5:05 👍🏻🔥

[@smarieintn5955]

Now dont u wish u lived in the 80s a little bit? ❤ Think of all the other s*** we had too. But there is only one Cure. And Robert Smith is an irreplaceable gem.

[@seanp8220]

Love your reactions. Can I request One Hundred Years?

[@modsleix6]

Really cool review here. Nice to see one of their most beloved yet, overlooked earler songs get it's well-deserved time in the spotlight. The Cure were and still are a great Post Punk/Goth band but, they certainly didn't have a monopoly on that sound. There are *_LOTS_* of other great classic and even new(er) Post Punk/Goth/Darkwave/New Wave/Synth/Shoegaze/Coldwave etc. etc. bands that also made/are making great music in a very similar style. If you (or anyone else) are interested, here are only a very few of the other bands/songs I love and listen to besides The Cure: The Chameleons - _'Intrigue In Tangiers'_ Principe Valiente - _'Strangers In The Night'_ Asylum Party - _'Julia'_ Winter Severity Index - _'A Sudden Cold'_ Clan Of Xymox - _'No Words'_ Holygram - _'Acceleration'_ Siouxsie & The Banshees (pronounced Suzy & The Banshees) - _'Fireworks'_ Drab Majesty - _'39 By Design'_ A Flock Of Seagulls - _'Quicksand'_ The Daysleepers - _'Sundiver'_ Cocteau Twins - _'Serpentskirt'_ Luminance - _'Consolation'_ Kitchens Of Distinction - _'Blue Pedal'_ Hope you enjoy them as much as I have...

[@imeldarisakotta6864]

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽❤️❤️❤️

[@vsander09]

He’s committing suicide by drowning himself and moments of his life are flashing before him. The final memory he senses is a brief piece of a song then he’s dead (“and then everything is gone forever”).

[@thecentralscrutinizer5730]

Dude react to Bloodflowers.

[@tutsybassista]

"Last day of summer" is my favourite there!

[@charrid56maclean]

Robert loves the drone, with minor changes along the way, til it changes to something else

[@paulxx11]

It's about suicide. He made the second attempt and succumbed to death.

[@LMfromBakutoUK]

You should listen to live version.. ✨ kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKuthoqcl91gipI

[@bookshelvesNZ]

They just don't make music like this may more. The Cure has been my favourite band since the early 1980s. They are amazing!!!

[@SummonSkeletons]

"They" do, you just have to go out and find good music! You are not going to find it on the radio. -_- What an insult to all the artists/bands that are currently turning out great music only to fall on deaf ears because people are too damn LAZY to find it. That is a you problem.

[@tutsybassista]

@@SummonSkeletons That's the problem; most "music" now really, really SUCKS! However, I would DIE to see a collaboration between The Cure and Taylor Swift! Why? 🤔 1) They are fantastic lyricists. 2) Both are multi- instrumentalists. 3) Similar songwriting styles. 4) They look opposite of one another, but they have some things in common. 5) Think numbers... 6) Icons in different centuries. Spot it!

[@williamwilkes9873]

Pornography is rhe one.........