American Reacts to The Evolution Of The Cure!

[@grj_1566]

what makes the cure one of britains greatest bands is the versatility between each album, and obviously robert smith being an enormous genius

[@adamsermet5953]

I used to work for a staging company setting up gigs round the country. My first day was travelling down to the cure’s house in Brighton to drop off some equipment, about an hour into the job I dropped a massive flight case on my thumb and splatted it pretty good. Next thing I know I’m in this beautiful big house being patched up by his friends and family. I’ll never forget that day. They were really nice.

[@jfl1642]

You are by far the best YT reactor. You do exactly the same thing I would do if I only watched the original doc, pausing it, listen to something on spotify, google images, checking wikipedia. And then you provide your own take on things and insights. It feels like I am watching this with a buddy. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy watching this.

[@SIartibartf4st]

The fact that Matt Stone & Trey Parker chose Robert Smith to save the residents of South Park from Barbara Streisand is funny af..

[@nolaj114]

I loved that so much!

[@MrZER0C000L]

listen to disintegration when you're on an hour long drive. or when it's raining.

[@jorisjamroziak7024]

About the F Robert Palmer video. The Cure were playing before the then headliner Robert Palmer on the Belgian festival Werchter. (In that time still a double festival Torhout - Werchter) The Cure were going over their allotted time slot and were allowed one more song. So they decided to play the longest possible version they could of 'A Forest'.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

I think the festival time slots had got out of cinque and they were told to cut their set short so Robert Palmer could have a full set... they were NOT happy!

[@Peejay1966]

Still one of the best live bands I've ever seen. First time was 1984 at the Barrowlands in Glasgow (there's an official video with almost all of that gig) and again in 1992 at the Caird Hall in Dundee. Wish I'd seen them more often, but they are truly amazing.

[@zoeherriot]

They blow me away live - first time I saw them was in 1992 - and I've seen them 3 times since (last time in 2019). Always top notch.

[@ThornyLittleFlower]

I remember bunking off school to take all my Cure records to my local pub, where my friend's brother worked the bar, to record them onto cassette tape. I was 13. That was a great day 😊

[@IIChristisKingII]

Love The Cure, been binge listening to their newest album for a few weeks now.

[@whitecompany18]

If Robert ever sounded happy it's because he was rebelling against being sad😏

[@davidbirchall832]

'Disintegration' was their best tour. Up to '92/93, I'd seen the band live 70 times. About time I saw them again. Dave M Allen, one time Cure producer (and band member) produced my friend's band's (The Chameleons) third album, 'Strange Times' and also a solo album for him

[@jonntischnabel]

Every time I hear "love cats" it takes me back to my childhood, 83 was a great year in music, and I was 6 at the time. It's one of those timeless tracks that is unique ❤

[@dbasher9974]

Great reaction mate! My dad’s been a fan of the Cure since about 1987 when he was 16, so I’ve grown up with them since I was born. I can happily say that The Cure are the best live band I’ve ever seen, even with most of the band now well into their 60s. I’ve got two recommendations- 1. Please listen to Disintegration as an album all the way through in a dark room (preferably when it’s raining outside). 2. Have a listen to Trent Reznor’s speech where he indicts The Cure into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- he says what every Cure fan feels. Merry Christmas and keep the videos coming 🤘🏼

[@2old4gamez]

'100 Years' is, was and will remain, a masterpiece.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Into the trees

[@titanium_di2402]

I love The Cure! I first heard Let's Go To Bed & Lovecats in the early 80s, but didnt pay a huge amount of attention until the Head on the Door album. Once i heard that, I went into their whole back catalogue (pre-85). I saw them live in Summer 1986 at Astroworld, Houston, Texas, USA. An unforgettable show!!! Also, their 2024 album is just as brilliant as everything else they did!!! ⭐⭐⭐

[@bramscheDave]

I grew up next to Crawley (Copthorne and East Grinstead) and a friend of mine went to school with Smith. That was how I got into them as a teenager. My friend was a couple of years behind him, but idolised the band, something famous that came out of the school he went to. I wasn't really into pop videos until the late 1980s and Close to Me was one of the first that I ever saw and has stuck with me.

[@nicw5574]

Such a great band, I had a crush on Robert Smith when I was a teenager. Merry Christmas JJ, hope you have a wonderful time 😀

[@MandyKissock]

Merry Christmas, honey. I've been watching your channel for years. I love how you've taken Brits & Ozzies onboard. You're awesome. 💜💜☮️☮️💜💜☮️☮️

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

It's August 1982 around midnight and I'm on a beach in Biarritz in the company of some very friendly French girls listening to the album 'Pornography' - that was my introduction to The Cure. Loved them from that moment on - even when they went more 'poppy' with songs like 'Love Cats'. Robert Smith is also the only person I can think of who did his own voice for South Park.

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

I didn't really like The Cure when they became poppy, I much preferred their earlier stuff like, "Charlotte Sometimes", "Hanging Gardens", "A Forest" "10:15 Saturday Night", "Play For Today", "Primary", etc.

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

Life began at 30 for me. Short life though. It unraveled at36.

[@robopecha]

i think until your 20s you are more fearless. like a child. then you have seen more and start thinking more.

[@miamonan9627]

Genius band for creating haunting mood and atmosphere.

[@meeshelle1397]

I’ve loved this band since my childhood (also in the 80’s) 🖤

[@GoldilocksZone-665]

You have to watch the video for 'Lullaby'.. It's a brilliant piece of music, too.

[@joe2tonepringle352]

nice to see you react to my most fave band EVER!! but alas people only see the "more poppy type" songs .. there are so many songs/tracks on ANY album you could of picked which some consider better than the one's released The CURE take you on such a roller coaster of emotion no 2 days are the same day one "this song is the best..... day 2 no wait this song is the best" .....

[@vallejomach6721]

There's no doubt Disintegration is an incredible album, but it's not one I listen to all that much...needs to be a mood for it, in my opinion. My favourite albums though are those from the early days up until probably 'Head on the Door'. In fact, the album I listen to most is probably 'Join the Dots - B-sides and Rarities' which is kind of odd given their output...but Faith, The Top, 17 seconds...the one YT will cry about if you type it...they're all pretty high on the most listened to list for me.. The entry album though, almost like a Cure cheat sheet, is probably 'Staring at the Sea - The Singles' featuring singles prior to the 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss me' album.

[@Tass...]

You won't be able to put it on youtube but if you have any sincere interest in The Cure just watch The Cure - Live at Somerset 2019 (Full Set) Which is their Glastonbury set all these years later and it really displays how the cure are more loved now than ever before and it's a really good performance from aging band.

[@RichDoes..]

weirdest thing, I got home from work and the Cure were playing on the radio as I logged on and got this notification! Specifically it was "close to me" fyi

[@Mary-i5c1m]

Thanks - really love The Cure. Have several of their songs on my playlist. Intetesting video.

[@zoeherriot]

They were real drums on A Forest - Mike Hedges has a good write up on the production of the album discussing how they got the sound.

[@immoralreplicant1332]

They missed out a crucial moment at the beginning. The main trigger point for the transition to darkness was when Bob ended up playing guitar for Siouxsie & the Banshees. The Cure were their support band & the Banshees guitarist & drummer both quit & walked out during the tour. Bob filled in on guitar, playing with both bands for the rest of the tour. He's on record as saying the experience of playing that dark & brooding music was instrumental in moving his thoughts away from the Buzzcocks/Costello influences & into the "dark" It's strange they missed it out as it's not a big secret or anything & that channel is usually pretty good on detail. I think it needed mentioning. Still, it's been fashionable to turn your nose up at the Banshees for a long time now so i guess it's not all that surprising an omission.

[@Rachel_M_]

0:29 that was their "thing" JJ. Ever seen a happy goth?

[@stewrmo]

Of course they came from Crawley, I should have guessed...as in creepy Crawley! 😃 One love from Scotland. 💙 🦁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@davidbirchall832]

'Lol' is a shortening of 'Laurence'

[@andreyrushchenko2378]

for me The Cure = Lullaby ❤🕷🕸

[@maxon1712]

you should listen to the new music the cure put out this year

[@gwaptiva]

To me, the Cure peaked with A Forest". Obviously, Robert Smith wouldn't agree, and fine with that. Not a Cure fan, but I remember really waving out on dope and their At Orange concert movie on a big screen in the local youth club.... not sure what she was called after all this time, but she was well cute and a goth, so you did what you had to do ;)

[@EdDnB]

Yer… Robert’s my mates uncle 😋 respect to the Cure ✊

[@EdDnB]

Crawley.. is definitely not a quiet little town!!!! Sitting next to Gatwick airport… Horley tho on the other side of the runway surrounded by some lovely little villages set in the beautiful county of Surrey is… a quiet little town 🧐🤓

[@JonathanAshworth-mm4jp]

Towards the end Lol Tolhurst became so unreliable. When they were recording Lol was passed out. Boris's dog leaned on the keyboard and the group sampled that, in the track 'Babble '🤣✌🖤

[@nolaj114]

Loooooove The Cure... I always liked Lovecats - it was such a contrast to the darker stuff, I found it very whimsical. I also enjoyed Robert Smith on South Park. 😂

[@RichDoes..]

as a chef 1 time some of the staff wanted to try raw chillies... 1 of 'emhad a way too big piece of scotch bonnet... his lips looked like Robert Smiths with makeup .. lmao... I warned him tho.

[@AB-sy5hb]

“You know they’re out there”

[@zoeherriot]

That line about "the walk" being indebted to New Order is a bit off - the song was written before Blue Monday was released (but released afterwards).

[@Reani71]

It's safe to say that this is the band that shaped me throughout my life. I have been a Cure fan ever since my best friend in school lend me their single 'Inbetween Days' in 1985. Robert Smith has the rare ability to speak to your soul with both music and lyrics. As a teenager it seemed that that was exactly the music that I was looking for without knowing. Being a sensitive and emotional person many of their songs just move me in a way that I can hardly describe. They're one of two bands that brought me to tears just by performing on stage (the other one is Dead Can Dance) and I have seen a lot of bands in my life for sure. You should definitely listen to their new album, it has just been #1 almost all around the world, including the UK and the US since it was not only their first album in 16 (!) years, but is also another masterpiece, at least for me it is comparable to their finest works and up there with Pornography and Disintegration. And I hope that you'll do that second Cure video soon. Said that I really love your channel and I enjoy all the Trash Theory reaction videos, also a lot of the other ones about subcultures throughout the decades and more (that Thatcher video, man, that was tough). So keep on loading them up and I'll keep on watching. P.S.: I also love KISS... lol, everyone who grew up in the 70s did, I guess.

[@persia888]

Trash theory rocks

[@lenaoxton8827]

My lil emo heart will always love the Cure 🖤

[@FixTheLanes]

Poulo nutini iron sky (abby road live) beat song you'll ever experience

[@kevinhayes7830]

Still love you too react to ren jjla he's a once in a lifetime talent from his singing to what he sings about he shoots his videos in one shoot his videographer the whole lot and your get to meet the renegades in your comments you're subscriptions will shoot up I promise you 😎👍

[@robopecha]

did the mines close.... lol

[@trashandcheese3636]

Don't be fooled by pics of the surrounding villages. Crawley is one of those grey commuter towns divided awkwardly by main-roads (the bypass variety), as if it had been thrown up in the air, and the broken pieces fell and were left standing. It's also reputed to be full of violent right-wing people, culturally trapped in the '70s. A Forest owes some of its fame to the fact that for roughly ten years (end of the '84 tour -> middle of the '96 tour) they would always play extended versions with much vocal adlibbing as well as long guitar solos, making it a somewhat polarizing focal point of the live show. Their other famous "jamming numbers" are the title track of Faith (same sort of treatment), and the four-chord-thing known as Forever and/or Three. Tolhurst (the third famous Lol, after Creme and Coxhil) may be the only Curator to have undergone treatment for alcoholism but they've always been known as a boozy - and druggy - kind of band, which has led to a few famously shambolic gigs, mostly in '84 and '98.

[@AleisterCrowley.]

The Cure were good in my opinion. Always had to holdfast that one with my m8s in a jovial way but I thought they had some good songs, always thought and still think they were a great band. They had some tunes. Early nineties banging those tunes as a growing man finding his way through the drugs, they were up there for me, even as a Zeppelin man at the time, and as such eternally. The Cure were cool, for me. And always will be. Didn't really know about all the stuff in this vid, I just liked their songs. Also, just to add, I like the way Robert Smith doesn't give a fuck. You gotta respect that.

[@waynepunkdude]

I'm in a band called the prevention, we're better than the cure

[@RichDoes..]

I assume the cure were at some point big in America JJ?

[@robopecha]

i bet his hair takes forever.

[@susangarvey9415]

I dunno, I have often woken up with hair and makeup looking like that😅

[@nolaj114]

I bet it doesn't 😅

[@Tyrant1x]

4:44 Is your neighbor Ben Affleck?

[@nolaj114]

Robert Smith's reaction to the bubbly US presenter is like USA vs UK personified. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWqviYGVqst_bq8si=7Zvn94Psd139uNYs

[@scorclips8443]

bru just react to all of disintegration 😭

[@niallrussell7184]

"looks like a normal dude".. yeah he looks like Ben Affleck.

[@RichDoes..]

I never "got" Duran.....thought it was all garbage.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Its the 80's what are you sad about... Errr... Its the 80's, having lived through it, I can confirm it was rather rubbish!

[@mattstacyandthepomskies]

Shock, horror. Robert Smith is a hypocrite who says whatever people want to hear? No way! 😂

[@carolweight5972]

You can't laugh like that at The Cure man total blasphemy

[@nolaj114]

Yeah..that was a bit of a "dad" moment..hehe

[@iainprendergast8311]

One earth were they ever considered suicidal it’s Music man