I'm a year older but still agree a hundred fucking percent, mate

Ya they do

They have to have John Peel talking between songs not same without it he was our education at the time.

John Peel dropping literary names, books, band names and venues, little snidely comments just in this one bit here...oh and also fantastic early live-recorded Cure, gem.

Promise me you'll tell me about it if/when it happens!

Must have been great times

Or a mogal of an underground traffic program like podesta, epstien or nygard

@@joshlbiomechanic bullshit

Same here... Also the best years

Sumergido en las líneas de bajo potentes, que marcaban la pauta de cada una de sus canciones ... Ese Cure es el mejor 🔥

Agreed. My favorite being Pornography.

they were beyond their time. thanks goodness we had KROQ in L.A. we got to hear all the new cool music and experience punk rock. best years.

It was hit some years before.

@@marsbeads Had no idea KROQ played rare imports. GOOD ON THEM! Boston had the now-defunct, legendary WBCN. And I was all of three years old and growing up in Manhattan; there was a famed longgone Long Island station which sought out British rarities, but as for the rest, would have to do some (much-needed!) research...

@@rebeccarosehirschfield7386 wlir ?

It was a “sleeper” hit. Didn’t chart upon it’s release in ‘79, but charted well after it was remixed and re-released in 1986. I think what did it (in ‘86) was they made a video for the song, which got some pretty good rotation on MTV.

From the beginning, which was this session, they had their own sound.

That's because it was done by the BBC.. the recordings that they did were often far far better than the play back equipment available then.. or even for years afterwards...

John Peel sessions are the epitome of premium production / recording / sound quality

I'm sure that would be very meaningful to them . . .

@@amherst88 no need to hate🤣

@@adamcoombs6404 Did you think I was being facetious?

@@amherst88 yes ahaha

Wow...impressive!

Was so far ahead of his time. Bloody Genius. Still is. ❤️

You mean 40 years, you are 10 years out you muppet

​@@pvtjohntowle4081 chill out dickhead he may have not have discovered them until 1988

ive never been a huge fan but the live stuff from like 78-80 I find very nice

@@fungi42021 that's the reason why I'm a huge fan , but i would prefer 1978-1982, Pornography tours were something special

@@david_post_punk right on man.

@@fungi42021 Long before the crispy fried seaweed hair. :-)

sometimes they are fifty-ish and still hungry...

KROQ also played a lot of the Cure back in the day.

I remember the day 91x changed their format. Absolutely blown away by hearing these bands I loved on commercial radio! Happy times.

Me too

i always loved LOL tolhurst being part of the cure. he wasn't so cute and cuddly, he seemed a man's man that wanted to rock and roll and balanced out all the fluffy haired monsters that surrounded him. i loved his drumming, i don't see why he ever stopped. but i loved him on keyboards too.

Or him with the Banshees on the live Nocturne. He nails every part. Of course, also Hyena.

The right kind of influencer. How things have changed

the live vid from '79 is sped up, urgent and everyone (a trio) is killing it)

Michael Dempsey *

their finest at the beginning

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@@david_post_punk 43

I got an ad halfway through boys don't cry.

Just because it was public BBC !!!

Yeah same here, remember a girlfriend from Manchester scoringba tape and I made a copy...

Yip, I was 4 as well...got into them around 83, after my music taste spread from Adam Ant, Bowie, Beatles, Zeppelin and Stones (last 4 being my dads music) back in the late 70’s into the eighties.

Siouxsie Sioux on I‘m Cold and Safron on Just Say Yes aside, you are right. But why would Robert have needed another background singer since he started adding massive amounts of echos to his voice starting in 1980? I think that after touring with the Banshees in 1979, Robert found the sound he wanted to pursue with the Cure, and wrote 3 kickass records about the hopelessness of time, religion and desire. Kudos to Mike Hedges and Phil Thornally to make these records sound so bleak. Just compare it to the production of the 2004 Self-titled Desaster album. I think that any of the Peel Session recordings of the Cure had a higher quality than that particular record.

@@nonojar1 Robert didn't liked the idea of having someone else singing his songs. That's why they choose a Hendrix song when Dempsey wanted to sing lead vocals in one track.

Do you remember the uproar about the killing an arab song back then? Just imagine now oh haha

oh the 7" inch records were amazing!!! i loved the live version of forest too

Agreed, to me it has something mystic in it, very deep

Robert didn't know what to do with the Manchester audience... So it was the shortest show of the whole tour. And probably the shortest in years.

The audience did seem rather quiet and restrained. It was still about two hours. Not as good as Hammersmith Apollo two years ago.

Nigel Woodcock Seen them here In Chicago , Illinois USA. They just get better by the year.

A Strange Day, aussi. La version que je préfère celle du concert à Orange. Très lente. Et j'aurais mis 'Prête moi tes yeux' au lieu de 'Donne moi..."

You missed out on thrir best stuff and era mate

Everything but inflation, unemployment, roller-disco, and bad American FM radio. However, yes... much better time for underground music, for sure.

Lmfao

Yes, of course. You are not the only one still listening in 2020. Cheers.

Take the war to the heathen.

Roberts hate you.

You should read L'Etranger (The Stranger), by Albert Camus. It was after hearing the song again some time after reading that book, I felt a connection between the two. Decades later I found out (yay, internet) that the song was indeed inspired by that book. So well done, Mr. Smith, for capturing the essence of the book in a three minute pop song format.

St Wilfrid's for ever

yeah idda guessed 84....or 1990

40 years ago

@@LiuLoki seems like yesterday I know

1978 to 1982 they were great!