Same. Had just moved to London and would go upstairs in the bus and just roll around the city and trip out. It felt so good

me too

Don't forget Hopeless..

Opresive Depresive

That will never leave you!❤

Minimalistic indeed❤

Those are my three favourite Cure albums - by a country mile. For, they are the band's true "trilogy".

Very true.

Something about this room makes it appear as if they are inside a dollhouse.

Most probably the greatest trilogy in music history. Legendary for those who know

Yeah but then they did in concert in 87 one of the sublime-est songs ever written: Snakepit.

What's that about no one making music like that these days? ;))

Ih they make music like that, it just doesn''t get acknowledge anymore.

@@KeimpeJ Too true, maybe one day though!

@@twistedecstasy809 With all artficial emotionscomes a gulf of purity.

@@KeimpeJ 'Gulf of Purity' sounds like an excellent goth/emo band name.

The Beatles wrote better masterpieces in their early 20s. Paul wrote some when he was 16. So, insane? No.

Haha, so no matter how great someones' art is, you can basically always say: Nah, this person did it better at a younger age. What a terrible argument.

@@michaelsuder486 This is way more interesting than any twee beatles rubbish

The first song is so awesome.. I haven't watch much more after yet... Plan too but I have a a lot of plans too watch quied up waiting... But the 1st song he looks like a young Bob Dylan. Wonder if he's a Bob love child?? Ha!

​@@timtrefz5450 Bob Dylan? don't see it.

I had forgotten just how good it is

It keeps reminding you, pornography is a HARD album

Where's A Strange Day?

Thank you

Thank you for the timestamps ❣️❣️

FYI - "Killing an Arab" (inspired by Albert Camus' L'Étranger) is now sung as "Killing Another".

They seem much more ‘together’ to me in that Australian interview than one would expect from this particular period. At least from all I’ve read and heard about that era. They all seemed very lucid and clear. Not sure what I was expecting. Drooling and vomiting? I dunno. 🤣🤣🤣

Disintegration was fantastic too.

@@Shikta-poobah67 The Velvet Underground launched a thousand Bands.

glad you made it

When this album came out I felt I'd finally found a band that understood what I was going through. Changed my life.

Beautifully put! Same!

🤘🏼

Many more GenZs are plunging into despondency by the day now, where you dare n care reach out, "your not alone", breathe, dare to blow thru the creeping malaise~~》

This is my only song as my life goes down to the depths of what I may never have the strength to crawl out of..

Damn makes sense

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+ Charlotte Sometimes

Agree. A strange day is my favourite...

Hell of a gift from grandparents to a 10 year old kid! Your grands sound like they were very progressive. My grandparents gifted me little Jimmy Osmond’s “Long Haired Lover From Liverpool” single when I was little… just for contrast and comparison. 🤣

Kool..Generation X

LOL. My Mum and Dad got me 17 seconds for Christmas when I was 13. When I played it later that day my dad was like "what the hell's that gloomy racket?" They obviously had no idea who The Cure were. It's quite an antidote to the Daniel O'Donnel and Cliff Richard that they listened to.

My favorite too.

Не люблю металлистов, но тебя понимаю и принимаю!

I hope your father welcame back his Prodigal Son ...

Me 2.now metal seems so crass compared to so many bands that I like now from this Era n beyond..had to find out 4 myself

It's getting dark and it feels like rain And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world And I feel so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead

Sounds pretty awesome to be honest.

I was at the last free Stonehenge festival. Thatcher's Police troops were fighting Scargill's miners in The North. It was the end of an era and a birth of anew.

Figurehead feels Joy Divisiony

Faith has the BASS

Totally agree. Alternative haunting soundscape of the 80's. If you know you know

That whole three album run, beginning with Seventeen Seconds and culminating with Pornography is basically a three-stage descent into the darkness (with Pornography being basically a free-fall). After Pornography there was nowhere left to go but into the light. I’ve heard many people use Pornography as a reference point for later albums, but I just don’t hear it, at all. It was a one of a kind, “use once and self-destruct” album that can never be replicated or repeated. I still have difficulty even to this day trying to explain the magnitude of it to the unconverted.

Faith is bloody brilliant. There is one song I dislike (Doubt) but the rest are magic. All Cats Are Grey and Funeral Party are just sublime.

To me this (Pornography) always transcended goth. It’s really in it’s own unique category. I mean yes, obviously some *VERY* ‘goth’ overtones, but it goes even deeper than that. It’s the sound of total dark catharsis. It’s the sound of a man purging his many demons.

It's not Goth, never was. Its anger and frustration moulded in the best of songs.

Wait until you hear the new Album. 🙄

@@Shikta-poobah67 To be fair, he said "gothic", not "goth". The term "gothic" does not necessarily have to be used in a generic sense.

@@Albrecht777 To be fair (since we’re splitting hairs), the term “gothic”, when taken in its literal context, is something that pertains mainly to a style of architecture. There is no direct link to music. The closest it comes is to describe a literary style, defined as: “of or relating to a style of fiction characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious, or violent incidents” In that sense, I suppose one could interpret that particular definition conjures up some of the same imagery that the lyrics and music contained in Pornography do, but I think it’s fairly obvious that’s not what the OP was going for. Then again I don’t profess to speak for the OP. I think it’s only fair that he/she should probably speak for himself/herself, don’t you?

we are the same age, discovering the band around the same time period. It is nice to know the experience is shared in those special years of youth, and the power of their stories over the past decades just keep getting better.

Yea. This whole album is FIRE!! Love the dark dark dark vibe.

The new stuff coming they have the new album very disintegration, a New darker than pornography album, and A solo album by robert..all in the works, so 3 in total ..I cant wait to hear them ..He will bring back that good ol maudlin feeling ..

@sycksyngyrl hard to recreate that feel of those 80s albums when you've been a multi-millionaire the last 30+ years and almost 60+ years old. Lsd, weed and Youthful angst created those dark productions of the past we all love.

@@sycksyngyrl Cant wait to be depressed lol

@@sycksyngyrl which means one album will come out. I've learned to temper my expectations. Every time I'm told that multiple things will come out, it is always just one. The last time they made good on the promise was Lost Wishes in 1992 and even that was supposed to be a full album of instrumentals, haha.

Another great bassist that did this before Simon was Geddy Lee in Rush.. that guy was playing 2-3 instruments at the same time. Unreal.

I noticed him playing some beautiful melodies w that Ricky n pedals

yes but I'm sure Simon never did it for attention like prog does

wow, that must be a great memory. I didn't see them live until 1992, and I thought that was their last tour. I am so thankful they continue.

Hey dirk,,.biste im Oktober dann auch dabei,..the cure live,.barclay arena??

@@_-_-_-Prof.BoskoBiathi-_-_-_ Ich lebe in Berlin, überlege noch. 130,- Euro die günstigsten Karten. Pornography gab es für 15,- DM😎

Until very recently, yes it was definitely a struggle finding any kind of footage or even photos from the Pornography era (which was actually pretty short-lived, but *VERY* intense). For some reason, lately there’s been a flood of stuff from that elusive little period. I don’t question it. I’m just glad it’s happening and I spend as much time as I can enjoying it. I was already into The Cure during that period, but I grew up in a region of the USA where they didn’t tour until ‘84, and though it was only two years later, they were a completely different band by then. Literally. So, this stuff is priceless to me. It scratches an itch that has been nagging me for over 40 years.

Thanks for this. Way too little material from this wonderfully dark record on KZfaq.

He was definitely a better drummer than he was a keyboardist, that’s for sure. I mean, he was no Ginger Baker, but he played drums with a lot of heart, and he had this signature style of playing where you could hear a second or two of his beats and immediately know it was him. It was perfect for what they were going for at the time. That whole cold, dark, minimalist thing. He also kind of gave Budgie a run for his money on Pornography. Really pulled the tribal thing off beautifully.

yeah, they never played Short Term Effect again until the Trilogy shows, which was a shame as it's an excellent song! The closest time they came to playing it was probably during the Prayer Tour for Disintegration in 1989.....they always had the second encore (of three played) that was almost a mystery where they would slot in songs that would see a couple of airings.....stuff like All Cats Are Grey, The Holy Hour, It's Not You, Accuracy, etc. The July 24th show from that tour in 1989 saw them play their last gig at Wembley Arena.....since the word going around by Robert at that time was that Disintegration was going to be the last Cure album....this was going to be the last show in London.....so they pulled out all of the stops for that show......slipped in some extra songs during soundcheck and played what was then their longest show they ever did...something like 40* songs, I think. They played Siamese Twins for the only time since 1983....until the Bloodflowers tour in 2000. * - EDIT: I just double-checked....35 songs! But the show ran over three hours....almost 200 minutes. I used to have the whole show on 3 cdr's back in the day.....but now you can find it on FLAC if you know where such music can be had, lol. Good sounding audience tape too! I know for a fact that the band recorded the show professionally, maybe they'll put it out one of these days....that'd be cool!

@@furnitureconsortium I bought the Wembley show on the 23rd on cassette from a record store in Ft Lauderdale back in like 1991 I think it was. Still have it somewhere. I love that show. Holy Hour is a personal fave. I just checked setlists, and noticed that the American tour ended the shows that year, and saw that if they had decided to break up, at least they ended the final show outside of Boston with Forever, which would have been a fitting song to go out on. We should keep our eye on the festivals in South America to see if they close one with Forever as that surely would be the death knell for them playing live anymore.

I went to a few of the Pornography UK shows, and had bootlegs of 90%. Bristol is the nest Short Term Effect by far. Loved them in 80-82, hated them after when RS became a Prat.

Not really. Yes, it still sounds like him, his despondency, but the anger is gone. He sounds tired.

⁠@@conradzooYeah, going on the footage I’ve seen and listened to (most of it is very high sound quality), it definitely doesn’t hit as hard as it used to. Not that I would expect it to from a man in his mid 60’s, but I often see and hear people talk about how he’s supposedly just as visceral today as he was in the early 80’s, and I just don’t agree.

​@conradzoo well he's sad about being older and losing family. A few of the new songs are about that. A higher angry youthful voice was a product of his teens and early twenties when the first four albums were recorded.

30 years? Sorry to break it, but it’s already 40 years… ;)

@@everpuremusic dang!

The times really didn’t factor into it that much (the cold gloomy vibe), as much as Robert’s own personal demons he was battling at the time. He was in his early 20’s, having an existential meltdown, and coping with it by dropping copious amounts of LSD. This is all according to his own personal accounts and recollections. It had very little to do with anything going on in the world. It was all extremely personal in nature.

🙄 I'm not surprised by your insight wow! I feel for everyone who's own success have brought so much pain @@Shikta-poobah67

They're not authentic. They're a pop music group. Pop music is not authentic

you're welcome, I'm glad you like it.

indeed, i was there too. a bit too heavy with head on the door, though. the night before in monteal had some stuff from faith, pornography, wild mood swings and 4:13 dream.

His voice has held up really well for his age and they are musically as good as ever. It’s funny, the self titled album by the cure that came out in 04 or 2006, as some of the heaviest stuff ever! There’s definitely one track that is absolutely the heaviest cure track I’ve ever heard!