your videos have given me the motivation to listen to all of the cure's albums, and since i'm sick, on my period and feeling down from watching my family be so engulfed (in a good way) by their faith as the agnostic grey sheep of the bunch, this will probably be my entry point. thanks a lot!
I had the cassette tape back in the day. It was a two-for with Faith on side one a long instrumental track called Carnage Visors comprising the second side. It was mostly bass and six-string bass and sounds like a spaghetti western in need of antidepressants. I liked it, but the cassette’s arrangement - a whole album on side one and a long EP-length instrumental on the other- meant there was quite a long stretch of silence to fast forward through once Carnage Visors was done. I heard (or read) later that Carnage Visors was the soundtrack to a film they showed as an opener on tour. I’ve never seen it. Maybe it’s on RUclips. Apparently, it’s blurry footage of Heathrow Airport or something.
thank you for this video. doubt horrible song, all others are eternal masterpiece. depend of the mood, sometimes i could listen faith all night, sometimes some other song.... doubt, not my taste. and sometimes i just sing my lyrics with melody of this songs.... hare krishna hare krishna 🎶🎵🎶🎵
This album is another magnum opus of theirs at least in hindsight... nothing they had done after this can really change your perspective on things by painting a mind that is deep into self-doubt and nihilism, which is the aftermath of depression and loss. Disintegration is sad and all but all the themes on that album are either fairly explored already or can be seen often in music they made later on. The relatability made that album great though
The Drowning Man is my favourite track off this album. I really like how the rhythm guitar kind of builds up then recedes repetitively throughout the song, like waves. Maybe you already know this, but the lyrics takes inspiration from the death of Fuchsia, a character from the gothic novel Gormenghast. Robert Smith said something about it that has stuck with me since I read it in an interview I found: “I fall madly in love with people in books. Honestly. When I read Mervyn Peake, I fell in love with Fuchsia. And when she died, I really regretted reading the page where she died because I could have kept her alive.” It’s also strangely complimentary to another song in terms of lyrics to me: Just Like Heaven.
My favourite song from the album is Other voices, just because of the perfect harmony of drum and bass on the track and the way it kicks in the beginning, also kinda because it's a perfect mid-tempo amongst the upbeat and mostly slow tracks. I somehow never got into the lyrics of the album though, the music just flows so swiftly that it kinda streams away the lyrics when I listen to it. Interesting, Charlotte sometimes also foreshadows Pornography and sounds like exactly between the two albums but still, if I could put it on one of them it would fit Pornography better because it's so relentless.
I really enjoy the personal approch. Probably because the Cure for me, is so much about the feelings the music evokes. Still missing snippets of the tracks, but I have resorted to play the album in another browser window.
Hey, thank you. I did realize when making this one I think that the personal approach was the way to go, particularly bc of what you said, that the Cure's music is all about emotion, and it's impossible to divorce my feelings from the music and talk about it "objectively" If such a thing exists
your videos have given me the motivation to listen to all of the cure's albums, and since i'm sick, on my period and feeling down from watching my family be so engulfed (in a good way) by their faith as the agnostic grey sheep of the bunch, this will probably be my entry point. thanks a lot!
I had the cassette tape back in the day. It was a two-for with Faith on side one a long instrumental track called Carnage Visors comprising the second side. It was mostly bass and six-string bass and sounds like a spaghetti western in need of antidepressants. I liked it, but the cassette’s arrangement - a whole album on side one and a long EP-length instrumental on the other- meant there was quite a long stretch of silence to fast forward through once Carnage Visors was done.
I heard (or read) later that Carnage Visors was the soundtrack to a film they showed as an opener on tour. I’ve never seen it. Maybe it’s on RUclips. Apparently, it’s blurry footage of Heathrow Airport or something.
Descent is fantastic, dark, deep, ambient but gritty and hard. Reminds me of Tones on Tail and Bauhaus.
thank you for this video. doubt horrible song, all others are eternal masterpiece. depend of the mood, sometimes i could listen faith all night, sometimes some other song.... doubt, not my taste. and sometimes i just sing my lyrics with melody of this songs.... hare krishna hare krishna 🎶🎵🎶🎵
This album is another magnum opus of theirs at least in hindsight... nothing they had done after this can really change your perspective on things by painting a mind that is deep into self-doubt and nihilism, which is the aftermath of depression and loss. Disintegration is sad and all but all the themes on that album are either fairly explored already or can be seen often in music they made later on. The relatability made that album great though
The Drowning Man is my favourite track off this album.
I really like how the rhythm guitar kind of builds up then recedes repetitively throughout the song, like waves. Maybe you already know this, but the lyrics takes inspiration from the death of Fuchsia, a character from the gothic novel Gormenghast. Robert Smith said something about it that has stuck with me since I read it in an interview I found:
“I fall madly in love with people in books. Honestly. When I read Mervyn Peake, I fell in love with Fuchsia. And when she died, I really regretted reading the page where she died because I could have kept her alive.”
It’s also strangely complimentary to another song in terms of lyrics to me: Just Like Heaven.
Try Descent as an instrumental mood-setting opener for the album. It works pretty well and leads very nicely into The Holy Hour.
My favourite song from the album is Other voices, just because of the perfect harmony of drum and bass on the track and the way it kicks in the beginning, also kinda because it's a perfect mid-tempo amongst the upbeat and mostly slow tracks. I somehow never got into the lyrics of the album though, the music just flows so swiftly that it kinda streams away the lyrics when I listen to it. Interesting, Charlotte sometimes also foreshadows Pornography and sounds like exactly between the two albums but still, if I could put it on one of them it would fit Pornography better because it's so relentless.
I really enjoy the personal approch. Probably because the Cure for me, is so much about the feelings the music evokes.
Still missing snippets of the tracks, but I have resorted to play the album in another browser window.
Hey, thank you. I did realize when making this one I think that the personal approach was the way to go, particularly bc of what you said, that the Cure's music is all about emotion, and it's impossible to divorce my feelings from the music and talk about it "objectively" If such a thing exists
Well you know... All of Faith is inspired by a book series. (Gormeghast) I don't think it detracts from the emotional potency.