I love the starkness of the early records by The Cure. The simplicity. Not a lot of instruments. No filler. Every note is there for a reason. Love it. An album that needs to be listened to as a whole. A complete work. A moodscape of gloom But what a record
Written 33 years ago and it sounds as fresh today as it ever did, and to be honest my favourite track - tied with A Forest. My god I was a dark, gloomy kid!
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cure and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? And love, admiration and adoration.
100% the truth!!! I used to wonder WHAT IS IN THE WATER over there???!!! My God-- immense talent musically from that part of the world!!! The UK, Scotland and Ireland. But the Netherlands and Finland and Germany…. especially in the early 80s ❤❤❤❤❤❤
As you wish BarkingLondon. I'll add Depeche Mode to Great British bands and also Cocteau Twins, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Discharge, Lush, Wire, Colin Newman, Killing Joke, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Broadcast, The Smiths, Human League, Curve, Skunk Anansie, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Boards Of Canada, Adam & The Ants, Public Image Limited, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole & The Commotion, The The, Napalm Death, Cranes, Cardiacs, Led Zeppelin, Yazoo, Iron Maiden, Police, Blur, Fall, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Jamiroquai, Seal, Slowdive, Clash, Madness, Cure, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Goldfrapp, Dubstar, Charlatans, Ride, Heaven 17, Judas Priest, Marillion, The Buggles, Throbbing Gristle, Japan, Nick Drake, This Mortal Coil, Pet Shop Boys, Cardiacs, Damned, Dire Straits, Echobelly, Teardrop Explodes, Carcass, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Thrilled Skinny, Dead Or Alive, Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, XTC, The Streets, Pretenders, The Queen, Lily Allen, Tears For Fears, Supertramp, The Kooks, Duran Duran, Brian Eno, Groove Armada, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Saxon, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, Electric Light Orchestra, The Who, Inspiral Carpets, The Wedding Presents, Kate Bush, Placebo, The Rolling Stones, Housemartins, Visage, Culture Club, Expelled, The Jam, P.J. Harvey, Gary Numan, Howard Jones, Suede, Everything But The Girl, Roxy Music, Thrilled Skinny, Freur, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 10cc, Ladytron, Japan, Morcheeba, Helen Love, The Beatles, Spiritualized, Loop, Th' Faith Healers, Mark Ronson, Pretenders, Bauhaus, Kate Nash, Lotus Eaters, Black Sabbath, Oasis, The Sundays, All Saints, Portishead, Verve, Exploited, David Bowie, Talk Talk, Bauhaus, Elastica, Hey Elastica!, David Gray, Joe Jackson, Nick Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Supergrass, The Korgis, Badly Drawn Boy, Tricky, Pale Saints, The Creatures, Bronski Beat, Fine Young Cannibals, Madness, Extreme Noise Terror, Stranglers, Stereolab, Keane, Motorhead...@@BarkingLondon
Whisper your name in an empty room You brush past my skin As soft as fur Taking hold I taste your scent Distant noises Other voices Pounding in my broken head Commit the sin Commit yourself And all the other voices said Change your mind You're always wrong Come around at Christmas I really have to see you Smile at me slyly Another festive compromise But I live with desertion And eight million people Distant noises Other voices Pulsing in my swinging arms Caress the sound So many dead And all the other voices said Change your mind You're always wrong
A friend of one of my daughters said that she had just started playing bass in a band, I said ‘ you need to listen to Faith and Seventeen Seconds by the Cure’
Enorme la voz de Robert Smith. Enorme el bajo de Simón Gallup. Enorme canción de una banda mucho más que enorme. The Cure es una banda sencillamente INMORTAL
Simon Gallup is completely underrated as a bassist. One of the best I've ever heard. You can hear the massive difference in the two albums he didn't contribute to compared to those he did.
cant help saying, Robert, his eyes are so beautiful and mesmerising, love the song, love love love love adore Robert and this era in their music xxxxxxxx
Everybody talks about Robert's looks and nobody mentions the depth of these lyrics. These lyrics are the closest popular music can get to sheer poetry.
as a teenager The Cure was my fav band, every new album was an adventure, loved all of the albums, maybe 17 seconds, Faith and The Top were particular favourites.
I know what you mean. I spent my teens immersed in the Cure , the Church, Depeche Mode....I was 16 when this song was released & listening to it now , it still has the same effect on me....hypnotic & timeless. I lost the record years ago but recently acquired the CD again
Even people who was teenage in 2000s or late 90s remembered this track like a nostalgia. Classic never die, i also sometimes remembered some 2000s track/songs, like my childhood nostalgia ;).
This is such a beautiful song honestly. I can listen to it for hours! I hate the fact that Robert looks wayyyyy better with this little makeup than I ever will with tons of it.
I agree 100%. Although I have all of their albums, I can pretty much take or leave much of The Cure's discography with the exception of those three LPs. They not only form a stylistic, atmospheric and lyrical trilogy, with each one building on its predecessor, but they stand head and shoulders above the rest of The Cure's corpus - at least, they do in my opinion.
@@jens2049 I disagree. "Disintegration" has some decent tracks on it (for instance, "Lovesong"), but it lacks dynamics and much of it remains flat and uninteresting for me. Thus, I feel 100% justified in saying that "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith" and "Ponography" appeal to me far more than "Disintegration". And? So what? It's just my opinion. ;-)
Got to love that bassline. Has a sort of Andalusian touch which the band progressed in other songs such as "The Blood" on the "Head On The Door" album.
dame ese bajo, dame ese bajo para siempre una maravilla que te atrapa y ya no puedes dejar de oírla a lo largo de toda tu vida. me fascina!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!.
I've had the "Faith" album since 1997, but I never knew there was a video clip to this song until now. It's as misty as the video clip for "Primary". 😁
What a band, they've spoken to so many generations of music lovers.So innovative, Robert Smith is a musical genius in my humble opinion.In 2005 I bought the Wish album and was blown the fuck away.Thankyou for the music.
Surely you mean....how beautiful Robert IS girl!! He's not dead yet you know. I fell for the soul he puts in the music and that fantastic mind .......he's still gorgeous to me 😍
That bass sounds out of this world. Marvelous.
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing you here
Its got "compression," effect on it ,sick indeeeeeeed my friend!
One of my favorite christmas songs. Merry Christmas (2024) !!
THIS is a band.
And they musn't be compared with any other, they are unique ♥
200 🥳
I love the starkness of the early records by The Cure. The simplicity. Not a lot of instruments. No filler. Every note is there for a reason. Love it. An album that needs to be listened to as a whole. A complete work. A moodscape of gloom
But what a record
When I hear that bass...I am in another place
This bass is killer...
Gosh it is beautiful
@@jonathanclifford7010 Damn right!
Absolutely
Yeap !... great sound !...
Yeaaaaahh
Written 33 years ago and it sounds as fresh today as it ever did, and to be honest my favourite track - tied with A Forest. My god I was a dark, gloomy kid!
i was a dark gloomy kid that never cheered up or grew up......
I also prefer music of that generation
This means I'm a dark gloomy 22-year-old, proud to be :)
Me too! 🙌
I was a very cheerful 14 yo girl however I could appreciate and love The Cure. I had my gloomy moments though.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cure and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? And love, admiration and adoration.
I couldn’t agree more!!!!❤❤❤
100% the truth!!! I used to wonder WHAT IS IN THE WATER over there???!!! My God-- immense talent musically from that part of the world!!! The UK, Scotland and Ireland. But the Netherlands and Finland and Germany…. especially in the early 80s ❤❤❤❤❤❤
101% bang on. Add Depeche Mode to great British bands too. 🖤👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
That's so right ! ...
As you wish BarkingLondon.
I'll add Depeche Mode to Great British bands and also Cocteau Twins, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Discharge, Lush, Wire, Colin Newman, Killing Joke, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Broadcast, The Smiths, Human League, Curve, Skunk Anansie, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Boards Of Canada, Adam & The Ants, Public Image Limited, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole & The Commotion, The The, Napalm Death, Cranes, Cardiacs, Led Zeppelin, Yazoo, Iron Maiden, Police, Blur, Fall, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Jamiroquai, Seal, Slowdive, Clash, Madness, Cure, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Goldfrapp, Dubstar, Charlatans, Ride, Heaven 17, Judas Priest, Marillion, The Buggles, Throbbing Gristle, Japan, Nick Drake, This Mortal Coil, Pet Shop Boys, Cardiacs, Damned, Dire Straits, Echobelly, Teardrop Explodes, Carcass, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Thrilled Skinny, Dead Or Alive, Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, XTC, The Streets, Pretenders, The Queen, Lily Allen, Tears For Fears, Supertramp, The Kooks, Duran Duran, Brian Eno, Groove Armada, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Saxon, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, Electric Light Orchestra, The Who, Inspiral Carpets, The Wedding Presents, Kate Bush, Placebo, The Rolling Stones, Housemartins, Visage, Culture Club, Expelled, The Jam, P.J. Harvey, Gary Numan, Howard Jones, Suede, Everything But The Girl, Roxy Music, Thrilled Skinny, Freur, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 10cc, Ladytron, Japan, Morcheeba, Helen Love, The Beatles, Spiritualized, Loop, Th' Faith Healers, Mark Ronson, Pretenders, Bauhaus, Kate Nash, Lotus Eaters, Black Sabbath, Oasis, The Sundays, All Saints, Portishead, Verve, Exploited, David Bowie, Talk Talk, Bauhaus, Elastica, Hey Elastica!, David Gray, Joe Jackson, Nick Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Supergrass, The Korgis, Badly Drawn Boy, Tricky, Pale Saints, The Creatures, Bronski Beat, Fine Young Cannibals, Madness, Extreme Noise Terror, Stranglers, Stereolab, Keane, Motorhead...@@BarkingLondon
The bass on this song makes it sound so threatening, I absolutely love it.
I love this song. It's like a sort of warm duvet that you can wrap around yourself.
Brooding and atmospheric, this song always sends a chill down my spine. A great track that I find myself humming at the oddest times.
The greatest opening chords ever, so rich and strong.
Play the bass like a guitar and play another bass like no one...
Simply the Cure
This a true Cure!
There is definitely two faces to The Cure.
There are 4 Faces. ...goth
wave Pop Rock.......
my favourite line from this song is 'I live with desertion and 8 million people!' The Cure - so poetic!
mine too.. So much attitude in that line
Desertion? Presumably in London?
Still don’t get it. 🤔
Masterpiece
Such a hauntingly beautiful song
The lyrics, poetry.
Robert Smith brings so much joy to my life. When life gets tough or when life is great The Cure is just perfect. I will always love you.xxxxx
The Cure never dies!
Faith: total masterpiece
that's korrekt!
Whisper your name in an empty room
You brush past my skin
As soft as fur
Taking hold
I taste your scent
Distant noises
Other voices
Pounding in my broken head
Commit the sin
Commit yourself
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
Come around at Christmas
I really have to see you
Smile at me slyly
Another festive compromise
But I live with desertion
And eight million people
Distant noises
Other voices
Pulsing in my swinging arms
Caress the sound
So many dead
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
💛
Thank you!!!
Sexy!🖤
Brilliant ❤
Robert , you are genious
A friend of one of my daughters said that she had just started playing bass in a band, I said ‘ you need to listen to Faith and Seventeen Seconds by the Cure’
Enorme la voz de Robert Smith. Enorme el bajo de Simón Gallup. Enorme canción de una banda mucho más que enorme. The Cure es una banda sencillamente INMORTAL
i love Simon style on bass!
Rediscovered after years since I felt. Always a masterpiece .
Simon Gallup is completely underrated as a bassist. One of the best I've ever heard. You can hear the massive difference in the two albums he didn't contribute to compared to those he did.
i agree
You have right!!
So true!🖤
What 2 albums? "The Top" and what?
Meh. John Taylor of Duran Duran was better.
robert's voice will always be my favorite
cant help saying, Robert, his eyes are so beautiful and mesmerising, love the song, love love love love adore Robert and this era in their music xxxxxxxx
My favourite Christmas song.
Everybody talks about Robert's looks and nobody mentions the depth of these lyrics.
These lyrics are the closest popular music can get to sheer poetry.
yeah, his lyrics are poetry and it's even more impressive when you know that Robert wasn't raised in some elite family but a middle class (?).
Oh no, The Smiths first album is the closest.😊
😂😅 sheer poetry from a high school notebook, maybe. He's no Leonard Cohen.
No XV fc tnsg
Nah buddy the Smiths got wayyyy closer to pure poetry.
40 years since i ve had Heard you the first Time when i was a romantic teenager... AND i cried the same. I Will always love you Robert 🖤
I feel this ❤
robert smith i love your voice so much..
What a great dark song . Heard it live during some concerts. Superb bassline.
Ni un tema malo tienen estos tipos, unos cracks
🤭
Brilliant refreshing tones....man I loved this band so much! The sound track of my youth.
one of my fav songs by The Cure
as a teenager The Cure was my fav band, every new album was an adventure, loved all of the albums, maybe 17 seconds, Faith and The Top were particular favourites.
Alister Wilson I'm a teenager and the cure is my favourite band
Alister Wilson I'm a teenager
I'm almost 16 and the cure is my favorite band. i have listened to it since age 13
I know what you mean. I spent my teens immersed in the Cure , the Church, Depeche Mode....I was 16 when this song was released & listening to it now , it still has the same effect on me....hypnotic & timeless. I lost the record years ago but recently acquired the CD again
MsRedbelly love the Church and Depache toooooo
Que nostalgia me da escuchar esta excelente música de The Cure
Even people who was teenage in 2000s or late 90s remembered this track like a nostalgia.
Classic never die, i also sometimes remembered some 2000s track/songs, like my childhood nostalgia ;).
Omg bass❤️
There's no other experience quite like listening to "Faith". This song is just a teaser.
A masterpiece of an album!
By far the one if the best songs ever . Sublime video also. Xxx
One of their best songs
Show the elephant some love man! Love you all from Birmingham England!¡
Like opening a doorway to another world.
The Cure does not consider themselves Goth, but they have definitely made one the biggest contributions to the Goth culture 🖤
@dr.escargon Robert Smith said it in an article that I read he said that he has great respect for the community, but sees himself more as alternative
Looking at this video make me so proud to have been a cure fan in the 80s - music is still so fresh with powerful lyrics
what a bass EXCELENT
This is such a beautiful song honestly. I can listen to it for hours!
I hate the fact that Robert looks wayyyyy better with this little makeup than I ever will with tons of it.
I think 17, faith, and pornography are the real trilogy!!
I agree 100%. Although I have all of their albums, I can pretty much take or leave much of The Cure's discography with the exception of those three LPs. They not only form a stylistic, atmospheric and lyrical trilogy, with each one building on its predecessor, but they stand head and shoulders above the rest of The Cure's corpus - at least, they do in my opinion.
Albrecht what? Disintegration is better than any of them. You can say its not your favourite, but to not even include it..
@@jens2049 I disagree. "Disintegration" has some decent tracks on it (for instance, "Lovesong"), but it lacks dynamics and much of it remains flat and uninteresting for me. Thus, I feel 100% justified in saying that "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith" and "Ponography" appeal to me far more than "Disintegration". And? So what? It's just my opinion. ;-)
Totally agree. I'd also include Three Imaginary Boys just because it's their first LP and paved the way for Seventeen Seconds.
@@Albrecht777 yes - Disintegration is totally over produced.
Right up there among the best dark songs you can play at 2am
Staring at the Sea is the best compilation album of all time.
Fave Cure song ......
"Euuuuuuurrrrgghhhh... chh chh"
AH
AWESOME
Fan de The Cure ❤❤❤❤❤ j adore cette chanson , comme tant d autres 😊😊😊😊
So wonderful !!!!
Got to love that bassline. Has a sort of Andalusian touch which the band progressed in other songs such as "The Blood" on the "Head On The Door" album.
dame ese bajo, dame ese bajo para siempre una maravilla que te atrapa y ya no puedes dejar de oírla a lo largo de toda tu vida. me fascina!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!.
Saw the 1981 picture tour. Such a great band.
26 years beloved trck .2 times i have see the cure and i am 43
that bass is just surreal...
I've had the "Faith" album since 1997, but I never knew there was a video clip to this song until now. It's as misty as the video clip for "Primary". 😁
Memories. Still love this after many years.
Beautiful song.....
What a band, they've spoken to so many generations of music lovers.So innovative, Robert Smith is a musical genius in my humble opinion.In 2005 I bought the Wish album and was blown the fuck away.Thankyou for the music.
what a bass line!
Thank you Robert Smith
'Whisper your name in an empty room '- how appropriate for Covid New Years Eve 2020 - thank goodness for the Cure
How beautiful Robert was!
Kate 93 Yep,definitely
Surely you mean....how beautiful Robert IS girl!! He's not dead yet you know. I fell for the soul he puts in the music and that fantastic mind .......he's still gorgeous to me 😍
@@timefliesandaeroplanescras816 Very true!! :)
If I was gay, I will love him too 😜
The best song ever written imo. Have never tired of listening to this and im fucking old now lol.
The Cure is still one of my favorite bands Cure fan since 1985 and purchased everything they have released.
best album
Unbelievably good.....
when you listen to it, death looks at you and smiles ...
Going to see them in less than 24 hours!!! I’m truly STOKED!!!! ❤
They can give you a 4-hour-concert but you won't hear this song...
still my favorite band!
terrific good music from the past
Esse baixo é maravilhoso
THE SONG!!!!!!
Haunting song. Love the 80s props.
The cure are one of the greatest pop bands ever
Sonically perfect
The best of the uk
hermoso bajo!!
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing you here
that bass..!!! it's incredible sound..!!!
I'm hypnotised
Hypnotic!
Love them !
Their songs of the eighties along with those of joy division make a perfect circle.
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Love this song. Moody and unique.
One of the best
This is easily my favorite Cure song.
Immenso, eterno, magico
Simon Gallup - best bass player in the world ;)
Galluping on dat bass
Hardi Holpus yeah Simon is the king just too good and too cool!
I think Robert Smith wrote all the best bass line ;)
Also Peter Hook...
Also Zeta Bosio, de Soda Stereo.
beattles? just a band.
queen? just a band.
nirvanna? just a band.
the cure? yeah, the best band ever!
Gian Lisboa no all of four are very good band
The Cure - An extraordinarily talented band indeed, as were Queen and Nirvana... But the Beatles made them all possible.
The beatles just a band hahaha
Joy Division?
@@Монастырев_Тимур the first to start the movment.
Still so wonderful 🌅 After so many years .....
timeless...
Best album ever for me! Still sounds ahead.