The Cure - One Hundred Years (Studio Davout, Paris 1982)

[13akisgate]

what an amazing gig indeed....this is how one hundred years should be...perfect!

[MrMerlin87]

studio davout 82 is probably their best ever show ive found on youtube. it doesnt get any better than this!

[HeartandSoul59]

Best lyrics for best riff

[Emlovecat]

Pornography is my favourite album. I only have two others - Faith and Disintegration and I've also got Staring at the Sea and Galore. Pornography is my favourite though.

[DizzyPuke]

I played this song so loudly in our living room early in the morning...My sister was ranting about the song..."What's that song? So scary!" That opening guitar riff scares the shit out of me...Pornography is one of the scariest albums ever made!

[thundertower]

so heavy, not rock/metal heavy, that synth is like a boulder on my head. So good.

[krustt4]

forever

[AnimeGuy9]

I just bought this album a couple of days ago. It was a very...interesting experience. This song ended up being one of my favorites; that guitar riff is just downright frightening...and amazing.

[MordaciousFilms]

This song is best played with the cold industrial drum machine. They don't use synths anymore, which is a real shame because that was one of the things I liked most about them.

[AlexNiedt]

@MordaciousFilms Agreed. I feel like they went downhill after Roger and the synths left. I enjoy Bloodflowers a lot, but I have to actually stop and think about what their releases are after that.

[selsmeister]

Note the dangly necker/handkerchief from the belt loop on the Si's black drainpipes - the accessory to have! Oh happy days! This takes me back to early pub/club years of late eighties/early 90's! This albulm definately my favourite.

A Forest made me a big impression on me when I first heard it as a 16 yo in the school common room - been a fan ever since! Quality always stays with you.

[Toughguysdontdance12]

Yes... So dark and depressive... What I need right now... Beautiful song.

[rubmarquez]

...waiting for the death blow!!

[shrubs0077]

I agree this is the best time for the cure

[Thecuregalore94]

it doesnt matter if we all die...

ambition in the back of a black car...

in a high building there is so much to do..

going home time, the story on the radio.

Just amazing

[thetwilightgarden]

Amazing song - and they're so amazing live... this is awesome.

[tnway]

love this song.

love early 80's.

[DerKosmonaut1972]

If Robert Smith quit as he wanted to do after Pornography, The Cure today would remain remain an underground cult band. The Dark Trilogy period from 1980-82 was the true "Goth" period of the band. One Hundred Years is my favourite Cure song. I think it contains Smith's best and most raw guitar playing. His voice which I find mediocre and at times tedious, finds its best expression. However, Disintegration is their best album and placed them securely in music history. Then that was it for them.

[dustinzk]

Amen :)

[bobbydibobby]

"It doesn't matter if we all die" - best line ever!

[Trgr66]

Ah those were the good days..........

[Mstar82]

think One Hundred Years was the right choice to open the album as it really shows the Pornography mood and as far as I know this was the time where Robert was really down. And that is what he made out of his depression, you can really feel like him at the time through this album. I think he felt exactely like this album sounds.

[Mstar82]

If you look closely at Robert you can see him singing this song with a real aggression and along with much passion. For example from 4:43-5:00, especially at the 'head bursts open' and 'thrashing in the water, thrashing in the water' part, the latter is my favourite in this song. There you notice the aggression.

[Mooka101]

i looove the dark trilogy :D

[soundofmurder]

Pornography is wIthout a doubt The Cure's masterpiece!

[Mstar82]

but their 'real' sound what, in my eyes, is their trademark style is still the dark and gloomy era from 1980-1982. It's so special and it's the 'real' Cure.

A great opus that the band did, the Dark-Trilogy is simply genius. The mood it represents.. I can't barely find the right words to just explain this brilliancy.

When I listen to these three albums especially to Pornography (and Faith) I get caught by this atmosphere and I just am taken into another world.

[katzetnik135633]

you're right !!!!!!!!

waaaa!

:)

Nobody will do that robert smith did in pornography and faith and seventeen seconds....

[rickhorror]

sure hannah montana will cover this one soon !! lol

[Mstar82]

I just love the era from 1980-1982, the dark era.. I own Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography (Dark-Trilogy) and I just love them, they are pure creativity and dark, depressive, strange/weird, especially Pornography which is like 'a vision of hell' no really, it's really scary and crazy.

I just love it, that is, what the Cure actually IS in my eyes. Of course I love other songs like Just Like Heaven, Lovesong (which is finally a step back in their gloomy days), Inbetween Days or Friday.

[ajittffcure]

Yes, there is a drum machine. Over here Lol actually plays the keyboard. Possibly, this is the first Cure track on which he plays the keyboard.

[homonovus6]

Pornography is a milestone in the music history

[nintwiggy6491]

Hell yea

make that a HUGE milestone

lol

[homonovus6]

It was futuristic for its age, an avant-garde new wave. It was higher of the previous works. Of course when you reach the supreme level afterwards you can't keep it. Pornograph was the peak ot their new wave career. Do you like The Danse Society?

[necaeosomnes]

I miss the 80's.

[OLDGUNNER3]

Superb climate;it`s so wonderfully cold.Simply I love it[Figurehead too].

[hondacoronamx]

pornography is the greatest album ever it has a very nintendo atmosphere in it especially a short term effect! although im not really into the hanging garden too much, my fav is a strange day!, 1984's The Top is still my favorite cure era though....

[robotorb]

I always though A STRANGE DAY was an optimistic and romantic take on drowning ; p

[nintwiggy6491]

i always thought he was sorta describing how it feel when ur High :O

[Vypir1966]

@hondacoronamx

Nintendo atmosphere? Are u fking kidding me? I'm sure Robert would be very happy to hear his songs made u think of vid games. Actually, fuck u and die. You're stupidity clearly is beyond help. It's better if u stop wasting our oxygen and end ur life.

[MegaMrDjango]

@Vypir1966 I disagree with the poster, but you underestimate videogames.

Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most talented artists to emerge since 1980.

[rsx321]

I love it

[777fugazi]

I saw this at the time!

it was on the Sunday night, FR3 19H with Vincent Lamy -he also had the Stray Cats, Simple Minds, Oberkampf, Siouxsie...

"happy days"

[Sebastianmelmotte]

This is live right? They must have used the drum machine. My favorite period of the Cure.

I don't like that Roberts pink shirt though :\

[ladyinblacklace]

"Just like the old days.." This song just feels like stabbing a dagger in my heart and then ripping it out!That much energy!The lyrics just blow me away i don't think i've ever felt so affected by a song that much before,this guy can really write good shit! And that bass player(i'm new in the band so i don't know his name)is so cool!He's got the best moves!

[JohnnySwitchblade]

Goth to me is a compliment, as it's very hard to classify a band as being goth...I definately think this stuff is gothic, in a very true sense, not what we consider goth today, like that Marilyn Manson rubbish. This is the real deal here, they started it.

[johannesjuanes]

No they didn´t goth was started by bauhaus . And before the cure joy division

[liamhedonic]

The stuff Manson did with Trent Reznor was good. Manson is more pop-rock with a bit of industrial than Gothic rock, I don't think he's ever claimed to be anything other than a pop singer

[JohnnySwitchblade]

Yes okay, Bauhaus, Joy Division...yes. But I don't care what you say, I like to see The Cure as one of the first bands. And I just have a personal bias against Manson because all my friends claim he's goth and that I should listen to him but I have NEVER been a fan...

[liamhedonic]

lol so what youre saying is you know youre wrong but youre going to pretend youre right anyway.

Fair play! Well this is the best song ever, I think maybe we can agree on that ;)

Manson is just daft pop music with a bit of jim morrison thrown in, fair enough if you arent into it, im slightly embarassed that i am to be honest & there's no point in defending his stuff. but it is just pop music, he freely admits that, and he's never proclaimed himself a goth or whatever

[nintwiggy6491]

y do u keep talking about manson so much?

and tell ur friends there stupid.

i am a marilyn manson fan and hes never said hes goth and he ISNT goth. thats weird..

and how coould u say "Yes okay, Bauhaus, Joy Division...yes. But I don't care what you say, I like to see The Cure as one of the first bands" to johannesjuanes

he IS right and u cant just ignore the facts.

ur dumb

[liamhedonic]

Robert looks like such a bad ass in this video

[boomerang85]

PORNOGRAPHY... The best era of The Cure!

[boomerang85]

simon's moves are awesome!

[Emma80s]

i love the cure but didnt it sound a little bit out of tune some times? haha

[AAR182]

that's because this is obviously VHS.

and VHS tends to do that after a while, but the actual performance was in tune.

[ajittffcure]

I know what you mean. But, it was meant to be out of tune or even rhythm sometimes. 'A Short Term Effect' is another example. It was done deliberately and you should not construe that as a "mistake". Note- this was during the time of the album, 'Pornography' that often had disturbing, distorted and blurred imagery. The music totally conveyed that mood.

[ray1bradbury]

The lyrics here are something totally original and unique, great song. I don't find it Goth or morbid. The opening line sounds kind of darkly sarcastic - I don't think he's saying that we should all just die.

The whole song sounds like a kind of protest AGAINST death, not an ode TO it. I've always imagined this as a kind of protest against some kind of danger ("sound like a tiger thrashing in the water"), or a mourning song. Shadowy, but not morbid.

I wish I knew what the title meant though. :S

[liamhedonic]

"I cannot go on... ...but I will"

[ray1bradbury]

You mean that's what the title is saying? Good interpretation.

[bruceops]

any 1 know the text pse....

[bruceops]

any 1 know the text pse....

[JODQ11]

i love the way that bass sounds *_*

[graphsas]

The Cure in 1982!!!!!!! GREAT!!!!

[dorothyvalens]

Great song! from a great record... Pornography rules!

[solonakatierap]

AMAZING

[tomcatfoxy]

The guitar is like a knife being twisted round in your guts.

[meatflowers]

I like the simile, hadn't occurred to me until I read that.

[peteriiino]

what great words! couldn't have said any better!

[KingStevoPunk]

MY FAVOURITE FOOTAGE , other than Let's Go To Bed & Charlotte Sometimes..

[KingStevoPunk]

hahahahahahahaaa!!

dark wave or gothic rock

lolololololol

the cure is THE CURE!!

[SomeoneMustGetHurt]

how very dark xD

[julosx]

Robert Smith did quite a lot for the rehabilitation of the Fender Jazzmaster.

[aflickering]

cheers, this is the best video of one hundred years on youtube

[ajittffcure]

Absolutely true.

[metalunder]

80's darky pionners!!!

These guitar riff it's a real nightmare!!!

=(

[jazzmanEE]

it doesnt matter if we all die...

one of the best opening lines on one of the greatest albums of the 80s

[killerzombie555]

is this song considered like dark wave or gothic rock

[boomerang85]

Pornography, the best album in my opinion.

[Lewphil]

boomerang85: The definitive Cure album

[ajittffcure]

Brilliant band, brilliant song and a tight performance. 'Pornography' though not my favourite Cure album is a unique one simply because they sound unlike any other albums they released before or after. They undoubtedly made their boldest statement with this effort. This song- 'One Hundred Years' sets the general theme of the album. The Cure has got to be arguably the greatest band in the world and not many people know about this.

[KingStevoPunk]

Pornography sounds like no other they've done BUT neither does any other one. they all sound quite different to me!!

[ajittffcure]

I agree.

[kowtpr187]

Pornography is such a dark album. I agree.

[stringquartet]

violent psychedelia. smothering and oppressive atmosphere. "all shadows and deliverance under a black flag..." very far out. i love it.

[xxTheCurexx]

Im totally diggin' the pink shirt

[MartinRocksMySocks]

ah, the porn era - the best cure era in my humble opinion.

[vulpecula666]

"please love me".. a great cure song

[dsimonen122]

I prefer the early cure lineup(s) and musical stylings to that of their later stuff. To me, the 1979-1982 Cure era contained their more interesting material.

[ajittffcure]

Yes. It's my favourite era, too!

[ChrisBMarton]

The best band in the world, bar none!

[JohnnySwitchblade]

Amen.

[scobump]

Yay. Another early one (I just love it when Rob forgets the words...) A fan since 1982 and collector. It's great to see this one again.

Many thanks!

[schlomiebird]

I like the pink shirt, too, and also that Robert is off to the side and not center stage like most front men. I heard he married his high school girlfriend...I imagine he's a good guy as well as a brilliant musician.

[richardleedrums]

OLYMPIA 1982 - the greatest concert ever!

[adamfortune]

simon gallup is so freakin cool

[klaraklu]

can't believe i did not get to see them live in 1982 'cos i had fallen out with my cousin. i let her go to the gig on her own. 1 week later we were friends again but i had missed it... I saw them later in Orange though but they were huge by then and it was somehow different

[glitterdude69]

o my god that suxx so much....

[JohnnySwitchblade]

YOU suck! *tear*

[ajittffcure]

You should never have done that in 1982! But you saw them in Orange in 1986! Wow! That must have been such a historic moment. You were also a part of The Cure history. How was the experience? I have seen the Cure videos of Orange concert on You Tube and it was a treat to watch the videos.

[asabry24]

what about the the figurehead? the whole live in Paris album...

[loversxend87]

i agree with johnnyswitchblade

[JohnnySwitchblade]

Possibly the awesome-est song EVER?

[wolffreak]

yay!!! THE CURE RULZ!!

[treustnowan]

A hundred thanks robotorb

[Peiper]

Ah! The Cure!

<3<3<3

[Super80sDemon]

Not only is Robert sporting one of his hottest hairdos, he's also wearing that pink shirt. How cute!