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I find myself mesmerized by this video. I really wish this was somehow in HD, I could imagine this having a tremendous impact with pristine audio. The video might be just fine as it is.
Saw this when it was first broadcast, loved the addition of the strings, but find the dancing amateurish and embarrassing....Still, it's a shame they didn't continue on with the project.
@greenkz1 ha ha lol)) Exactly how "goth" became applied to the post-punk musical movement is unclear. The earliest use within the post-punk scene is likely to have been either by Martin Hannett, Joy Division's producer, or by Siouxsie and the Banshees in the summer of 1979 (see below). By late 1979 and early 1980, the term "gothic" seems to have been fairly common in music journalism to describe bands such as Joy Division and the Banshees.
in the early 80's when the pornography album was recorded/released the term "gothic" was not applied to music at all, it was just new wave, or post punk or modern rock.the term "goth" didnt show up til the 90's especially after marilyn manson.
I have this on VHS too, mines in colour though, will have to get it copied and put up on You tube, i remember watching this while i taped it, haunting stuff.
This is my favourite Cure song, and I don't really know why, but I found this video extremely unsettling and difficult to watch. Particularly the old women sitting down near the beginning and the freeze frame on the dancers faces at the 'Siamese twins' lyrics. I can listen to the whole of 'Pornography' without a problem but this for some reason put me on edge...
"She claws and grows with arms outstretched her legs surround me in the morning I cry." I can feel Robert's intensity as he says each of those words. So beautiful.
This is a truly exception album and this track is soo deep with emotion it cut's me every time I listen to it.Needless to say it make's me feel alot of differant way's each time i swear it never get's old . With it's hypnotizing soud and piercing lyric's it is just so unreal like a dream!!!!
Thanks to whoever posted this rare masterpiece of The Cure. I'm also a big fan of The Cure as well, what i really like about this song is that it's very sparse and has an unrelenting feel conjuring raw emotion that digs into the mind frame listening to it that we all need somebody one time or another. The ballet dancing fits perfectly with the song telling the story of those "Siamese Twins" that cant survive without each other. Excellent song.
I have always loved the haunting and mesmerizing feel of this song!! Really digs deep into your soul!! I can feel this song sometimes, you know. The Cure has a way with doing that!! The Cure are truly phenomenal!! No one compares to them!! Robert is one true poetic genius!! LOVE THIS BAND!! The Cure forever my friends!! ♥♥
Love this song. It's so scary when Robert cries out "Is it always like this!" I wish i was the one who had came up with the like "Like fallen angels, the world disappeared."
That's how the rest of the world must feel when the USA glues itself to them and then proceeds to dominate their every action, calling it democracy when no ones vote actually counts. Always dancing and dancing but never going anywhere. Dancing until the partner is dead.... then it's on to the next......
Dansant dans ma poche Les vers mangent ma peau Elle rayonne et grandit Avec les bras bien étendus Ses jambes autour de moi Le matin j'ai pleuré Laisse moi mourir Tu ne te souviendras pas de ma voix Je me suis enfui et j'ai vieilli Tu ne souries jamais Je hurle Tu n'es rien Je n'ai plus besoin de toi Tu n'es rien Ça se fane et file... Chante fort Nous mourrons tous En riant dans le feu Est-ce toujours comme ça ?
Hmm, great song... Not sure about the artsy dancers though... A tad over dramatic. I like the demonic smiles though... Hmm I dunno, the dancing aint that bad....
Pornography.... before robert turned left. Stands as beautiful as I remember .... this is a killer recording.During his acid experimentation i believe. By far the most compelling work of his career
I watched this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was really bizarre. Then, today, I was listening to Pornography in my car and when this song came on I was immediately transported from sitting in terrible Dallas traffic to a smoky London theater with The Cure and kooky ballet dancers in 1983. Wow. I love it.
i was therein 1984and had seen the cure on a few occasions including glastonbury 1986 met robert at the blink 182 concert manchester 2004 and told him he looked like a fat tranny and he agreed but what else can you do with a small penis sorry robert you should have tried to be yourself.
It's weird how Robert didn't want to be considered goth, yet he had a huge influence on the 80's goth culture. Also the early music and songs like this are awfully gloomy and hardly evoke happiness.
I love the Pornography album.. obviously it's was a major milestone in the fabric of modern music... But i can't listen to it often (in fact I haven't listened to it in completion in many many years...
i love pornography i love the cure since i got 10 years when i hear this song it reminds me of this vid its so beautiful and dark, minute 2:03 its so epic
i've also found a book of about every single new-wave, post punk punk band of the +- 80's
& it said that in this performance they used Steve Severin as bass player & this was called 'Riverside' arts programme on BBC 2 & right after this they collaborated for their side project the glove
(just thought every1 would find this info usefull)
I'm a big fan of the Cure, but this song (and the entire Pornography album in general) has always resonated with me the most. The song is unrelentingly bleak, conjuring up images of oppressive colors, distorted shapes and surreal landscapes. The ballet dancing is perfect; with those two "siamese twins" that can't live with or without each other, dancing in their vicious cycle. I'll go ahead and click this as a favorite.
@mdhookey "The song is unrelentingly bleak, conjuring up images of oppressive colors, distorted shapes and surreal landscapes" - its called goth, and it takes someone special to realise its art
Robert and Steve Severin from the Banshees were contemplating producing a ballet interpretation of both of their music. This was just a test run. It never happened obviously. And just a cool fact... the people playing the strings are the Venomettes who played regularly with Marc Almond for awhile in the early 80's
Compare the bleakness of a song like this to a song from Japanese Whispers or The Top, Two pieces that followed after Pornography. I guess that the band cleared up their issues after Pornography.
...I totally agree with you, the siamese dancing twins is too cheese for a song this entrenched in sorrow and writhe. I doubt the Cure(Robert Smith) had any part in selecting the act... maybe he did tho as a quacky ha ha ha as he has been known to do..... either way, it throws the whole thing off for me. I rather not have to see the dancing duo in this ...
I had heard rumors of this back when I was in middle and high school, but pre-internet and living in the US I had never seen it, or knew if it was true or not. Guess it was...
Ya know, they just did edgy, artistic things like this in the late 70s to mid 80s. Nowadays artists just cuss like 'gangstas" or poledance like skanks...
yes it's ODD to watch...but at least it's creative...
What the fuck is supposed to mean that dance ? Robert Smith must have been under the influence of some acid.The song is one of the best I've ever heard in my life but the dance for fuck's sake
But s a positive note I am glad to see that some people are still aware of how it began.
Haha I guess the next thing in line will be the whole "Deathrock" thing, people making that a excuse to incorpricate metal into that, I certainly hope not lol.
Very true I mean the groups you have stated incorpirate various artistic/romantic elements, mostly shown through Virgin Prunes and Christian Death but with a macabre, morbid twist.
But then again groups like Alien Sex Fiend I guessed just mainly focoused on campy horror/B-Movie elements which shows a distance from the tormented approch.
I disagree. The cure definately had a gothic phase and goth isn't too bad. Darkwave is what gives goth a very bad reputation. Darkwave is simpley metal fans trying to be origional by wearing black and singing about satan.
True goths were romantics and visionaries, which the cure definately has a phase of. The cure aren't goth anymore but it's not bad to say they were for a short while. In fact, if you despise goth simpley because robert smith said he didn't like it then thats pretty zealous.
Hm. You have a pretty good point there. Personally, I think you shouldn't like or dislike some band or music just because it does or does not get catagorized into some certain genre. Or not like the way it's catagorized. When you listen to something, you shouldn't just care about what genre it is or anything. Like music that is appealing to your ears.
In fact, goth was never that bad. Goth didn't always deal with drk substances and doom. Nowadays it's all gone rong. Goth is an excuse for metalgeads to dress in black and sing about satan. Which is alot worse when you think about it.
Ahaha yes. It does sound a lot worse once you think about it. I guess this is just labeled goth cos people find the feeling of some of the lyrics and such similar to that of "goth" music that's being produced today.
@pippafruit this song doesnt fit in any genre, so if u think on that plus the fact that I hate the word gothic then it's maybe post punk, maybe newwave but no fucking goth!
Sorry, back in the days it was called DARK or DARK WAVE if you want to categorize it, not gothic; that word is a modern adaptation for and from pretencious Emo-fashion kids.
I have chosen an eternity of this. Pornography was such a wonderful record. This so is...I give up, it's indescribable. It's mesmerizing....even if I didn't like this song, I wouldn't be able to stop listening...More music should be like this. It should be like it pulls you in deeper and deeper, until you can't get out.
Lovely video, but I think Its insulting for the conjoined comunity that they used fake conjoined twins instead of the many very talented conjoined actors in the acting industry.
Interesting to see they have footage of this song performance. It's one of the more obsucre and least popular Cure songs, usually apprecaited by "real" old school Cure fans; you know before they went pop. I was really hoping to see the band perform more as opposed to these "Cats" The musical future dancers. Thanks for uploading it.
I used to think they used a drum machine for the album recording, but here Lol Tolhurst plays the pattern, straight with no frills (which, especially that slow, isn't easy).
Who cares what "label" someone else wants to stick on them ? They have been one of the most amazing bands to share their music with us. I will be seeing them in Feb :-)
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This is not goth and this is not new wave. It's death rock. Like siouxsie and the banshees and bauhaus. At least on this album. And i don't know any goths who listen to the cure, they all listen to marilyn manson and stuff. :l
Gothic rock developed out of post-punk in the u.k. in the late 70's/early 80's. Death rock was the american equivalent. All the bands you mentioned are british, therefore, gothic rock. They are widely considered 3 of the first and most influential GOTH bands of the time. The Cure changed over time into a new wave and then alt rock band, but dominant bass lines, dead beats, eerie keyboards, sparse guitar = GOTH. Wiki it. God...
if you can't label bands then why should you be able to label people? i propose you can label both, just like Virtually all metal makes heavy use of distortion, palm muting and guitar solos, virtually al
Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, Disintegration, Bloodflowers.... you really don't need anything else.
danlawaustin 3 days ago
not only one of my favorite songs on pornography but one of my favourite poems period.
MrMerlin87 1 week ago
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LuicfersLust666 2 weeks ago
I love The Cure. Their gothic era are all classics!!!! I grew up on this.
MowgliX 2 weeks ago
robert meraviglioso
kreutzerricky 3 weeks ago
The second-best album ever recorded.
Thecuregalore94 1 month ago
We've got an early title generator and we are not scared to use it.
AspectRatioPolice 1 month ago
A real gem!! Thank you for sharing!
Yozimbo 2 months ago
Adorei!
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DEATHLOVEJOY 2 months ago
I find myself mesmerized by this video. I really wish this was somehow in HD, I could imagine this having a tremendous impact with pristine audio. The video might be just fine as it is.
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jacksmiley53 4 months ago
as cold as cold wave can be
is it always like this?
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Saw this when it was first broadcast, loved the addition of the strings, but find the dancing amateurish and embarrassing....Still, it's a shame they didn't continue on with the project.
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@greenkz1 ha ha lol)) Exactly how "goth" became applied to the post-punk musical movement is unclear. The earliest use within the post-punk scene is likely to have been either by Martin Hannett, Joy Division's producer, or by Siouxsie and the Banshees in the summer of 1979 (see below). By late 1979 and early 1980, the term "gothic" seems to have been fairly common in music journalism to describe bands such as Joy Division and the Banshees.
Yurko1993 6 months ago
in the early 80's when the pornography album was recorded/released the term "gothic" was not applied to music at all, it was just new wave, or post punk or modern rock.the term "goth" didnt show up til the 90's especially after marilyn manson.
greenkz1 6 months ago
I have this on VHS too, mines in colour though, will have to get it copied and put up on You tube, i remember watching this while i taped it, haunting stuff.
DOZMEISTER 6 months ago
wow, the banshees played cure songs with robert too?
look carefully, and you can see severin playing bass...
dancing is fucking cheesy though...
The300x300 6 months ago
This is my favourite Cure song, and I don't really know why, but I found this video extremely unsettling and difficult to watch. Particularly the old women sitting down near the beginning and the freeze frame on the dancers faces at the 'Siamese twins' lyrics. I can listen to the whole of 'Pornography' without a problem but this for some reason put me on edge...
EdHeadster 6 months ago
I'd rather see the cure and not these stupid dancers. Especially when this is my favorite song off Pornography.
rbersoul90 7 months ago
i love montana
stoutsandwhiskey 7 months ago
LMFAO @ the dancing couple.
Would have been even better if they had been dancing midgets!
HuckMeHard 7 months ago 3
And now we know how it was for Robert the first time.. awesome! :D
SwedishPeach 7 months ago 5
SUPER SONG! JEDNA Z PIEKNIEJSZYCH PIOSENEK CURE!!!
EdiCure 7 months ago
best song about sex ever
freudastaire 7 months ago 4
this video just blew my mind on so many levels, i must favorite!
kylebakersanangelo 7 months ago
This is some dark shit. Robert really outdid himself with this album, there isnt one bad song on it.
agenthelios1 8 months ago
Beautiful!
NumbFrets 8 months ago
I love this so much...Wish it could be restored..
KireHughes 9 months ago
This was the very last time Lol Tolhurst played drums for The Cure. Too bad.
TorgeistLLN 10 months ago
This is one of the song that can make me cry and shiver, this is the top of the cure
damianofonti 10 months ago
"She claws and grows with arms outstretched her legs surround me in the morning I cry." I can feel Robert's intensity as he says each of those words. So beautiful.
DeadTed88 10 months ago
This is a truly exception album and this track is soo deep with emotion it cut's me every time I listen to it.Needless to say it make's me feel alot of differant way's each time i swear it never get's old . With it's hypnotizing soud and piercing lyric's it is just so unreal like a dream!!!!
averixo20011 11 months ago 2
so slow so perfectly structured song so intense
i just cant describe this song with adjectives it comes from the fucking soul
juanxorancho 11 months ago
Pornography was the Cure's masterpiece... nothing they did after came close to matching it
kingofvintage 11 months ago
Why the hell did 19 people DISLIKE this???!!! Art thou BONKERS??!
MsDarkwood 11 months ago 2
Thanks to whoever posted this rare masterpiece of The Cure. I'm also a big fan of The Cure as well, what i really like about this song is that it's very sparse and has an unrelenting feel conjuring raw emotion that digs into the mind frame listening to it that we all need somebody one time or another. The ballet dancing fits perfectly with the song telling the story of those "Siamese Twins" that cant survive without each other. Excellent song.
BlackMale84 11 months ago
I have always loved the haunting and mesmerizing feel of this song!! Really digs deep into your soul!! I can feel this song sometimes, you know. The Cure has a way with doing that!! The Cure are truly phenomenal!! No one compares to them!! Robert is one true poetic genius!! LOVE THIS BAND!! The Cure forever my friends!! ♥♥
darkforest121 1 year ago
"Push a blade into my hand, slowly up the stairs and into the room, is it always like this?" Gets me every time
bazapop 1 year ago
watch?v=46CNp89_52Y
fondoogle 1 year ago
Early Cure was the best!
steevenD 1 year ago
exquisite in every way
eccentricblonde 1 year ago
this song's lyrics prove that robert is a fukin muse.
Rockguitarhero462 1 year ago
The dude does an amazing 720 right a 3:00. I can barely do a fake 360.
mrxtravis 1 year ago
I love it
ehlorecords 1 year ago
This is beauty in itself. Yet painful...like beauty.
L10161649 1 year ago
this song is incredible. amazing
Clusterfukt 1 year ago
Saw them in 82 in paris, amazing souvenir !!!!!
Shine5757 1 year ago 2
@Shine5757 saw them in 88 in torino, played wonderfully
ace342006 1 year ago
This is off of my favorite album by the Cure. This dancing is not on anything that is my favorite.
Portis1Luv 1 year ago
Love this song. It's so scary when Robert cries out "Is it always like this!" I wish i was the one who had came up with the like "Like fallen angels, the world disappeared."
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That's how the rest of the world must feel when the USA glues itself to them and then proceeds to dominate their every action, calling it democracy when no ones vote actually counts. Always dancing and dancing but never going anywhere. Dancing until the partner is dead.... then it's on to the next......
idavidsawyer 1 year ago
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idavidsawyer 1 year ago
heh, the old bat left in sign of disapproval..
preput 1 year ago
goth!! end of discussion.
TheAlanpoop 1 year ago
fantomuerte 1 year ago
so beautiful...
batgirl323 1 year ago
robert smith the best
thedreamsxx3 1 year ago
I always loved thoose gloomy, more darker, sadder The Cure tunes. And this is one of the most disturbing (in a good way) songs of them.
grafiene 1 year ago
Sublime , Excelso ....
Thanks for sharing this awesome video.
10***/Fav
ELMELO30 1 year ago
beauty.
necromantiic 1 year ago
this song was stuck in my head for weeks,
MrYpres 1 year ago
Is it always like this ? Typically the things you wonder when you are young, or: why do I live this life and not another one's ?
When I used to listen to this song it was like I was the only one to do so, and I felt lucky and grateful to Robert for such understanding.
Now I feel he was the only artist in the world able to write this...
It's not always like this, especially nowadays.
LTMPLDA 1 year ago 7
@LTMPLDA Indeed the Cure made wanting to die a little bit easier back in those days.
novocain68 2 months ago
Hmm, great song... Not sure about the artsy dancers though... A tad over dramatic. I like the demonic smiles though... Hmm I dunno, the dancing aint that bad....
guyfromnewcastle 1 year ago
holy crap i dont know how to comment. so moving its scary.
actually its horrible how much i can relate to this. fuck.
holy shit. ive never heard this album.
anaemiabag 1 year ago
Pornography.... before robert turned left. Stands as beautiful as I remember .... this is a killer recording.During his acid experimentation i believe. By far the most compelling work of his career
thatseverin 1 year ago
I can not find a words to describe this video.
It's.... amazing !!!
Grunge666666 1 year ago 2
This is a beautiful video and song. I love the ballet dancers!:)
tabithashayla 1 year ago 2
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tabithashayla 1 year ago
I watched this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was really bizarre. Then, today, I was listening to Pornography in my car and when this song came on I was immediately transported from sitting in terrible Dallas traffic to a smoky London theater with The Cure and kooky ballet dancers in 1983. Wow. I love it.
eddiesconcern 1 year ago 10
It's difficult to imagine anything as creative as this being performed to music today. What happened?
Brichi60 1 year ago
i was therein 1984and had seen the cure on a few occasions including glastonbury 1986 met robert at the blink 182 concert manchester 2004 and told him he looked like a fat tranny and he agreed but what else can you do with a small penis sorry robert you should have tried to be yourself.
patrickduffy1 1 year ago
@patrickduffy1
i can't understand what you want to mean with this...
He tried to f*** you?& you realized he couldn't?
greyagain 1 year ago
It's weird how Robert didn't want to be considered goth, yet he had a huge influence on the 80's goth culture. Also the early music and songs like this are awfully gloomy and hardly evoke happiness.
guitar241990 1 year ago
I love the Pornography album.. obviously it's was a major milestone in the fabric of modern music... But i can't listen to it often (in fact I haven't listened to it in completion in many many years...
peetrwilson 1 year ago
yeah pornography is great. I would drink cask wine with a girlfriend playing it till it chewed and always with a rediculous tear in the eye.
Early Cure is the best.
So raw and simple and able to evocke such perfect moods.
Robert Smith is a Legend.
cromlek 1 year ago 2
i love pornography i love the cure since i got 10 years when i hear this song it reminds me of this vid its so beautiful and dark, minute 2:03 its so epic
onurb3 1 year ago
From jumping off stages to the Ballet studio at 42 . I can finally see the amazing life all we all have lived listening to the cure for all!
sunreynyc 1 year ago
If I was Robert Smith I would have been CRACKING UP at these dancers.
But I love the concept.
AjaSometimes 1 year ago
genialne..... az sie łza w oku kręci...
sylwiaaa53 1 year ago
For only the music I would go on the performance like this.
7OLGA7 1 year ago
No words... : )
djtimelord 1 year ago
the sick smell, i think.
iliketolivealone 1 year ago
i found the record
finally got to play it..
man what a piece of musical art this is..
i'm really glad i got to know them a little better.
these good days are over, & it kills me to think about it
simionTheOne 1 year ago 3
@simionTheOne wow, youre luckey
iliketolivealone 1 year ago
i've also found a book of about every single new-wave, post punk punk band of the +- 80's
& it said that in this performance they used Steve Severin as bass player & this was called 'Riverside' arts programme on BBC 2 & right after this they collaborated for their side project the glove
(just thought every1 would find this info usefull)
simionTheOne 1 year ago
I'm a big fan of the Cure, but this song (and the entire Pornography album in general) has always resonated with me the most. The song is unrelentingly bleak, conjuring up images of oppressive colors, distorted shapes and surreal landscapes. The ballet dancing is perfect; with those two "siamese twins" that can't live with or without each other, dancing in their vicious cycle. I'll go ahead and click this as a favorite.
mdhookey 1 year ago 76
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@mdhookey "The song is unrelentingly bleak, conjuring up images of oppressive colors, distorted shapes and surreal landscapes" - its called goth, and it takes someone special to realise its art
pippafruit 1 year ago
@mdhookey Well, they were all very depressed, and coked up while on LSD during the writing/recording.
That album sounds... like that.
Very evocative of that state of mind. Depressed, frantic, desperate and unreal.
TheGzeus 1 year ago
Robert and Steve Severin from the Banshees were contemplating producing a ballet interpretation of both of their music. This was just a test run. It never happened obviously. And just a cool fact... the people playing the strings are the Venomettes who played regularly with Marc Almond for awhile in the early 80's
tdoesntmatter 2 years ago
great
tomeks2011 2 years ago
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777system777 2 years ago 25
@777system777 I do!
tiotusentyskar 1 year ago
Is it always like this
pandalejandro 2 years ago
the dancers are the greatest choice actually, for those who beg to differ!!!!
very expressive, gothic style, outstanding performance!!!
respect!!
morenarieta 2 years ago 5
4:18..."i scream you're nothing, i don't need you anymore, you're nothing..." those words like pierce me everytime i hear them. it's so powerful.
thevoidconsumes 2 years ago 27
@thevoidconsumes The line that rips me in two is "It's broken inside me, it falls apart..."
julosx 1 year ago
@thevoidconsumes imo best part of the song (in lyrics)
dimgl19 8 months ago
well simon left after pornograpy in act empty world wa written or him. luckily he came back....
PuppetDani 2 years ago
Empty World is NOT about Simon or about him love. It is actually a 3rd track written about the book "Charlotte Sometimes".
tdoesntmatter 2 years ago
you called me love... If I follow you home will you keep me? Hust out of Curisoity did you read Charlotte sometimes? pretty good read
PuppetDani 2 years ago 3
Perhaps. Of course I have read Charlotte Sometimes. It's a very sweet book. I think I actually cried the first time I read it.
"She cried and cried for a girl who had died some 40 years ago"...
tdoesntmatter 2 years ago
Compare the bleakness of a song like this to a song from Japanese Whispers or The Top, Two pieces that followed after Pornography. I guess that the band cleared up their issues after Pornography.
guitar241990 2 years ago
just modern art of the 80's ... lol
love this song
leoxcara 2 years ago
That was...strange hehe.
Can't really go wrong with The Cure, though. =)
TheAtheistSwede 2 years ago
don't worry dude i'm 14 and an aspiring musician i love the cure. Check out my page
DRUMMERLORD95 2 years ago
Thats why i calle the cure Artists and Shaggy, 2 Pac and all the other crack bunks Chip munks.
Brokensword131 2 years ago
Mmph...the dancers were a bad choice, in my opinion.
MicrophoneFarmer 2 years ago
...I totally agree with you, the siamese dancing twins is too cheese for a song this entrenched in sorrow and writhe. I doubt the Cure(Robert Smith) had any part in selecting the act... maybe he did tho as a quacky ha ha ha as he has been known to do..... either way, it throws the whole thing off for me. I rather not have to see the dancing duo in this ...
BoneChi 2 years ago
Glad someone agrees.
MicrophoneFarmer 2 years ago
i love this video and also the lyrics, so cute!
Puccispupuc 2 years ago 2
So sad and yet so amazing, beautiful and, indeed, perfect.
The Cure every fucking days! :D
MalibuStacyRS 2 years ago 3
carrément une rareté
merci pour cette video
suikitnik 2 years ago
this song sounds so sad
may301985 2 years ago
Muy buena
gretsch1971 2 years ago
I had heard rumors of this back when I was in middle and high school, but pre-internet and living in the US I had never seen it, or knew if it was true or not. Guess it was...
Ya know, they just did edgy, artistic things like this in the late 70s to mid 80s. Nowadays artists just cuss like 'gangstas" or poledance like skanks...
yes it's ODD to watch...but at least it's creative...
WickedPlumVintage 2 years ago 3
totally agree. I feel sorry for the kids now.
ROLANDleSPECIALIST 2 years ago
it's more interesting to. Nothing fake or contrived about this
nesplayer94 2 years ago
Wow this is really cool. I do ballet and I love the cure!!!
LuvBytesNBruises 2 years ago 4
See on backwards...
AlvaroXavi17 2 years ago
0.45 her legs are fucked up. i love this song very much, but that dance scares the hell out of me.
TheCureForLife 2 years ago 2
ES PRECIOSO...
slimisi 2 years ago
the dancers must be in wheelchairs by now
SohoBop182 2 years ago
What the fuck is supposed to mean that dance ? Robert Smith must have been under the influence of some acid.The song is one of the best I've ever heard in my life but the dance for fuck's sake
Meazza666 2 years ago
But s a positive note I am glad to see that some people are still aware of how it began.
Haha I guess the next thing in line will be the whole "Deathrock" thing, people making that a excuse to incorpricate metal into that, I certainly hope not lol.
8970504504 2 years ago
I always thought Darkwave was a fusion of Ethereal elements and Post-Punk combinded together ?
Also isn't that Darkwave artists involve romantanism within there lyrics and not mindless "satanic themes" ?
I think it's just this generation as you said who are confussed and are not really educated within this genre, where it all began etc.
8970504504 2 years ago
I hear what you mean but I remember when it was just deathrock and that could mean anything dark within a really wide range.
Christian Death, Virgin Prunes, Death in June, Minimal Man, some of Lydia Lunch.
That is a huge range.
I will agree that there was more artistry back then in general.
Less limitations within the grouping and influences than now.
creamstripe 2 years ago
Very true I mean the groups you have stated incorpirate various artistic/romantic elements, mostly shown through Virgin Prunes and Christian Death but with a macabre, morbid twist.
But then again groups like Alien Sex Fiend I guessed just mainly focoused on campy horror/B-Movie elements which shows a distance from the tormented approch.
8970504504 2 years ago
yeah it's true.Gothic is assholic.
Korayerdem18 2 years ago
I disagree. The cure definately had a gothic phase and goth isn't too bad. Darkwave is what gives goth a very bad reputation. Darkwave is simpley metal fans trying to be origional by wearing black and singing about satan.
True goths were romantics and visionaries, which the cure definately has a phase of. The cure aren't goth anymore but it's not bad to say they were for a short while. In fact, if you despise goth simpley because robert smith said he didn't like it then thats pretty zealous.
kingcroak 2 years ago
Hm. You have a pretty good point there. Personally, I think you shouldn't like or dislike some band or music just because it does or does not get catagorized into some certain genre. Or not like the way it's catagorized. When you listen to something, you shouldn't just care about what genre it is or anything. Like music that is appealing to your ears.
emibug1996 2 years ago
In fact, goth was never that bad. Goth didn't always deal with drk substances and doom. Nowadays it's all gone rong. Goth is an excuse for metalgeads to dress in black and sing about satan. Which is alot worse when you think about it.
kingcroak 2 years ago
Ahaha yes. It does sound a lot worse once you think about it. I guess this is just labeled goth cos people find the feeling of some of the lyrics and such similar to that of "goth" music that's being produced today.
emibug1996 2 years ago
goth??
call it newwave, coldwave, darkwave, ...
BUT NOT FUCKING GOTH or GOTHIC
punkunite123 2 years ago 7
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You are right.
I call it ... maybe ... "Post-Punk".
ELMELO30 1 year ago
@punkunite123 their whole album ponography was gothic, it was during the cures gothic phase between 1980 - 1982
pippafruit 1 year ago 7
@pippafruit not gothic, there's nothing to do with the gothic, it's was the punk age's and new wave then, everything was black but not dark.........
farine5 1 year ago
@farine5 it was goth pornography was 1/3 of the cure dark albums.... seventeen seconds and faith! maybe youre listening to much emo ...
boygalak 1 year ago
@pippafruit this song doesnt fit in any genre, so if u think on that plus the fact that I hate the word gothic then it's maybe post punk, maybe newwave but no fucking goth!
punkunite123 1 year ago
@punkunite123 no...it was goth...google it if u dont believe me :P
pippafruit 1 year ago
@pippafruit I say it's not goth, I'm above google o_O
punkunite123 1 year ago
@pippafruit well back in the 80s alot of me and my gothic friends were into the cure
pippafruit 1 year ago
@pippafruit
Sorry, back in the days it was called DARK or DARK WAVE if you want to categorize it, not gothic; that word is a modern adaptation for and from pretencious Emo-fashion kids.
jamesnin 2 months ago
sing out loud we all die
laughing into the fire
IT IS always like this!
punkunite123 2 years ago 2
I have chosen an eternity of this. Pornography was such a wonderful record. This so is...I give up, it's indescribable. It's mesmerizing....even if I didn't like this song, I wouldn't be able to stop listening...More music should be like this. It should be like it pulls you in deeper and deeper, until you can't get out.
emibug1996 2 years ago 5
amazing =)
KadiiRawr 2 years ago
menssssssssssssajes subliminales
TheMosert 2 years ago 2
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this song is beautiful
youthkorps82 2 years ago
So dark
I LOVE IT
fabriziobarrera 2 years ago
this is ART
bosphorate 2 years ago 3
dont cry Rob.. U gonna be rich and famous
dimitrisDURA 2 years ago
The lyrics are chilling and intriguing... :)
ZoMbIxOxO 2 years ago
Lovely video, but I think Its insulting for the conjoined comunity that they used fake conjoined twins instead of the many very talented conjoined actors in the acting industry.
derpestarzt 2 years ago
Hehe... maybe in that moment were they visited by the sindicate of freaks from South Park?
onatogob 2 years ago
I choose an eternity of this :)
emptyart 2 years ago
... spellbound...
XelahXelah 2 years ago
Interesting to see they have footage of this song performance. It's one of the more obsucre and least popular Cure songs, usually apprecaited by "real" old school Cure fans; you know before they went pop. I was really hoping to see the band perform more as opposed to these "Cats" The musical future dancers. Thanks for uploading it.
bostero1 2 years ago 2
lol
KittyBlahface 2 years ago
increible
ELASESINO2OO8 2 years ago
Its sooo abstract !
^^
Im in love haha <3
RachRomcorexx 2 years ago
"IS IT ALWYAS LIKE THIS !!??!!"
Fine performance.
I used to think they used a drum machine for the album recording, but here Lol Tolhurst plays the pattern, straight with no frills (which, especially that slow, isn't easy).
AndrewAnthonyHyde 2 years ago 2
great video and great song...awesome...i adore it
IanKevinCurtisRIP 2 years ago
es una de las mejores canciones de the Cure seeee
jaulo4 2 years ago
Who is that old women? That girl's skirt is awsome, as is the song ^_^.
TriggerHappyGirl013 2 years ago
And I thought I was a shit dancer...phew!
stevo6969 3 years ago
Who cares what "label" someone else wants to stick on them ? They have been one of the most amazing bands to share their music with us. I will be seeing them in Feb :-)
mipevo6 3 years ago 3
me toooo :-))))
necaeosomnes 3 years ago
i want to...
SaviourOfCows 3 years ago
oh...that...was...awesome....
this song makes a perfect match with the dance
I like modern ballet :)
blacksheepmary 3 years ago 2
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This is not goth and this is not new wave. It's death rock. Like siouxsie and the banshees and bauhaus. At least on this album. And i don't know any goths who listen to the cure, they all listen to marilyn manson and stuff. :l
iloveryanduhh 3 years ago
Gothic rock developed out of post-punk in the u.k. in the late 70's/early 80's. Death rock was the american equivalent. All the bands you mentioned are british, therefore, gothic rock. They are widely considered 3 of the first and most influential GOTH bands of the time. The Cure changed over time into a new wave and then alt rock band, but dominant bass lines, dead beats, eerie keyboards, sparse guitar = GOTH. Wiki it. God...
BurningOrchids 3 years ago 5
The other songs on this album like Cold, The Figurehead, and One Hundred Years are way more gothic sounding
St37One 3 years ago
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Marilyn manson:D lol, truly Goth, really
Verczaaa 2 years ago
some goths listen to The Cure, but it doesn't make them goth!
They are just musician, in their own style!
stop label music!
(excuse my english)
TheCureRSX 3 years ago 6
if you can't label bands then why should you be able to label people? i propose you can label both, just like Virtually all metal makes heavy use of distortion, palm muting and guitar solos, virtually al