The Cure - Close To Me
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Music video by The Cure performing Close To Me. (C) 1985 Fiction Records Ltd. - Hudba
The 80s isn't an era, it's a magical realm.
This is the 90s
That was all the cocaine
Yes
@@MichaelWarlock Not it's not. It was released in 1985.
Amen
What I hate about Cure's songs it's when they end.
If they'd used a taller cliff it would have been longer.
The hipsters gotta shut up at some point.
just like my dads life :(
@@georgeridley1827 Sorry for your loss.
Κι εγώ επίσης!😂 😅ΓΙ αυτό ακούω κάθε τραγούδι 20 φορές να το εμπεδώσω!!!!😂😅
it's incredible how they manage to make their songs sound so happy but when you look at the lyrics it's some super sad deep stuff. I really like that about them. they never fail to describe what one feels.
The ability to be able to laugh at yourself is not for everyone!
Goths, not Emos
dunno what you guys mean, I was simply admiring their music ...
@@SuccubusGoblin That's fine, if you listen to some emo music you might get what I mean
@@sirrobinofloxley7156 I do, I listen to many different genres but dunno what you mean, sorry
You know a song is good when people are still coming to listen to it after years. Masterpieces never get old!
Not overrated, not underrated. People who love their music love The Cure.
👌
Rating music is a logic fallacy anyway.
Those people ain't got no legs
💜💋The Cure. Always will.
@@SevAnsdigg-123huh? Overrated and underrated refer to public perception of things. I don’t see any logical fallacy in thinking that an artist should be more appreciated by the general public
I was petrified of Robert Smith as a child. He was just mad looking with his Edward Scissorhands hair, black eyes, pale face and red smeared lipstick. I was about 3 or 4 when this song was re released in 1990 and every time it came on the TV I'd hide behind the back of the sofa. I was so scared of him I use to check if he was under my bed. Most kids are scared of monsters under their beds I was scared Robert Smith was under mine. It's funny now cause The Cure are one of my favourite bands now and this is one of my favourite song from them.
Burton inspired by himself for Edward ;)
loool
That story is absolutely hilarious!! Hahaha :' D
+Maxime but true 😂😂
+SuperDS86 that's awesome hahahaha :' )
The Cure has their own SOUND, mad respect
I’m 63 still listening to the Cure. When this came out in 85 I thought it was brilliant and still do.
❤
Me too!
Yes it is!!!!
Same same
Brian you have excellent taste, hope you are well and still enjoying listening in 2024 ❤
There are 2 versions of this song: one with, and one without headphones.The one with headphones is definitely a more intimate experience!
Jenny Taylor I have used experience headphones high on mushrooms and it was a beautiful happy time peace from ireland 09/04/20 I going stamp this anything I do 🌹
Jadeos de fondo, en toda la cancion... 🤔
It’s actually scary to feel like he’s just breathing heavily in my right ear
@Stephen Stutzman pal sounds blissful trip
I like Oakenfold’s Closer Mix more.
I love the deep breaths by Robert Smith throughout the song. Gasps and sighs that give the song a suffocated feeling.
My mind is going in a totally different direction with the "breaths" being made 🫣🫣🫣
@@metalidolkey2416 Is this song about masturbating? Lol
REALLY?
Not a SEDUCTIVE EFFECT?
Oh Well....
Guess Some of Us perhaps "OVER VISUALIZE'!
😂 ❤
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A masterpiece. The thing about the 80's was that new quality music was being produced at such a rate that timeless classics like this did not get to number 1
1985 I was in some department store with friends talking about wanting to see the movie sixteen candles when I found the head on the door cassette someone said they were good I bought it and wore it out. Kind of funny how we had so much fun listening to a song about depression.
Yup, wipes the floor with crap these days.
They made more money, relatively, now it's easier
I was born in 1989 and i love 80s music and i love this song, but lets not forget what did sometimes get to number 1 in the 80's
St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma
Shakin Stevens - Green Door
Band Aid II - Do they knows its christmas
Spitting Image - The Chicken Song
It was just as capable as any decade of producing rubbish songs :D
@@JP-bc4ie They weren't rubbish songs. They were novelty songs, and they normally happened around Christmas and they happened in every decade not just the 80's
Incredibly ahead of its time production wise. Sounds like it's from the 2000s/2010s. Everything else from the 80s is drenched in reverb and chorus (not a bad thing!) Just makes this stand out so much
Yes!!!!!!
this is from the same year.
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Incredibly ahead of its time production wise. Sounds like it's from the 2000s/2010s. No 2000s/2022s Listen yungblud tissues. Same Sample. Long life of The Cure : All my childhood
The 80's were more musically diverse and innovative than you give it credit for. But it's true that The Cure was far ahead of it's time in many ways, and a lot deeper than much of the popular music of the era.
It honestly makes me think a lot of The Postal Service. I wonder how influenced they were by The Cure.
Probably the most amazing thing about this song is that it hasn't dated AT ALL. You could release this as a new single in 2015 and it would still sound contemporary. No cheesy synthesizers here!
you're very right
Both Lol Tolhurst and Porl Thompson played keyboards on this song. The sounds of organ, marimba, musette are played on a synthesizer. No *cheesy* synth, though.
YuFen Ju
I'd argue a guess at that he was able to understand basic chords and enough to play the parts Robert and Porl wrote, but not enough to write songs on the keyboard of his own, at least until he made his own band. His drumming's good enough that I wouldn't really complain if I was in a band with him, but nothing amazing.
Not only that, you could release the VIDEO and hipsters in Williamsburg would lap it up as hyper-modern.
This video perfectly describes depression. Anyone who's ever been there knows it doesn't feel like being already in the abyss, it feels like being stuck, dirty, with everything around looking like a mess impossible to order, on the edge of the end. And even at the end of it one feels stuck, cold and alone. Exactly like the song hints.
Well said friend
Well actually i think it describe more insomnia and claustrophobia and social anxiety. People these days they think every song speak about depression , as if every artist in the world is depressif. it's like depression is the golden word on internet.
@@nightimeRollback it can be describing depression, it can be describing insomnia, it can be describing claustrophobia…..at the end of the day, only we know what’s going on, in our own heads….and if what it means to you differs to what it means to me, so be it ….neither of us are in the wrong….we both got our struggles…
Depression? Cold and alone?
It is a light and airy song in a major key. The video starts with the band cramped together in a wardrobe in direct sunlight. That is the polar opposite of everything you said.
@@SotiCoto You're under the impression that depression is only "cold and alone"? Where does "Cold" even come from? I've never heard anyone describe depression as "cold". People with depression can be surrounded by friends and still depressed, being alone isnt a symptom of depression.
Lyrics
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me
Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath and wait until I shake
But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me
But if I had your face
Then I could make it safe and clean
Oh, if only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
Thanks for the lyrics!
❤️💜💚
@@pdmullgirl you're welcome! ♡
Genial 👌 uffff!!! Gracias....🤟🤘⚡🩹🖤🤍
❤
Спасибо за текст 3:47
This is one of those special songs that no matter how many times you listen to it, it gives you chills as if you're listening to it for the first time. This is my favourite song by the Cure. Absolute gem.
Yeah but why !?
@IThinkICare It can't be explained! It's just pure magic
put on a sweater b4 you listen to it
@@vonn4017 dude
Same. It never ever gets old. So good
wow it's great to listen to this with headphones, it feels like they're whispering and clapping in your ear
+Jorge E Pink floyd is also very good headphone music!
Very destinaton for yong gherl..thankyu very mutch
Lol you write it right 😂😂
wow thats creepy.
Basic panning effects
One of best English bands ever
josh jackson if they are one of the best English bands ever then they are one of the best bands in the world ever because England is the home of great bands and no one can argue with that
Graveyard_ Baby no England
Graveyard_ Baby no I didn't realise that Northern Ireland was attached to the rest of the uk must of broke free from the Republic of Ireland and floated across the Irish Sea and attached its self but then again I don't really care England has produced the greatest bands in the world
Graveyard_ Baby who's that jimmy fucking cranky or rab c Nesbit I'm going listening to the Beatles or led zeppelin or pink floyd the list goes on and on
both of you need to chill. Who really cares? You both know what music you like.
I can't think of any other music video that incorporates so much claustrophobia, jeopardy and discomfort. It's the antithesis of sunny pop schtick. Truly unique sound, look and impact, even after almost 40 years
Amazing how they kept playing the song perfectly the entire time.
Director: How claustrophobic do you want this video to be?
Robert Smith: YES!
Hahaha Love It!!
Haha!
That actually was Tim Pope's idea, he heard the song with the breathing in the background and stuff and he thought it was claustrophobic, so why not put them in a wardrobe
Misread that as homophobic. I was very confused to say the least
@@camilaschicker9827 Me to
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me
Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath
And wait until I shake...
But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me
But if I had your face
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
Thanks so much!
Watch a tune
but i got to have faith d;faith d'faith wonder where he got that from love this song
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'But if I had your face' is an error I suppose?
I really think this song describe how insomnia , claustrophobia and social anxiety feels like , yet the song is not sad or happy it's really impressive.
This is such an organic video. In the moment. Unedited. The purest of the Cure. I challenge you to find this state of mind in 2023.
My dad who passed in 1996 loved the cure I listen to it to feel close to him 🖤
the cure isn't a band, they're a feeling.
This song is so timeless and hasn't aged at it. I feel like if it was re-released now it would have the same reaction.
Roberts whispery, clear, voice is perfect for every melody and/or riff he creates. It's just perfect in every way. There are very few cure songs that I'm not a fan of, but even those are still good songs.
The beat is nice but dude cannot sing at all! Sounds like he's straining his vocal cords trying to get a tune out.
@@natashakcarson he just doesn't have a conventional pop voice. Everybody's got their own preferences though. But if he was straining his voice he wouldn't be able to still be doing this in his 60s lol
@@natashakcarson you could say the same thing about David Bowie's singing... his voice was always on a thightrope and yet it his songs are great, by some miracle. I guess its about the emotion conveyed, too. (We could speak about Sia, Lana del rey, Matt bellamy...)
Robert Smith is not really singing off-key, I dont think he is straining his vocal cords, he's kinda whispering without really breathing
He just has a very strange way of singing and no technique BUT in the Cure songs, it works. Close to me and Boys dont cry are the ones where its singing is the most peculiar though
@@askingforthemoon it's like Bob Dylan as well. He can't sing, his notes are off yet people will still hype these artists up like they have all the talent in the world. Just goes to show that whatever the entertainment world pushes out there, there's aways gonna be the sheep following. They can make anyone look and sound good when they're not at all. Look at everything in today's music as well with all these trash rappers that don't have talent yet everyone praises them no matter how bad they sound.
@@natashakcarson well... I would be interested to know which singers you like.. I am not a fan of bob dylan but it's not that bad. I just personally dont appreciate his voice, rather than his singing. Plus, he's a songwriter, and meaningful lyrics in a song are important for a lot of listeners.
To be fair I think yes singing matters in a song but if melodies are great, it can goes through without a hitch. To a certain extent ofc, I can't stand the shaggs or sarah brand but I'm a huge devotee of The Cure compositions/instrumentals (Robert Smith's voice sounds better in other songs ), so it's not annoying to me. And I dont feel like a sheep for liking it.
Btw, I just noticed you wrote 4 times the same comment under that video, I understand that you give your opinion once but was it really necessary taking your time... for a song you dont like 😅 anyway
One of the greatest bands from the UK. Wirhout doubt.
From the Earth
It's so crazy omg with earphones it seems like someone is whispering, breathing and making some mouth noises in same time x)
Without earphones too 😁
😂❤️
They are FFS.... what did you think was happening?
@@jimwolfgang9433 hey Jim what's up honey? 😂
The Cure is itself a timeless masterpiece, I've watched- or more listened to them from the beginning, and I admire them still today. .
the music, the lyrics, the video are a work of genius
The song we used to listen together. Miss u daddy
The best songs are often left over in old cupboards.
+Fred Dosan wait I'm dumb. what does it mean exactly?
+Ahmad Syahmirga Please take 5 minutes, and think.
+Ahmad Syahmirga he means an old cupboard went off the cliff but he loved the song... i think?
Miss B I get what he means. Great songs like this are often be forgotten although they are really good songs.
+Miss B LOL
We loved the 80s music, we loved The Cure and we loved this song. We enjoyed that time period, because it was great in every way. We built some amazing memories, hang out with friends and enjoyed time of being young and being alive. It was the best and still is the best in music and entertainment, things were great and still makes me nostalgic thinking about it or hearing this great music. Still enjoy it as much, if not more. I just turned 57 and this music is just as dear and great to me as it was back then.
Yes everything you said.. I
just turned 58 and still can't get enough of the Awesome musical brilliance that the Cure made life in 80's to somehow make sense and still reflects my life today...
Real music never ages and neither does your soul you aren't ageing in all the ways u think u are your still young deeper than you think 💯
Only your Flesh and organs age not you
Real music never ages tunes to hit ears of all eras we need to keep this music alive
❤13
Mom : why are you breathing like that?
Me : wydm im singing
I love the breaths throughout the whole song, its life.
You Get that weird but intriguing vibe
I have had this song as my ringtone since flip phones in the early 90's! Never get tired of it!
This is the beauty of the The Cure... they sound so much ahead of their time...
The Cure....nobody after them did the same..
Bonjour .Tristesse Soda Stereo
Oberhofer
The Chameleons.
Bonjour .Tristesse what about the Rapture?
i agree u k is thé home of thé greathest bands ever
One of my top favourite The Cure songs!!! I will never get sick of their music! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I just came here to say that I love this song so very much, and I love The Cure. Thank you.
I have been looking for this song since at least 8 years, I'm not kidding !!! I feel so eased now... ✊😢✌
good to see you've found the holy grail of music
marvin stevenson
Haha x)
thats because they released the other later version not the one by tim pope
I lost an address last week forgive me if I don't ask you for any ideas.
Hello
Decades later, still a masterpiece... A genius blessed with an “out of this world” Voice
One of the best songs by the Cure. The bassguitar is really smooth and awesome!! ✨️✨️
Last week, first week of November of 2022 I was on my daily walk and a young woman (maybe 20-25) came up on me on her bicycle and I heard the rhythm of a song and I thought: "I know that?!?" I recognized it as the Cure, but as it so often happens I know the song and band but not he name of the tune. So, as she rides past she gets a bit farther away and she sits up and starts dancing wile riding no-handed and it made me feel incredibly joyous. The combo of the song and the woman riding to work most likely and she was grooving on life to the Cure! Just thinking about it brings a smile to my old, fully grey bearded face;-)>
Love it!
No band will ever sound like The Cure. I'm glad that The Cure exist :)
Agreed! Suprisingly (to me) their music is timeless, which I did not expect when listening to this in the 80's.
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Most dream pop/jangle rock bands nowadays sounds quite similar to the cure but yeah youre right, no one could replicate their magic
@@GwakGwak-ct8yv yes The Killers often hint at similar tones and occasionally themes, but never quite reach it.
Unique. Pure class.
According to my mum, this was one of the music videos I was obsessed with as a kid. I remember really liking the part when the cupboard landed in the water for some reason.
Greatest Band of all-time. Hands down.😍👍🤘
58 years old and still love this song so much! My happy and reminiscent brain just started crying really good memmories, loves, and the passing of time. Such a great deep song!!
Who still listen to these 80s hits?
Incredible song , this song is so real what a beautiful video clip. it’s the perfect healing when you feel alone. No wonder why they called themselves the cure.
Never thought of them as the Cure for something like loneliness, but I love that idea. 💜
I remember when at school balls the dance floor was empty and then the Dj would play this and all of a sudden the floor was full of kids my age ( 16, 17,18) jumping pushing dancing around in full excitement with no care in the world
Yep I was that lucky
1988 ❤️
This is, without doubt one of my favourite songs. The strong feeling of intimacy, feeling snug and cosy ...
British Bands are the best !
100% true!
Two proof of that is The Cure and Iron Maiden
I'm totally agree with you
Well that’s where the English language came from , so you’d think they would be, apart from a few like, Culture Club, Duran Duran, WHAM, Spice Girls, Oasis, you have inflicted a fair few shockers as well!
I' m french and i ' m allright with you ! (•‿•)
As an outsider Cure fan,I feel had this song been released 07/08/09 time when indie and rock bands still had a place in the top 40. This would have been a hit again. It sounds so ahead of its time.
The Cure's music is timeless..their tunes never age & still sound fresh.. they're completely unique as well...I've not heard anyone else similar...I love em.😊
First song I heard from the Cure in the 80s. Hooked ever since.
Creativity at its best! These guys were and are well ahead of their time!!
Surprisingly unusual, unconventional and free-spirited band.
Beautiful songs that will stay with us till the end of time...
ASMR-lovers ultimate track! Never noticed how loud the breathing was before listening with headphones. It's great, and makes the song way more visceral, together with Robert's delivery.
A nod to the video director in this, and so many other Cure videos. Excellent ideas and beautiful chaos!
The Cure was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
Jasus nobody before or after ever sounded like The Cure without doubt one of the best bands ever, very underrated.
Been a fan of The Cure since 1979, aged 14. Still have my original well played, Head on the Door cassette from 1985.
Robert Smith's voice does it everytime and the creativity, ingenuity and depth of imagination is phenomenal.
Their music is a liberating, emotional ride of soul cleansing perfection.
Fav songs are:
A Forest/A Night Like This/ Watching Me Fall/Going Home Time.
A timeless song
Thank god I grew in the 80's. Great song!!
The CURE : still one of the greatest british band . Love their style and their creative videos. Sorry for my bad english spoken. Friendly from France. Love Robert Smith and The CURE 👍🎼🎶🎸👋
And very British which is great
One of my favorite bands of all time - saw them 3 times, once in the front row. This was one of my favorite dance songs - the girl I was with at the time was also a high energy dancer - she and I danced to this song together and the song after - "World Destruction" by Afrika Bambaataa at Caberet Metro in Chicago in 1986. We cleared the floor and the management gave us a round of free drinks for the show ! 80s had so much energy and positivity, it was freakin awesome.
When you see a music video that feels like the foundation to your personality and see this came out 9 months before you were born....
This video has stuck with me since I first saw it back in the 80's. Amazing video/track/band.
only 8 millions of views??? this song??? what a sad world..
the song is pretty old, same as video, but this video has been on youtube since 2010
You'll not see a better band. Absolutely incredible. 🇬🇧🏴
0:44 [Verse 1]
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me
1:15 [Verse 2]
Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out, hold my breath and wait
Until I sha-ha-ha-hake
1:37 [Chorus]
But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
Oh, if only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
2:17 [Verse 1]
I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me
2:39 [Chorus]
But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
Oh, if only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
Who else tried to play "The comb" after watching this as a kid?
Just you
Me! Me! Me!!!!
Probably no one
I watch this video every morning to have some positivity for the rest of the day. It just makes me inexplicably happy. This and The Lovecats.
Hello Lesia Umanets
🖤🖤🖤🖤
This was the song and video that introduced me to the music of the CURE...And I loved it❤.
That Bass Guitar really drives this song along
I've heard this song countless times but watching the song video gives you a very different feeling about the song
That flute is the best.
My greatest accomplishment in life was crocheting a robert doll. I love him.
I agree. I would play this song while feeling the aloneness in of my life.. I would then start to dance to express it. My rivers run very deep.
We were all young and life seemed wonderfully eternal !!!
I just love how the music in this song starts soft then gradually picks up into a cacophony of brilliance.
i were really a little child when i heard these songs of the cure for the first time, but these songs impressed me since the beginning!! And since i was a child they kept in my mind. Years later when i was a teenager they impressed me again. Now i hear them again and always i have the same impression. I´m a the cure kid. I grew up with these songs and now they are a part of my life. Thank you, the cure!!
Sameeee
same man. can remember my mum putting cure and other greats on the record player.
What a strange time to be alive, a group of blokes singing lyrics in a wardrobe, but that is what I love about the 80's.
Best band of all time ,
The Cure isn't a band it's a feeling! you can tell their sound still influences so many modern indie artists, my friend is one of them, The Cure were the sound track to our high school days, every song is a timeless classic to us, while I'm here I wanna throw my friend some love for all the good times, he's a music producer now and makes great indie tunes on his laptop, try searching Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, you may be in for a surprise
It’s cool as fuck you support your homie like that, I’ll give him a listen
@@doo6z leave em a comment and let them know what ya think
@@SamuelEMPowell131 loving the puppet vibe
@@SamuelEMPowell131 is this filmed in aus?
@@SamuelEMPowell131 dude, this is really fucking good. He’s actually good, wow
One of my all time favourites this probably listened thousands of times, never grows old, never will
My favorite CURE song!!!!
I've been searching for this song for years!
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing here
Wasn't sure of the name of this but love the song. So I Googled "The Cure song that goes do do do" and this was the first result. LOL
Niepowtarzalna grupa, prekursor.
Zawsze miło się ich słucha.To szczęście,że żyje w tych czasach, w których tworzyli.
racja
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR YEARSS
They don't make music 🎶 like this anymore. I'm still going back in time wishing for an era that I can never get back.
what i like about this song, is that it's so minimalist....
Less is more sometimes
I think the genius in this song is that it sounds minimalist, even though there is so much going on in it.
Timeless gem
Robert Smith one of my favorite music heroes since 1980. For a moment in this video he looked like a deranged Ben Affleck
He’s got a look & he’s stuck with it, and I’ve stuck with the cure. Thanks Rob.
This wardrobe is a visual representation of my plans to see The Cure live in 2020.