Best video from The Cure...a poll

I watched these tapes a lot w/my friend who was deaf and she loved "The Walk" so much because some gramma is signing the lyrics in it. My friend got so emotional every time, like "why doesn't every video have this? It is a thousand times more enjoyable this way!"

Lullaby used to scare the crap out of me.

I like the juxtaposition of snow and palm trees in "Pictures of You," but purely for the powerful claustrophobic nature "Close to Me" conveys I have to give it the nod.

short list:

In Between Days
Close to Me
Just Like Heaven
Hot Hot Hot!!!
Lullaby
Never Enough
The 13th

I would love to read a defense of "Hot Hot Hot!!!"

that's the puppet one, isn't it?

That's the one where they're all in Ray-Bans and on-their-knees shorty guys.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/owT5LDNoStE/0.jpg

wasn't there one where they were all marionettes? I thought that was "Hot Hot Hot!!!"

They're all on a little puppety stage in "Never Enough" but still not puppets...not puppets like in an N*Sync way or something.

http://www.singingfool.com/photos/302/012718_28.jpg

okay I'm just crazy then

strike "Hot Hot Hot!!!" from my shortlist

always been a fan of the "Caterpillar" video. so that one

I like both "The Hanging Garden" and "Charlotte Sometimes" but lol no way is either of them the best.

Also really, really like the slow receding tracking shots in "A Night Like This"

Man "Charlotte Sometimes" gets so much shit but it has such a true place in my heart.

i love never enough. thought that was so cool when it came out.

it's too bad they've never been able to fully recreate "The Hanging Garden" live because the recorded version is fucking brilliant

Love Charlotte Sometimes (coz I swear that place looked JUST LIKE MY HIGH SCHOOL) and Hanging Gardens, also loved Caterpillar Girl because, well, it's Kew Gardens, and that's probably the best R. Smith has ever looked.

But what was the one with them all in the cupboard that gets pushed over a cliff into the sea? I don't even like that song that much, but that video was so great. Was it Close To Me?

Oh, and Lovecats. That just looks like it was so much fun to film.

That was "Close To Me", yeah. For the Mixed Up version they even did a sequel video for it (that was kind of silly)

Why was it Inbetween Days was such a better song, but got such a shit video? (the animated cartoon sock, kicking band members in the arse. What WAS that about?)

Can only remember the vids for Close To Me and (I think) the Walk (the straightjackety one?).

They were at their peak of good-lookingness from A Forest---->Caterpillar. Robert was at his peak, imo, in The Walk. Except I think their secretly hottest member was Roger O'Donnell. I sublimated so much unexpressable lust in high school, watching & thinking baout Cure videos.

holy lol I'd forgotten about "The Walk", lol @ Lol

It is the best! It's so bad-artsy, and their dancing is like the only music video I can watch & instantly cop the moves. Whether they should actually be copped is another question.

Wait I'm thinking of "Let's Go to Bed," in both cases. Nevermind!

I like to think "The Walk" resulted from Tim Pope going "Well we did a goofy video for "Let's Go to Bed" so let's do a more serious on...HOLY SHIT WHAT WAS I THINKING." Then he did "The Lovecats" and everything after that = piece of cake.

Problem is, in the Pornography era Cure, Simon was so pretty that it was hard to watch anyone else on screen. (Or maybe it was just the size of his hair obscuring everyone else.)

I'm going to have to watch Lovecats to make sure I don't love that more than Close To Me.

The thing is, the Cure were too intimidating when they were at their prettiest. I kinda liked the actual *videos* more when they were drunk and ridiculous.

I can't remember the video for The Walk at all, I try to remember and just see Let's Go To Bed. x-post ha ha maybe I need to rewatch them.

wait "Hot Hot Hot!!!" IS the creepy puppet one!

http://vodpod.com/watch/3307791-the-cure-hot-hot-hot

Robert is so obviously tripping balls in Lovecats. And the bit where the kitten bites him, I swear I must have watched that 2000 times in high school.

Wait no, he's just drunk off his ass in Lovecats. It's Caterpillar Girl where he's tripping balls, there's a bit where you can see him actually catching trails off his hands as he dances in Caterpillar Girl.

"Never Enough" is really great, too

man it's just now striking me that I pretty much only listen to live versions of these songs and have kind of forgotten the studio versions of a bunch of them

Oh my god the TROUSERS in Caterpillar Girl. I had forgotten OK, it was the 80s. But my goodness.

The 80s. Two words: STIFF STUFF

I love the "Charlotte Sometimes" video - pretty girl, gothic mansion, band in overcoats looking - errr - gothic. And those hilarious "quick! turn and look at the camera!" shots of each bandmember. Perfect video for a perfect Cure song.

"Close To Me" over "A Night Like This," but I love the Tim Pope era pretty much entirely

also "The 13th!"

Let's see if I'm the only vote for Fascination Street.

I have just posted three really depressing things in a row on ILX, so I just wanted to look for a thread that would make me uncompromisedly happy. And I think early to mid period Cure videos are that thing.

I am still torn between the drunken shenanigans of Lovecats and the perfect claustrophobia of "OMG, we've been in this band/on this tourbus for too long" metaphor of Close To Me.

HI i can't offer any thoughts on the cure i'm afraid but cure fans might be interested to know that nina sky have done a freestyle cover of "love song" on their new free ep - http://ninasky.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side - and it's GREAT

Is the first mention of Close To Me the regular one and the second the Mixed Up version (with the horn playing octopus) ?

I remember being generally disturbed by The Hanging Garden so that. Lullaby and Close to Me won't be needing my vote.

voted "Close to Me" but you can't go wrong with around a dozen or so. the Cure sure knew what to do while MTV was popular.

haha, actually meant "Lullaby"

In the videos from "Seventeen Seconds," pre-makeup, Rob looks like Ben Affleck. It's weird. See this still from "A Forest" por ejemplo:

http://www.eightyeightynine.com/pics/cure1.jpg

I have the VHS Staring at the Sea, but I've never watched it because I bought it at a yard sale after I had already gotten rid of my VCR...so the only one of these I've seen is Close to Me, despite listening to the CD like 1 trillion^1000 times. :(

I don't think they ever put it out on DVD. A real shame.

i remember the Lazerdisc of this

i actually own the VHS as well, it's somewhere

Robert's allegedly working on some put it all together DVD set. We'll see.

BTW the Nina Sky cover Lex mentions is worth the listen! Beats the fuck out of that 311 version.

This is very tough, but I'm going with "Caterpillar Girl", just because.

Ha, sorry, I guess it's just called "The Caterpillar", but hey, it shouldn't be, right?

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Results make total sense.

That they literally are in a closet that gets pushed out of England in "Close to Me" is too perfectly done.

Lol farted

Since this is the active Cure thread. I'm desperately seeking the extended version of Primary, InBetween Days and Close To Me. None have been issued on CD as far as I know and the vinyl copies are pretty expensive right now.

The people with piss-poor hair have spoken

I don't think they ever put it out on DVD. A real shame.

I had thought that the Greatest Hits dvd that was released in tandem with the album of the same name had combined both Staring at the Sea and Galore into one release, but it actually just cherrypicks the videos for songs that appear on the cd. This is a serious oversight on Elektra and/or Fiction's part.

Maybe I meant overlooking instead of oversight. Screw it...this is a serious mistake.