Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl If you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again and again
I close my eyes and immediately I am transported back to 1980 - Portsmouth Student Union where the carpets were sticky, the toasted sandwiches were a novelty and this played every day on repeat on the jukebox. Heaven. Open my eyes and I’m back in 2023. This is a part of me, then and now.😊
This song is very reflective, it reminds me of adolescence and melancholy. Being depressed, all alone. Wondering about tomorrow and your future. Then you start growing older and look back on it all and what you have are mere memories and time keeps passing. And you are still lost in the forest.
Nah man, I think it's literally about Robert Smith dreaming about beautiful girls. I've had these same dreams all my life. I meet these perfect dream girls who I fall in love with and who fall in love with me. It's the deepest, purest feeling, like the feelings I felt for certain girls when I was an adolescent/early teen. Then the girls just disappear and I spend the rest of the dream searching for them, only to wake up with the emptiest feeling inside. You know these girls never exist in real life, even if the dream girls is based on a real person. They are perfect in every way, and the connection you share is so perfect, it can only exist in a dream.
It was good tinea good music and friends there were ups and downs but reflecting back I would not change anything we have the best music 70s 80s and 90s 👍👍👍
This music was 50 years ahead of its time! People have no idea how cutting edge this song and music was! The 80's was an amazing time to be alive for music!
Sorry I disagree, it's timeless. I can imagine cavemen dancing to this before hunting, Robin Hood's gang before going to save Maid Marion and the first human colonists on Mars.
So, by your standard, it's currently still 10 years ahead of its time, lol. This is close to my favorite cure song, but it is representative of how awesome a lot of the 80s music was. I more agree that it is a timeless classic.
As was I, 1980, The Brighton Dome, the Cure played A Forest, the green lasers, the smoke and the smell of Marijuana, some of my very best memories of my youth, now I'm 65 and feel exactly the same when I hear this.
I'm 53 and this is my favorite Cure song off my favorite Cure album. I just love the gloomy atmosphere, minimal percussion and keys. Just Brilliant! This Post-Punk era of the Cure was the Best! Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!!! now induct the Smiths!
The plastic-fantastic business of "The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame" is the Disneyfication (or death) of cool. The Cure agreed to go with tongue firmly in cheek (Breathless Reporter - Are you excited to be inducted?" Robert S - "Not as much as you.")
The year 2024 is speaking here. 52 years next month. Where the hell has the time gone? It still is and always has been The Cure's hottest song. There are many other songs but this one is outstanding. I will never forget the 80s and the beginning of the 90s... it was an amazing time. Puberty, slowly growing up (if you did at all). The rebelliousness you felt inside. You just didn't know exactly what or who you were rebelling against at the beginning. When I close my eyes to this song, I'm back in those moments, which makes this song so amazingly real. It's so cool how this song brings back so many memories. Smoky discos, the smell of teen spirit (literally, not because of the Nirvana song). A bottle of beer in hand and everyone doing the same Cure-style dance. Along with the Sisters of Mercy, The Cure helped me through every depression, relationship drama, stress, heartbreak and all that other fucked up shit. And now, all these decades later, not much has changed. Ok, you've gotten older, the problems and worries are perhaps of a different nature, but they're somehow the same, just from a different perspective or in a different way. The Cure is literally the cure for such situations. Growing up sucks sometimes.
Never had a bottle of beer in my hands and I am 67 - nor any other alcoholic beverage or a cigarette - how did Pink Floyd put it - don't need no drugs to calm me. Never had one rebellious thought. After school was drafted into the SADF at age 16. Fought the Cubans in Angola. No time to rebel against anything - concentrate on staying alive in a jungle terrorist style war. Had to pretty damn well grow up instantly. After that straight to varsity and then to work. I suppose one could call that F-up - but I don't. Amazing what a difference only 15 years make. Greetings from Africa.
My mom listened to the Cure in the 80s when I was a kid, and The Forest + Another Journey By Train are both emblazoned upon my consciousness. Forest always represented to me a doorway into a dark, mystical world of underground post -punk and goth music that I've spent so many years exploring since my adolescence in the late 80s. I remember countless Sunday afternoons in my youth, sitting in my living room, windows open with the wind billowing through the curtains, and my mother furiously cleaning the house, blasting early Cure and 70s Brian Eno tunes on the stereo.
The Cure? Just geniuses!! Big musicians.. I love them from when I was 8!! Since the period of "Lullaby". They can give me good feelings. Alex from Italy.
The Cure were one of the coolest bands of the 80's but they were one of many really cool British bands, it was back when people did their own thing and there was such a diverse music scene. I miss that, now everything seems kind of corporate and very much the same, it didn't happen overnight it was a gradual infection slow and nasty. I'm old now, 54 but I had punk the mode revival, two tone ( basically a ska revival; ), the new romantics ( new wave ) and electronica and it was all different, then it moved into corporate crap over time, I'm glad I was born when I was born.
I was in buffalo when it came out and I picked it up.. for some reason, and was happily engrossed. Don't care that much about the rest of their stuff but this one I loved.
matthew anderson maybe because a Netflix series called 13 reasons why just made it final season and this song was one of the main soundtracks so maybe that’s why people start listening to it
I wonder if my son will say the same when he's her age in 10 years from now...either way music like this will sound just as amazing in 2030 as it was in the 80's when it dropped. Great work is timeless!
Brilliant ploy/scheme....if that was part of your motive....here, I'm laughing at my parent's ringing brains and the best quality 'Walkman' or the few I bashed, dropped, abused too many times. However, best of all....upstairs(tucked away)sits my favorite gift of all...hs grad present from Dad and more than $3 bills at that time. My first Sony Discman with Wait for It.....2X oversampling, remote capability, rechargeable....it still works but it's super heavy, badass case and real quality shit...not so much these days...and, I still rem my reaction to being told that SONY 'stands' for Standard Oil New York.......bleck. Pretty clever there uhhhh JohnD....
Do the same to your kids now. Anything you have problems getting them to do will be done instantly as long as you stop. If they are stubborn, add an interpretive dance and possibly an audience of their friends.
i listen to this song again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ......... and again
Crazy to think there's still some kid out there who feels like no one understands them and hasn't heard this yet, and that when he or she does it will quite possibly change their life forever.
I was lucky enough to see The Cure live here in Chicago on their The Head on the Door tour, at the Aragon Ballroom... My younger sister & I stood on the main floor, where you could see up close... But the minute The Cure took the stage, main floor right in front of the stage transformed: it was *completely* up for grabs -- not a mosh pit, & not enough room to slam dance, just this seething, roiling mass of bodies shoulder to shoulder & embodying chaos & yet also order because you had no choice but to move along with the people on your right, left, in front, in back of you... It was incredible... & kind of scary... I'll never forget it. Saw Depeche Mode there, too... Same year. F'ing awesome.
I saw the same Depeche show not far away in Detroit the same year (85') It was incredible! Very bummed I didn't see the Head tour, but caught them in 87' on the Kiss Me tour. That was the best, even better than Disintegration tour show I'm afraid to say
Was at that show too! Remember walking to the venue, passing a car repair business with workers standing outside looking at all the goth fans walking by and wondering who or what was playing at Aragon that night. I'm sure they thought it was a freak show!
Aaaaand just like that…I’m thirteen. ❤️ sure would love to go back for like…10 minutes. Being young was hard….but I’m still glad I grew up in the 80s. Man, I used to listen to this song turned all the way up, favorite Cure song. We were so n love with Robert Smith. Lol.
How well does this hold up? 40 years on FFS! Holds in every way. Instrumentally, BEATS!, mix it however you want - holds. Robert Smith's writing - always holds - always current; emotive, relevant. This band eludes time. The Cure xx
My whole adult life I told myself that Lovesong would be played at my funeral, along with the printed lyrics given out to my loved ones... That being said, A Forest is mind-blowing and has always been a favorite.
Listened to this album non-stop for three days when it came out, while binge reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. Book and album are now irremediably linked in my mind!
Yep yep yep , three weeks ago I was a lost soul also ,until two others lost in the forest all alone ran into me .w we became friendsies.my friendsies remain a bright light,but I will always remain a dark petrified tomb in this gloomy world full of hatred that substains me.
There Will " Always Be A " Profound Musical Density " 2 This Single !! The Cure's Brilliance Was " Never likely 2 Have Been " Disentangled From The " Wooded Musical landscape " That Was Being Evoked Here " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
No matter what I'm doing or where I'm at when I hear this song I'm taken back in time to my brooding teen years and all those feels come flooding back. *sigh*
I Still have this on 7inch and 12 inch and on a CD Promo [[ Proper One , Not a Bootleg ]] A Brilliant song ,,,,, that The Mixed Up Album Expanded and made it Timeless ...........
The original innovations of The Cure, The Smiths, The Church, Simple Minds, and others of the genre, provided a means of blissful escape during my undergraduate days of the early 1980's at Baylor University. To this day, in my early 50's the same holds true here in Austin. Oh! such sweet memories!
Not me- what this music does for me is to take my mind back to the days when there was life, something new was always just around the corner, great new bands to hear every week, always somewhere to go where there would be partying, dozens of different 'scenes' to be a part of, and life went on forever. I'll be retiring next year and I look around at the world today wondering what happened to all the greatness- where did it all go? But I can always go back, at least in my mind and in my heart- those and the music I love haven't changed and they never will.
Holy Moley!!!! Had to stop surfing just to crank this lovely masterpiece and lay awash in memories of college in '80s and Winter treks buzzy through Virginia woodscapes and beautiful albeit grey days of pure BLISS......thanks Rob and Robert.....still going strong!!!
I was 14 when "Lullaby"was released and my first time I was listening to a Cure song. Then came The forest. I'm 50 yo and still listening to it, I'll never get bored of it ever. So simple,so complicated at the same time. Robert had a nightmare. Lost in a forest. Became a masterpiece 😍...
'A Forest' is probably my favourite Cure song, but I'm surprised almost none of the comments are acknowledging the b-side. It's surprisingly solid for a short instrumental track.
Valerie ..Susan..Mcgraw, This song is for you! All of us, a women drives us Crazy!! This song is for her..Lost in a dream!! Of love, we Love her!! We do, I have my Queen, Chase her... Hoesty,truth.. Pure, thats all you can be, Do it for yourself. She will come, If not..Have peace in an undiscovered Journey!!!! God Bless You. Love Jesus!
So recently some friends and I took some mushrooms and went out the the lake at dawn. I was staring at the tree line when the sun was coming up and the trees on the horizon were really thick and dark. The tree trunks and limbs were making this really awesome almost mathematical, criss cross pattern of dark lines. It was almost a dark ominous feeling and this song came to mind. Then the sun came up and lightened the mood but man I was drawn in really hard for what seemed like hours (probably just 15 minutes or so). Really cool trip.
... heard this somewhere, I went into town and bought the LP, a Brilliant album. I had my punk wristbands imported from the UK and my black gear on, hair spiked up, went down south[new zealand] to see the Cure live for about $8. It was the beginning of one of the most exciting decades in music
@@worwor1721 Hi Cally, it was just like living now, except there were no mobile phones or internet., but there was a lot of social pressure. At the time you live it, you don't know if it's going to be epic or just dull. Trust me you don't want to see the photo's from the 80-ies, just as you most probably don't want to see yours from the 00-íes. Music stands. Enjoy everything while you can and never let anyone say to you that what you like is wrong or not cool or whatever!
@@worwor1721 I was brought up by my father, we always listened to Beatles, Stones, Doors, Status Quo, Queen, Led Zeppelin etc. and after that for me it went all about punk and new wave in the eighties. I remember my father recording a tape for me with all the songs we had listened together on those endless sundays. I still have it and my father is still alive and kicking at 72. I have two sons now who are 15 and 16, and they are going with us to concerts and festivals whenever possible. So last year to Muse, and to Kasabian in 2017 and we should have been to Paul McCartney this year. Next year then? See you there.
Glad to be part of the cable of influence that eventually opened my eyes in 1987. No one around then. No one to relate too.Even the people you could relate to did not want to relate.So this piece really encapsulates my isolation of then
Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
If you can
Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes
I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark
I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees
Into the trees
Suddenly I stop
But I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again
the story of my life again and again [21x]
Always thought he said "I hear her voice start to burn"
i think it's ''find the girl while u can''
Wow
This is from 1980
The older I get the more I appreciate The Cure .. A Forest has aged beautifully 🖤 🤍
Absolutely!!
my partner and i always listen to this before going mushroom hunting in the forest on fungal soma.
the song is absolutely timeless. hence it doesn't age. it always was and always will be.
I like the crackles.
I miss vinal.
It’s so true it is pure genius timeless
I close my eyes and immediately I am transported back to 1980 - Portsmouth Student Union where the carpets were sticky, the toasted sandwiches were a novelty and this played every day on repeat on the jukebox. Heaven. Open my eyes and I’m back in 2023. This is a part of me, then and now.😊
You've done a great job of making me old and young...you bastard!❤
This song is very reflective, it reminds me of adolescence and melancholy. Being depressed, all alone. Wondering about tomorrow and your future. Then you start growing older and look back on it all and what you have are mere memories and time keeps passing. And you are still lost in the forest.
You get older and wiser but still not sure what the fuck it is all about
@@SuperLordHawHaw exactly! Sometimes, the more i learn and know, the more I am uncertain and confused by it all.
Nah man, I think it's literally about Robert Smith dreaming about beautiful girls. I've had these same dreams all my life. I meet these perfect dream girls who I fall in love with and who fall in love with me. It's the deepest, purest feeling, like the feelings I felt for certain girls when I was an adolescent/early teen. Then the girls just disappear and I spend the rest of the dream searching for them, only to wake up with the emptiest feeling inside. You know these girls never exist in real life, even if the dream girls is based on a real person. They are perfect in every way, and the connection you share is so perfect, it can only exist in a dream.
@@SuperLordHawHaw You have experience. Wisdom and intelligence? Depends, but an experience you definitely have...
It was good tinea good music and friends there were ups and downs but reflecting back I would not change anything we have the best music 70s 80s and 90s 👍👍👍
This song is a masterpiece.
This entire version is the best of all.
My favourite song ever!
This music was 50 years ahead of its time! People have no idea how cutting edge this song and music was! The 80's was an amazing time to be alive for music!
dude you are so right on the money!..couldn't have said it better myself!! good man!
Sorry I disagree, it's timeless.
I can imagine cavemen dancing to this before hunting, Robin Hood's gang before going to save Maid Marion and the first human colonists on Mars.
well spoken !
So, by your standard, it's currently still 10 years ahead of its time, lol. This is close to my favorite cure song, but it is representative of how awesome a lot of the 80s music was. I more agree that it is a timeless classic.
Seems pretty great huh ... Plandemic stop agenda 21
The best song from my favorit band ever. Again and again ....
The intro... either you're in, or you're out. The path is dark and there is no turning back. (The vinyl-warp and scratches are EPIC!)
I was 21 y.o and totally addicted to this sound. Still standing !
As was I, 1980, The Brighton Dome, the Cure played A Forest, the green lasers, the smoke and the smell of Marijuana, some of my very best memories of my youth, now I'm 65 and feel exactly the same when I hear this.
Yes my Lord. This sound is intemporal.
@@lordleonusanow and for years I'm in Black Metal. Can U believe it?
I'm 53 and this is my favorite Cure song off my favorite Cure album. I just love the gloomy atmosphere, minimal percussion and keys. Just Brilliant! This Post-Punk era of the Cure was the Best! Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!!! now induct the Smiths!
The plastic-fantastic business of "The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame" is the Disneyfication (or death) of cool.
The Cure agreed to go with tongue firmly in cheek (Breathless Reporter - Are you excited to be inducted?" Robert S - "Not as much as you.")
The Hall Of Fame is the death of Rock N Roll.
The year 2024 is speaking here.
52 years next month. Where the hell has the time gone?
It still is and always has been The Cure's hottest song. There are many other songs but this one is outstanding. I will never forget the 80s and the beginning of the 90s... it was an amazing time. Puberty, slowly growing up (if you did at all). The rebelliousness you felt inside. You just didn't know exactly what or who you were rebelling against at the beginning. When I close my eyes to this song, I'm back in those moments, which makes this song so amazingly real. It's so cool how this song brings back so many memories. Smoky discos, the smell of teen spirit (literally, not because of the Nirvana song). A bottle of beer in hand and everyone doing the same Cure-style dance.
Along with the Sisters of Mercy, The Cure helped me through every depression, relationship drama, stress, heartbreak and all that other fucked up shit.
And now, all these decades later, not much has changed. Ok, you've gotten older, the problems and worries are perhaps of a different nature, but they're somehow the same, just from a different perspective or in a different way.
The Cure is literally the cure for such situations.
Growing up sucks sometimes.
Never had a bottle of beer in my hands and I am 67 - nor any other alcoholic beverage or a cigarette - how did Pink Floyd put it - don't need no drugs to calm me. Never had one rebellious thought. After school was drafted into the SADF at age 16. Fought the Cubans in Angola. No time to rebel against anything - concentrate on staying alive in a jungle terrorist style war. Had to pretty damn well grow up instantly. After that straight to varsity and then to work. I suppose one could call that F-up - but I don't. Amazing what a difference only 15 years make. Greetings from Africa.
Good shit truth is the inner self doesn't want to. let go of simpler. times
My mom listened to the Cure in the 80s when I was a kid, and The Forest + Another Journey By Train are both emblazoned upon my consciousness. Forest always represented to me a doorway into a dark, mystical world of underground post -punk and goth music that I've spent so many years exploring since my adolescence in the late 80s. I remember countless Sunday afternoons in my youth, sitting in my living room, windows open with the wind billowing through the curtains, and my mother furiously cleaning the house, blasting early Cure and 70s Brian Eno tunes on the stereo.
Anyone here in 2020? Such an amazing song. 40 years ahead of its time. Thank you Robert Smith.
The cure will never die 😭🤟😭🤟😭🤟
What a record? Still here....thanks to this...n u...n us...n ...the Trees!!!!!!!
im 48 and this music is my salvation. our generations music is like no other. you cant capture what we had.
Salvation comes from Jesus Christ, and from no one else
I'm 49 and feel the same way, heart and soal
The Cure?
Just geniuses!!
Big musicians..
I love them from when
I was 8!! Since the period
of "Lullaby".
They can give me good feelings.
Alex from Italy.
Ciao Alex, grazie per il bel commento! Un caro saluto, ∟∪⊂∀ ˜_˜
This song. I return to it so often. Thank you, grateful.
Simply one of the best, most beautiful and sublime dark themed/haunting tracks ever produced. Inspired genius.
Légendaire la meilleur époque de cure
Released 40 years ago today. Timeless.
East Clintwood I adore this all over again. Still sounds brand new.
@@robynperrycoe7659 Sounds fresh af
OMFG
Jesus, that is so crazy to think about how it’s 40 YEARS OLD
Wow. I got old. The Cure makes me feel like I’m a teenager again. So emotional. 40 years like 40 days.
The Cure were one of the coolest bands of the 80's but they were one of many really cool British bands, it was back when people did their own thing and there was such a diverse music scene. I miss that, now everything seems kind of corporate and very much the same, it didn't happen overnight it was a gradual infection slow and nasty. I'm old now, 54 but I had punk the mode revival, two tone ( basically a ska revival; ), the new romantics ( new wave ) and electronica and it was all different, then it moved into corporate crap over time, I'm glad I was born when I was born.
Reflexão bem acertiva a sua, meu irmão. Parabéns!
I was in buffalo when it came out and I picked it up.. for some reason, and was happily engrossed. Don't care that much about the rest of their stuff but this one I loved.
Was born in 1993 but I love this song
I’m 57 and remember a version of this being played on the John peel radio show Blew me away ! The John peel sessions were the best
I miss John peel so much and I'm 41
Its a smashing version: th-cam.com/video/UMkO9b04J7g/w-d-xo.html
This music is healing music...what a wise decision to name the band exactly as they did!
So important in times like these!
Greetings from Germany!🙏
Pure bliss. Best ending to a tune ever. Crank that bass right up.
this song has gotten a lot of attention lately and of course it deserves it because it's the best cure song imo
Has it?
Yeah I just discovered it like last week. So if it has, why is that?
matthew anderson maybe because a Netflix series called 13 reasons why just made it final season and this song was one of the main soundtracks so maybe that’s why people start listening to it
Witchcatgaming oh i never knew they used such a great song in such a shitty show
@@skauter4499 Imagine watching 13 reasons why. Cant relate
The start of this ALWAYS gives me goose bumps. I also have the 12" single.
There is no better time machine than music it seems
There is no better assertion that I have ever read.
agree margot
A quintessentially English song. Reflects the sky and mood. Sheer genius.
I introduced my 11yo daughter to The Cure today. She said "Wow this is pretty good." I have newfound hope for the future.
I wonder if my son will say the same when he's her age in 10 years from now...either way music like this will sound just as amazing in 2030 as it was in the 80's when it dropped. Great work is timeless!
my 12 year old was BLOWN AWAY by Boys Dont CRY!!!
I bet she means it. My 9 year old daughter loves black Sabbath, Judas priest, etc.. We have hope for our future generations.
you ROCK mom!
@@JProhask1 has he heard LOVE CATS!
I drove my mam and dad mad, played this auto repeat on my Hi-Fi for HOURS at a time....they bought me a Sony Walkman :)
Brilliant ploy/scheme....if that was part of your motive....here, I'm laughing at my parent's ringing brains and the best quality 'Walkman' or the few I bashed, dropped, abused too many times. However, best of all....upstairs(tucked away)sits my favorite gift of all...hs grad present from Dad and more than $3 bills at that time. My first Sony Discman with Wait for It.....2X oversampling, remote capability, rechargeable....it still works but it's super heavy, badass case and real quality shit...not so much these days...and, I still rem my reaction to being told that SONY 'stands' for Standard Oil New York.......bleck. Pretty clever there uhhhh JohnD....
ObsoleteOddity heeeeeeyyyy....lol..love your channel!!!!
@@koygoddess7080 Thank you so much 😀
Life can be wonderfull sometimes.. Hope your walkman was a good one ! ;o)
Do the same to your kids now. Anything you have problems getting them to do will be done instantly as long as you stop. If they are stubborn, add an interpretive dance and possibly an audience of their friends.
i listen to this song again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ......... and again
Crazy to think there's still some kid out there who feels like no one understands them and hasn't heard this yet, and that when he or she does it will quite possibly change their life forever.
What do you mean?
Make them even more depressed, perhaps?
Right on !
Spot on lovey
Just copy pasting this onto every good goth kid song out there lol
One of the finest tracks ever produced
I was lucky enough to see The Cure live here in Chicago on their The Head on the Door tour, at the Aragon Ballroom... My younger sister & I stood on the main floor, where you could see up close... But the minute The Cure took the stage, main floor right in front of the stage transformed: it was *completely* up for grabs -- not a mosh pit, & not enough room to slam dance, just this seething, roiling mass of bodies shoulder to shoulder & embodying chaos & yet also order because you had no choice but to move along with the people on your right, left, in front, in back of you... It was incredible... & kind of scary... I'll never forget it. Saw Depeche Mode there, too... Same year. F'ing awesome.
I miss the mosh pits. The 80s and 90s were so much fun.
I saw the same Depeche show not far away in Detroit the same year (85') It was incredible! Very bummed I didn't see the Head tour, but caught them in 87' on the Kiss Me tour. That was the best, even better than Disintegration tour show I'm afraid to say
Was at that show too! Remember walking to the venue, passing a car repair business with workers standing outside looking at all the goth fans walking by and wondering who or what was playing at Aragon that night. I'm sure they thought it was a freak show!
Lucky bastard!!😂🤣🤘
Probably bumped into you. Of course, due to various reasons, I do not remember a whole lot about that concert. :-)
Aaaaand just like that…I’m thirteen. ❤️ sure would love to go back for like…10 minutes. Being young was hard….but I’m still glad I grew up in the 80s.
Man, I used to listen to this song turned all the way up, favorite Cure song. We were so n love with Robert Smith. Lol.
40 Years old, but still such a great song. In my opinion the cure were ahead of their time. This song particularly creates a very special atmosphere.
Moest er een tijdmachine bestaan, ik wil meteen terug de jaren 80 in. Gouden tijden zowel muziek als uitgaan!!
👍😊
🇫🇷🙏🙏❤️👍
Still one of the most extraordinary musical experiences of my life.
The song of the eighties
Of all the The Cure songs it's still my favorite, such a unbelivable song.
I too introduced my daughter to this song in 2017. She has it on her top tracks list. My job is done
music that makes you feel home.
How well does this hold up? 40 years on FFS! Holds in every way. Instrumentally, BEATS!, mix it however you want - holds. Robert Smith's writing - always holds - always current; emotive, relevant. This band eludes time. The Cure xx
Those analog lows and mids with the his and pops is an absolute eargasm.
Damn skippy!👍🏻
What would you do anyway if you got your girl to play. With your stupid music talk some of us just play by ear and that's the fucking way it is!
@@ginamori8656 what?
@@youjoker9647 I concur: What?
I still can't believe this song is 40 years old. It may have the "sound" of a particular 1980s genre, but it's really timeless.
My funeral song. favourite song ever.
cheers, same here
Hope you live long though!
My whole adult life I told myself that Lovesong would be played at my funeral, along with the printed lyrics given out to my loved ones... That being said, A Forest is mind-blowing and has always been a favorite.
Great idea!
Gothest comment ever. 🎶
If humans are still around in centuries to come, they will know this song. It reaches beyond time and space.
A shimmering, hypnotic, classic , even the sound of the grooves, add to its authenticity.
I'm playing this video again and again and again and again and again....again
YOU GOT COMPANY KIDD!!!
@@BILLIESCOTTbilliedjglam LETS GO GET EM TIGER!
Ha ha
Love, love, love the crackle of the needle on the vinyl. Makes my heart warm.
I've not heard crackle on vinyl for many a year. It sets up a song superbly
Listened to this album non-stop for three days when it came out, while binge reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. Book and album are now irremediably linked in my mind!
That guitar. Oh my!! 🎸
Anthologic music! Before.. Now..In the Future.. Always A Great Song.. Great Forest.. A Great Album !!!🙂🙂🙂🙂
This is a true adventure.
The B-Side, another journey by train is one of the finest instrumentals ever. Killer bass line.
Attention all young loners: you are not alone. The forest is filled with lost souls.
and you`ll find the others, just keep looking
💞💫💖🌙💞💫💖🌙💞💫💖🌙💞💫💖
Yep yep yep , three weeks ago I was a lost soul also ,until two others lost in the forest all alone ran into me .w
we became friendsies.my friendsies remain a bright light,but I will always remain a dark petrified tomb in this gloomy world full of hatred that substains me.
This version of A Forest is seriously excellent and by far one of the best songs from anyone of all time.Thanks infinity.
It's 1980 and I'm 14, hearing this for the first time being played by John Peel - every time ...
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
― Tennessee Williams
I appreciate you. Thank you for putting that forward.
There Will " Always Be A " Profound Musical Density " 2 This Single !! The Cure's Brilliance Was " Never likely 2 Have Been " Disentangled From The " Wooded Musical landscape " That Was Being Evoked Here " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
Thanks 4 Your Support Re My " Cure " / Forest Post ! " Take Care " !! From Adrian Browne 1965
-Dad why my sister's name is rose?
-Because your mother loves roses
-Oh, thanks dad
-No problem A Forest by The Cure
made me giggle
😂😂😂
That brings back memories.
I remember how stunningly fresh and different this sounded back then.
Still sounds fresh to me. It has held up extremely well.
Same here for me, with free-form/alt. rock more alive and well. NOT so today, in general. The Cure were ahead of their time
It still sounds fresh and different to me now. I feel the same when I listen to some Sad Lovers and Giants. It's different, and somehow timeless.
No matter what I'm doing or where I'm at when I hear this song I'm taken back in time to my brooding teen years and all those feels come flooding back. *sigh*
Yes, same for me too. Feeling one's way in my teens and having such wonderful music to bookmark thoughts, feelings and emotions.
so do I
I Still have this on 7inch and 12 inch and on a CD Promo [[ Proper One , Not a Bootleg ]] A Brilliant song ,,,,, that The Mixed Up Album Expanded and made it Timeless ...........
The original innovations of The Cure, The Smiths, The Church, Simple Minds, and others of the genre, provided a means of blissful escape during my undergraduate days of the early 1980's at Baylor University. To this day, in my early 50's the same holds true here in Austin. Oh! such sweet memories!
weird how you hear it in differant times of your life and hear in a differant way ? blessed track x
One of my all time fav tunes,banged it out in my 20's and 30's and tonight in my mid 40's
Not me- what this music does for me is to take my mind back to the days when there was life, something new was always just around the corner, great new bands to hear every week, always somewhere to go where there would be partying, dozens of different 'scenes' to be a part of, and life went on forever. I'll be retiring next year and I look around at the world today wondering what happened to all the greatness- where did it all go? But I can always go back, at least in my mind and in my heart- those and the music I love haven't changed and they never will.
Holy Moley!!!! Had to stop surfing just to crank this lovely masterpiece and lay awash in memories of college in '80s and Winter treks buzzy through Virginia woodscapes and beautiful albeit grey days of pure BLISS......thanks Rob and Robert.....still going strong!!!
i sadly was surfing youtube when i found this, and playing a game at the same time
we can almost breath 80's endless nights air
This entire track cured my cancer.
LOL! [but really, I hope you don't have cancer]
Show the elephant some love man! Love you all from Birmingham England!
I was 14 when "Lullaby"was released and my first time I was listening to a Cure song.
Then came The forest.
I'm 50 yo and still listening to it, I'll never get bored of it ever.
So simple,so complicated at the same time.
Robert had a nightmare.
Lost in a forest.
Became a masterpiece 😍...
I just loce the slow drum vibe and then the epic guitar solo at the end. So hot!!!!!!!
The Cure basslines are the best
in the Universe
The song of my youth...never forgotten...often played
A song to escape. Magical chords.
i am in love with this album cover
'A Forest' is probably my favourite Cure song, but I'm surprised almost none of the comments are acknowledging the b-side. It's surprisingly solid for a short instrumental track.
the psychedelic version of A forest is the best im my opinion
Agree,
@@deanjgn666666 which version?
@UsirRaMaroon I would recommand "If only tonight we could sleep" one of their best for sure.
Your profile picture means you dont get to judge music though
Valerie ..Susan..Mcgraw, This song is for you! All of us, a women drives us Crazy!! This song is for her..Lost in a dream!! Of love, we Love her!! We do, I have my Queen, Chase her... Hoesty,truth.. Pure, thats all you can be, Do it for yourself. She will come, If not..Have peace in an undiscovered Journey!!!! God Bless You. Love Jesus!
this makes me sad and happy it is one of the greatest songs on the planet
Takes me back to early 80’s in High School. Best times✌️
80’s were the best. Best New Wave and Toys!! Lol
Ok boomer 🤪
matt maloney sorry you missed it Maloney. You probably don’t even know what a boomer is....I’m a Gen Xer.
matt maloney haters gonna hate🤷🏼♂️
Fellas fellas settle down I was having a laugh 😂
Das Knistern der Platte macht es authentisch. Dasselbe Gefühl wie for 40 Jahren
This version of this great song is seriously excellent. Thanks a million.
So recently some friends and I took some mushrooms and went out the the lake at dawn. I was staring at the tree line when the sun was coming up and the trees on the horizon were really thick and dark. The tree trunks and limbs were making this really awesome almost mathematical, criss cross pattern of dark lines. It was almost a dark ominous feeling and this song came to mind. Then the sun came up and lightened the mood but man I was drawn in really hard for what seemed like hours (probably just 15 minutes or so). Really cool trip.
... heard this somewhere, I went into town and bought the LP, a Brilliant album. I had my punk wristbands imported from the UK and my black gear on, hair spiked up, went down south[new zealand] to see the Cure live for about $8. It was the beginning of one of the most exciting decades in music
In the deep 80ies, this was the most mysterious track.... For me many memories attached to this, love it.
How old are you?
@@worwor1721 I'm 50, dear oh dear! And you?
San Mama Cool. It must have been nice living through the 80s.
I’m 22
@@worwor1721 Hi Cally, it was just like living now, except there were no mobile phones or internet., but there was a lot of social pressure.
At the time you live it, you don't know if it's going to be epic or just dull. Trust me you don't want to see the photo's from the 80-ies, just as you most probably don't want to see yours from the 00-íes.
Music stands.
Enjoy everything while you can and never let anyone say to you that what you like is wrong or not cool or whatever!
@@worwor1721 I was brought up by my father, we always listened to Beatles, Stones, Doors, Status Quo, Queen, Led Zeppelin etc. and after that for me it went all about punk and new wave in the eighties. I remember my father recording a tape for me with all the songs we had listened together on those endless sundays. I still have it and my father is still alive and kicking at 72. I have two sons now who are 15 and 16, and they are going with us to concerts and festivals whenever possible. So last year to Muse, and to Kasabian in 2017 and we should have been to Paul McCartney this year. Next year then? See you there.
neskutečný vinylový zvuk.. to praskání mě vrací zpátky do doby, .. jediný doby, kdy jsem opravdu žil.
A SONG YOU CANT HELP BUT TO PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!
THE CURE is so wonderful and timeless !!!
I love that this 12” skips and they play the B side
Fantastic tracks! Love the pops of vinyl!
Una de mis favoritas de los Cure 👍🏻
Haunting and atmospheric...Love this classic song!
U're right: CLASSICAL song. Totally agree with u
Never get bored of hearing this tune drift away drift away
Used to listen to this on the top deck of an isle of wight bus....6 am over the misty downs on my way to my Saturday job......good times!
Glad to be part of the cable of influence that eventually opened my eyes in 1987.
No one around then. No one to relate too.Even the people you could relate to did not want to relate.So this piece really encapsulates my isolation of then
One of the best cure songs
LOVE ROBERT SMITH AND THE CURE THK U WLIR RADIO SCREEAMER OF THE WEEK!!!!!!😎😎😎😎🍺🤙🏾
Fantastic. The sound of vinyl. Saudades