A forest from The Cure, live at Birmingham 1985, BBC broadcast. It seems there's no intro. Not on the "Concert" lp, never released one. Pure energy. Enjoy
It's great. My fave version is on Orange - some of the guitar parts he plays here, during the instrumental section, were expanded & perfected by the time they recorded Orange. Awesome life-changing stuff!
A Forest is the song that express my deepest feelings when I'm sad as well when I'm happy, acts like the best drug in the world, because doesn't cause any damage, just pleasure
This is great, but the best live version to me, must be the one from paris, 1992. If you haven't heard it, you should really give it a try. It's just amazing.
I was at the 92 tour but in Houston, during the repeated "and again and again and again" a girl rushed the stage to hand him a HUGE bouquet of roses and when security went to block her he stopped them and let her sing that chorus with him. What a badass memory she will/has had her whole life!!!!!
I saw them for the first time during the tour when "Concert" was recorded in 1984... at Crawford Hall on the UC Irvine campus... it is a basketball gym. Imagine being at a "dance" in your high school gymnasium and THE CURE is playing! Awesome, right up to the stage at Robert's feet... Opened with Shake Dog Shake... The live version of A Forest on the Concert album is really good. This version is really good, too. I've seen them play this song live 7 times... It keeps getting better
there's so many goog live versions of this! Great Song, great band! For me the version of the kiss me tour was very, very good. with roger on second keyboard and porl on second guitar, amazinglygorgeously
from 5:00 minutes onwards it just gets crazier and crazier. Just fantastic. and such a great final. They never did it again. I looked tons of version. thanks dude to have found it for us ! long years i had it on CD !
It's strange to find this gem at just the time I am gearing up for one of the Reflections shows in NYC. I thought for sure this was from the Duke University show in 1989 (a 3.75 hr set with maybe 4 ? encores), but it is not. This version is absolutely amazing at any show. Thanks for the post!
I've been looking for this one for quite some time. Perfect buildup of the solo by Robert. Just like a lot of other people I have my favourite live-versions of a lot of Cure-songs. This is one of them. Thnx for sharing.
This is THE BEST version of A Forest ever. Searching for this version I picked up of Triple J in the 80s, I immediately recognised it. There is no equal. I know this solo off by heart. If I had all the moneys, I would ask Robert to teach me how to play this version and I would die a happy man.
@@guitaristssuck8979 this is I believe Birmingham NEC 87 from memory. WCIBY was played at the 3rd encore. BBC 'In Concert' played it early 88.. The Concert Live cover is misleading. Also done another NEC Concert released in 89 by BBC.
@@guitaristssuck8979 well I was obviously wrong then. It's the NEC and the BBC seemed to have caught the best versions imo. Looking at the time of this, it couldn't be the concert I thought it was as its around 2 1/2 minutes too short at least. Did you get to see them at Bournemouth Town Hall reported as the Cure gig a guy had his ear bitten off at? Moles in Bath in 83 was one of the best. Tiny club, Robert buying drinks for people, a backing tape that went wonky a secret gig. I made a genuine mistake. I hope you feel superior now?
It's wonderful and similar performance with that of Concert The Cure Live LP version. The LP released 22 October 1984 and all the songs where recorded during Oxford and Hammersmith Odeon lives
yeah, this is the first version that made me a fan of the cure. the '92 wembley version of over 13' minutes is amazing too, but i still love the orange version, it's so straight, simply the cure ...
yes you're right, it's also best version to me, though energy lies in chords and voice - and the flanger with the drums, which comes finest out here - anyhow, nothing can destroy this song. My brother put it to mc in 1986, I lost the mc to a real bitter fan, and i searched and searched the web - finally fond, here, on you..r.."tube" channel. Tank u so much - ac
This is definitely the best live version ever...I have ,somewhere on an old video tape, the whole version with the intro, recorded on "VIDEOMUSIC" (an italian music channel) pity I can't find it, but most of all , pity that it seems to be impossible to find the video on youtube... :-/
The actual definitely best version of "A Forest" - the one that really is on the Concert album - available nearby, and it has a picture of the black & white Concert album-cover, and the text with it is: The Cure - A Forest * Concert Live 1984 I would post the link, but TH-cam doesn't allow it.
I taped this from the Annie Nightingale Request show Sunday night on BBC Radio 1.It was after the top twenty. Did anyboby else fall in love with her?. Oh yes this is the best version!
it sounds so fresh as if it were recorded last year!! very inventive and energetic!! check out the 'rock in athens version', (my personal favourite!) a version that belongs to the darker, early eighties cure. the solo guitar in that one is of a different kind, the 'faith' kind! aren't they the cure?!! i'm so addicted!!!
Simply - THE BEST. But i had one interesting version of forest, while song is going on then at one point all guitars and keyboards stop and is for a few seconds only drum solo ... then again guitars continue to play....something amazing ! Unfortunately somebody stole my stuff and this song was gone. Was also a kind of fast tempo, performed maybe in Latin America...
A forest est une chanson évolutive : Y a mille et une manière de la jouer. C'est à ça qu'on reconnait qu'une chanson est géniale. Celle version est très bonne. Très bonne qualité..
Wow, I bought a cd with this version when I was a teenager, like 20 years ago (and paid a pretty penny for it back then). It's called BBC 1985 (red letters) and has a B&W photo of Robert and Simon (I think). It was recorded from vinyl cause there's a few subtle pops of the needle. I always thought this was the best version and have never seen a second copy until now.
The cassette version of this album had fantastic "anomalies". At Night was particularly good. This version of A Forest is up there but version recorded in Manchester that was released on a ten inch with Killing an Arab is better.
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It's great.
My fave version is on Orange - some of the guitar parts he plays here, during the instrumental section, were expanded & perfected by the time they recorded Orange.
Awesome life-changing stuff!
I agree!
The last 4 minutes are an absolute musical miracle!!!
Thank you so much Robert Smith!
A Forest is the song that express my deepest feelings when I'm sad as well when I'm happy, acts like the best drug in the world, because doesn't cause any damage, just pleasure
I WAS THERE!!! 1985 in TURIN (TORINO)one of the best live performance I ever seen!! I swear!
Wow. Epic. You scored
One of the best cure tracks of all time, the old school cure is the best!
Insane guitar from Robert. WOW!!!!! Then Simon comes in for the wrap up with pulse beat bass. Whew.
This is great, but the best live version to me, must be the one from paris, 1992. If you haven't heard it, you should really give it a try. It's just amazing.
THE BEST LIVE VERSION IS THIS !END OF DISCUSSION!!
1992-05-03 - London
Agree
@@renepetrus9766 If anyone is curious to compare right now:
th-cam.com/video/Y6nmnueeRGE/w-d-xo.html
I was at the 92 tour but in Houston, during the repeated "and again and again and again" a girl rushed the stage to hand him a HUGE bouquet of roses and when security went to block her he stopped them and let her sing that chorus with him. What a badass memory she will/has had her whole life!!!!!
I saw them for the first time during the tour when "Concert" was recorded in 1984... at Crawford Hall on the UC Irvine campus... it is a basketball gym. Imagine being at a "dance" in your high school gymnasium and THE CURE is playing! Awesome, right up to the stage at Robert's feet... Opened with Shake Dog Shake... The live version of A Forest on the Concert album is really good. This version is really good, too. I've seen them play this song live 7 times... It keeps getting better
What a song, the bass, it is beyond description, I am in bliss when I hear it, adore adore,love, love love love
Amazing, one of the best version heard
I will let you know, that started listening and I went to my room and grabbed my tennis raquet and started playing. Epic, just epic tune.
there's so many goog live versions of this!
Great Song, great band!
For me the version of the kiss me tour was very, very good. with roger on second keyboard and porl on second guitar, amazinglygorgeously
This is amazing live album from The Cure ever !!!
Robert is so full of drugs at that times,chaotic and twisted ..psychotic poems under desperate melodies,pure art
George E. Rarecase 😍
from 5:00 minutes onwards it just gets crazier and crazier. Just fantastic. and such a great final. They never did it again. I looked tons of version. thanks dude to have found it for us ! long years i had it on CD !
THE CURE MY FAVORITE BAND OF SOUL
Yes, I agree this is a great version.
It's strange to find this gem at just the time I am gearing up for one of the Reflections shows in NYC. I thought for sure this was from the Duke University show in 1989 (a 3.75 hr set with maybe 4 ? encores), but it is not. This version is absolutely amazing at any show. Thanks for the post!
This is the one!! Thank you!❤
Back again and still WOW!
This is one of the best CDs or LPs from The Cure!!!
THE VERY BEST LIVE 'A FORREST' EVER !!! Everytime a shower runs over my neck ! Brilliant Smith, R.
Yes :) This version is definitely the best!
I've been looking for this one for quite some time. Perfect buildup of the solo by Robert.
Just like a lot of other people I have my favourite live-versions of a lot of Cure-songs.
This is one of them.
Thnx for sharing.
This version has been a long-time favorite to me too...
This is it. Don't miss it :-)
Began writing during listening to that emerging
sound in the 80s while spending time in the high mountains above 2000 m.
This is THE BEST version of A Forest ever. Searching for this version I picked up of Triple J in the 80s, I immediately recognised it. There is no equal. I know this solo off by heart. If I had all the moneys, I would ask Robert to teach me how to play this version and I would die a happy man.
This concert had a amazing version of WHY CANT I BE YOU? as well.I remember taping this off the radio! Best version of A FOREST IVE heard too! :)
WCIBY in 1985?
@@guitaristssuck8979 this is I believe Birmingham NEC 87 from memory. WCIBY was played at the 3rd encore. BBC 'In Concert' played it early 88.. The Concert Live cover is misleading. Also done another NEC Concert released in 89 by BBC.
@@youjoker9647 it says 1985 in the info box
@@guitaristssuck8979 well I was obviously wrong then. It's the NEC and the BBC seemed to have caught the best versions imo. Looking at the time of this, it couldn't be the concert I thought it was as its around 2 1/2 minutes too short at least. Did you get to see them at Bournemouth Town Hall reported as the Cure gig a guy had his ear bitten off at? Moles in Bath in 83 was one of the best. Tiny club, Robert buying drinks for people, a backing tape that went wonky a secret gig. I made a genuine mistake. I hope you feel superior now?
Listen this 100 times, the echoes are so great
Totally agree
The best album ever from the CURE👊
Omfg. Thought I'd heard better versions...until now. Damn. Robert just shreds...
yes, I remember that tour ... I never forgot that .forest solo version - so looong!!.. stuttgart that was ... great I found it
It's wonderful and similar performance with that of Concert The Cure Live LP version. The LP released 22 October 1984 and all the songs where recorded during Oxford and Hammersmith Odeon lives
It is very good, no, it is fantastic
J'adore cette version !
Great version of my all time favourite Cure song.
Amazing, one song can make your day ..
BEST PERFORMANCE FOR THIS SONG,,,
Robert's too . I remember in France, reading how he loved this version. His solo especially. I gave this album away like a dumb teenager.
I'm running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again...........
-:*))))))))
:)))
i had this on vinyl as well...so raw and represents what the cure is all about.
Hypnotic guitar after the 5 minutes, brilliant!!!!
yeah, this is the first version that made me a fan of the cure. the '92 wembley version of over 13' minutes is amazing too, but i still love the orange version, it's so straight, simply the cure ...
Yes! I have the Live at the BBC CD of this, Wild Angels. Insane version.
brilliant live version ☺
I always called this the "battling guitars" version as it sort of seems like porl and rob are competing with the riffs. Classic live version
The VERY BEST version ever...pity for the no intro :-/
Apparently it's not the best version ever. Some guy said the Wembley version was the very best version ever. I am so confused now!
Principe Zodar Athens version is great. The sound of Robert's guitar is awsome.
yes you're right, it's also best version to me, though energy lies in chords and voice - and the flanger with the drums, which comes finest out here - anyhow, nothing can destroy this song. My brother put it to mc in 1986, I lost the mc to a real bitter fan, and i searched and searched the web - finally fond, here, on you..r.."tube" channel. Tank u so much - ac
pun in search on youtube : The Cure - A Forest (Live 1992) ......13:47 min version.....and you got your best version...
Right bro 👊
La mejor, the best.
Stratosphérique... 😍
This is definitely the best live version ever...I have ,somewhere on an old video tape, the whole version with the intro, recorded on "VIDEOMUSIC" (an italian music channel)
pity I can't find it, but most of all , pity that it seems to be impossible to find the video on youtube... :-/
Ace, I listened to this endlessly after I taped it from the radio, never thought I would hear it again.
live in leipzig 1990 is great to
The actual definitely best version of "A Forest" - the one that really is on the Concert album - available nearby, and it has a picture of the black & white Concert album-cover, and the text with it is: The Cure - A Forest * Concert Live 1984
I would post the link, but TH-cam doesn't allow it.
I taped this from the Annie Nightingale Request show Sunday night on BBC Radio 1.It was after the top twenty. Did anyboby else fall in love with her?. Oh yes this is the best version!
Amazing version agreed
Timeless MUSIC!!! The Cure!!! Respect!!!!!!!
Absolutely fantastic ! Thank you.
Second's best after the The Cure in Orange,circa 1987, version. Too bad youtube took it out..........
Simon Gallup Rocks!!!!!
The Cure 4eva my Favorite.
Best...
Thanx for this. I only have it on cassette
it sounds so fresh as if it were recorded last year!! very inventive and energetic!! check out the 'rock in athens version', (my personal favourite!) a version that belongs to the darker, early eighties cure. the solo guitar in that one is of a different kind, the 'faith' kind! aren't they the cure?!! i'm so addicted!!!
Simply - THE BEST. But i had one interesting version of forest, while song is going on then at one point all guitars and keyboards stop and is for a few seconds only drum solo ... then again guitars continue to play....something amazing ! Unfortunately somebody stole my stuff and this song was gone. Was also a kind of fast tempo, performed maybe in Latin America...
I also got this album in vinul.great great album of the cure
😍 WOW 😍
A forest est une chanson évolutive : Y a mille et une manière de la jouer.
C'est à ça qu'on reconnait qu'une chanson est géniale.
Celle version est très bonne.
Très bonne qualité..
Tout à fait.
I think this is truly one of the best versions, personally my fav is 1980 amsterdam fast version, still thank you for the upload
Like the other Guy said this is a Brilliant Version caught in the
Epic Moment of "Just Released"
I like your comment of 'pure energy' that's good one.
I adore this song ::::::::
Love it ♣♧
Truly beautiful... this is a very good recording!
+ de 30 apres je m en lasserai jamais jamais jamais jamais.......merci les mecs
Magnífico sonido, gracias
great version!
come closer and see.....its your voice its da bass the lirics i don't really know but is that kind of things ....i love it ..
Epic.........
Nice, thats how i want to remember them!!
this is the best album of all time
Wow, I bought a cd with this version when I was a teenager, like 20 years ago (and paid a pretty penny for it back then). It's called BBC 1985 (red letters) and has a B&W photo of Robert and Simon (I think). It was recorded from vinyl cause there's a few subtle pops of the needle. I always thought this was the best version and have never seen a second copy until now.
Merci Robert.
brilliant!!
I always called this the battling guitars version. Porl and Robert really go at it.
BEST LIVE VERS WAS THE LIVE IN ORANGE GIG IN FRANCE in 1986 BEST RECORDED CONCERT NOW ON TH-cam REMASTERED. TAKE A LOOK.
Hayden Wittig Found! Thank's
The cassette version of this album had fantastic "anomalies".
At Night was particularly good.
This version of A Forest is up there but version recorded in Manchester that was released on a ten inch with Killing an Arab is better.
totally agree with you mate, I had this one in "cassette" lol
SINCE...POST( PUNK) AT NIGHT...THAT WAS JUST PERFETK WITH A SPIRAL SPIN BUT YEAH THIS IS THE BEST FOREST UNTIL NOW EVER !🖤🦇
I love the guitar at 7:20-8:30
dall'86 cresciuto con i cure...
agree. Best live version ! I have this lp somewhere in the attic. On vinyl.. :;)
best of the best
Hello! this rocks
uffffh inolvidables tiempos smoke and fly
That's right a very good version! Katya
Amazing version!
Lovveee ittt!
En efet une des meilleures version ...
Du moins la plus riche on la decrouvre et redecouvre a chaque ecoute
The best song 😍
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