The period between 1978-1982 was probably the best years ever for British music [with 1979 being the single most epochal year given what amazing records were released in that 12 months alone] due to the sheer innovation that came in the aftermath of punk......consider how many new genres were starting to make their first appearance and influence everything that has come out since.
influence everything that has come out since? not to me. i find that the amazing creativity of late 70s early 80s has been completely lost on the last twenty or thirty years of upstart musicians and singers. there seems to have been no influence or unabashed copycats in the pop charts in decades.
When A Forest started playing and I heard how great this audio here was I couldn’t help thinking how great the 80’s were. I thought put A Forest on, then The Cults She Sells Sanctuary and then The Church’s Under the Milky Way and anybody with ears and a little bit of taste should be an instant fan!!!
My mum drove me and my friends to see them in 1980 in Sydney Australia. There were less than a hundred people at the show. No stage. Robert, Simon, Lol and Mattheiu were set up on the floor, we were a few feet away. ♥️
Never gets old...I was in middle school when CDs came out. I found The Forest CD Single before I even had a CD player. I tried this single in all the decks at Service Merchandise in Central NJ. I then lost this CD in my Mom’s car for two years then I realized one day it may have fallen behind the glove box. Sure enough, there it was years later. Long story short...The Cure are still my favorite band. I shudder to think what may have become of me if I never have heard them.
The 10th March 1980 late evening, sat in my bedroom, ice on the inside of the Windows....listening to John Peel. Still have this session on an old C120 😎
Marc Harding oh...so lucky you are to have that memory...been a long time fan... American fan...I'm 52 now. We were deprived of a LOT if Post Punk masterpieces! thanks to the Internet.... I have the pleasure of discovering what I missed back in the early 80s
True. That's also because today's music sounds so old and stinks so much. Or maybe it's just us. I miss my old self in the 80s buying "17 seconds" and listening to it for the first time.
I'm barely getting into this band on a more in depth level and only recently discovered this recording. If I had no clue I'd think it came out last week lol
Any of the John Peel Sessions are some of the best pieces of music you can listen to. You can feel the artists are trying their best to convey the message and poetry of their craft when they do a John Peel Session. The magic works across all genres. He is the ultimate curator of contemporary music, regardless of style.
90‘s the best years wish it was the 90‘s again life and the world 🌎 was good then now things have changed so much it’s Hard to believe the world we all live in now days.
Been a big fan since 82 . " Let's Go to Bed " was their current single then. The original 12" single version and film noir cover and I was hooked. Also a huge shout out to the Legendary KROQ 106.7 in Pasadena,CA for playing all the awesome music from UK and US alternative bands.
A freaking classic number. They sound fresh and concrete-solid as can be. I may have listened to these songs a thousand times, while here they seem brand new. Thanks so much for posting it.
As a millenial i was not alive when these bands were being discovered but my two aunts were teens in the 80s and i can remember them playing these cassettes when i was very very little and it was an absolute joy to listen to joy division/ the cure as a kid...now im 34 years old and i have the utmost appreciation for post punk...and for my generation bands like Bloc Party are a prime example of an influence from bands of this era...so awesome
As your aunts, I am from the 80s and I love and live for this music. When we are gone, please pass the torch on to the next generation with this music and adding the best groups from your era as well.
Listen to 'pornography' and tell me they aren't genius. Their sound will stand alone for life. Robert Smith in and out of his depression has gifted us with so much.
Look, its the first four songs I learned how to play on the bass. I wrote an essay on Play for Today for an English assignment in 10th grade. God I love The Cure.
sue page - Though I agree it’s a stupid label, the term “post punk” was actually being used by certain journalists back then, though it didn’t really take with the fans until much later. I first heard the Cure around this time. Either late ‘80 or early ‘81. Back then I just thought of it as “new wave”... a few years before that particular label got abused to death by the likes of MTV.
The Cure is a great part of mine and my friends life then and now then when I was seventeen and now when I’m fifty.I had to go to England to see them at Hammersmith Palais in eighty six and stayed for six years for the English music scene and listened to John Peel on Radio One for his sessions ,fantastic man if you read this Robert and the boys please come back to New Zealand you have a tonne of fans
Same age as you, probably same teen atmosphere, but unfortunatelly I never saw the band... Brazil was at that time (and still is) too far from the good rock scene :).
Perhaps the most important Peel Section ever. A stone in the pond that slowly spread its waves all over Europe. The birth of the new dark age, the cultural counterpart of the eighties shit we had..
A curator with a breadth of understanding and passion for music of all genres that may, possibly, be unsurpassed. The guy lived for music. Goth, jungle, punk, techno, hillbilly rock, soul... RIP
Hadn't revisited 17seconds in decades until this. These songs really hold up. And its such a gem of a Peel session. As many have written, the version of Play for Today is outstanding - but its all excellent.
" A Great Session " With Robert Smith's " Haunting Vocal Style " Fully Amplified " !! " The Brilliance " Of 17 Seconds Is " Highlighted " In This " Memorable Session " !! The Cure's " Journey Into The Mainstream Musical Arena " Had Yet To Begin " And For Certain People Myself Included This Is Still The Band's " Most Challenging Period " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
Well deserved place in The RHOF!! There was a time you'd get your ass kicked for saying The Cure rocks. Nowadays you might get jumped if you say they don't!
i love everything by The Cure from Three Imaginary Boys to Wish but sometimes i still think the 80-82 trio lineup was the best one ever. Seventeen Seconds album in particular is a masterpiece of post punk. so stripped back and raw sounding.
+SoundsofDecay Seventeen Seconds was actually recorded by a four piece The Cure... Matthieu Hartley did the keyboards. But I agree, Seventeen Seconds is my favourite record of them, Faith and Pornography come close.
Early Cure is best, after that the raw sound was missing. I remember being irritated at how In Between Days became everyone's' favorite here in the US, especially since most had never heard of them.
I have just listened to this great band at Pinkpop 2019 & they are still fantastic who would have thought that a up & coming band in 1980 would still be killing it in 2019 WOW.
Founded 1976. In 1977 they played at Hansa Records and get a contract for only 1 Single, but it was never released :)) Recorded Peel Session with The Cure 4. Dez. 1978, 9. Mai 1979, 3. März 1980, 7. Jan. 1981, 21. Dez. 1981, 30. Juli 1985
I saw them in 1980, in Edinburgh with The Scars and Josef K, Robert was a skinny young man and it changed my life, still going, still strong, saw them at Primavera, 6 odd years ago, and so am i! Love them
takes me back to being 12 and watching 'A Forest' on Top of the Pops - knowing a different and more interesting world lay waiting - The Cure, along with The Stranglers and PiL were the doorway.
Thank you for uploading this. I recall hearing it on the transistor radio under my pillow when John Peel first broadcasted it. Decades later and it still sounds so wonderful.
Exactly how I listened to it, too. I was 13, and it was my birthday. I was 53 this year, and feeling old. So, I came here so this music could transport me back to my youth (like it always does). Taking hours to get ready to go out, stealing my sisters hairspray for the backcomb. Dad making sarcy remarks about "kids these days" on the way out. And of course, all those gorgeous little Goth chicks. They were so beautiful. God, I miss that scene. I've spent my whole life looking for something to fill that gap, but nothing ever came close. The opening bars of bass on "Faith" are just a melancholic time-machine. It gets my hackles up every time. And I'm gone.
John Peel's music is legend. Best Radio Music, i record music in the morning on my ITT schaub lorenz LP, casette & radio player, i was the music king in the street.
saw them live on the "Fiction Tour" back in those days and it was just perfect... The Passions were the "passionate" opening act for the show and the memory of the whole concert remains a fantastic experience... love these early Fiction days :)
I used to listen to Peelie every weekend when I was a kid. I had a small tape recorder with a radio in it. I want make tape after tape of his wonderful show. He introduced me to soooo many bands! One day I was getting out of work at the Forte Crest in Newcastle and I ran into him coming out the hotel lobby! It was an amazing moment I'll never forget. I just thanked him for changing the course of my life forever. Nowadays I find it hard to find anyone below the age of 30 who knows anything about music on a broad scale. We who were there, are soooo lucky!
Peel sessions the cure 1980 simply my favourite all time songs I absolutely love the ending with the ace bass reverberate in my ears let’s be cure clear
They were excellent then and 39 years on at 2019 Glastonbury, they remain excellent, THE CURE have always been consistent through the years. And at last they enter the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Congratulations.
Me too. This album especially, although it's not my favourite it's the album that really got me into the Cure. Pornography is my favourite. I'm always amazed when people rave about Disintegration being the finest Cure album?
new to me... these peelings.. most enjoyable - listening more to the cure and such / had lots of video works for them in the 93-94 years the first movie things and vids since lost the video cassettes but have them in my mind ... I guess I should find them on youtube soon. :)
Hot damn... musicianship at its finest... Every other second I'm thinking, damn dem drums are on point! Wait it's the bass! No, it's the guitars ...no, it's Robert! The Cure just doesn't make mistakes...
best reording ever on JOHN PEEL session its wonderfull! The CURE give me direction in teenage years cos i was different at school & obnoxious cos i dyed my hair raven black & had lots of piercings!Looking back it gave me the edge !!
yep SOUNDTRACK MUSIC FRESH Still WHAT ELSE I SAW THEM LIVE IN 1979 1980 VINYL i HAVE GOT AND TH-cam TO REMIND ME AND US ...SOMEWHAT STRANGE ... LONG TIME AGO 17 SECONDS . MANY YEARS ...WHAT IS IS all about? enjoy anyway!
I first heard them when i was about 8 years old in 1988 was a hooked instantly. When i was about 13 i brought as many recordings as my paper round would allow me, ❤
So great to have this online. Thanks so much. Remember John peel broadcasting it... in may 1981 I even queued up with lots of teen post punk kids to get the band to sign a copy of ‘boys don’t cry’ in the virgin megastore in Newcastle - Which I still have... they were just a tiny post punk band then...bIt awkward and clearly already a bit bored of the publicity machine! Then my 15 year old brain was blown by watching them play live that very night on the “faith” tour at Newcastle city hall. It was my second ever gig and changed me forever... amazing to think they’re now one of the worlds biggest bands 40 or so years later... How many other bands of that era still survive, ( and I don’t count the one who have reformed to do a nostalgia/cash in tour or two)
I just read a chunk of my childhood in your post - you'll be telling me you drank in Trillians and the Farmers and went to the Mayfair every Friday and Saturday next ? I was probably no more than 100 yards away from you in May 1981 !! Respect ...
@@Ericcartman8126 Ha. I was too young for pubs.. only 15 (and looked about 8)! and moved away for a few years so next gigs were london, oxford etc, Back to toon in 89 for the wonders that were the Riverside at its finest (much missed, still!)
Perhaps Robert Smith & I are the only people who loved play for today. It was, like his ode to, a bloody beautiful thing. Of course, there are a million comments on the song, it's still emotive. But.. I do miss Oona Beeson
John Peel is the name to follow for introducing the best in original bands to the music listening, cassette tape, vinyl and CD buying public such as The Cure and The Fall and many others, thanks to NME, Melody Maker and Rip It Up magazines for hours of entertaining music reviews =D
A Forest may be the most perfect song ever played. The guitar tones in this version are haunting. How did they do this in a radio studio 40 years ago???
There was some serious talent on the studio engineering side at Maida Vale too. I don't think it was a radio studio, though. Back in the day, BBC had proper facilities: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maida_Vale_Studios
![THE CURE: Live in Amsterdam 1980 [REMASTERED + INTERVIEW]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T1DmLQmVML4/mqdefault.jpg)
The period between 1978-1982 was probably the best years ever for British music [with 1979 being the single most epochal year given what amazing records were released in that 12 months alone] due to the sheer innovation that came in the aftermath of punk......consider how many new genres were starting to make their first appearance and influence everything that has come out since.
influence everything that has come out since? not to me. i find that the amazing creativity of late 70s early 80s has been completely lost on the last twenty or thirty years of upstart musicians and singers. there seems to have been no influence or unabashed copycats in the pop charts in decades.
@@QualityModelRailroad it was lost for good reason. This is terrible.
Absolutely
Well said.
Approuved ! Totalement d'accord !
The best version. If you are a Cure fan, you already know this.
Fact💯
Aye, indeed it is
A, m everyone
Agree with you
Absolutely 😊👍 fantastic!
When A Forest started playing and I heard how great this audio here was I couldn’t help thinking how great the 80’s were. I thought put A Forest on, then The Cults She Sells Sanctuary and then The Church’s Under the Milky Way and anybody with ears and a little bit of taste should be an instant fan!!!
Good taste ❤
The late 70s early 80s featured some phenomenal bands. We were spoilt for choice then, great inventive music.
100 years from now, people will stumble upon this by chance, pause and think...."whoa!" masterpieces are timeless
Perfeito!
100 years from now this world won't exist anymore.
My mum drove me and my friends to see them in 1980 in Sydney Australia. There were less than a hundred people at the show. No stage. Robert, Simon, Lol and Mattheiu were set up on the floor, we were a few feet away. ♥️
Your mum Rules
What a good memory ! They came to Uruguay last year for the first time, but i listen them since I was 14. I'm 56😊
Never gets old...I was in middle school when CDs came out. I found The Forest CD Single before I even had a CD player. I tried this single in all the decks at Service Merchandise in Central NJ. I then lost this CD in my Mom’s car for two years then I realized one day it may have fallen behind the glove box. Sure enough, there it was years later. Long story short...The Cure are still my favorite band. I shudder to think what may have become of me if I never have heard them.
i was listening to nsync and britney back then but glad i got here eventually
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lol....so true, totally agree..they influenced our way of being 😍
No CDs in 1980
Robert is such an underrated guitarist.
Thats why Siouxie wanted him once john left
@@RIPbob Yep, he played sensational on Siouxsie & the Banshees live Nocture DVD. It is epic.
Like Joan Jett...? (Hi, Ted Nugent!)
@@HenryJasonVarga When was the last time you saw him on any kind of "best guitarist" list?
@@LarzGustafsson Ted Nugent is psych ward material but dude can absolutely play.....
The 10th March 1980 late evening, sat in my bedroom, ice on the inside of the Windows....listening to John Peel.
Still have this session on an old C120 😎
Ice on the inside of windows.. I remember it too. Perhaps some millenials can't imagine it.
Jeez, talk about initiating a flashback. :)
Marc Harding oh...so lucky you are to have that memory...been a long time fan... American fan...I'm 52 now. We were deprived of a LOT if Post Punk masterpieces! thanks to the Internet.... I have the pleasure of discovering what I missed back in the early 80s
"Ice on the inside of windows.. I remember it too."
Ah, yes... good ol' single glazing, and no central heating. :)
Hot water bottles, electric blanket & Eiderdown none of those 'duvets'!
42 years later their Barcelona set was absolutely amazing. Timeless music.
41 years from this and still sounds modern.
True. That's also because today's music sounds so old and stinks so much. Or maybe it's just us. I miss my old self in the 80s buying "17 seconds" and listening to it for the first time.
@@raistlinmcfly7535 timeless
@@raistlinmcfly7535 im only 21 but i went trought cassettes and cds. Nothing will compare to the analog age
I'm barely getting into this band on a more in depth level and only recently discovered this recording. If I had no clue I'd think it came out last week lol
Cause Modern rock isnt innovative at all. They only copy what already exists. Sucks
John Peel somehow always coaxed the best performances from the bands he recorded and produced them to sound great.
He had nothing to do with the recording!
In my 60s, finally exploring the early music of one of my all-time favorite bands. This is perfect. Thank you BBC!
I am playing catch up too, there was just too much talent then to absorb it all at the time!
I thought I’d missed them. But I hadn’t. All the early tracks were familiar from the students Union in the 1980s.
Could listen to these sessions ALL DAY and Again and Again, and Again.....when good music was good music. Long live the 80s.
Any of the John Peel Sessions are some of the best pieces of music you can listen to. You can feel the artists are trying their best to convey the message and poetry of their craft when they do a John Peel Session. The magic works across all genres. He is the ultimate curator of contemporary music, regardless of style.
yep all day
I've been a Cure fan since I was 16 years old and now I'm 45! It's a fantastic life to behold Robert in present day here in Austin Texas!
Same except I'm 47. :-)
The sound quality in this completely changed my view of this band,cant get enough of this! ty!
Still sounds fucking amazing no modern music can beat this
True. "Rap with a capital C" (George Harrison)
Certainly not from “over here”.
JAPAN is keeping Rock and Prog/Alt Rock alive and well.
I discovered them when I was 11. Now I'm 44 and I feel the same thing I felt back in those days. They're definitely part of my life's music band.
90‘s the best years wish it was the 90‘s again life and the world 🌎 was good then now things have changed so much it’s Hard to believe the world we all live in now days.
Similar story and situation. For some of my biggest life moments and memories.
Been a big fan since 82 . " Let's Go to Bed " was their current single then. The original 12" single version and film noir cover and I was hooked. Also a huge shout out to the Legendary KROQ 106.7 in Pasadena,CA for playing all the awesome music from UK and US alternative bands.
Thats so dope...! I never thought I'll be playing The Cure one day but here I am... Genius sound on this one
Never really been that into The Cure, but this is absolutely magical, what a session.
U now should..
Still time.
I grew up on the Cure but I never had the Peel sessions. This has been great.
God I LOVE Simon's bass grooves!
Simon Gallup ? The sound !!!!!!
Isn't this Dempsey?
@@smarieintn5955 non
@@smarieintn5955 I think yes, but I have the same doubt
Absolutely sublime, this encapsulates my early teenage melancholy so well, grey English skies and a longing for a beautiful girl.
JayJay You might have had more luck if you had liked Wham!
My generation gratefully claps his hands to this beginning point of a wonderful era of european arts...
The audio quality is fantastic! Well done you.
The cure à bercé mon adolescense, et tte mes années de vie jusquici en 2022 , j'ai toujours se boum au cœur quand j'écoute se son indémodable..
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Still don't think that the cure or placebo get the recognition that they deserve. Both underrated guitarists and poetic songwriters ❤😊🧟♀️
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS BAND. THEY'RE SO UNIQUE
Quelle émotion ! A forest comme je l'ai entendue à 15 ans , il y a 40 ans ! Cure : la B.O. de ma vie !
Ca Plane Pour Moi!
No other band has come close to the kind of creativity The Cure have. It is just beyond. Their songs will live for another millennium or two.
Check out “this cold night”
LOL yes! Agree 😍
A freaking classic number. They sound fresh and concrete-solid as can be. I may have listened to these songs a thousand times, while here they seem brand new. Thanks so much for posting it.
Forest is just pure class. The cure at their best
Seventeen Seconds is one of my favorite songs of the Cure
x2
Nostalgia yes for someone of us. But with time, Robert Smith has proven in scene his honesty and genius. Surprisingly alive ! And so many works !
How the heck can 'A Forest' and 'Play For Today' come from the same band, simply brilliant.
As a millenial i was not alive when these bands were being discovered but my two aunts were teens in the 80s and i can remember them playing these cassettes when i was very very little and it was an absolute joy to listen to joy division/ the cure as a kid...now im 34 years old and i have the utmost appreciation for post punk...and for my generation bands like Bloc Party are a prime example of an influence from bands of this era...so awesome
same
Awesome! I'm Gen X and great music has been passed !!!
EASY ON BLOC PARTY - bloc Cankers =STILL GO ENJOY
ALL GOOD!
As your aunts, I am from the 80s and I love and live for this music. When we are gone, please pass the torch on to the next generation with this music and adding the best groups from your era as well.
As another poster stated Gen. X here as well. This is bomb-ass music. Your aunts exposed you to some good music!
Tears man.... I heard the Cure since 10 years... just discovered this.... tears....
One of the best bands ever. There will never be another band like this.
Shh!
Of course not just an evolution of it
Never a truer word been said.
The real Cure!
AForest one of the greatest songs ever.
Saw them many times in the 80s.
I still listen to them in my late 50s!
17 Seconds A frightening Album when it came out. After 1 listen I knew musically I had found what I was looking for. A unique visionary LP.
Great band! Awesome set! Perfect pop songs! How much time I didn`t hear Play For Today? At least 20 years! What a beautiful track!!
They are not pop songs!
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082they are popular 🎉
so many versions of "A Forest" . All of them blow me away!
Listen to 'pornography' and tell me they aren't genius. Their sound will stand alone for life. Robert Smith in and out of his depression has gifted us with so much.
Volviendo a escuchar esta sesión increíble, la conocí hace como 3 años
1980... the year I first saw The Cure live. Such a tight and inventive sound. Happy memories 😊
Look, its the first four songs I learned how to play on the bass. I wrote an essay on Play for Today for an English assignment in 10th grade. God I love The Cure.
This is a really amazing session. Definitely my favorite incarnation of the Cure, this era to me it epitomizes what post-punk is.
Made me run out and buy the album.
post punk is a bullshit label created years after bands like this were going. if you call this post punk you don't know what punk was or is still
@@suepage7068 ye, Punk is Head
Yeah I think the Cure peaked at this exact time IMO, great to capture it in a Peel session
sue page - Though I agree it’s a stupid label, the term “post punk” was actually being used by certain journalists back then, though it didn’t really take with the fans until much later. I first heard the Cure around this time. Either late ‘80 or early ‘81. Back then I just thought of it as “new wave”... a few years before that particular label got abused to death by the likes of MTV.
The Cure is a great part of mine and my friends life then and now then when I was seventeen and now when I’m fifty.I had to go to England to see them at Hammersmith Palais in eighty six and stayed for six years for the English music scene and listened to John Peel on Radio One for his sessions ,fantastic man if you read this Robert and the boys please come back to New Zealand you have a tonne of fans
Same age as you, probably same teen atmosphere, but unfortunatelly I never saw the band... Brazil was at that time (and still is) too far from the good rock scene :).
Perhaps the most important Peel Section ever. A stone in the pond that slowly spread its waves all over Europe. The birth of the new dark age, the cultural counterpart of the eighties shit we had..
apart from Talking Heads and Tom Waits, who were respectively brilliant
John peel was a radio guru and also from my stretch of the woods and to get the cure on his show exeplifies what an influencer john was
A curator with a breadth of understanding and passion for music of all genres that may, possibly, be unsurpassed. The guy lived for music. Goth, jungle, punk, techno, hillbilly rock, soul... RIP
THE influencer, if John Peel said you were good, you made money (sort of).
Hadn't revisited 17seconds in decades until this. These songs really hold up. And its such a gem of a Peel session. As many have written, the version of Play for Today is outstanding - but its all excellent.
Love this era of The Cure. M is a song I could listen on repeat forever ....
Thousands of thanks for this jewels..The Cure at their best !!
That bass is fantastic...
best version of "a forest" by far. absolutely chilling
Classic Cure is the best brings me a sense of nostalgia about my life
ΕXACTLY!! NOSTALGIA AND ROMANCE!!
I like this band, I think they gonna be famous one day
just utter class from the Cure.. so many thanks to the Late Great ` JOHN PEEL` for airing these bands!!
" A Great Session " With Robert Smith's " Haunting Vocal Style " Fully Amplified " !! " The Brilliance " Of 17 Seconds Is " Highlighted " In This " Memorable Session " !! The Cure's " Journey Into The Mainstream Musical Arena " Had Yet To Begin " And For Certain People Myself Included This Is Still The Band's " Most Challenging Period " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
I saw them live two days ago.
Robert Smith's performance on stage is unreal! The man is a legend and so is his band.
Without doubt.
His voice is still incredibly powerful till this moment at @60,incredible!!!
Well deserved place in The RHOF!! There was a time you'd get your ass kicked for saying The Cure rocks. Nowadays you might get jumped if you say they don't!
I Cure, la band più amata dagli appassionati della musica dark, ovvero del post-punk evolutosi nella direzione del gothic-rock...
This is what they sounded like live, back then...it was like nothing you'd ever heard before...it captures The Cure 1980 perfectly...
Yes💞
The vocals don't sound live here though...
i love everything by The Cure from Three Imaginary Boys to Wish but sometimes i still think the 80-82 trio lineup was the best one ever. Seventeen Seconds album in particular is a masterpiece of post punk. so stripped back and raw sounding.
SoundsofDecay simon gallup is awesome
Shaina Karasik People maje fun of him but Lol had a unique drumming style. And so tight. The man was a machine!
+SoundsofDecay Seventeen Seconds was actually recorded by a four piece The Cure... Matthieu Hartley did the keyboards. But I agree, Seventeen Seconds is my favourite record of them, Faith and Pornography come close.
+hardtolivealittleand be That was cruel.....but probably true
Early Cure is best, after that the raw sound was missing. I remember being irritated at how In Between Days became everyone's' favorite here in the US, especially since most had never heard of them.
Thanks for this! Such good, simple songwriting that stands the test of time beautifully.
I have just listened to this great band at Pinkpop 2019 & they are still fantastic who would have thought that a up & coming band in 1980 would still be killing it in 2019 WOW.
Exactly! Buy Mixed Up The Cure vinyl, is awesone.
M2...fabuleus
Founded 1976. In 1977 they played at Hansa Records and get a contract for only 1 Single, but it was never released :)) Recorded Peel Session with The Cure 4. Dez. 1978,
9. Mai 1979,
3. März 1980,
7. Jan. 1981,
21. Dez. 1981,
30. Juli 1985
I saw them in 1980, in Edinburgh with The Scars and Josef K, Robert was a skinny young man and it changed my life, still going, still strong, saw them at Primavera, 6 odd years ago, and so am i! Love them
immortal, perfect, the best of Cure
Four of their best songs...!
Forty years ago! I loved this Cure. TIBs is a classic album. I have this 12" version and some 45s of their other singles. Golden times.
John new good music, I remember this on the radio. Cure still playing
He played us 'new' music & 'knew' what would pique our interest!
This is super cool!! I've been in2 80's music like this lately,it takes me back.
🎤🎸🎶
Aye it does the same with me
GOD BLESS Peelie saw me through a 9 month stretch of BoRstal, gettin on 60 ( IF THE KID'S ARE UNITED ).
A Forest : my favorite song of the CURE. Even if I love almost all their songs. This is a MASTERPIECE 🖤💋🖤💋
Have to agree.
40 years later.
Eargasam every time I listen to them.
Una de las mejores canciones de The CURE la tocamos en mi grupo. Atthor
takes me back to being 12 and watching 'A Forest' on Top of the Pops - knowing a different and more interesting world lay waiting - The Cure, along with The Stranglers and PiL were the doorway.
PIL? serilously? sellout project of john lydon? you made my day! cheers mate
@@RayEttler shut the fuck up arsehole
Thank you for uploading this. I recall hearing it on the transistor radio under my pillow when John Peel first broadcasted it. Decades later and it still sounds so wonderful.
Exactly how I listened to it, too.
I was 13, and it was my birthday. I was 53 this year, and feeling old. So, I came here so this music could transport me back to my youth (like it always does).
Taking hours to get ready to go out, stealing my sisters hairspray for the backcomb. Dad making sarcy remarks about "kids these days" on the way out.
And of course, all those gorgeous little Goth chicks. They were so beautiful.
God, I miss that scene. I've spent my whole life looking for something to fill that gap, but nothing ever came close.
The opening bars of bass on "Faith" are just a melancholic time-machine. It gets my hackles up every time. And I'm gone.
John Peel's music is legend. Best Radio Music, i record music in the morning on my ITT schaub lorenz LP, casette & radio player, i was the music king in the street.
Que barbaridad, que buenísimos eran en sus inicios, y empezando con A Forest, irrepetibles.
Most enjoying , one of the greatest 1980's Bands THANKS !!!
I went out and brought the album, Jeez, feeling old now. Only bass line I could play back then was to a Forest!
The last song on this album is played by a 5 - string bass 🎸... It provides that rich deep Gothic Tone everyone likes from a bass ... 🎸🍻🤘😎
saw them live on the "Fiction Tour" back in those days and it was just perfect... The Passions were the "passionate" opening act for the show and the memory of the whole concert remains a fantastic experience... love these early Fiction days :)
Lucky Bastard
Totally agree. I was lucky enough to see them a couple of times 80-83. One of my favourite bands still.
R.IP my dear John..You was a radio genius..
I remember John Peel on the evening show "The Perfume Garden" on pirate radio station Radio London 266 m in 1967.
you were* god.
Just the best, ever...so many happy memories and so much new music, the best music, the music you've not heard yet....
@@cannatacris You is a Płonka Cristian. Play the game 🙄
I used to listen to Peelie every weekend when I was a kid. I had a small tape recorder with a radio in it. I want make tape after tape of his wonderful show. He introduced me to soooo many bands! One day I was getting out of work at the Forte Crest in Newcastle and I ran into him coming out the hotel lobby! It was an amazing moment I'll never forget. I just thanked him for changing the course of my life forever. Nowadays I find it hard to find anyone below the age of 30 who knows anything about music on a broad scale. We who were there, are soooo lucky!
One of my fave tracks ever. But then all the tracks i love are timeless like this one. And not the only timeless track from The Cure.
Peel sessions the cure 1980 simply my favourite all time songs I absolutely love the ending with the ace bass reverberate in my ears let’s be cure clear
They were excellent then and 39 years on at 2019 Glastonbury, they remain excellent, THE CURE have always been consistent through the years. And at last they enter the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Congratulations.
Their set at Glastonbury was legendary. It's amazing how great they still sound after so many years playing together.
I love, love, love it soo much. it's part of my life. it's my DNA.
Me too. This album especially, although it's not my favourite it's the album that really got me into the Cure. Pornography is my favourite. I'm always amazed when people rave about Disintegration being the finest Cure album?
This right here is what made me a Cure fan for life!
new to me... these peelings.. most enjoyable - listening more to the cure and such / had lots of video works for them in the 93-94 years the first movie things and vids since lost the video cassettes but have them in my mind ... I guess I should find them on youtube soon. :)
New to me as well. Peel sessions are proving to be a great way to get a raw sampling of many different artists.
Simon. I hope you find it in your heart to join The Cure again.
last word was he's back
Love this version of A Forest!
Totally underrated Cure song.
@@JohnMcAuley Really? It's widely recognized as one of their best.
@@VambeefcoHorzey it does not get airplay. Most people like the more popular stuff. I love this tune!
Rufusdos Is there a bad version of A Forest, bloody classic.
@@steve261brown No, Brownie, just various versions of an awesome bloody classic!
Hot damn... musicianship at its finest... Every other second I'm thinking, damn dem drums are on point! Wait it's the bass! No, it's the guitars ...no, it's Robert! The Cure just doesn't make mistakes...
exactly, great point, love it............................
Saw these couple of times in 1979 age 14 supporting the Banshees & a joint headline with WIRE great days
Amazing concert, i listened Play for Today 5 times. 💜😎
What a masterpiece... It's hard to believe this quality could be achieved in 1980...
best reording ever on JOHN PEEL session its wonderfull! The CURE give me direction in teenage years cos i was different at school & obnoxious cos i dyed my hair raven black & had lots of piercings!Looking back it gave me the edge !!
Well, it's 40 years ago, now. And it still feels new and unique. At least, for me.
yep
SOUNDTRACK MUSIC
FRESH Still
WHAT ELSE
I SAW THEM LIVE IN 1979 1980
VINYL i HAVE GOT AND TH-cam TO REMIND ME AND US ...SOMEWHAT STRANGE ... LONG TIME AGO 17 SECONDS . MANY YEARS ...WHAT IS IS all about?
enjoy anyway!
I first heard them when i was about 8 years old in 1988 was a hooked instantly. When i was about 13 i brought as many recordings as my paper round would allow me, ❤
So great to have this online. Thanks so much. Remember John peel broadcasting it... in may 1981 I even queued up with lots of teen post punk kids to get the band to sign a copy of ‘boys don’t cry’ in the virgin megastore in Newcastle - Which I still have... they were just a tiny post punk band then...bIt awkward and clearly already a bit bored of the publicity machine!
Then my 15 year old brain was blown by watching them play live that very night on the “faith” tour at Newcastle city hall. It was my second ever gig and changed me forever... amazing to think they’re now one of the worlds biggest bands 40 or so years later... How many other bands of that era still survive, ( and I don’t count the one who have reformed to do a nostalgia/cash in tour or two)
I just read a chunk of my childhood in your post - you'll be telling me you drank in Trillians and the Farmers and went to the Mayfair every Friday and Saturday next ? I was probably no more than 100 yards away from you in May 1981 !! Respect ...
@@Ericcartman8126 Ha. I was too young for pubs.. only 15 (and looked about 8)! and moved away for a few years so next gigs were london, oxford etc, Back to toon in 89 for the wonders that were the Riverside at its finest (much missed, still!)
Perhaps Robert Smith & I are the only people who loved play for today. It was, like his ode to, a bloody beautiful thing.
Of course, there are a million comments on the song, it's still emotive.
But.. I do miss Oona Beeson
John Peel is the name to follow for introducing the best in original bands to the music listening, cassette tape, vinyl and CD buying public such as The Cure and The Fall and many others, thanks to NME, Melody Maker and Rip It Up magazines for hours of entertaining music reviews =D
and Sounds was a great read too
Right record, wrong speed...
A Forest may be the most perfect song ever played.
The guitar tones in this version are haunting.
How did they do this in a radio studio 40 years ago???
There was some serious talent on the studio engineering side at Maida Vale too. I don't think it was a radio studio, though. Back in the day, BBC had proper facilities:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maida_Vale_Studios
John Peel had already been doing this for many years