I’m 65 and rediscovering The Cure. Late ‘70’s early ‘80 all flooding back, some of it anyway! The musicality and production is spot on. Such uncomplicated times. The Cure Wembley 2022. 👍👍
Those songs and sound were the darkest and the best 2 me like Killin’ an Arab, Jumpin’ so else’s train, 10:15 on a Saturday night… a Forest obviously, other voices album and even Fascination street ❤
Same age as you - i discovered them around 84 i guess - they showed the video of ' Boys don't cry ' on Italian TV - it was so weird, strange and different for me, i was mesmerized ! I remember that moment like a very special moment .
Same here. My friend played The Head on the Door- we were 13. I bought it (maybe my mom did haha) and then I saw them in ‘86 when I was 14. My aunt took me because my mom wouldn’t have let me go. I’m 49 and a Cure fan forever.
Damn right! Still my favourite band as well as Megadeth. Two very different genres but i like a variety somewhat. The Cure is my fave band of all time i have yo say
The beauty of the anticipation of the 4's and 8's sliding within the chord changes in an embrace of minor keys lets you know why my cassette tape screwed up due to repeated play, and made me buy the album... So I could record it on cassette and play it on my boom box next to my bed at 4:00 AM after a night of revelries with the lads... Again and again and again and again....
I like how A Forest Has a version for every mood, there's the album one, for when you're feeling normal or maybe slightly down, there's this chill version for when you're feeling calm, and there's the original demo, "Into The Trees" for when you're going absolutely clinically insane! Woohoo!
Not many bands from that time made music that is just as relevant today (if not more so) -- people will be listening to them as long as there are human beings on the planet . . .
Dunno I mean this tune came out and followed a progression of other musicians using the technology of that time. We back in the day heard it and instantly fell in love with it. It is our music to revisit when we want and relive those days..the young ones of today may not have the same passion for this tune like we did back in the day... their journey follows a different path as it should.
@@davidburnsmusic It still might be before the proper release, essentially making it a live-in-studio recording of something that would probably have an unreleased demo recording.
Indeed. We play it often in our set and if audiences like our version of it, they'll like any version. Always one of the best received of our set. One of my favourite songs ever.
This is likely the Peel session recording of March 3 1980. They were a quartet then... Smith, Tolhurst, Gallup and Hartley. Seventeen Seconds was released in late April 1980 where A Forest was one of the featured tracks.
1. Charlotte Sometimes 2. A Forest 3. Hanging Gardens .. The Cures top 3 Singles in my eyes .. Classic stuff from an excellent band . Probably 4th favourite band behind 1. Joy Division 2. Sisters of Mercy 3. Fields of the Nephilim .. All of it wonderful , superb Music !!😍🤩🤩
When my stepdaughter Soph first picked up a 6 string guitar.. i played this soft in the background on bass... she got it immediately. Support 13th Day, playing all over West Yorkshire this Autumn. Best lead and rhythm player you'll ever hear is my Soph.
Many thanks ! This version is not a demo, this is an extract from the BBC Peel Session 1980. Excellent version (raw sound mixing) really interesting to capture the exact guitar playing 1980's style of this excellent song (my prefered one !). This version is the closest one of the original LP (for the guitar play). The end solo is a quite different ... From now, I will use this version as backtrack to play with Robert !
There are a lot of fantastic Cure songs - but this one has always been my absolute favorite. I love hearing how this was originally pitched to sound, versus what was actually released.
An Hymn to our childhood moulded in the 1980ies in Northern Europe or anywhere else like in Brazil 🇧🇷 with Legião Urbana’s lead singer and composer who confessed to be truly influenced by The Cure and their original sound just lets it clear
.thank you for sharing. I finally found the most haunting precise version that I first heard as a child that instantly hooked me on the cure forever and now come full circle.
Glastonbury festival 1986 !!!! The cure performing this song headlining the pyramid stage!!! Lasers shooting out the top of the pyramid with nature's own light show in the form of a lightning storm providing the perfect backdrop to this!!!!!! Definitely one of my all time top concerts
Graduated from College in 85 Went to a 20th class reunion I was picked to tell everyone Something no one knew about me I said I am a fan of The Cure. My friends and classmates were blown away Never pushed my appreciation for this incredible music on family or friends........it was something that was mine and mine alone Still is to this day
En vous baladant dans les prés du présent, vous pouvez cueillir des bouquets de fleurs folles et improbables, revenir avec de somptueux extraits de ces musiciens sensibles et écorchés et vous dire que vous gagnez parfois du temps à ignorer tant de ces musiques contemporaines new-age redondantes & futiles pour gagner en force et sérénité !
This version is nice to hear. It's nice to know that experimental or informal recordings of such epic, life changing songs are still available to us. They are not yet disrespectfully buried under the ever-growing junkpile created by TH-cam's cover musicians and home remixers, However, Robert Smiths' "Mixed Up " version still affects me on a daily basis. For me, it has remained somewhere beyond "epic'"
I always loved the Cure but took them for granted and forgot about them for a long time. Now I am 56 and also rediscovering them. Want more than a few of their songs played at my funeral
a 55 ans j ecoute depuis 40...cette chanson est speciale.........ca n a pas une ride........des groupes comme acdc meme 40 ans apres....ca existe plus..........
This is a demo? It sounds polished and not like a rough draft. Brilliant song from the Cure that broke them out of the pack. That’s what I liked about the Cure . They were fully realized style wise from the get go. It’s all based on Smith’s unique vocals and songs. And the big Japanese kabuki wigs. That was a unique look as well.
Bob Smith, complete musical genius. The guy deserves a knighthood. So many bands owe the Cure so much. I just wish he would lose a bit of timber around the gut.
Robert was a huge Jimmy Hendricks fan too. I remember reading something about 20 or so years ago. He has 50 guitars and wanted to play them on one album.
It Was 1985, me and friends on birthday party's garage, play on the 3x1 National, LP's, listen the songs of standing on the beach album, the police, depeche mode, new order, ... its time travel close eyes and listen, remember those kids times...
41 years old and still sounding epic.
Et pas 1 riďe
Like my butt.
Yea
Absolutely cool !!!
❤❤ 🍻🎃
I’m 65 and rediscovering The Cure. Late ‘70’s early ‘80 all flooding back, some of it anyway! The musicality and production is spot on. Such uncomplicated times. The Cure Wembley 2022. 👍👍
A forest...MITICA ❤❤❤❤
im 65 love the 8o's music apreciate the new wave more now, listened to more heavy music in the day
Those songs and sound were the darkest and the best 2 me like Killin’ an Arab, Jumpin’ so else’s train, 10:15 on a Saturday night… a Forest obviously, other voices album and even Fascination street ❤
For me its one of the best songs ever
Agreed Marcos
For me it is the best song ever
Totally agree. Brilliant mixture of sounds. You can feel the urgency, but somehow one is not afraid...
4L bruv
Yes yes
Great version. A Forest is basically The Cure's best song. And actually, you can take any version, they're all great.
It’s up there granted but no way the best song for me
One if not the best of all Post-Punk songs. A masterpiece.
There is a really crappy live proto version that kinda sucks, actually...
I'm 47 years old, started listening to the cure back in 1987, still get goose bumps when I hear this.
Same 🖤
49 and 1987. Those were great times.
The Cure was the first live band I saw in 1987.what a epic spectacular show
Same age as you - i discovered them around 84 i guess - they showed the video of ' Boys don't cry ' on Italian TV - it was so weird, strange and different for me, i was mesmerized ! I remember that moment like a very special moment .
Same here. My friend played The Head on the Door- we were 13. I bought it (maybe my mom did haha) and then I saw them in ‘86 when I was 14. My aunt took me because my mom wouldn’t have let me go. I’m 49 and a Cure fan forever.
This song was mysterious magic when I listened to it back in 1986-87. What a gift these musicians are to us all.
Indeed
Damn right! Still my favourite band as well as Megadeth. Two very different genres but i like a variety somewhat. The Cure is my fave band of all time i have yo say
It was the song that stood out to me most when I saw them in ‘86. Still my favorite.
The beauty of the anticipation of the 4's and 8's sliding within the chord changes in an embrace of minor keys lets you know why my cassette tape screwed up due to repeated play, and made me buy the album... So I could record it on cassette and play it on my boom box next to my bed at 4:00 AM after a night of revelries with the lads... Again and again and again and again....
learned this riff a few days ago ik exactly what you mean lol..
I play this on guitar but I didn't get what you're talking about 4's and 8's.. it's 5th fret
@@david_post_punk yeah, 4s and 8s?
This music has roots and leaves: it's like a spell from deep inside: just a masterpiece...
Thank you !!!!!
EXACTLY!!!!
I like how A Forest Has a version for every mood, there's the album one, for when you're feeling normal or maybe slightly down, there's this chill version for when you're feeling calm, and there's the original demo, "Into The Trees" for when you're going absolutely clinically insane! Woohoo!
The peel session is the best
Not many bands from that time made music that is just as relevant today (if not more so) -- people will be listening to them as long as there are human beings on the planet . . .
RIGHT
As long as we can breathe... as long as we're alive
amSohis .
. I deservedly believe in our triumphs over trials. Forever
Dunno I mean this tune came out and followed a progression of other musicians using the technology of that time. We back in the day heard it and instantly fell in love with it. It is our music to revisit when we want and relive those days..the young ones of today may not have the same passion for this tune like we did back in the day... their journey follows a different path as it should.
Saw them in concert 1989! Absolutely brilliant! Still got the t-shirt. It still fits as I had the foresight to buy a large version!!
Lol
I know how u feel
Can't fit into any of my concert shirts
My EXPENSIVE concert shirts
My favorite song of The CURE. "A Forest " is a MASTERPIECE 🖤💋
yes
Same here. Epic!
Is this an original version? It's better than the album version, it sounds more crude, but it feels like you are really lost in a forest.
It's a demo, a rough version recorded before going to do the studio recording, made as they're working the song out.
Although I've just seen some people in the comments saying it's actually a live version from a John Peel radio session
@@davidburnsmusic
It still might be before the proper release, essentially making it a live-in-studio recording of something that would probably have an unreleased demo recording.
its a demo, dude, is the original of the original, dont you knew that? keep asking, jeez
Yes of course. Lose in the forest
Maybe better than the studio version. More energy, and sounds are harsher (guitars and synths).
bass too
And without sounding too garage-y. A true masterpiece
I love this song. In every version. This is a particularly good one.
yes, it is!
There's no bad (Cure) version of "The Forest"....!
Indeed. We play it often in our set and if audiences like our version of it, they'll like any version. Always one of the best received of our set. One of my favourite songs ever.
so are worse and better than others, this one is better than the cd or record version no doubt
Indeedy..The best version 4me is the 13 min version (Cure in Orange?)
I like all versions of the A Forest song but my favorite is the 2010 video and lyrics but they do not allow it in the USA
So simple and so fantastic : you can listen to this song 10.000 times and you never get tired.
This is likely the Peel session recording of March 3 1980. They were a quartet then... Smith, Tolhurst, Gallup and Hartley. Seventeen Seconds was released in late April 1980 where A Forest was one of the featured tracks.
Yeah, I don't think the pic here is right. Isn't this the three imaginary boys line up with Mike Dempsey?
@@glennaustin37 Yes, that is Dempsey in the middle, and was not on this recording,.
@@alantmac I thought I didn't see simon in there. Guess that's why.
The Cure
41 years of fidelity, passion and indissoluble love
Thanks Robert
1. Charlotte Sometimes 2. A Forest 3. Hanging Gardens .. The Cures top 3 Singles in my eyes .. Classic stuff from an excellent band . Probably 4th favourite band behind 1. Joy Division 2. Sisters of Mercy 3. Fields of the Nephilim .. All of it wonderful , superb Music !!😍🤩🤩
When the demo is better than the studio recording.
When my stepdaughter Soph first picked up a 6 string guitar.. i played this soft in the background on bass... she got it immediately. Support 13th Day, playing all over West Yorkshire this Autumn. Best lead and rhythm player you'll ever hear is my Soph.
Again and again for more then 40 years
Avevo 19 anni in quel '80, imparai il mio primo giro di basso. I migliori anni e la miglior musica di sempre.
This version has just changed my perception of the term "demo" forever. This is actually better than the album version!
it's not a demo, it's the version from the Peel session. but there's one thing the uploader got right: the audio quality is excellent on this one.
Hummmmmm, it is a real pure pleasure to listen......MANY THANKS TO HAVE SHARED..
That bass.......... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
51 años y los escucho desde mi secundaria. ❤
Many thanks ! This version is not a demo, this is an extract from the BBC Peel Session 1980. Excellent version (raw sound mixing) really interesting to capture the exact guitar playing 1980's style of this excellent song (my prefered one !). This version is the closest one of the original LP (for the guitar play). The end solo is a quite different ... From now, I will use this version as backtrack to play with Robert !
Vocals a bit lower to comfortably play along with it and u can't hear base during song , it's sad , but this version is still really good
@@david_post_punk The guitar sound is awesome! Raw and pure ! A terrific sound !
@@soniasunday6914 agree on guitar
There are a lot of fantastic Cure songs - but this one has always been my absolute favorite. I love hearing how this was originally pitched to sound, versus what was actually released.
this is from the 1980 Peel session, not a demo
Yep. Good catch. I was thinking to myself that this sounds nothing like a demo and more like a polished studio session.
Big difference between a 'rare demo' to a legendary John Peel session
So cool,hipnoting...darkly beautiful
i love this version so much.. muchas gracias..
Las versiones iniciales de este tema son de mi maximo agrado.
I'm 53 and I still love this. Thanks!
An Hymn to our childhood moulded in the 1980ies in Northern Europe or anywhere else like in Brazil 🇧🇷 with Legião Urbana’s lead singer and composer who confessed to be truly influenced by The Cure and their original sound just lets it clear
.thank you for sharing. I finally found the most haunting precise version that I first heard as a child that instantly hooked me on the cure forever and now come full circle.
Music from the 80's is more interesting than tv today 6/24/21
Glastonbury festival 1986 !!!! The cure performing this song headlining the pyramid stage!!! Lasers shooting out the top of the pyramid with nature's own light show in the form of a lightning storm providing the perfect backdrop to this!!!!!! Definitely one of my all time top concerts
Excellent ! J'adore. Cela n'a pas vieillis ! Quel talent ! Merci ♥
Late 30s....and i just discovered this song. One of my top favorite for sure
Great tune great version thanks
Graduated from College in 85
Went to a 20th class reunion
I was picked to tell everyone
Something no one knew about me
I said I am a fan of The Cure.
My friends and classmates were blown away
Never pushed my appreciation for this incredible music on family or friends........it was something that was mine and mine alone
Still is to this day
En vous baladant dans les prés du présent, vous pouvez cueillir des bouquets de fleurs folles et improbables, revenir avec de somptueux extraits de ces musiciens sensibles et écorchés et vous dire que vous gagnez parfois du temps à ignorer tant de ces musiques contemporaines new-age redondantes & futiles pour gagner en force et sérénité !
Dans les prés du passé ? Plutôt ?☀️
This version is nice to hear. It's nice to know that experimental or informal recordings of such epic, life changing songs are still available to us. They are not yet disrespectfully buried under the ever-growing junkpile created by TH-cam's cover musicians and home remixers, However, Robert Smiths' "Mixed Up " version still affects me on a daily basis. For me, it has remained somewhere beyond "epic'"
Ese bajo carajo!!!!!
Ese bajo!!!!!
Una lección de simple belleza
Wow, I thought when I bought the original, I'd bought the original, this demo is raw and fantastic, thanks...
you can buy this version, too: The Cure Peel session, 1980
Can't beat old Cure.
the best version
fantastic track
Merci pour cette version de " a forest" ❤❤❤❤❤❤ une de mes chansons favorites du groupe que j' aime tant 😍😍😍😍😍
I always loved the Cure but took them for granted
and forgot about them for a long time. Now I am 56 and also rediscovering them. Want more than a few of their songs played at my funeral
This is healthy drug for my ears. Thanks for posting
And brain
I think it has a clean sound, I like it better. Not the biggest Cure fan in general but like this one a lot.
uno de los mejores temas The Cure ✌✌✌
Fan since '85. Love this version, raw and REAL!
The cure é massa, clássico
Translation please
@@onclebob2178 The Cure is awesome, a classic, that's what Luiz Sérgio said.
@@onclebob2178 Copy-paste into Google Translate
a 55 ans j ecoute depuis 40...cette chanson est speciale.........ca n a pas une ride........des groupes comme acdc meme 40 ans apres....ca existe plus..........
I am cure fan since 1982. This IS the best song ever and many others of the band.
This is real good . Punk good.
Un de mes morceaux favoris.. pas une ride.. et quel bonheur d’avoir connu cette période..
Brilliant and beautiful.
The Cure. My favorite band !
best version
Never gets old. The Cure. Best in the World. ..nuff said.
My favorite Cure song.
That’s a very decent version. I mean, they’re all pretty decent tbh as it’s just a fantastic, phenomenal song.
Got lost in this.....so bloody good....a seminal work of new wave goth magic.....no-one else gets close to them....👏👏👏👏
Как же давно я его не слушал. Трек - ровесник.
Pure bliss.
Pure merveille
Classic, man that bass.
This is a demo? It sounds polished and not like a rough draft. Brilliant song from the Cure that broke them out of the pack.
That’s what I liked about the Cure . They were fully realized style wise from the get go.
It’s all based on Smith’s unique vocals and songs.
And the big Japanese kabuki wigs. That was a unique look as well.
Most of the Peel Session recordings are quite polished, so not really demo's.
Love this song so much🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
I have been a huge The Cure fan since the early 1980s, this is why, they’re my favorite band
Very good rythym
Thank you so very much for this upload!
Masterpiece
Hi from Easter Island Chile....listening my favorite band THE CURE 15 JUN 2021.....PANDEMIC VERSION!!!!!!!
Listening to this song on Easter Island??? Wow... mind blown
@@Onlythatfunkyshit Of Course friend
I can't relate to any of the comments down below but, i absolutely love this song
6/7/2021
a song that could be on any of their albums and it would fit - the swiss knife of all Cure songs, will always be my favorite
Bob Smith, complete musical genius. The guy deserves a knighthood. So many bands owe the Cure so much. I just wish he would lose a bit of timber around the gut.
Robert was a huge Jimmy Hendricks fan too. I remember reading something about 20 or so years ago. He has 50 guitars and wanted to play them on one album.
i never knew about this version this is so nice yo
Legendary stuff!
Legends
Es holt die Vergangenheit in mein Gedächtnis. Dieses Stück ist eines dieser Songs , die meine Musikalische Prägung bestimmt haben. GROßARTIG
Surprisingly good version this! I like the rougher more doomy sound..
impressive
Thank you . Great version.
Wow Wow Wow!🖤🔥🖤
I 💘 this song!! Since I was 14. Now Im almost 50
It Was 1985, me and friends on birthday party's garage, play on the 3x1 National, LP's, listen the songs of standing on the beach album, the police, depeche mode, new order, ... its time travel close eyes and listen, remember those kids times...
No es ninguna versión rara, es la versión que grabó Jhon Peel me parece que en el 79, los ratos son ustedes.
Man, this is when the Cure were brilliant, before they became commercially acceptable.
They are still brilliant idiot.
@@rightbro
I never once said they still weren't good. What a fud🤣🤣🤣
Excellent shit... :) GREAT piece!!
fantastic!
This version Really likes me but the bass sound is not so deep as other versions…
Bravissimo!
QUE JOYA AUDITIVA.
MUCHAS GRACIAS.
Again n again n again. Love it 😁👍