Pretty ironic that you'd be listening to this with "the love of your life" lol A song about how love's a mirage shaped by your desires and fantasies doesn't strike me as the more suiting.
Either way... What these comments say.. It's a beautiful song... No matter what it means... You have good taste Sir.... Some people are very immature when leaving a dumb ass comment... :/ anyways.... Keep being awesome... 🔹🌙🔹🎶🌿🎶
Maybe no one is gonna read this comment, but I want to leave here the thoughts I've had while listening this song. Nowdays we feel like we are always late and we just cant stop and listen a song, we keep searching something to do, like reading comments, instead of just listening and feeling the song. And when the song is more that 2 minutes, very feel people know how to appreciate it. This was the first song in a while that I just left playing in my bed, layed down and started to listen carefully to feel every instrument... and I felt like I've just discovered the key of the whole universe... but then the music ends and I forgot everything.
.... That depends on what you mean. You make it sound like humans always had free time and could just stop to listen to music. When in reality, people having the free time to do what you just described is more available to people more than ever and a lot of people DO just listen to music while doing nothing else. Or maybe, just maybe, people can multitask and enjoy and appreciate a song while doing something else. I know, I know. What a wild concept, being able to do more than one thing at a time. What you said can be said about everything. When was the last time you just sat out side and just appreciated nature? The last time you appreciated a good book? Appreciated fine arts? If you’re going to try and sound “deep”, at least put actual thought into what you are going to say and ale it actually “deep” and not complain about how people feel like we are “always late” and that no one just kicks back and just chills anymore. Cause we apparently have now some how magically lost that ability. When in reality, humans for thousands and thousands of years never had the time to just kick back and relax and appreciate anything. They had to work 12+ hours everyday just to barely survive while also worrying about if their town, city, or farm will get raided, a war breaking out, or getting mailed by a wild animal. Just because you don’t see people laying around in their beds just listening to music or because they don’t share it on social media, doesn’t mean they don’t do it. Heaven forbid that the vast majority of people don’t blast every tiny little thing they do on social media. I also don’t get where is idea of “nowadays we are too busy or always running late” when the average person would have spent 3 years of their life watching commercial ads on TV when they die, which tells me, we have a lot of free time. I have also never personally known someone who was saying they were always running late or too busy. The part of we aren’t allowed to multitask to appreciate something is also stupid. Going off about how people do other things while listening to music and not just listen to it and “feel it”. Meanwhile, here you are, doing the same exact thing you just went off about people doing while listening to music. Congrats on being a hypocrite. You’re comment also highlights your huge lack of understanding on how humans work and how our brains work. Humans can feel every instrument of a song while doing something else. Humans can appreciate a good song while doing something else. Humans are capable of multitasking.
so brilliant, an iconic gothic piece, I was 13 when it came out, it took me several years to be able to fully appreciate it, now at 55 I find it almost transcendental
yeah dude, i wish i was growing up in the 80s ahaha, music was at its peak, all of my favourite music is from the 80s or early 90s, such a revolutionary time for a lot of things! I'm a goth whos style is very influenced by the 80s era of goth or post punk, hard to find people with my style locally these days when back in the 80s my town was full of em ahaha
Not for myself...even though I was a teen from 1980+ I can listen to Billie Holiday then Billie Eilish ...The Cure then XXXTentacion, Cyndi Lauper then $uicideBoys...Personally I dislike the same old,same old " music was better in my day" bullshit..
I'm 55 and I remember this in the 80s.i told my 17 year old twins sons about the cure and they said dad we have been listening to them since we started collage.shows my boys have good taste 😊
Curieux mais j'ai 54 ans et c'est mon fils qui m'a dit "pap's vient on va voir The Cure en concert 😂" belle idée super concert. J'espère qu'ils repasseront en France en 2024 2025
The simplicity of this song yet the profound depth and eeriness it conveys is truely amazing.. always my favourite cure song though I havn't heard them all( not even nearly)
Prince, Van Halen and The Boss would only be saved on those days. But Ali you are so right: Queen, The Police, The Cure, Depeche, U2, Dire Straits, Cranberries , Tear for Fears, Prodigy, Faithless, Portishead, Radiohead, and the list will be endless
My stepdad is a roofer and he once fixed Robert Smiths roof. Proudest moment of his life haha. Apparently he had his hair and makeup all done up but was wearing trackies and a football shirt.
In the early eighties I was at art college in Middlesbrough (UK). As part of an Audio visual project I used A Forest as the background track. I created a series of photographs shot in a woodland near Carlisle with a beautiful girl in a long dress, I got good marks for the project, I was obsessed with the track and played in constantly on my record player, 12” vinyl. It is now 2019 and i don’t have the vinyl any more, but I am lying next to the girl in my project, I love this track, and the girl in my AV, more that words can say.
The narrator wasn't literally chasing a phantom or a ghost, he was chasing an image of a person in his mind that wasn't real. When he realizes that this idealization of a woman isn't reality ("the girl was never there"), he's all alone, completely lost in the "forest." He knows he will repeat this process over and over again. Too real.
I'm agree with you, today I think this song also it could be' the best description in music of a depression status, a mind Ghost labyrinte without an exit.
In my opinion, this is the best piece of The Cure. I feel the atmosphere of the forest, even during in "17 seconds". Robert's voice and Simon's bass ... ACH
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ua-cam.com/video/mOCH3fUw0j0/v-deo.html and Radio Show! Very well done!
J'avais 18 ans.. Je ne savais pas que j'écoutais un chef d'oeuvre.. C'était planant, magique J'écoute aujourd'hui par hasard et j'entre dans d'autres dimensions, c'est merveilleux. Mr Robert Smith vous êtes un très grand musicien
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cure and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
My Navy buddy introduced me to this song and The Cure in 1989. On the beach in San Diego cruising w this song blaring. My buddy died a few years ago and he was and always will be Superman to me. I'll never forget you Blas.
So I did my research and it turns out that this was the Cure's FIRST single for the 80s!! which I think is pretty cool. This song was on their second album and the year was 1980. They were just getting warmed up!!!!! :)
To think this epic masterpiece is their first single is ridiculous. I was only 6. I wouldn’t discover them until a few years later when Fascination street played on MTV.
A Foreat *IS* my favorite Cure song, and The Chauffeur is criminally underrated! Any song they could have released as a single from RIO would have owned the airwaves. Such an amazing album!
I was stationed in Giessen Germany while in a the US Army 1988. I used to dance to the Cure at a underground bar. It was the greatest time of my life! I had many collage age German friends and the Cure made my time spent very special...
Damn, stationed in Nuremberg in 1989 with the Army and used to go to the "off limits" Komm club for the punk shows. I introduced the pogo-ing Germans to some West coast mosh pits!
I live on the Lower Rhine, and in my hometown there is a club that often has events where there is still a really old school atmosphere. I danced to this song again last weekend. Like when I was younger in the late 80s :-))))
I think this will be one of those songs that will be remembered and cited in about 200 years from now as people look back at the roots of pop music, rock music etc.... Bravo Robert Smith & Co. Timeless music.
The space of 1:00 to 1:12 is one of my favorite sounds in music. The mix of new wave and post-punk is so bizarre, but it's such a great juxtaposition. It feels like at any moment a synthpop or dark wave song could happen. It's such a great sound.
Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl While 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
When i first heard A forest.. I instantly fell in love with the Song.. And then i asked my friend what was it called?.. He replied.. "A Forest... I asked him again what was it called ??.. He replied again.. A Forest ! .. That totally blew my mind.. I couldn't believe somebody would call a song.." A Forest ".. Pure genius.. 💜
yeah I love that bit too! Sounds like he's venting sheer frustration, which every bloke can understand about the emotional playing with emotion that women inflict upon men! They enjoy it too. So he feels hes trapped in a maze of infatuation. Which he can't get out of! He's suffering!
as a young gal I was listening Cure , Bauhaus , Sisters , Mission ,Joy Division, DM, JLG, U2...but this song somehow I missed, but beauty of living is that my daughter who is 17 now and who listen the same music revaled this song to me ...now this is one of my all time fav songs..
I'm 23 but my dad (49) had always played good music like this while I was growing up. The cure has always been one of my favorites since I can remember. I got tickets to see the cure this June and I still can't even wrap my head around that fact that I get to see them perform. Its nice to see that music like this still lives on in younger generations :)
I am seeing them next week. I am very excited--I have been waiting for a chance to see them live for almost 30 years! Its actually one of my bucket list items, haha.
Im 47 and still love all the bands you have mentioned. Just class musicians with a unique sound that grabs your soul. I have brought my 9 year old daughter up listening to this music and she loves it. She also loves New Model Army and The Wonder Stuff :-)
Cómo una canción sigue encantándome después de estarla escuchando más de 34 años, y siempre, siempre emociona. La antigua fascinación atraviesa los años como si nada.Eso es The Cure. Dioses!!!
@@yolandacamino8188 Thanks for being an amazing fan , and also thanks for the support you've showered on us all. I hope you never stop listening to our music and watching our musical videos.
Such a masterpiece. Best band of the 80's. Truly believed they paved the way for grunge to be possible. They were so different than anything else being made then
I am 55 now and i have seen them open with this song in Cologne in the 80ies and i remember vividly that i had the biggest full body goosebumps of my life, when the bass run started. This was one of the biggest songs in goth circles back then.
Can you imagine, being a 10 year old boy, sitting in a dark room in the evening, the only light comes from an old radio with tubes, ready to enjoy some music and 'A FOREST' comes up. The mellow tone of such an old radio multiplies the effect of being taken away, especially with a song like this.
I’m sitting at my uncle Miguel’s bedside at Methodist Hospital off Greenhouse & I-10, as he is healing from the horrible after affects from COVID. He is the sunshine of our family, he always puts a smile on our face and it hurts to see him unable to use his body at the moment. He will heal and live a better life, because I truly believe he is being reborn. He love the cure and is jamming right now at 2:56am
Man, seeing them at Fiddlers Green in Colorado, maybe the first Lollapalooza and in the late 80's was incredible. Then seeing them at Red Rocks in Colorado was beyond the top. If you havent been to Red Rocks in Colorado you need to put it in you bucket list. Its an experience you will never forget. Not only the band, just the experience and the museum of rock is breathtaking. Love you all! But that doesnt matter so much is just seeing them live. I guess I'm lucky.
One of my favorites of his, the video , the music, lyrics. I remember first hearing this from a friend in CA, I knew on Facebook. Always liked this song. Definitely a chill out song for me.
Only music I listen to is older music, it has this special tune in each and every song, newer songs all sound basically the same thats why I don't like it
im 17 and discovered them a little over a year ago but didnt really listen to much before 6 or so months ago when i found disintegration at a thrift store, then i bought faith, now im buying seventeen seconds off amazon
"A Forest" Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl While 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 still love the haunting first bars of this song. I heard it for the first time over 30 years ago, and it still gets me every time. It will still get me 30 years from now If I'm still alive. A Cure classic.
Same!!! I was hooked from the first moment, played it on repeat for months those many years ago. They don't make 'em like this anymore, or if they do I haven't heard. It's so eerie & melancholy & magical, the heartbeat bass line at the end, ugh, perfection.
growing up in the midlands at this time, a forest also contained empty woodpecker cider bottles, used fetherlite johnnys and truck drivers "rythym, magazines". but hey thems were the days.
Going on 40, was a huge fan of the few cure songs on MTV back in the late 80's/early 90's. I didn't pay much attention then, because they were "old" songs then. It seems like they have been stuck in my head for the past 25 years. Just started on their huge catalog of amazing songs, and realizing how much they have influenced the music that I started listening too as a teen ... nine inch nails, tool, etc.
I definitely hear how tool is extremely influenced by them ...... When I first sat down actually listened to the cure my first thought was "Tool before they were Tool"
Even if I loved Andy's part of The Cure's history and his drumming of this song in the "Concert" album, this is completely Laurence Tolhurst's C-ducer miked drumming. Well he and producer Mike Hedges did it.
My friends never understood how I liked oldies by the Beatles, Motown and the Carpenters at the same time. I didn't even dare to tell them I liked jazz and baroque music (1650-1750) even more
I think we all liked metal bands and darkwave bands both, they did the only true music of the 80! In the same time I discovered psychedelia of the 1968, garage rock, progressive, and other music, there is a line that unites all good music.
MarcusX1971 Yep, definitely there may be something that get us searching for good bands; from the swamps of Louisiana to an underground Liverpool bar, no one knows for sure but at the end we all meet for the same music.
I absolutely adore this band! Congrats The Cure into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I know they are humbled with or without the title . One of the many reasons I love this band.
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
This song is an art, legend. extremly beautiful.
I can't believe this song belongs in the age of 79~80 the last century
It's so crazy. I can't believe it. The play the Cure on the OLDIES radio station!
I'm sitting by a fire with the love of my life in the woods listening to this gem at 56, does it get better?
Mushrooms
I feel what you are describing.
Pretty ironic that you'd be listening to this with "the love of your life" lol A song about how love's a mirage shaped by your desires and fantasies doesn't strike me as the more suiting.
Either way... What these comments say..
It's a beautiful song... No matter what it means... You have good taste Sir.... Some people are very immature when leaving a dumb ass comment... :/ anyways.... Keep being awesome... 🔹🌙🔹🎶🌿🎶
Never found my love. Only fire and forests.
if this ain't playing at my funeral , I'm not even coming.
😂😂
I'll attend provided there is a luncheon.
Neither am I.
I'll stand in for you :p
Ha ha ha!!!
Maybe no one is gonna read this comment, but I want to leave here the thoughts I've had while listening this song. Nowdays we feel like we are always late and we just cant stop and listen a song, we keep searching something to do, like reading comments, instead of just listening and feeling the song. And when the song is more that 2 minutes, very feel people know how to appreciate it. This was the first song in a while that I just left playing in my bed, layed down and started to listen carefully to feel every instrument... and I felt like I've just discovered the key of the whole universe... but then the music ends and I forgot everything.
Ah! Salvation! Bless you, child💗
@@thedavesiknow4598 💗💗💗
we need more people like this in our broken world.
Whatever you're smoking, I want
.... That depends on what you mean. You make it sound like humans always had free time and could just stop to listen to music. When in reality, people having the free time to do what you just described is more available to people more than ever and a lot of people DO just listen to music while doing nothing else. Or maybe, just maybe, people can multitask and enjoy and appreciate a song while doing something else. I know, I know. What a wild concept, being able to do more than one thing at a time. What you said can be said about everything. When was the last time you just sat out side and just appreciated nature? The last time you appreciated a good book? Appreciated fine arts? If you’re going to try and sound “deep”, at least put actual thought into what you are going to say and ale it actually “deep” and not complain about how people feel like we are “always late” and that no one just kicks back and just chills anymore. Cause we apparently have now some how magically lost that ability. When in reality, humans for thousands and thousands of years never had the time to just kick back and relax and appreciate anything. They had to work 12+ hours everyday just to barely survive while also worrying about if their town, city, or farm will get raided, a war breaking out, or getting mailed by a wild animal. Just because you don’t see people laying around in their beds just listening to music or because they don’t share it on social media, doesn’t mean they don’t do it. Heaven forbid that the vast majority of people don’t blast every tiny little thing they do on social media. I also don’t get where is idea of “nowadays we are too busy or always running late” when the average person would have spent 3 years of their life watching commercial ads on TV when they die, which tells me, we have a lot of free time. I have also never personally known someone who was saying they were always running late or too busy. The part of we aren’t allowed to multitask to appreciate something is also stupid. Going off about how people do other things while listening to music and not just listen to it and “feel it”. Meanwhile, here you are, doing the same exact thing you just went off about people doing while listening to music. Congrats on being a hypocrite. You’re comment also highlights your huge lack of understanding on how humans work and how our brains work. Humans can feel every instrument of a song while doing something else. Humans can appreciate a good song while doing something else. Humans are capable of multitasking.
What an ethereal song. Glad I grew up in the 80's!
I was a sophomore in high school when this came out. I would totally do the 80’s all over again.❤
❤
so brilliant, an iconic gothic piece, I was 13 when it came out, it took me several years to be able to fully appreciate it, now at 55 I find it almost transcendental
💯!!!!
While growing up in the '80s I never realized I was living in a golden age of music, I just assumed music would always be this good. I was wrong......
yeah dude, i wish i was growing up in the 80s ahaha, music was at its peak, all of my favourite music is from the 80s or early 90s, such a revolutionary time for a lot of things! I'm a goth whos style is very influenced by the 80s era of goth or post punk, hard to find people with my style locally these days when back in the 80s my town was full of em ahaha
Preach it brother! Today's music is meaningless and ego anger filled. We had illusion and mystery.
Speaking of "illusion" Styx Grand Illusion still holds up today IMO
Not for myself...even though I was a teen from 1980+ I can listen to Billie Holiday then Billie Eilish ...The Cure then XXXTentacion, Cyndi Lauper then $uicideBoys...Personally I dislike the same old,same old " music was better in my day" bullshit..
Me too…really, really wrong.
I'm 55 and I remember this in the 80s.i told my 17 year old twins sons about the cure and they said dad we have been listening to them since we started collage.shows my boys have good taste 😊
Curieux mais j'ai 54 ans et c'est mon fils qui m'a dit "pap's vient on va voir The Cure en concert 😂" belle idée super concert. J'espère qu'ils repasseront en France en 2024 2025
College, not collage. O the irony.
One of the most atmospheric songs ever...simply amazing
The simplicity of this song yet the profound depth and eeriness it conveys is truely amazing.. always my favourite cure song though I havn't heard them all( not even nearly)
I concur. Fave Cure song by miles.
Lisin
This and Pictures of you, hands down both world class.
Exactly. Up there with the eeriness of lullaby and Love Song. (To me)
This song leaves me in a trance…always has. I LOVE IT!!!!
Well then, how is it you were able to write your comment, being in the trance you say you left in? Hmmmm? Splain plz.
It’s that atmospheric guitar riff that gets me
A song that you always go back to .. Timeless part of my youth & I never tire of listening to this
Imagine growing up in the eighties without music from England ... how sad.
Prince, Van Halen and The Boss would only be saved on those days. But Ali you are so right: Queen, The Police, The Cure, Depeche, U2, Dire Straits, Cranberries , Tear for Fears, Prodigy, Faithless, Portishead, Radiohead, and the list will be endless
u described hell perfectly since those bands paved the way for many other bands i can't imagine never hearing
So true...
True...
Agreed
Im 56, bought this in 12" on day of release and I'm still listening
When I was a kid I found a cassette in the road. Been a cure fan ever since.
That's a long record
@@MrMorph1000I am hoping some one who can be bothered can work out what rpm that would be
flashtheoriginal lucky you my friend...Have a wonderful weekend
I bought a 12'' German import. Still treasured
The Cure was its own category and a phenomenon.
The Cure is a genre.
This!
Yeah, post-punk lol
@@xXDarthKushGoonerXx was about to say the same thing, lol
The cure is a genre, change my mind
Ever heard of molchat doma? They fit this genre lol
It's a freaking Masterpiece. Incredible intro. Classic. Love it.
My stepdad is a roofer and he once fixed Robert Smiths roof. Proudest moment of his life haha. Apparently he had his hair and makeup all done up but was wearing trackies and a football shirt.
Max Woods this comment made my day
Max Woods I'm a roofer in Australia. I wish Smithy was an Aussie
I believe you are right....Lol mentioned this in his book... one time it was Brazil vs France
Max Woods nice
I saw him in a Tapas restaurant. He had the face and the hair done.
I listen to this song again and again and again and again......
AND AGAIN !!
and again
Who doesn't?
🖤
Joseph Petrov , também eu ouço com muita frequéncia. so do i.
Simon Gallup! Cheers from Sweden! A million thank's for upload 8wrcevo! God bless! We are not alone - at all!
In the early eighties I was at art college in Middlesbrough (UK). As part of an Audio visual project I used A Forest as the background track. I created a series of photographs shot in a woodland near Carlisle with a beautiful girl in a long dress, I got good marks for the project, I was obsessed with the track and played in constantly on my record player, 12” vinyl. It is now 2019 and i don’t have the vinyl any more, but I am lying next to the girl in my project, I love this track, and the girl in my AV, more that words can say.
awwwww that's so lovely
awesome!!
Good for you! Great Story.
What a beautiful story. It makes listening to this song year after year even more layered now that you shared your experience. Well done.
I am so happy that you have the girl!! Love this story.21.17pm 29/11/9
this song is such a dark - rock masterpiece
Seventeen seconds is a masterpiece of an album :D my favourite album as it focuses more on instrumentals
@@lynxafrican7608 no need to get picky, it's just easier to say rock in the context she used.
@@lynxafrican7608 Chill out lol
@@lynxafrican7608 Hes literally one of my favourite artists, can't get much more chill than peep :D
@@lynxafrican7608 Absolutely nothing wrong with those genres, I love them too
The narrator wasn't literally chasing a phantom or a ghost, he was chasing an image of a person in his mind that wasn't real. When he realizes that this idealization of a woman isn't reality ("the girl was never there"), he's all alone, completely lost in the "forest." He knows he will repeat this process over and over again. Too real.
Try not to think too much.
I'm agree with you, today I think this song also it could be' the best description in music of a depression status, a mind Ghost labyrinte without an exit.
This song was in the penguin series and has been one of my most favorite cure songs so was nice to hear while watching the show ❤
I don't always listen to The Cure, but when I do, so do my neighbors.
Excellent!
My neighbors are starting to like it ... after all those years ..:)
Metal (y)
Hell yeah!!!
Hermunkle
I'd love to be your neighbor😎
In my opinion, this is the best piece of The Cure. I feel the atmosphere of the forest, even during in "17 seconds". Robert's voice and Simon's bass ... ACH
I had wallpaper with a forest scene and a green light in my room as teen....because of this song.
Integra4life very nice ;-)
Integra4life wow that was a really fucking cool story
I wish I had a comment that put into words how much I love this song.
I did...;o) just scroll down
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ua-cam.com/video/mOCH3fUw0j0/v-deo.html and Radio Show! Very well done!
@ Vriska.... I think you just did! Sometimes a lack of words speaks louder than ANY explanation! ❤️ PS - I’ve been a Cure fan since the 80’s!
J'avais 18 ans..
Je ne savais pas que j'écoutais un chef d'oeuvre..
C'était planant, magique
J'écoute aujourd'hui par hasard et j'entre dans d'autres dimensions, c'est merveilleux.
Mr Robert Smith vous êtes un très grand musicien
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cure and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Agreed. Thank you from Lebanon.
Sorry i pressed wrong button Everyone disregard that Thumb down... on on my way to Sicily
Benedetto Bruno we LOVE Brits 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇧
My Navy buddy introduced me to this song and The Cure in 1989. On the beach in San Diego cruising w this song blaring. My buddy died a few years ago and he was and always will be Superman to me. I'll never forget you Blas.
David Satter May your buddy Rest In Peace and your correct this song is one the best you have ever listen in a life. Time
David Satter je ne l’ai pas connu mais qu’il repose en paix ton copain de la marine.
David Satter Sorry to hear that man. My condolences to you, may your friend rest in peace.
That's so sad ! Peace!
A great thing to say about your friend that's the best anyone can ask for in Death to be remembered as one of the Good people!
Brilliant song!!! The 5 golden decades of music (50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's)...gone now, but never forgotten!
lets make thaat 6 happen
Saying 50s music is better than 00s music is insulting
Music is still good you just have to look in the right places
Yes, but without 50's and 90's.
So I did my research and it turns out that this was the Cure's FIRST single for the 80s!! which I think is pretty cool. This song was on their second album and the year was 1980. They were just getting warmed up!!!!! :)
Listen to the whole album if you haven't it's their best in my opinion
I remember, I was there, my Boys😁
still one of their best
It's a mood for sure.
To think this epic masterpiece is their first single is ridiculous. I was only 6. I wouldn’t discover them until a few years later when Fascination street played on MTV.
After all these years... this song still GETS me.
Perfection.
Best Cure song, hands down! Had it on repeat all of sophomore year, along with Duran Duran The Chauffeur...
Check out the black metal version by Carpathian Forest
You have excellent taste, Morgan.
Yes! The Chauffeur!!!
You have excellent taste in music, and a mystical streak.
A Foreat *IS* my favorite Cure song, and The Chauffeur is criminally underrated! Any song they could have released as a single from RIO would have owned the airwaves. Such an amazing album!
I was stationed in Giessen Germany while in a the US Army 1988. I used to dance to the Cure at a underground bar. It was the greatest time of my life! I had many collage age German friends and the Cure made my time spent very special...
Damn, stationed in Nuremberg in 1989 with the Army and used to go to the "off limits" Komm club for the punk shows. I introduced the pogo-ing Germans to some West coast mosh pits!
+George G Sounds like a dream come true I envy you're memory :)
pogo'ing has always been more fun and cooler
What a lovely memory, Philip
Right! Darmstadt!! But I was just a little brat. ✌🏼️
I live on the Lower Rhine, and in my hometown there is a club that often has events where there is still a really old school atmosphere. I danced to this song again last weekend. Like when I was younger in the late 80s :-))))
This song has always makes me feel nostalgic, no idea why...
I feel something like that but I don't want to ruin it by being specific. It's like groovy sentimentalism with a large helping of cool.
I have the nostalgia feeling when I listen to halo from depeche mode
Yeah it does.
Me too... Makes me remember my life at 80´s. You´re very beautiful in your picture. Porto Alegre, Brasil
Your mum
I've never heard a Bass that was so useful as this one.
Michael Dempsey. He also worked with the Associates.
@Greta Heisensoy SHUT UP
@Greta Heisensoy Completely disagree. Bass is the foundation of most music.
@@homophobesblowcock3297 Exactly, without bass there is absolutely no spice, no dynamics in the music. Its peanut butter and jelly!!
I'm pretty sure the comment on bass being useless was a joke. Don't be a stick in the mud...
This song always puts me right back in my firebird, driving around my college town in the 80s....blasting my cassette stereo system. Perfect!
Whitney Robinson That sounds so boss haha
WL Robinson q
You mean, in your 80s.
WL Robinson
This would be on the cassette when we drove to littlehampton when we were 17.
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing you here
Im still stuck in a Forest. Love the beat... just a great Cure song...
Wistful and dark. This song eloquently captures the magic of the forest.
I am a 55 year old woman walking in the forest. Sweet dreams little goths 🤍
I think this will be one of those songs that will be remembered and cited in about 200 years from now as people look back at the roots of pop music, rock music etc.... Bravo Robert Smith & Co. Timeless music.
This song has helped me get through the toughest times of my life! Tragedies.. the Man was never there.
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing you here
I'm here.
Timeless - thanks Mum for playing this one loud and letting me hear the genius of this song from a young age!
The space of 1:00 to 1:12 is one of my favorite sounds in music. The mix of new wave and post-punk is so bizarre, but it's such a great juxtaposition. It feels like at any moment a synthpop or dark wave song could happen. It's such a great sound.
for sure!!! Try 46 sec on to 1:12....Cool creepy part before!
somebody likes Joy Division and New Order ;)
George Nolan
Hah, maybe :P
EverDownward its great someone remembers the new wave scene!!!!
funnily enough, there's a dark wave version of this song, it's a cover from a Black Metal band, "Carpathian Forest".
Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
While 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
It's about loving a girl...and wanting her so bad. But...she doesn't love you.
@@jamesschaidt1096 Just what would we do without you?
I still see the faces of three girls... for ever
Danke!
@@jamesschaidt1096 Kenne ich...
When i first heard A forest.. I instantly fell in love with the Song.. And then i asked my friend what was it called?.. He replied..
"A Forest... I asked him again what was it called ??.. He replied again.. A Forest ! .. That totally blew my mind.. I couldn't believe somebody would call a song.." A Forest ".. Pure genius.. 💜
And then you realise there’s a record that RUSH recorded called “The Trees” 😁
I am 43, and have loved this song since I was 16. Thank you so much for the upload-
I am 16 and I actually love this song
I'm 17 and I love this song.
I'm 18 and I love this song, you see its an all time thing :p
*****
im 9000
Lunas Luna Yea you're probably funny...
This is my favourite workout song, especially the "AND A GAIN AND A GAIN AND A GAIN" moment.
I love this song but not sure i'd want to work out to it. Hah.
Haha, my 2, 3 and 10 year old love that part too😄
yeah I love that bit too! Sounds like he's venting sheer frustration, which every bloke can understand about the emotional playing with emotion that women inflict upon men! They enjoy it too. So he feels hes trapped in a maze of infatuation. Which he can't get out of! He's suffering!
Perfectly stated
Same for me
England has always produced the greatest bands in the world! Wow i'm pleased this song is liked so much!
SO TRUE!
+Jeanot Lapin are you saying they havent?
well John Lennon would be wrong, and it does not imply all other countries bands are shit
Nonsens, that's Ireland
But England is a good runner-up
This song helps me to get lost in my thoughts and appreciate the simplicity and gift of life and music for its true value.
Still sending shivers down my spine .... 38 years later!
no thats just the residual drugs racing up and down your spine......hehe
What! How old am i? 😂
@@mrxdrno4266 That's a myth
No.......
@@mrxdrno4266 But what if ya never took drugessss?
Will never grow old of hearing this. Amazing track
Great song, has been my companion in dark times for years. I adore this video, phantastic work, thanks for the upload.
Hi from France. One of my favorite with "lullaby". All their songs are really great but this one has something special 🤗❤️
Such a beautiful song. Sort of took it for granted when it came out in my early teens.
Hypnotic and gothic masterpiece that never gets old.
I've been listening to The Cure on-off for 30 years .. they were way ahead of their time in the 90's... ROCK LEGENDS ...
Creo firmemente en que el sonido de este redoblante marco todo una epoca.
Nothing before or after have ever sounded like them when you hear their music you know it's the Cure
unmistakable so Iconic.
as a young gal I was listening Cure , Bauhaus , Sisters , Mission ,Joy Division, DM, JLG, U2...but this song somehow I missed, but beauty of living is that my daughter who is 17 now and who listen the same music revaled this song to me ...now this is one of my all time fav songs..
I'm 23 but my dad (49) had always played good music like this while I was growing up. The cure has always been one of my favorites since I can remember. I got tickets to see the cure this June and I still can't even wrap my head around that fact that I get to see them perform. Its nice to see that music like this still lives on in younger generations :)
+ReignbeauKitty. i was gonna go but tickets sold out too fast
I am seeing them next week. I am very excited--I have been waiting for a chance to see them live for almost 30 years! Its actually one of my bucket list items, haha.
gothic rock is the best
Im 47 and still love all the bands you have mentioned. Just class musicians with a unique sound that grabs your soul. I have brought my 9 year old daughter up listening to this music and she loves it. She also loves New Model Army and The Wonder Stuff :-)
Cómo una canción sigue encantándome después de estarla escuchando más de 34 años, y siempre, siempre emociona. La antigua fascinación atraviesa los años como si nada.Eso es The Cure. Dioses!!!
Awevo pura era de rock y la onda de Los rebeldes.
Tal vez tengas problemas psicomotores.
34 años seguidos repitiendose una y otra vez? cómo concha puede ser posible eso?
Fascinante comentario
Que hermoso comentario ❤️
Get chills from this every time! Makes you feel like you are in a forest and not being able to find your way out!
A pleasure to my ears, the atmosphere of this song introduces us into The Cure's forest..
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing you here
@@yolandacamino8188 That's fantastic. Well I know you
must be surprised to receive a message from me
right?
@@yolandacamino8188 Thanks for being an amazing fan
, and also thanks for the support you've
showered on us all. I hope you never stop listening
to our music and watching our musical videos.
Can't get enough of this song. Forever in memory banks.
Such a masterpiece. Best band of the 80's. Truly believed they paved the way for grunge to be possible. They were so different than anything else being made then
I am 55 now and i have seen them open with this song in Cologne in the 80ies and i remember vividly that i had the biggest full body goosebumps of my life, when the bass run started. This was one of the biggest songs in goth circles back then.
Got into the cure in the early 80s still one of the greatest bands of all time.
I love the way this music transport you back in time 🎉🎉❤
It transported me to the future. Remember?
I wish I could hear this for the first time again...
its always like hearing it for the first time, too me....i get your sentiment though
Ain’t it so
I am
I just heard it ftft and I don't know why, I'm 43, and what a great tune!
The shocking, rare occurrence we hear it on the radio is all that's left for us.
Can you imagine, being a 10 year old boy, sitting in a dark room in the evening, the only light comes from an old radio with tubes, ready to enjoy some music and 'A FOREST' comes up. The mellow tone of such an old radio multiplies the effect of being taken away, especially with a song like this.
I grew up listening to The Cure as a kid in the 80's. This is one of my favorite tracks by them. F @ cking brilliant song!
I’m sitting at my uncle Miguel’s bedside at Methodist Hospital off Greenhouse & I-10, as he is healing from the horrible after affects from COVID. He is the sunshine of our family, he always puts a smile on our face and it hurts to see him unable to use his body at the moment. He will heal and live a better life, because I truly believe he is being reborn. He love the cure and is jamming right now at 2:56am
Hope he recovers
Best wishes to you and your family
Man, seeing them at Fiddlers Green in Colorado, maybe the first Lollapalooza and in the late 80's was incredible. Then seeing them at Red Rocks in Colorado was beyond the top. If you havent been to Red Rocks in Colorado you need to put it in you bucket list. Its an experience you will never forget. Not only the band, just the experience and the museum of rock is breathtaking. Love you all! But that doesnt matter so much is just seeing them live. I guess I'm lucky.
One of my favorites of his, the video , the music, lyrics. I remember first hearing this from a friend in CA, I knew on Facebook. Always liked this song. Definitely a chill out song for me.
Timeless. My 22 yr old daughter discovered the Cure without me even playing them to her
Good genes.
Only music I listen to is older music, it has this special tune in each and every song, newer songs all sound basically the same thats why I don't like it
@@loganmckay3270 try 12
That’s when you know you have musically educated her well. Mine too :)
im 17 and discovered them a little over a year ago but didnt really listen to much before 6 or so months ago when i found disintegration at a thrift store, then i bought faith, now im buying seventeen seconds off amazon
In 2014 I am still listening to this, one of the fav songs from my teenager years in the 80's.
Hello, How are you doing? It’s nice seeing you here
"A Forest"
Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
While 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
pabloimd Oh god. This haunts me at night.
Yeah fuckin'awesome
did... did you just post the lyrics in the comment section of a lyric video?
@@bl00dyb0nes Quite nice really.
This last Part, my god this always hits me
Aun en 2024 ❤ THE AMO #TheCure 💯💕
playing this while driving at night is amazing
This is just so, so very, very good.... so many memories.... Robert Smith deserves to be enshrined in the R&RHoF.
I still love the haunting first bars of this song. I heard it for the first time over 30 years ago, and it still gets me every time. It will still get me 30 years from now If I'm still alive. A Cure classic.
Same!!! I was hooked from the first moment, played it on repeat for months those many years ago. They don't make 'em like this anymore, or if they do I haven't heard. It's so eerie & melancholy & magical, the heartbeat bass line at the end, ugh, perfection.
Yeah baby. great stuff.
growing up in the midlands at this time, a forest also contained empty woodpecker cider bottles, used fetherlite johnnys and truck drivers "rythym, magazines". but hey thems were the days.
Sometimes it just feels like this is the best song in the entire world.
It is
Going on 40, was a huge fan of the few cure songs on MTV back in the late 80's/early 90's. I didn't pay much attention then, because they were "old" songs then. It seems like they have been stuck in my head for the past 25 years. Just started on their huge catalog of amazing songs, and realizing how much they have influenced the music that I started listening too as a teen ... nine inch nails, tool, etc.
I definitely hear how tool is extremely influenced by them ......
When I first sat down actually listened to the cure my first thought was "Tool before they were Tool"
Oh my God, this song gives me goosebumps. First note gets me every time. Never gets old. Did I say I am a black girl
Me too.....
I'm here because it's a great song!! I'm a almost 50 year old. And it brings back some memories!!
RIP Andy... My your drums fill the sky's of awesome drum lines!!
this ridiculously simple straight beat is awesome to you? lol wow.
Even if I loved Andy's part of The Cure's history and his drumming of this song in the "Concert" album, this is completely Laurence Tolhurst's C-ducer miked drumming. Well he and producer Mike Hedges did it.
This song makes me feel like Im subliminally dreaming though still awake. The cure rocks😊
The masterpieces always sound timeless.
Always a treat to watch and listen to Robert Smith with The Cure play.....
Back in the 80's my friend could not understand how did I like The Cure and metal bands at the same time.
I like metal too, but The Cure are one of my favorite bands.
My friends never understood how I liked oldies by the Beatles, Motown and the Carpenters at the same time. I didn't even dare to tell them I liked jazz and baroque music (1650-1750) even more
I think we all liked metal bands and darkwave bands both, they did the only true music of the 80! In the same time I discovered psychedelia of the 1968, garage rock, progressive, and other music, there is a line that unites all good music.
MarcusX1971 Yep, definitely there may be something that get us searching for good bands; from the swamps of Louisiana to an underground Liverpool bar, no one knows for sure but at the end we all meet for the same music.
Daniel Costa I'm a metalhead that's also a cure fan too so I get it
Haunting bass guitar...love The Cure.
The drums are spot on.
It is Immortal !
i met him once on the beer he said he just played bass that he wasnt good ... lies tho dudes unreal
AWESOME BASSLINE ! So simpl and so deep in the same time
Ever heard of Joy Division?
One of the greatest songs ever recorded.
Love the photos,cure fan from way back.
The Cure was so advanced for it's time .. so out there .. it was totally awesome!!!!!!! I MISS THE 80'S ....
One of the best Cure songs, just can’t help turning the volume up
I absolutely adore this band! Congrats The Cure into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I know they are humbled with or without the title . One of the many reasons I love this band.
Thanks for download. When I'm depressed, I often listen to this song.❣