Factory - Path Through The Forest

[bathorymk]

really good

[NorseWiz]

Anyone know the chords for this?

[Jhensy2012]

Definitely thought Joy Division the first time I heard this. This and Marmalade's "I See The Rain" were my favorites from Nuggets II. And "My Friend Jack" by Smoke. And "You Must Be A Witch" by the Lollipop Shoppe from Nuggets I.

[theekrusher]

Anyone notice the Joy Division-esque styling of the intro and outro riffs.......they might have called their version "ceremony". I think JD might have named their label Factory Records as a tribute to this band! Between The Factory and Hawkwind in the Space Ritual era, you can pretty much find every riff Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner based their careers on.

[spacefreak48]

I'm constantly frying my mind with stuff like this one, since the early 70ies. Classic anthem of the sun!

[ChoirofWolves]

i dig all the comments here, but one of the really underspoken gems of this song are the little krautrock segues (:50) / (2:04)....fucking mindblowing for its time, this song is impossible to fully feel in one listen

[sav1314]

what a wonderful, awesome song. sitting with my 6 year old laddie just now and he's mesmerised. with out a doubt this is in my top ten song of all time. just wish i could get that sound out of my guitar :)

[connorwood83]

the first 10 seconds sounds like the hippest forgotten shoegazer ballad of 1995. incredible.

[mikekadas]

Path Through The Forest - The Factory [England] - 1968 - "Was a RESPECTABLE piece of hard psychedelia with commendably creative guitar and vocal distortion." - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 3-2001. NOTE: The Factory recorded two psychedelic singles in the UK in the late 1960s--unnoticed at the time, now fetching more than a hundred pounds among collectors--that combined psychedelia with power pop harmonies.

[iateotw]

One of the finest tracks of UK psych I have ever heard . Epic !

[choonslinga]

I would like to comment that this version totally dumps on the travesty that masquerades as the so called "extended version"!

[thesyd1975]

no words to describe this track!!if it is the first time you have heard it i envy you,first heard it in 95 and never get bored of hearing it.AMAZING!!!!

[Melodyfayre]

This song always lifts me up. The Factory - Path through the fuckin brilliant forest. Like Hensel und Gretel. Where are they now? Lost in the woods..??

[siralbarrett]

Great effects!

[eihwazone]

awesome trip!!!

[sonicjay007]

always fantastic!!

[Khultan]

It's funny, beastie boys has a, coincidentally, similar visual effect on 'whatcha want'. I KNOW they have extensive record genre sensibilities and they're just a couple of years older than me-anyway, I'm really digging this and it's my first time seeing and hearing this. Cool!

[mikal9000]

One of the highlights of NUGGETS II. MattHatter is right -- this song wouldn't have been out of place at all in the early-90s Seattle scene. Yet you can hear the obvious Hendrix and Cream influences as well. Thanks for posting this.

[clemzzz]

i'm surprised at the grunge references , maybe you're all too young or maybe just americans with little knowledge of british music... ( not any critisism ) personally i was amazed when i first heard this.. i immediatley thought of the jesus and mary chain... what d'you think?

[clemzzz]

yep i wuz right... check out dusty groove america , it's got some great albums , check out the review of their album called"path through the forest" ;-)

[mikal9000]

Yup, I hear Jesus & Mary Chain as well. Also the Velvet Underground and Blue Cheer. I suppose bands on both sides of the pond have been using that sort of feedback/distortion/overamped guitar sound since the Who and the Yardbirds in the mid-60s.

[mrbag60]

Another diamond in the rough. The late

60's was so laden with talent sometimes the non-hits were even better than the hits

[EveryonesCrazy]

Love this song, haha who needs drugs when you got this music! Just got Nuggets vol. 1,2,3,4. Blows my fuckin' mind!

[hadanori]

hip！

[jeffthrow6892]

Wow this song was definitely one of my top favorites on the amazing Rhino Nugggets II box set! EXCELLENT tune!!!

[altermex]

This is one of the most underrated band in the 60's, their music was great, spectacular, and the song "try a little sunshine" is other jewel.

[victoriadaniel]

muy buena especctacular esta banda

y el tema espectacularsazo

[MattHatter]

This track was so ahead of it's time it's not even funny! I couldn't believe what I was hearing when it first came blasting though my speakers from the Nuggets II collection! 1968? Are you kidding me? It's got such a 1992 "grunge" drone to it unlike any other British psychedelic act of the '60s. Some things just get their due a long ways down the road.

[deaconline]

written by Clifford T. Ward (no, really)

[PAULLONDEN]

Greetings from TWINK~~~«d*.*b»~~~

[hejafish]

Yeah I thought so, you've taken bits from the Cure's 'A Forest' vid. Still works well!

[goorook]

yeah, and it's not only the trees, I always thougt this song belonged more to the late seventies than the sixties. way ahead of its time.

[hejafish]

Nice suitable vid to a bloody great classic! No surprise that I first heard this on the John Peel show! This was one of his treasured vinyl in his sacred record box. Nice one GOOROOK!

[goorook]

thanks, the song is so great it would deserve a better job. still the point was, I thought it needed to be on the tube, somehow.

[turquoisetandemcycle]

This is a great track,i was gonna attempt a video along the same lines,and i might still but this certainly captures the wierd claustrophobic feel of the track.well done!I wonder if the band themselves are still all around?

[hejafish]

Nice suitable vid to a bloody great classic! No surprise that I first heard this on the John Peel show! This was one of his treasured vinyl in his sacred record box. Nice one GOOROOK!