the cure - a forest - amsterdam 1980

[scania142e470]

Terecht dat die dit jaar bij de 100 besten staat in de Radio 2 Top 2000.

Als ik op 100 nummers mocht stemmen stond deze er zeker hoog in.

[johnsydjimi]

@scania142e470 leuk om te weten

[SharkoonBln]

Crappy video quality, crappy sound... But then again, this was the version that was played in "Ballhaus Spandau" some 25+ years ago... And I feel young again whenever I watch this video :-)

[vangelistseb]

the sound of the guitar rocks here...

[cheperth]

This version is way faster than on the greatest hits cd but i love it.

[danhoehn]

einfach zu genial. zeitlos



[shlomonew]

this is the best version !

[zealotrage]

Qué maravilla!!!!!!!!!!!

[zealotrage]

Así es que una banda se debe ver en vivo, así, no hay quien se pueda contener.

[averixo20011]

BRILLANT !!!

[AndrewPotterNZ]

More punk than post-punk, how quick is the drumming in this performance! Still awesome though.

[ronaldvanderkleij]

One of the best oldies. Whis I could back in time . Bur I live in Amsterdam and still here them.

[LORDGOAT1976]

He messed up his own lyrics.

[fred221103]

thanks



[Feflori]

24 poeple shouldn't watch this video.

[DizzyPuke]

this song is so hypnotic but emotional at the same time...

[punk4561]

THAT'S FAST !

[cmclsrnsee]

what guitar is robert using? plz somebody reply !

[madmic1967]

@cmclsrnsee t's a Fender Jazzmaster. Can't be more specific than that as they have been producing them since 1958 but, like the Strat, the basic design has remained the same. t was Rob's usual guitar at this point in their career.

[cmclsrnsee]

@madmic1967 thanks! 

[Feflori]

@cmclsrnsee If you wanna buy this guitar: the most closest guitar in sound and in view is the 62 vintage jazzmaster in olympic white with a red tortoise pickguard. Great for clean sounds.

[cmclsrnsee]

@Feflori thank u again!

[Feflori]

@cmclsrnsee I'm pretty sure that this is that jazzmaster model with special singlecoil modification in the middle position. I guess a strat singlecoil. I have played this model once.

[cmclsrnsee]

@Feflori thank you

[therealrockondon]

i cant believe how clean cut robert smith usta be ...kinda cool

[morkinor]

Ο robert smith τραγουδάει λες και έχει μασέλα....άσε που ο ντράμερ τα έχει πάρει στο κρανίο και θα του πετούσε τα ξυλάκια στο κεφάλι!!!

[jrmetmoi]

OMG Robert has a mullet in this.

[socalveteran73]

This song is such an important part of my teenage years. I love it so much.

[TheOwlking1996]

Simon kicks ass.

[cmclsrnsee]

the bass sounds great in here.

[mxvxcx]

just because Simon dont play like les claypool doesnt mean he is bad or a tool, you can replace a tool but Simon had been with the cure since 85 without leaving, Robert refuse to play without him, so dont tool Simon please and show some respect. And if you can do it better where is your band?

[goggiloggan]

Excuse me for my modest language abilities (I am a Saxon) but: This is my favourite song of THE CURE from the early eighties,

; in this time i" was young and looks darned well". But... today im only "...was"... ;-)

[orrigami]

I agree, but never said it had to be hard to be decent. and all I said was that he was a mediocre bass player, which is true. never said his lines didn't compliment the music. and no, most cure fans i've met won't venture too far from the cure.

[TheGhabo]

Excuse me if im an asshole but the lyrics are different???

[megapaul8689]

The best live version ever heard!

[DomTao69]

Amazing !!! I loooooove this up-tempo version...

Thanxxx for the video !

[meadowwinds123]

man I love Simon Gallup's groove

such a great bass player

[orrigami]

@meadowwinds123 the cure is a great band but simon gallup is a horrible bass player..

[cmclsrnsee]

@orrigami i dont think your ears are working.

[orrigami]

@cmclsrnsee Yeah? Well, i don't think your ears are working. I don't think you know much about music either. Any sucker can play those simple lines. I love the cure but simon gallup is a tool. 

[cmclsrnsee]

@orrigami i think its more important to make the lines sound good then to play something hard but thats just my opinion when i said i dont think your ears are working it was just a way to say that i didnt agree with you, i dont know why you said that i dont know much about music i didnt say that the lines are hard but i like them and if you are saying that i dont know much about music because i like simon gallup then u probably think that most of cure fans dont know much about music.

[quarkkitty]

Gives me the shivers... aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[SuperNessarator]

Awesome song, crap sound on this post. I heard a thumping version on the radio the other day of The Cure playing this song in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre in 1980...I had to stay in the car and wait till those last bass notes were finished...unreal :-)

[fondoogle]

watch?v=46CNp89_52Y

[emile235]

think about it. This is almost disco

[crassadict211]

this reminds me Joy Division

[wisesatyr72]

Robert is a great guitar player..

[Kalinack]

Kihhhhh - Khasssss!

[darkconjurer]

Slow it down or speed it up, it sounds great either way! I can listen to this one song over and over.  The 21 people that disliked this song probably like the horrible music of today, and don't know what music with soul and passion is.

[cisco9x]

Makes your fucking hairs stand up

[webje]

my song being played in my city, love it

[petergibons]

21 very lame people have no idea how great this song is and how many times it's sounded fantastic for almost three decades.

[laughorgomad]

What I love about this song more than any other Cure song is that Robert always improvises the ending guitar solo.

[zjelva]

hey ho, let's go!

[TheNiteNite]

Best line-up, 3 piece (less is sooooo much more)!!!!

[kllr79]

this version is Amazing!!

[jdup01]

I never thought of Tolhurst as a great drummer, but it's nice to see what he was capable of when he cut loose on stage. I haven't heard a version of this song that I thought was better than this one.

[cisco9x]

One of my all time favouite youtube videos

[lifepod2036]

damn 80s video technology and bless 80s analogue synthesizers :) I wish High Def was used back then knowing it would one day be available for all people. High Def recording existed in Japan at the time.

[cromlek]

@lifepod2036 no, the shitty VHS suits it perfectly. just like when i was a ittle kid and this used to creep me right out.

[Kimim64]

Um dos melhores shows que assisti em minha vida, e olha que forma muitos. saudades do Cure Live In Rio Hollywood Rock 1996.

A Forest, ótima musica.

[pdu4691]

Used to think this was one pf the best intros of all time. Still do ...

[Raubhautz]

I love this! I recall seing them in late 1980... WAY before they were 'cool' by the general population.

[MrSiddeney]

@Raubhautz u mean late 70's I think!

[oompaowl]

Well this is 10x better then my upload of the same song

But at least Robert didn't look like edward scissorhand

[Guevaristas]

saw them live in new zealand in 1980, $8 for a ticket

[PurgeE]

THiS SONG iS AWESOME

[trodemann]

Lyrics: Come closer and see, See into the trees, Find the girl, If you really care, ???, It's summer again, Such a long way home, It's the long way home. You stop to see, If I'm watching, If you can hear, the [hair?] falls all down, She's oh so [tired?], and pulls the coat around her, She pulls me in... She pulls... Pulls me in... Her name is different, And it doesn't really matter any more, It always leads here, It's always the same, I'm doing nothing, Again and again and again and again...

[TheMystikal999]

i wasn't even born when this song came out.it's one of the greatest songs out there!!!

[ccmusicfan1]

Wow, can't believe I was 10 yo when this song came out! They were legends before their time!! Unbelievable!!!!

[lelebattiston]

0:05 this is called " A forest"!

[stghag]

Insane!!!!!!

[meklopfklopf]

Awesome you've posted this vid, thank you !

[theaurarune]

i love how fast and tight they play it, amazing

[landibabe]

this song was called "at night" and not a forest. it became a forest a few years later with complete new lyrics!

[AlmigthyIsDead]

@landibabe

And a completely different song was named "At night"? That doesn't make much sense, although, for some reason I thought at first the name of this song was "A forest at night"

[landibabe]

@AlmigthyIsDead that sounds rather strange i know..but it's just liek it is... search for the following keywords here on youtube: cure, paris 1979 there you'll find some proof. And i even own a bootleg record of it with that version on it. just check it out it's very cool!

[walmartian]

@AlmigthyIsDead no the original version was called At Night and had different lyrics its on here somewhere

[ilBeppagiosef]

words are different

[locotopo69]

increible, soy de argentina, todo llegaba exactamente 5 años despues, este tema como otros me abrio la cabeza gracias robert

[UnchainTheNight1]

but i wish they would slow down on this song.

[UnchainTheNight1]

this song is so wonderfully dark.

[ys4ever21]

OmGee..i was like 5 yrs. old!!!! and i sooOohh loVe this song!!!.i fell in loVe with R.smiTh when Ii was liKe maybe 13 or 14 yrs old!!!...he's just like a dream!!!!...my roOm was full of his posteRs...so beautiful some of my frieNds were like who is that!!! and why do you likE THEM SO much!!!...all i know that listening to the cure soMehow it just made senSe to me my all time favoRite is All miXed Up!!!!

[pantarei1965]

Shit I was fifteen, where was I???

[robschaap]

yepper. sweet.

[bassmanjoe]

I can never stop listening to these guys!!! I love Post Punk!!!! This was the best era for them in my opinion.

[Gnottason]

First time I saw this band in the late 70's the audience was all punks, yet I can't imagine the punk fans of today liking this bands material, even the first LP or two- wankers.

[cromlek]

such a simple but effective tune. Gold!

[MarcoTosi1]

bellissimo peccato che non c'ero.

[ThePimble]

The Cure utterly ageless!

[SHElovesyouyeahyeah]

my mom used to listen to them and now I discovered them too...

[bingoace]

Wow these guys really go for it, love this version, love the old days. Robert was so fit and handsome back then.

[dinasaur2]

great song- music out of England in the late 70-early 80's was awesome.

[mdhookey]

This is THE definition of post punk. I love it...

[internetscheisse]

@mdhookey yeah true. for me there's also the spirit of goth rock in it... rather gloomy doomy ambience and so.

[BoneMachine84]

@mdhookey I FUCKING LOVE POST-PUNK! to me, the three quintessential post-punk bands are wire, gang of four, and the cure. Can't live without it.

[ghostscantkill]

@mdhookey I agree, but let's also remember Joy Division.

[TheOscarBonilla]

@mdhookey hasta que alguien les dijo , TOCAR A LA MITAD DE TEMPO !!, y así encontraron su camino, el grupo de los agoviados jajajaj

[cisco9x]

I went ballistic when I heard the recorded version many years after the release, but this version can only be described as sublime

[xaimepacheco]

you were wrong, you change the video at 33 rpm

[welshman16]

this is epic!

[FactoryRaid]

nevr heard this song played this way. it sounds sooo good , such vibrance its amzing! got to get robert to cut his hair, lose the makeup and live it up.

[agretha68]

great

[gilmour1968]

This version is to fast!!

[Kanarie1973]

I was 7 years old at the time, but I remember watching this on CountDown.

[lichnor]

It's a shame bands slow down as they get older.

A Forest these days is played at half speed.

Happens to every band. It's a shame.

[MordaciousFilms]

@lichnor What's really a shame is they don't use drum machines or synths anymore, which I think was part of their signature sound was the amazing synthesizer work.

[bingoace]

Not every band though. The Stranglers are merely pensioners but they still play their songs double speed

[Rambo1989]

THIS IS CALLED A FOREST

[darkrebel09]

my A Forest, feels just right!!!!!!!!!!!

[UncleDes]

Takes me back to seeing them at Leicester Uni in 1980/81. They played "A Forest" about 3 times as an encore iirc!

[ajittffcure]

@UncleDes- Wow! That must have been a treat for the fans!

[curedtc4]

Facebook group to get this to number 1! See my page or add as a friend for more details, we can do this for Roberts birthday in April1

[HawK047]

Where has the post-punk sound gone to these days?

The live version of A Forest sounds really different, though awesome nontheless.

[ajittffcure]

30 years later... this song still resonates. I'll be covering 'A Forest' tonight in a pub!

[huyguy100]

@ajittffcure yeah, im thinkin of covering this too.

[BayviewFinch]

@ajittffcure - Robert Smiths' nightmare: to have his song become fodder for bar bands. Why not actually be like the Cure and instead of playing someone else's music in a pub, play your own music that you like, get a following at the pub, then use that as leverage to move onto bigger things?

[ajittffcure]

@BayviewFinch- I know what you are saying and I agree. But, I am not in a bar band. It is a solo music project on a serious level. I prefer playing my own songs for sure and that's what I normally do. But just so that some people get an idea of the kind of music I am really into and that people can relate to, I play cover songs like 'A Forest' and 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'.

I am not the kind of artist who lives another person's life or copies my idols.

[BayviewFinch]

@ajittffcure - Phew. That sounds much better than what I envisioned.

[tjmacjee]

@ajittffcure When you jam on this riff, you just can't stop it - I was in a band who would play this until the plugs were pulled

[ajittffcure]

@tjmacjee- This is so true. I have been in similar situations. There have been some occasions when the venue organisers/ promoters have either pulled the plugs or have interrupted while I play extended solos towards the end. ;)

The sheer joy and power of playing this reasonably simple song is unmatchable. I am saying this from my own experience.

[HawK047]

@tjmacjee The only thing that keeps me from playing the bass line for hours is that my hand just wont handle the strain.

[damianofonti]

Grandi, non perdevano una battuta nemmeno nel 1980, Lol Tolhurst decisamente meglio di Jason Cooper

[cisco9x]

1980 was one of those fantastic years, we had The Ruts, Siouxsie, Ian Dury, Japan, KIlling Joke and this version is skull crunchingly amazing

[bingoace]

Love their old punk sound

[lovesGenet]

my favorite period ofor them.This and Pornography were crushing.The top got light but was brilliant.But this cold stuff I loved da most.30 years ago.was it really that long ago.OhGod!

[Jonno228]

mate played this this at a new year party... in amongst some or house or similar... laughed a lt when he told me... still ..... it freaked a few people out initially ..,. after a while though they started getting into it... its still a classic & glad it can sort of stand the test of time

[kukuramutta]

it's more up tempo which sounds pretty kean. it reminds me of bloc party

[limzog9]

This songs good live

[ratayska]

robert smith c a fait 30 ans que c a dure et il est toujours au top ce mec est un génie il a fait plein d album il n est pas comme certain a chanté toujours la meme daube .THE CURE LES MEILLEUR S EST TOUT.

[iRenaatsouvagie]

Always nice to hear a live version, but I still prefer the HQ, detailed sound of the studio version :)

[mrblack4026]

ok lyrics are last to first in three segments......but blame youtube.... for that

still great lyrics from a  brill band

[mrblack4026]

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

[mrblack4026]

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

[mrblack4026]

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

[AxeManJax]

Well, I recognise the riff, but what are the lyrics he's singing? It's certainly not "A Forest". Sorry if this has already been asked....

[noxgenus]

yeh yeh yeeeehhh

[charadasecreto]

rsrs ... VEIO CONFERIR NÉ ... essa é a musica mesmo ... pena que essa ta numa versão pessima qualidade horrivel

[ABTE67]

original

[alonsospeed]

Wow man This is classic stuff. Thanks. :)

[christranceable]

trop balaize ..... I kiff .... i love you

[ControlFreakOfficial]

amazing.....nothing at the mo comes close to this....

[bingoace]

Love this version of Forest. Fast and full of energy.

[Andres21479]

Lol Tolhurst on rage

[bingoace]

Such good raw energy. Great version!

[ravenstargazer]

Make up or not...Robert was always hot!

[longviewcomputers]

shit i didnt realize they were out there in 1980

[1337bard]

since 76

[Akhalombre]

@1337bard

1973 is more accurate for the begining of the band.

[Akhalombre]

@Akhalombre

Sory, it was the Obelisk at that time. "The first incarnation of what became The Cure was The Obelisk, a band formed by students at Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley, Sussex. The band made their public debut in a one-off performance in April 1973, and featured Robert Smith (piano), Michael "Mick" Dempsey (guitar), Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst (percussion), Marc Ceccagno (lead guitar) and Alan Hill (bass guitar)."

[Freekjuuh]

my dad was there that time

[Phyle9]

Wow, this version has other lyrics!! :O

So amazing!!!!

1980 wow

[XellKamikaze]

Does Simon almost fall over at 00:25?

[coldbottom]

that was nuts

[bingoace]

Love the old punky guitars

[MatildaDex]

Does anyone remember 1980? This was so fucking cool. And still is. Stands the test of time and then some,

[bingoace]

Robert Smith was so good looking way back then. What happened???

[rocanlover2406]

He went more crazy, with all the respect that he deserves.

[sillysp8]

the 80's happened

[deansusky]

THE BEST CITY ONTHEPLANET

[onlyhardstyl3]

This version is way better than the version of today, and I thought that version was perfect already, makes this one: perfect+

[79818931]

Que buena energia sale de un concierto como estos en vivo!!!!!! y mas siendo de The Cure.......

[twowheels222]

I'm amazed at how punk this sounds compared to later performances of it, but maybe this was just their sound at the time??? Anyone?

And I love every version of it I've heard.

[jeffsmeenge]

They were one of the main influences that brought punk out of the underground in the early 80s, unfortunately the late 80s changed a lot of bands for the worse, not sure why.

[twowheels222]

i never knew that about their roots even though Ive enjoyed their music for decades now and even saw them in concert (Rosemont Horizon / Chicago). They sound great with a punk sound, but Im really glad they went on to develop their own individual sound (and one thats inspired bands today)

[petrusaloisius]

becauise the economy invironment progressed. Early 80s lot of poorage. Music late 80 s was very shitty thats why. Peeps did get it to good :)

[pastnastification]

simon is my favorite non robert smith member of the cure. he seems real chill.

[shakedydogshake]

Gotta love how Simon is hanging over the keyboard at the beginning with a slight goofey grin- bombed a bit maybe hehehe!

[ardawan01]

Fuckin´ nice!!

[micasa65]

un vrai souvenir de The Cure des origines le meilleur ! buenisimo !

[demoremda]

didnt know the forest was that old , so nice they still playing, must see a concert of them one day

[jangenk]

TOTAL EVERGREEN

[darkrebel09]

WOW Simon what a cutie !!

[laurencio911]

he´s the sexiest man i´ve seen!!