I know. I never* post on a Saturday, but that new Ant & Dec programme's right royally getting on my nerves and this has been patiently waiting to be put before you for a few days now, bless it.
My first favourite Cure song, in what is perhaps its definitive version.
Still devilishly difficult to find.
And thirty years old.
The Cure - 'A Forest' (Peel session) (1980)
*hardly
I still listen to "Seventeen Seconds" a lot but I normally have to skip this song - I overdid it in the eighties. It's quite upsetting when you see Robert Smith on the telly these days - all a bit Miss Havisham.
ReplyDeleteArf! It's not a good look, is it.
ReplyDeleteDuring the TV Burp commercial break I heard the words Ant & Dec and game show and was filled with dread. Fortunately no-one wanted to watch it.
ReplyDeleteI loved the single version of this back in the old days. Not a great song in the traditional sense but a great groove.
I remember this session the night it was broadcast. I was a big fan of Three Imaginary Boys and Jumping Someone Else's Train so was expecting more spiky, angular pop but got all this gray and drizzly stuff instead. I bought the A Forest 12" but got off The Cure bus pretty soon after that stop.
ReplyDeleteGray (grey) and drizzly nails it for me. I wouldn't say I was a regular traveller on The Cure bus myself, but I did hop on now and then.
ReplyDeleteSplendidly grim, my boy. Bob had clearly been listening to some Joy Division.
ReplyDeleteSun's out now so can we expect a frolic into springtime?
Ooh, I forgot - Robert Smith introduced me to my wife!
ReplyDeleteA different Robert Smith obviously but true nevertheless.
ReplyDeletei'm all for more fat old gents going for the smith look. in fact the more i think about it the more for it i am. there's a brilliant chap lives round the corner still rocking a classic spinal tapesque rock look at quite an age and he's brilliant. go on. you know you want to.
ReplyDeleteOK. I'll ask Mrs H for a lend of her lippie and give it a go.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Michael, I especially liked the comic pause between your comments. Timing. First rule of - comedy.
ReplyDeleteYou frolic all you like CF, it's still a bit parky out there for me.
Just for you lovely people (sshhh!) the whole of this Peel session is here.
ReplyDeleteTrack listing -
A Forest
17 Seconds
Play For Today
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Broadcast 10th March 1980.