The Phantom Four - A Forest (The Cure Surf Cover) - Video
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From '' The Phantom Four & The Arguido ‎– Sounds From The Obscure / Morgana ''
Label: Mirananda Records ‎– MirR003
Format: 2 × CD, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 25 Feb 2012

Tracklist
Sounds From The Obscure
1-01. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - The Arguido
1-02. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - Settle Down
1-03. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - The Obscure
1-04. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - Gun On My Temple
1-05. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - The Veteran
1-06. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - iPod Army
1-07. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - The Sameness
1-08. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - The Vocalist
1-09. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - Uniforms
1-10. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - Hardtrying Idealist (Song Of The 82nd And 101st US Airborne Division)
1-11. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - VanLoo (Pt. 2)
1-12. The Phantom Four & The Arguido - The Guestlist
Morgana
2-01. The Phantom Four - Morgana
2-02. The Phantom Four - Harmattan
2-03. The Phantom Four - Belle Dance # 6
2-04. The Phantom Four - Scaramanga
2-05. The Phantom Four - El Palmero
2-06. The Phantom Four - Sonido Amazónico
2-07. The Phantom Four - Ulu Watu
2-08. The Phantom Four - Maui
2-09. The Phantom Four - Lorke Lorke
2-10. The Phantom Four - Paganini
2-11. The Phantom Four - A Forest
2-12. The Phantom Four - VanLoo
2-13. The Phantom Four - Sanita

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"A Forest" is a song by the English alternative rock band The Cure.
Co-produced by Mike Hedges and Robert Smith, it was released as a single from the band's second album Seventeen Seconds in April 1980.
It was their debut entry on the United Kingdom chart, where it reached number 31.
The accompanying music video was first shown on BBC's Top of the Pops programme on 24 April 1980.

Background and recording

Mike Hedges co-produced the album Seventeen Seconds as well as "A Forest" with Robert Smith.
Hedges had first worked with the band on the track "Killing an Arab".

Due to budgetary restraints, Seventeen Seconds was recorded and mixed in seven days on a budget of between £2000 and £3000, which resulted in the band working 16 or 17 hours a day to complete the album.
"A Forest" was one of the last tracks recorded; the backing tracks were recorded first, followed by touch-ups to the individual parts, then Smith's vocals.

Re-recordings and cover versions

Since its release, "A Forest" has become the most played Cure song, with over 800 live appearances.
A live version of "A Forest" appeared on a four-song edition of "The Hanging Garden" released in July 1982.
It was performed with what has been described as a "rough, punk-edged" sound on the 1984 live album Concert: The Cure Live.
A performance appears on the live video The Cure in Orange, highly regarded by Allmusic reviewer Ned Raggett., while other live versions of the song include the concert film Show, and on disc one of the live album Bestival Live 2011.

In 1990, the track was re-recorded and remixed by Mark Saunders for The Cure's Mixed Up album.
The "Tree mix" version of "A Forest" was released as a single on 6 December 1990, while the album had been released a few weeks before on 20 November.
The song was redone for the second time on the Join the Dots box set, this time remixed by Mark Plati and featuring Earl Slick on guitar. This version was described as "awful" and "instantly dated" by reviewer Chris Ott.
An acoustic version was recorded and released on the bonus disc that came with some copies of the 2001 Greatest Hits CD.

Robert Smith supplied vocals for a Blank & Jones cover version of the song, which appeared on their 2004 album Monument.

Waltari recorded a cover version released on their album So Fine!, in 1994.

Nouvelle Vague covered A Forest in a bossa-nova style, as part of its self-titled debut album in 2004.

Sophie Barker released a recording on her double A-side single "A Forest / Say Goodbye" which was released on 31 October 2011.

Ror-Shak, a collaboration between DJ DB and Stakka, covered the song on their only album Deep, which was released in 2005.
The music video was used in the TV Series Fringe in 2008.

English artist Bat for Lashes covered the song for the 2008 Cure tribute album Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure.
Luke Lewis of NME praised the version, noting it "teases out a crepuscular, pagan atmosphere absent in the original".

Carpathian Forest recorded the song for their 1998 album Black Shining Leather.

Steven Wilson recorded a cover of the song for his solo release "Cover Version III" in 2005, as part of his Cover Versions series.
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