The Cure – A Forest

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Label:	Fiction Records – FICSX 10
Format:	Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single
Country:	UK
Released:	Apr 1980
Genre:	Rock
Style:	New Wave, Post-Punk

Tracklist

A		A Forest	5:55
B		Another Journey By Train	3:04

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – 18 Age Record Co. Ltd.
Copyright © – Polydor Ltd.
Published By – APB Music Co. Ltd.
Mastered At – Strawberry Mastering
Lacquer Cut At – Strawberry Mastering
Pressed By – PRS Ltd.
Marketed By – Phonogram Ltd.
Distributed By – Phonogram Ltd.

Credits

Written-By – Tolhurst*, Hartley*, Smith*, Gallup*

Notes

Published by APB Music Co Ltd
℗ 1980 18 Age Record Co. Ltd.
© 1980 Polydor Ltd.
Marketed and distributed by Phonogram Ltd.

Issued in a spineless top opening card sleeve with a die cut thumb section.
The sleeve image to the front is the "positive" of the UK 7". The track on side A is the "Seventeen Seconds" album version.
This pressing was the first commercially released 12" single by The Cure.

Durations not listed on the release.
Runouts are stamped.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): FICSX 10 A // 1∇ ESTR 12 2 STRAWBERRY.
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): FICSX 10 B//1∇ESTR 1 11 9 STRAWBERRY.
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): FICSX 10 A//1∇ ESTR 1 11 6 STRAWBERRY.
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): FICSX 10 B//1∇ESTR 1 11 7 STRAWBERRY.
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 3): FICSX 10 A//1∇ ESTR 11 2 STRAWBERRY.
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): FICSX 10 B//1∇ESTR 1 11 1 STRAWBERRY.

Other Versions (5 of 27)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	A Forest (Special Long Version) (12", 45 RPM, Single)	Fiction Records	0930.022	Germany	1980
	A Forest (7", Single, 45 RPM, Silver Injection Mould Labels)	Fiction Records, Fiction Records	FICS 10, 2059 229	UK	1980
Recently Edited	A Forest (7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo)	Polydor, Fiction Records	2059 229	Netherlands	1980
	A Forest (12", 45 RPM, Single, Green)	Stunn	ESP-103	New Zealand	1980
Recently Edited	A Forest (7", Single, Stereo)	Stunn, Stunn	BFA004, BFA 004	New Zealand	1980

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Reviews

J.C.L Jul 31, 2019
Odd. Mine is the UK vinyl, but housed in the New Zealand jacket. Whatever, still dig it.
KWOCR Mar 6, 2008
Edited 12 years ago
The Cure must have been listening to "Gut Feeling" and certainly its intro from the USA band Devo found on the "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" album to come up with this cult tune named "A Forest". A song still played nowadays from mp3 computer jukeboxes in some of your most boring inner-city bars…
Funny inspiration or intensive listening followed years later by creative rehearsals? Lack of sampler budget or discrete plagiarism? Watherver, both of these tunes are fine to me but the two years younger Devo way is certainly more unfixed.