Song · Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
“Forest Fire” by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
From the album Rattlesnakes (1984)
“Forest Fire” by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2002 and 2003. It was first released in 1984 on the album Rattlesnakes. Its best result is #1405 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,119 alternative song of all time.
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"Forest Fire" was the second single Lloyd Cole and the Commotions lifted from their 1984 debut, Rattlesnakes, and it had been smouldering a long while. Cole came up with the title at 16 and filed it away; in 1983 he knocked out the song and a demo over a single weekend, holed up in his room at Glasgow Golf Club, where his parents lived and worked, using a drum machine, a DX7 and a Portastudio the band had just bought after landing a publishing deal. Polydor signed them soon after.
Cole called it "a straight love song", about as straight as he could manage, though he admitted he couldn't resist cracking jokes even while being relatively serious. Paul Hardiman produced it, and it reached No. 41 in the UK, hanging around the top 75 for six weeks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1405 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1494 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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