Psychedelic Furs - "Midnight to Midnight" C/D?

The high-gloss production, which Alex in NYC has generously described as "syrupy" is slightly unfortunate, but has not aged poorly. It sounds less unfortunate to me than it did five years ago, and much less than it did ten years ago.

Then there are the songs:

"Heartbreak Beat" you know.
"Shock" is just okay Furs.
"Shadow In My Heart" is classic Furs. Surly, bitter, lyrical and rocking. A great song fighting to free itself from the shiny-shiny and almost making it. Needs to be covered by a tight, hard, loud three-piece immediately.
"Angels Don't Cry" be the ballad. Blah.
"Midnight To Midnight" be the good ballad. And it is.
"One More Word" and "No Release" follow in the mold of "Shadow" - classic Furs jaded transatlantic metropolitan decadent ironic-yet-emotive sneering, at a brisk pace.
"Torture" and "All Of The Law" are in a similar vein, but less successful iirc.

I used to scorn Midnight To Midnight, at least insofar as I'm capable of scorning anything Furs. Now, I'd take it over Mirror Moves in a, er, heartbeat. Whether or not that makes it classic depends on how you rate Mirror Moves.

In the stark light of sunset, I think "between C and D" is fair. The potential for greatness is there in many tracks, but snuffed by ultradud production.

Oh, and I think this is their "coke" album...

the one w/ "ghost in you" was a better psych furs-go-glossy-pop move. can't remember the title of it right now, though (which shows that even having said that, it also isn't one of my favorites).

Mirror Moves. And yes, it was.

Well, there's that, but they also look like a Judas Priest tribute band on that sleeve. For shame.

The first two Furs records set the bar so high that the band was doomed to failure but, I had no idea how far they'd fall with this piece of shite.

Revive -- reading the Dave Thompson bio. This is really one of the more reviled "sellout" albums of all time...even the band have fuck-all say about it.

It seems almost every great post-punk band has one of these in their catalog, e.g. Killing Joke - Outside The Gate, PiL - the last one (or even _9_), Gang Of Four - Hard.