POO/OPO: The Psychedelic Furs

(i've been listening to the Furs a lot lately again for some reason)

I see your "Love My Way" and raise you a "Pretty In Pink".

I will always love "Pretty In Pink" because the associations it brings are too good and too strong.

... wondering if there will ever be a band called the
Entheogenic Furs.

- what ever happend to the furs

- anyone here ever see them live?

- anyone know more background info about the band

notwithstanding, i think that song is just as o.t.m. now as it was 20 years ago when it was loosely associated with rayguns and insanity -- seems that just as it is now, back then there was that same super annoying name that seemed to be somehow maybe the shadows of the problem, george bush

The Furs' best music, IMHO, was crafted in the era of Todd Rundgren as their producer. Forever Now, I feel, is their best effort, and I never heard a song from that album that I didn't like passionately. I know, I know, I've heard the words "radio friendly pop" before, but I thought Rundgren did really well in highlighting the band's Bowie-esque modern pop sensibilities.

I do have to say that there are very few songs from the Furs that I don't like, but some of the songs post-Mirror Moves were quite... well, not up to the standards of a Talk Talk Talk, for sure. Even the band is/was aware of that -- the Furs absolutely HATED "Heartbreak Beat", and us Fursphiles recognize that Midnight to Midnight was the requisite "we'll just be rock stars now, so we're just going to f*** off and do a totally commercial album" album. Chris Kimsey [sp?] hasn't been very kind with the artists he's worked with, hasn't he?

Oh, and I didn't want the Furs to re-record "Pretty in Pink" for the movie of the same name -- I thought the original 1981 song was more than good enough. *sighs* Oh well, no one's perfect, hmmm?

Yet another NYC Anglophile rock band, yet another US band that launch their music in the UK first. This lot go by the name of Madison Strays - their debut single "Last Train" is released on May 16th in the UK. It's already picking up airplay on 6 Music and apparently Radio 1 - they sound like a complete rip off of The Psychedelic Furs.

You can listen to the track on Myspace.com

Whoever Dee the Lurker is, he was spot-on about the virtues of "Forever Now" and especially re Todd Rundgren'ss production. I only bought it four months ago and now think it rivals "Talk Talk Talk."

I was really, really, really hoping you meant this literally.

OPO: All That Money Wants

In belated answer to mu: I must confess that I saw them a few years ago on the nostalgia tour B-52s/Furs/GoGos.

Phear my eightiesness, y'all.

So: either "Run And Run" or "India".

On the BBC Ceefax review of the Killers new single, the writer says they wear their Psychedelic Furs influence on the sleeve and that the singer "even sounds like Richard Butler at times".

Can't see it myself. He's a bit more whiney then sneering.

Oh, and I'll have "So Run Down", for the bit where Butler barks 'I get some clerk/talk, talk, talk, talk'.

how many times can one person repeat themselves on one thread?

anyway, I fucking love that song still

Of the later albums, I'll pick "There's A World". It has that epic sweep and Richard's wonderful croon but with a touch of menace that puts it over the top.

So many great songs.

I'm thinking the albums would go something like this:

Talk Talk Talk (classic)
Forever Now (classic)

then...

Psychedelic Furs
Mirror Moves (some great songs - production so-so)
World Outside (this one, BoD and MM can switch places depending on the day)
Book Of Days

and...

Midnight to Midnight (ooof)

Heaven - such a great song, and video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_O90A0G8lA&feature=related

poor Butler -- he looks cold!

admirable of him to carry on with the video shoot though, despite it being such a rainy day.

How are they live in 2012? I haven't seen 'em since the early 80s.

Anyone seen Blondie or the Psychedelic Furs this year?

I guess I should read this thread

does anyone have any insight to what the backing lyric is at the end of The Ghost In You>

I had a serious Jones to hear "Forever Now" the track this evening, after going through nearly all the CDs I have over here and tearing my bedroom to pieces (because the album somehow got separated from my Talkx3 and put in a dumb place), I find it and subsequently listen to "Forever Now" the track six times in a row. So I think I'll opo that.

underrated aerosmith's dismissal of Forever Now is one of the most depressing and rong things I've read on ILM.

What is Butler up to these days, just running on the reunion tour wheel? I liked his mellow solo album.

The first three (or four) Psychedelic Furs albums are like buried treasures waiting for some young act to dig them up after the entire world has totally forgotten about them.

this band only grows in stature imo

Actually the disc I listen to most often is AOTAN. Maybe their albums never really congealed for me. But that litany of singles is fucking manna.

I'd never heard this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52DUrv1gCUw

Great, classic band. They were too kitsch at the time and seemed derivative but show me three 80's guitar albums better than Talk Talk Talk.

Let alone better, more cooly distinctive singers than Butler, who transcends his Bowie-isms with that asthmatic rasp and a sneer you can practically hear.

Richard Butler's one of my favorite lyricists, and I don't care much for lyrics. OTM on that run of three albums.

Also a great use of saxophone as much more than just smooth '80s solo cameo. It's honking and abrasive, like early Roxy Music.

Picked up Book of Days last month, largely because of solid ILMy advice. it's v good, not early-good though.

Talk Talk Talk would most certainly make my all time Top 40 or 50 albums if I ever attempted such a list.

What do you think of the two Love Spit Love albums? I really like them a lot.

Love those Love Spit Love albums, a return to the edgier early material in feel though obviously not in style.

Had no idea Love Spit Love featured future nu-GNR guitarist Richard Fortus and drummer Frank Ferrer!

just dropping in to declare my enduring love for TTT in particular, it all came together on that record

I need to revisit those LSL albums, but even considering my love for TTT, "Fall on Tears" may be my fave thing that Butler ever did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kExdhOCO0J8

I'm not sure that I previously registered the similarity between the start of "We Love You" and "Needles In The Camel's Eye." Have always been a big fan of We Love You.

I suspect TTT is one of those albums beloved every person whose taste I admire.

Anyone have decent MP3s of the unreleased LOL stuff like "Dusk" and "New Green"?

LSL not LOL, damn autocorrect.

My list of the best.

Thought this revive would be Alfred-related.

Sorry, wrong thread.

The first three (or four) Psychedelic Furs albums are like buried treasures waiting for some young act to dig them up after the entire world has totally forgotten about them.

forever now is the only one i can still listen to now

"should god forget" sounds like what i was told blur / oasis would

Man that 2nd album Talk Talk Talk is an alltime immortal super duper mega classic.

Cry Cry Cry did a lovely version of "Ghost in You" when last I saw them.

So Run Down