― drake, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John Darnielle, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― neil, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cecilia, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Darren, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Incredulous Alex in NYC, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
(i've been listening to the Furs a lot lately again for some reason)
― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
I see your "Love My Way" and raise you a "Pretty In Pink".
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
I will always love "Pretty In Pink" because the associations it brings are too good and too strong.
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 January 2003 02:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
... wondering if there will ever be a band called the Entheogenic Furs.
― mu, Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
- what ever happend to the furs
- anyone here ever see them live?
- anyone know more background info about the band
― mu, Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 16 January 2003 07:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
― Dee the Lurker, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
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."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I was really, really, really hoping you meant this literally.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
OPO: All That Money Wants
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― The Mad Puffin, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 2 May 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
So: either "Run And Run" or "India".
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link
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'.
― Peteski, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
how many times can one person repeat themselves on one thread?
anyway, I fucking love that song still
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
So many great songs.
I'm thinking the albums would go something like this:
Talk Talk Talk (classic)Forever Now (classic)
then...
Psychedelic FursMirror 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)
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Heaven - such a great song, and video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_O90A0G8lA&feature=related
― Campari G&T, Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
poor Butler -- he looks cold!
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
admirable of him to carry on with the video shoot though, despite it being such a rainy day.
― Campari G&T, Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
How are they live in 2012? I haven't seen 'em since the early 80s.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone seen Blondie or the Psychedelic Furs this year?
I guess I should read this thread
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone have any insight to what the backing lyric is at the end of The Ghost In You>
― campreverb, Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 February 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
underrated aerosmith's dismissal of Forever Now is one of the most depressing and rong things I've read on ILM.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 February 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
What is Butler up to these days, just running on the reunion tour wheel? I liked his mellow solo album.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
this band only grows in stature imo
― rip van wanko, Monday, 17 October 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― rip van wanko, Monday, 17 October 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
I'd never heard this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52DUrv1gCUw
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― simmel, Monday, 17 October 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Richard Butler's one of my favorite lyricists, and I don't care much for lyrics. OTM on that run of three albums.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 October 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
Also a great use of saxophone as much more than just smooth '80s solo cameo. It's honking and abrasive, like early Roxy Music.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Picked up Book of Days last month, largely because of solid ILMy advice. it's v good, not early-good though.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Monday, 17 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Talk Talk Talk would most certainly make my all time Top 40 or 50 albums if I ever attempted such a list.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
What do you think of the two Love Spit Love albums? I really like them a lot.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
Love those Love Spit Love albums, a return to the edgier early material in feel though obviously not in style.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
Had no idea Love Spit Love featured future nu-GNR guitarist Richard Fortus and drummer Frank Ferrer!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
just dropping in to declare my enduring love for TTT in particular, it all came together on that record
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
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
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
I suspect TTT is one of those albums beloved every person whose taste I admire.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Anyone have decent MP3s of the unreleased LOL stuff like "Dusk" and "New Green"?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
LSL not LOL, damn autocorrect.
My list of the best.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
Thought this revive would be Alfred-related.
― Special Ore-ida Blues (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, wrong thread.
― fajita seas, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
forever now is the only one i can still listen to now
― velko, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 05:59 (seven years ago) link
"should god forget" sounds like what i was told blur / oasis would
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Man that 2nd album Talk Talk Talk is an alltime immortal super duper mega classic.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 8 July 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
Cry Cry Cry did a lovely version of "Ghost in You" when last I saw them.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 8 July 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
So Run Down
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 8 July 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link