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Jan 22, 2013 - Probably the best 80's New Wave single!!! Lots of memories on this one. I hope you get a hold of Industry – State Of The Nation (Extended Version). Dying to be remastered by you. Hope you are well! DjPaulT Reply: January 22nd, 2013 at 3:20 pm. Hi Gilbert I have been searching for a Near Mint.
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- 'Seen chasing the elusive ghosts of the Velvet Underground on more than a few occasions, The Psychedelic Furs, led by the smokey, seductive voice of Richard Butler and John Ashton's pulsing guitar, evolved from darkly minimalistic post punk into sophisticated, sleekly-produced pop - somewhere in the middle resides the key to unlock their sharp songwriting and seedy charm.'
No personal accounts on this album, but by the time this one came out, the Furs were knee-deep in sell-out. Everything was a pop-hook written for radio, trying too hard, and you could tell. Throw in that they had to re-record Pretty In Pink for a movie, and you've got a band bound for mediocrity. I really like most of the tracks on this album, and I had fun assembling this somewhat comprehensive set, but it was with a sense of forlorn condemnation, as I knew that by the time Book of Days came out, their better days would be behind them. It was fun while it lasted.
Not all music is driving music. And not all driving music is for all cars. In fact there is some music that is only driving music for very specific cars, perhaps even very specific model years. My case in point: The Psychedelic Furs. Formed in England in 1977 by Richard Butler (vocals), and his brother Tim Butler (bass), together with saxophone player Duncan Kilburn, the band went through various line up changes until they found John Ashton (guitar) and Vince Ely (drummer).
A well-received Peel session in 1979 led to a deal with CBS records. 'Sister Europe,' their first single for the label, was a funereal affair, a sluggish, mid-tempo bass and drum pulse against which Richard Butler, already fully in command of his rasping, world weary voice, mused idly about a sister who had returned home. If the saxophone reminded one of Roxy Music, the flanged guitars and air of profound resignation were pure Low-era Bowie, spliced with Joy Division (perhaps not surprisingly as Martin Hannett produced both bands). An audacious and compelling debut, perfectly suited for the time. But driving music? The eponymous album that followed showed that the P Furs were, in fact, capable of rising above the merely morose, with some storming tracks like 'Fall'and the comparatively jubilant 'We Love You,' but somehow the band never really got in my bones.
They seemed too obvious. Too derivative, or sometimes just trying too hard.
Echo and the Bunnymen and PIL did this kind of thing so much better. That was until I plugged a tape with the first album and its follow up, Talk, Talk, Talk into the cassette deck of my 1972 Dodge Dart Swinger. The car had been left to me by a reclusive uncle, a man who had lost his job building jet fighters following the Avro Arrow debacle of the 1950s, and seemed to have rarely left the house until his death in 1980. I visited him once. Wet towels hung from doorways as make-shift humidifiers, and stacks of newspapers in every corner of every room. I never quite knew why he wanted me to have the car. Perhaps I said something right that day.
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But man was I pleased to learn of my inheritance. The car was practically new. In fact, it looked like it had just come out of the show room; its slant six engine, reputed by some to be the finest achievement of the American auto industry, positively gleamed under the hood. And there was enough room in that trunk to fit the gear for an entire band.
Driving late at night, through the glittering, rain-soaked streets of Toronto, the street car wires humming over head and the cassette player cranked all the way up, The Psychedelic Furs suddenly made sense. Not just sense. They spoke a kind of truth. I was in love with the nuclear bomb.
I was in love with Sophia Loren. With Brigitte Bardot. The people dead in cars. It all made sense.
But only here, in this car, listening to this tape. I got it at last. Got it in my bones. Collected here are the various sessions that the P Furs did for various BBC Radio programs, between 1979 and 1990. Tracks 1-4 are from that first session for John Peel (7/25/79).
Tracks 5-7 are from the band's second Peel session (2/18/80) and tracks 8-10 for their third (2/2/8). Tracks 11-12 were recorded 9/4/81 for Richard Skinner, and tracks 13-16 were recorded 2/7/90 in session for John Campbell. And that tape that sounded so good in my 1972 Dodge Dart Swinger?
Still got it-thanks Second Chameleon! - Crash The Driver. The first two Furs albums are works of art. The first, yes, is derivative of all things Warhol, but has a sly power in its scrawny musical postcards. The second is thick, wide and dirty, full of songs about sex and loneliness. 'Dumb Waiters', 'She Is Mine'. These were my anthems in university, and my lullabies too.
A shame I missed seeing them on their first ever North American tour. I was too young to get into Fryfogles. When I finally saw them, circa the third album, they were crap. Glad the tape got good mileage.;-). Thanks for these two posts, the Furs were a brilliant band. I worked at a club in Seattle when I was 15 and all the bands from the time played there ShowBox Theater and I remember when the Furs came to town in the summer and we were hanging out with them after sound check, Mount St. Helens had blown the year before and they wanted to get some ash everyone was selling it so the Pike market street fair was going on at the time and I remember running around checking to see who had the best price for the most ash LOL any way I scored for all the guys in the band and their Mums too and they played one hell of a show to boot =) True story.