The Psychedelic Furs “Forever Now”

sfilzen — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:27:03 +0000

The Psychedelic Furs “Forever Now” released 40 years ago yesterday, September 25th, 1982. Produced by Todd Rundgren, Forever Now was the Furs third album; it hit #20 in the UK and #61 in the US. Its biggest track was the single “Love My Way,” a moderate hit at the time (#42 UK, #44 US) which ended up having nostalgic staying power with its inclusion on 80’s themed movie soundtracks (Valley Girl, The Wedding Singer, Call Me By Your Name). Rundgren plays marimbas on that single; he also appears on “No Easy Street” playing keys and sax. Overall Forever Now is neo-psychedelic and darkly post-punk especially tracks like “Only You and I” which has gothy Cure-esque guitar effects and “Run and Run” which has a Joy Divisionish bass line topped by some pretty great jangle.

We saw Psychedelic Furs play at the end of this past July at The Riverside here in Milwaukee. X opened and honestly that’s really who we were really there to see (X, still in their original lineup, are still very much on top of their game and put on amazing show). Psychedelic Furs were…OK. Just two members of the Furs who were in the band in ’82 remain: Richard Butler, who peacocked around the stage so all eyes on him, and his brother Tim Butler on bass (who I honestly can’t envision right now even though the show was just under two months ago: Richard took up all of my mental bandwidth). The only song from Forever Now that they played that we saw was “President Gas” (which has an overblown 80’s sound on the LP). We left after “Pretty in Pink” which was about 2/3 of the way through the show. They played “Love My Way” second-to-last and finished the set with “Heaven” before the encore.

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The Psychedelic Furs “Talk Talk Talk”

sfilzen — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:42:17 +0000

The Psychedelic Furs “Talk Talk Talk” 1981. Today, December 7th, is the birthday of Furs co-founder and bass player Tim Butler (b. 1958). Talk Talk Talk is the band’s second album release, featuring the single “Pretty in Pink” which the band re-recorded for the movie of the same name in 1986. The original single from 1981 made it to #43 on the UK charts. “Dumb Waiters” also charted in the UK at #59 and made it onto the US dance/club charts at #27. “Into You Like a Train” is another great track, proclaiming really big love, as is “It Goes On” which has a great rhythm shift from swirling twirling punk-ish verse to slow-stomp chorus.

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