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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 A Return to greater things Mar 25, 2007
This offering is haunting,brooding and a recording that brang them back from the depths of mediocrity. This IS my favorite Furs recording and I get a kick out of the fact that when my friends ask me what am I listening to and I tell them they say are they still around? This is one of those rare recordings that sounds timeless,you wouldn't be able to say what year it was done unless you knew. If you like The Furs grab this and enjoy. Elements of The Cure and Joy Division abound and at the used price here a bargin. Interpol wishes they could have recorded a follow up album to their debut this good.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Ahead of its time Apr 10, 2006
The Furs went for the wall of sound effect on this one, which is very different than any other of their albums. When this album was released in 1989 the shoegazer movement was beginning and they took some ideas with the help of an expert of building this type of sound, Dave Allen, longtime producer for The Cure, so I say that it was ahead because they actually made songs using this effect on the contrary to the early recordings by My Bloody Valentine which were messy, and if you listen carefully at the end of "entertain me" you'll see that MBV used some of the sound for their masterpiece "Loveless". This album has no hit singles and it's enjoyed best as a whole, it's a shame the timing of the release, because if it had been released in the early 90's it would have gotten more attention, instead of releasing "World Outside" a few moths before the alternative music revolution.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
The best furs / the bleakest furs Feb 15, 2006
i have to agree with all the reviewers below. after some really lowest-common-denominator albums, the furs struck back with this onslaught of bleak / depressed / pissed-off songs. like the cure's pornography in it's tension and anger, this is the best the band recorded. dark, cathardic and painful. snatch up one of those 98ยข copies that are selling in the zshops..... this is amazing stuff!
8 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Do you like music...are you depressed, or English, or depressed about being in England? Dec 02, 2005
This is a great English band, and by English I mean from England, not speaking in English, which ironically they do! The Furs (as many fans call them, as well as "The Psychedelic Furs") are low-key, and brooding in their style and if you are depressed and sad, they will help you dive perhaps even deeper into that mindset to be able to fully become one with your sadness. If, however, like me, however, you are more often looking for something to mellow you out and have as mood music in the backgroud this excellent music and I have two copies of this album. The first copy was a tape and now that tapes are so 1980s and so on..., I had to break down and buy the CD so I could put it on my computer (lap and desk, top) so I could listen more. Note: I actually put it IN the computer for the computer illererate, not ON it). By the way don't let the name Psychedelic Furs turn you off because if you are reading this, you have listened to the band before and so have other, more accurate, ways to judge them as a band. I guess (hope) you could be reading this as a friend just to give me votes so someday... I can be a top 1000 reviewer and be a somebody...please vote...thanks. so overall, this is a great album and better than some of the greatest hits stuff I bought from the Furs, which I think is...interesing, that I would think that. so take care and remember, it's your parade and you get to make desicions about it...what will be your theme music???
With care,
Sam
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
My favorite Furs album Jun 26, 2005
While "Book of Days" has a similar melodic sound to the Psychedelic Furs previous album, "Midnight to Midnight," it is darker, and superior in every respect -- musically and lyrically. This categorizes "Book" as a truly superb album - in my opinion the band's best - since "Midnight" is quite good. Here, Richard Butler sings of feelings of regret, hopelessness and squandered time, which is a marked departure to the feel-good theme of the previous album.
Interestingly, "Book" starts off with one of the less stellar tracks, "Shine," a song which doesn't reflect the general tenor of the album. It can be argued that, on all of the band's previous albums, the first track is the strongest one on the album, or close to it. This is definitely true on the prior two: "Midnight" ("Heartbreak Beat") and "Mirror Moves" ("The Ghost In You"). The second track, "Entertain Me," is probably my favorite song on any Furs album (tied with "India"). "Entertain Me" starts off with what sounds like a jet plane or a race car, which leads into an intriguing bass line, reminiscent of The Cure's "Shiver and Shake." I wonder if Kurt Cobain was influenced by this song when writing the lyrics for his masterpiece "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
The title track, "Book of Days," about a women who feels she's wasting her life away, is superb, as is "Should God Forget," "Parade," and "I Don't Mine." There is no filler on this album, and it can be listened to repeatedly without getting stale. Perhaps the debut album of "The Psychedelic Furs" was more innovative, but I believe that "Book of Days" remains the band's seminal work.
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