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1 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Yawn Nov 30, 2006
I remember the Furs being much better than this. Either my memory is shot or their earlier work was much better because this album is weak.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
A Classic Apr 06, 2006
The Furs return with "Mirror Moves", which is one of the albums from the 1980s that I would have to classify as a "desert island CD". The production values are much slicker here and the sound is more refined and processed. However, while it lacks the bite of previous Psychedelic Furs' efforts, this CD is just plain fun. Standout tracks include: "Ghost in You", "Heartbeat", "Alice's House", and "Here Come Cowboys". If you like 80s pop-rock at all, you need to own this CD. Say, how about a remaster with bonus tracks now?
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
The last great early-period classic Furs record Mar 22, 2006
I don't know why this album wasn't remastered like the previous three releases were. It's certainly worthy of it as the cd dates from the first batch of albums to ever be issued on cd. Indeed as my cd was manufactured in Japan (as the first CBS cds were) when that's where all American cds were.
First off this album suffers the loss of half of the Furs (Ely who departed after making the video for Forever Now's "Love My Way" and Morris and Kilburn who were fired just before the band went into the studio to record Forever Now).
The Furs were a bit fragmented and a tad unfocused in the studio until 1989's Book of Days. Dull performances from session musicians aside this album still has some great songs that win over the listener whereas the would-be-detractions
fall to the wayside. "The Ghost In You" is a great song that
suffers a bit from the iffy keyboard sound (a sound that Richard Butler himself protested but the producer won out) but still the song is too good of a song to let misguided production ruin. "Like A Stranger", "My Time" and "Heaven" are classic Furs ballads. Those songs (much like most of the album) have something of a rainy-day, stay indoors atmosphere. "Alice's House" is a Forever Now outtake and it's a very cool psych-rocker.
The album does have a few mis-steps that indicate the misadventure-to-come known as Midnight To Midnight in the form of "Only A Game", "Heartbeat" - a good song ruined by a slick sax (not the interesting Kilburn sax lines) and ruined beyond repair on a few dance-remixes on 12"s (always a bad idea when a rock band allows someone to do a "dance" remix - an 80's epidemic for sure) and the simply "okay" "Highwire Days".
The album does boast the amazing "Here Comes Cowboys" which is a
classic Psychedelic Furs song. One of their best ever songs.
Very good commentary on fascism in general using "cowboys" as a
convienient term of reference.
The Furs would not release another album as great as this until their over-looked swan song World Outside in 1991.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 one of best ever Nov 09, 2005
this is one of those rare works that is not only one of the band's best, but an all-time better. if i had to choose one album to get stranded on an island with, this might well be it. what's it like to have the first 6 songs all awesome, then the remaining 3 very strong? with 5 ("my time") & 6 ("like a stranger") being the best? it's one of those albums you just don't want to fast forward or skip ANY of the songs--how many are there like that?
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 It starts off with a bang and goes downhill Jun 20, 2005
Let's say a band has written nine songs and decides to make an album. One is a superb song (probably one of the best the band has ever written), one is near excellent, whereas the other seven range from just O.K. to good. Now take your superb song and have it lead off the album, and take your near excellent song and make it third in the order. The problem for a listener of the album is that after the third song, s/he's not going to hear anything approaching what's already been heard, hence there's surely going to be a letdown. This is indeed the problem with "Mirror Moves."
"The Ghost in You" is a great great song, and fans generally agree it's one of the band's best. "Heaven" is near excellent. The rest range from O.K. to good ("Alice's House" and "Highway Days" are probably the best of the remainder). Here, Richard Butler has, for the most part, lost his raspy snarl, and sings much more melodically, with more gentle themes (such as love). I personally think "Mirror Moves" is the band's weakest album, but that's what makes the Psychedelic Furs so great, because the album is still pretty good.
Footnote: Notice how the band self-plagiarized the main riff from "Like a Stranger" to write the superior "In My Head" a few albums later.
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