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 that voice!!! Jul 08, 2008
I never liked Richard Butler's vocals I think they are to raspy like he has a bad cold all the time or something. However I can not deny that this is a solid alternative rock album SISTER EUROPE and SUSANS STRANGE are actually alright. Maybe he is an aquired taste for me it was more so the rest of the bands playing I liked more, Butler came second. I will be fair and say its worth getting.
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 A top fifty all time debut... Dec 11, 2006
Amazing, ground-breaking album. A true "vinyl length" lp, it has been released in a few forms, but I find the Columbia release from 2002 to be the finest issue. The added demo version of "Flowers" is devastating.
This, to me, along with the second album, is the punk rock version of the Furs. Incidentally, it's also my favorite version of the Furs. Punk Rock in that it sounds so very terse, yet you can identify all of the atmosphere and melodicism that marks the later works. It just.....sounds more raw, like the best debut albums always do.
To me, an essential addition to any upstanding record collection. To you, this should be the first of their proper lps to buy. "Wedding Song/Blacks/Radio/Flowers" is 20 of the best minutes you'll ever spend in front of a pair of good speakers.
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What a debut! Dec 20, 2005
This is the best band to debut in the 80's. They had even better albums than this one, but this sure wasn't a bad start. The only album to be avoided, at all costs is Midnight to Midnight. Aside from that, do yourself a favor and buy everything by this amazing band.
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Buy the CD - see them live Dec 19, 2005
I sought out the first Furs CD after seeing them live - and now can't stop playing it for its original raw edge. I went to see Death Cab for Cutie with the Furs on the bill and frankly the Furs blew away Death Cab - this was a big surprise. The final driving fist of a tune at the show - India - made me check out the eponymous first CD. If you like Interpol, Static Age, even Arcade Fire, you should check out this CD. Oh, and catch them live.
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Essential listening Dec 18, 2005
People were either introduced to the Psychedlic Furs by Pretty in Pink or the classic tracks Heaven and the Ghost in You. In contrast to Simple Minds' Don't You Forget About Me, Pretty in Pink is an excellent, original band track that just happened to be used in a poor, very dated 80's movie. If you didn't move past these Furs tracks or their parent albums, you're missing a lot. The Furs have just enough original albums/CDs to fill a CD multiplayer: P. Furs; Talk Talk Talk; Forever Now; Mirror Moves; Book of Days; World Outside. We'll forget about Midnight to Midnight (everyone's excused one mistake - '87 - not a good year). All of the compilations (All of This And Nothing, Should God Forget, etc) are excellent, but best to get the 6 original albums. The Furs' eponymous first offering sets the base for the future; it defines post-punk to the same extent as Joy Division, Gang of 4, Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen. It is raw and heavy, with driving original base and drums (India), to rasping rock (Soap Commercial/ We Love You) that makes the live shows kick-ass, to the smooth, smart, subversive Sister Europe and Imitation that create the mold for the classic populist tracks of the Furs circa '82-'84. Talk Talk Talk builds on the raw platform and the '82-'84 albums are classics from a classic age. But if you like the eponymous CD take a listen to the return to heavy of the 1989 Book of Days - entertain me. Then there's arguably the most complete Furs' offering World Outside - brilliant. It is a shame that the Furs could not have continued and like the Cure produced a breath of fresh air every couple of years to clear out the prevailing dross. Draw a line from the Furs to Placebo to Interpol.
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