Psychedelic Furs - World Outside
The reset continued here, integrating a bit of the Forever Now sound into the noisier earlier sound…and cutting out the dance-rock completely.
But despite the good set of songs, the album was out of step with the times, wasn't successful, and there wouldn't be another for nearly 30 years.
The Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days
I think the Furs realized a course correction was needed after Midnight to Midnight. They're achieved commercial success with Heartbreak Beat, but moved so far from the "Furs Sound" that they'd become almost...generic. Popular…but unsatisfying as art.
This album is looking backwards a bit, but it's a grower…and not an embarrassment.
Nice to have Vince Ely back on the skins…though this'd be his last Furs record.
The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
For @SingwithFishes - with the fantastic original Barney Bubbles UK album art. (The US version of the cover is terrible.)
I loved Talk Talk Talk *so* much that the more polished sound of this was slightly disappointing at the time, but not so much that I didn't play the album to death.
These first three LPs (s/t, talk, forever now) were a spectacular run of music…
The Psychedelic Furs - self-titled 1st album.
While I would have loved to have heard them in a club during this early period, from all reports this album captures their sounds really well, thanks to Steve Lillywhite's approach to its production.
A great album in the middle of the punk era that showed where things could go... great songs with attitude.
