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The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs (1980)
# Artist: The Psychedelic Furs # Year: 1980/2002
# Styles: post punk/new wave # Album: The Psychedelic Furs
# Format: eac-ape.covers
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Emerging from the incipient post-punk London scene with a healthy
fascination for late-'70s Bowie (and in turn, for his own attraction to
Krautrock), the then-sextet kicked up a slightly monochromatic but still
attractive storm on their debut. Richard Butler's
Thin-White-Duke-after-smoking vocal rasp has a surprising appeal,
serving up a wry, slightly detached series of lyrics on life. The
members of the core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well
on-stage; Ashton's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity
in favor of a balanced, artistic power. Production mainly comes from
Steve Lillywhite, who smartly steers away from the soon-to-be-clichéd
touches he would bring to U2's early work. "India" is a good example; it
has a brooding, quiet beginning with strange telegraphic signals and
turns into a brawling rocker without sounding like the Edge or Larry
Mullins going off. The record comes off as serious without being
self-consciously deep, occasional toe-dipping into humorous aside ("We
Love You" has Butler idly listing off things he loves, sometimes with
appropriate if sarcastically delivered song quotes: "I'm in love with
Frank Sinatra...fly me to the moon..."). "Imitation of Christ" is the
most frazzled, with lyrics detailing someone else metaphorically nailing
himself up over a light but still strange guitar line. "Wedding Song"
is amusingly prescient as one of the first "white rockers go hip-hop"
numbers of its kind, along with Blondie's "Rapture," though its
inspiration could equally be dub. Ely lays down a pounding funk beat
while Butler breaks into a midsong rap no better or worse than most such
efforts of the time.
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India [0:06:21.07] 02. Sister Europe [0:05:38.58] 03.
Imitation Of Christ [0:05:29.00] 04. Fall [0:02:41.25] 05.
Pulse [0:02:37.62] 06. We Love You [0:03:27.00] 07. Wedding
Song [0:04:20.23] 08. Blacks/Radio [0:06:57.05] 09. Flowers
[0:04:10.45] 10. Susan's Strange (Bonus Track) [0:03:14.27]
11. Soap Commercial (Bonus Track) [0:02:54.55] 12. Mack The Knife
(Non LP B-Side) [0:04:18.73] 13. Flowers (Demo) [0:05:37.70]
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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from
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EAC extraction logfile from 17. December 2008,
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The Psychedelic Furs / The Psychedelic Furs
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