The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs (1980) - 15 July 2010

# 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.

01. 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 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 17. December 2008, 15:47

The Psychedelic Furs / The Psychedelic Furs

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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks   : No
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           2  |  6:21.07 |  5:38.58 |     28582    |    53989
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          11  | 44:57.27 |  2:54.55 |    202302    |   215406
          12  | 47:52.07 |  4:18.73 |    215407    |   234829
          13  | 52:11.05 |  5:37.70 |    234830    |   260174

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