Review of the Album: The Psychedelic Furs - Greatest Hits from more reviews...
Most great rock has embraced the influences of the past with a contemporary urgency and seldom an eye on the future. And if Richard Butler and the Psychedelic Furs took critical heat for fusing the pulsing darkness of the Velvet Underground...more.
Review of the Album: The Psychedelic Furs - Greatest Hits from more reviews...
I usually hate when people say this, but now I'm going to do it: Get the original albums. If for no better reason than to hear "Goodbye" on Forever Now (IMO an immaculate album, and easily the best one if...more.
Talk, Talk, Talk's "Pretty in Pink" may have spawned the hideous film of the same name, but one listen to this trashy milestone will prove all is forgiven. Richard Butler and the boys made an instant punk rock classic with...more.
Talk Talk Talk is the Furs at the height of their game, exhilarating and dense, with one riveting piece of candy-coated trash after another floating out of the speakers. In my own punk heydey, this was killer choice stuff -- even...more.
This was the Furs' shining moment, when they cranked out screaming guitar commotion so dense it sounds like the tracks are falling on top of one another. Especially "Into You Like a Train", the all-time best anti-love love song...more.