Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves (1984) POLL

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Landslide.

Mandate

Despite being a big Furs fan (and loving songs from Forever Now and Mirror Moves), I basically agree with this. Also, "All that money wants" + "Book of days" lp = greatest moments in their career.

Yeah, I mean, it'd be hard to state with an accuracy that'd get at the heart of it just how crucial the Furs were to me for a brief but incredible moment - after learning about those first two albums but before the third one came out. The first time I heard "Into You Like A Train" is burned into my brain - that "yeah fall in love" line articulated both the cynicism and the underlying romanticism that was (or seems like, now) the unspoken energy of the whole adolescent atmosphere at the time. They were not my favorite band, but I often suspected they were the best band - that what they were capable of was leagues beyond any/everybody else. I was in awe of what those two albums could do to me. So Forever Now wasn't just a disappointment, but your classic betrayal, proving all the haters right. Book of Days (I was the only person I knew who even heard it) was something of a vindication, for me - "Torch" is one of their all-time best songs, and there are so many gems on that record. And I do like "All That Money Wants" - it's got that classic blurred, quasi-senseless title and the round-like melodic working that had been their trademark pre-Rundgren.

I can't get "My Time" out of my head. Help!

I mean, it could be a worse choice for an earworm. Don't you have an eraser song, something that when you play it in your head it wipes out whatever ear worm was there?

Isn't it just like love?

Something about Heaven makes me think of the last 10 tracks of Under the Bushes, Under the Stars or some 95 second anthem on the first Suitcase.

Forever Now wasn't just a disappointment, but your classic betrayal, proving all the haters right.

Huh. I bought this album when it came out, not having heard the first two, and still love it.

Wow “Like a Stranger” plunked my brain so hard back into 1984 with such authority. This played on LIR a lot iirc. Not bad really.

I’m gonna see them in 2 days and listening to them very hard— damn they have a lot of good songs, I totally forgot.

Now that i look at the songlist here i see that tho i never owned this album i know every song well, and that is likely alt airplay. By circumstance my friends 82-89 were deadheads or non-music— which aspect I didn’t love, but ay.

They played a song from "World Outside" the other night, but not the single.

Oh, they played "In My Head," which I heard on my college station more than "Until She Comes."

Also: whilst recording "Everybody Rules The World," TFF obviously paid very close attention to the keyboard sound of "The Ghost In You."

14-year flashback response!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWOaN_azH1s

And a link to a history of the famed sample and some places where it appeared:

https://www.failedmuso.com/the-story-of-sararr/