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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: 1984 |
| Date | Tue, 18 May 2004 03:23:31 -0400 |
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At 05:57 PM 5/17/2004 -0700, bryan wrote:
>> Here's another one for you from 84 - P Furs: Mirror Moves.
>> Discuss...
>
>Though I don't really like to revisit what I was listening to in
>the 80's -- esp. the first half of the decade -- I do remember
>liking the Psychedlic Furs' 'Forever Now' (from 1982), the
>album with "Love My Way." Produced by TR. Liked that
>one a whole lot more that 'Mirror Moves'...
MIRROR MOVES is rather fascinating in that rarely is a band's creative
dropoff quite so startlingly precipitous: side one of that album -- "The
Ghost In You," "Here Come Cowboys," "Heaven" and "Heartbeat" -- is just
outstanding, basically the finest sustained 20 minutes of the band's career
and a stretch of songs that distill and purify what had made the best parts
of FOREVER NOW so good. Side two of MIRROR MOVES is basically crap, and
the Psychedelic Furs never made another record that was worth the powder
it'd take to blow it to hell. Weird.
S
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