C&L's Late Nite Music Club with the Psychedelic Furs
By Howie Klein Sunday Dec 02, 2007 10:01pmIn the late '70s I was doing a punk and alternative radio show in San Francisco and I was always jonesin' for good new records to play. There were never enough. One place I knew better than counting on was CBS Records, or at least not CBS in the U.S. CBS England, on the other hand, did a steady stream on wonderful albums coming at a good clip and in 1980 I found the eponymous debut from the Psychedelic Furs. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite and it had a unique and very distinctive sound. The first track, "India," probably the least commercial one on the album, hooked me immediately. As you listen to this I'm on a flight to India and I thought it would be a good tune for this evening's LNMC.
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The Psychedelic Furs-Until She Comes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjJQVnpFLRE
The Psychedelic Furs-Heartbreak Beat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPv0qCg4so8
There's a heartbreak beat
Playing all night long
Down on my street
And it feels like love
Got the radio on
And it's all that we need
There's a heartbreak beat
And it feels like love
There's a heartbreak beat
And it feels like love
And the beat don't stop
And we talk so tough
And there's a perfect kiss
Somewhere out in the dark
But a kiss ain't enough
And the world don't stop
Every time that you call
And the world don't stop
Every time that you call
Air - Mer du Japon, let it flow over you.
The Replacements / Bastards Of Young
Ah, yeah!
I saw the Furs years ago.
And you're right: First album is great.
Here's another song from it, "Sister Europe":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLCNIZTzg9w
Pearl Jam-Even Flow
Another Furs song (from the second album, I think.)
"Love my way"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P09gm_I5RI
Catherine Wheel "Crank"
No man's woman - Sinead O'Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyKEKi4fP4
Sinead O'Connor feat. MC Lyte - I Want Your (Hands On Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37KrzGzg370
Can't find a version of "Pretty in Pink" without the brat pack movie featured prominently.
So, you're forewarned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0lq8sYnNoo
(always seemed weird that they used that song for the movie, anyway, since the subject of the song is obviously a woman with very loose morals. guess the director never listened to the words.)
I always loved Duckie.
Jon Cryer doing Otis-Try a Little Tenderness-Pretty in Pink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lVyE05ylE8
OK, one more from the Furs' first album:
"We Love You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1iPnx4wlc
Thankyou, I love the Furs, saw the play live many many years ago and they rocked :)
OMD - If You Leave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfKyHR5-1M
SIMPLE MINDS Don't You (Forget About Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAn8lu3C9IE
The Breakfast Club ( John Bender cracks up scene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmHaNpP_no
The Breakfast Club Dancing
This more than makes up for the 'Blink 182' entry. Thank you for posting this.
psychedelic furs Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2R3FJyT1rc&feature=related
the cure - love cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeZRBStMNQ
More British post-punk.
Magazine, "Motorcade"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIQS_MYvk
Aerosmith - No More No More
Waterboys • The Whole of the Moon • 1985 Concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNTmjlf1vI
Waterboys This is the Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTTKcrbQog8
I love the Psychedelic Furs. They're great.
But don't forget that Otis Redding died in a tragic plane crash 40 years ago today at the age of 26. This is my favorite:
Otis Redding - "My Lover's Prayer"
The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Hey Jess! I just love you. Been busy but wanted to give you a major hat tip.
Joy Division, "Transmission"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwMs2fLoVE
Public Image, "Public Image"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KpWJRNuLHmM
For Jess:
Rilo Kiley - It's A Hit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGa3cWDzxlI
Thanks, sphinx! Stay warm tonight....
Echo and the Bunnymen, "The Puppet"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z1mHVZ_kosY
Luka - Suzanne Vega
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGa3cWDzxlI
Bush Bites and Jess, I'm assuming we are close in age...John Hughs generation? Love you guys...
oops, that's me sphinx. I shut down the computer and thought I was entering my name normally.
Not that is should matter. ")
reminds me a lot of "Warszawa" from David Bowie's Low album till the drums kick in.
;)
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d-jxkzZbRo
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Thanks, Luka. I'm 28. I have the music/pop-culture taste of my older siblings:-)
I see someone posted Love My way, a favourite off mine which I've had as an earworm the last few days-something about never being able to win or lose if you don't run the race.
I couldn't get Bush Bites' post to go higher than 10. So I found one that goes to 11
Bush Bites @ 28:
those were the day's:)
Jah wobble was way too advanced for johnny rotten and only stuck around for the 1st P.I.L. album before embarking on his own experimental journey into musical experimentation, here's Mr Wobble from 1981:)
JAH WOBBLE, LIEBEZEIT & CZUKAY - How Much Are They - 1981
Because the Psychedelic Furs make me think of the Valley Girl Soundtrack, and the Valley Girl Sountrack makes me think of the Plimsouls:
A Million Miles Away
damn, howie. and i thought i got around in my life. your stories are something else.
I saw PIL open for these guys.
PIL was much better.
you go miss kitty
I love India. I wish I had not waited till my 40's to visit the first time.
miss_kitty @ 43:
Damm, Big Audio Dynamite, that's a name you don't here very often, I went to see them play live on their first debut tour, and it rocked :)
I love that song, Miss Kitty! Speaking of John Lydon projects, I thought for years that he was the vocalist on this song:
The Bollock Brothers - "Harley David..." (sorry, the volume on this one only goes to 10)
Depeche Mode: "John The Revelator"
Hard to remember just how dark the times and people were with the furs as a backdrop or how dark the music just made it all seem. Had me some awfully strange and beautiful times with the furs as a soundtrack though.
B-Movie: "Nowhere Girl"
BAD - BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - E=MC2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkXQ96ZLR0
Love all you. Nighty friends..:)
I really like the debut by the Furs and I am not quite as fond of Talk Talk Talk but Forever Now is, I think, their best one of all. The first 3 records are all out, remastered with extra tracks and now if they could only do the same with Mirror Moves.
I bet this is one you'll all know:)
Nena- 99luft Balons
i'll see your psychadelic furs and raise you the butthole surfers (who was in my room last night)...
but if you really need the cure, skippy's late nite music club just featured them last friday w/friday i'm in love...
and about a year ago we had depeche mode (i just can't get enough)...
general public - tenderness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04il74pijpY&feature=related
General Public: TENDERNESS music video (Color 1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJGkG66XZI0&feature=related
ok night for real
The Tubes - She's A Beauty
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Tori Amos: I Don't Like Mondays
boomtown rats _ dont like mondays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POl4vFp-5os
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNO6pAJBCs4
Did you spin any Tuxedomoon?
Elvis Costello - Veronica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8XVijFdyug
Magazine -- The Light Pours Out of Me.
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Saw the Taj and thought....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJtEZOQg4Y
Aangus,
Nice pick!
By the way, it's been so wonderful to hear from you so often. You must be one of the best email pals evah!
heh.
By the way, it’s been so wonderful to hear from you so often. You must be one of the worst email pals evah!
fyt
Guilty as charged!
:o(
Rush - Distant Early Warning
Everybody turn your head while I try to distract sphinx.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-7fqUMuyg&feature=related
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*Sigh.* This whole thread makes me kind of sad, because I know that Steve Lillywhite was married to Kirsty MacColl. I only found out about Ms. MacColl a few short months ago, some seven years after her death, but I love her music so much.
My condolences to Steve, their sons, her mother, etc., and I'm so happy she lives on in her music. It's worth checking out, by the way.
http://www.kirstymaccoll.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl
http://www.justiceforkirsty.org/
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MarkusB
Over the last 6 months, depending on who you talk to, my son is either Autistic or ADHD.
Try to imagine my confusion as this unfolds.
It would seem that no medical system is perfect.
(AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!)
I WILL be in touch.
Life has been busy!
;)
(Dep sigh!)
I remeber "Love My Way".
A cool group.
This was about the time of the first woman I should have married.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2kKFcNVWg
'Night all!
I, too, was utterly hooked the first time I heard "India," especially when it was followed by "Sister Europe," my favorite Furs song of all.
I saw them at the Buffalo Roadhouse in Tampa in 1981 along with a couple of good friends and a six-foot tall volleyball player named Mary, and again a little later at some Agora Ballroom or another somewhere. And now I know what album I'm going to queue up in Winamp after The Crystal Method CD finishes.
Sleep evades me!
One last thought.
(yet again,)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbeUnn-AUA&feature=related
A demain!
;)
This would be among the great unheralded groups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpupBCL6TE&mode=related&search=
Ya, ya, ya.
Got me hitting the music again.
I saw the PsyFurs last year and I have to say they were kind of embarrassing. The singer kind of reminded me of Hugh Grant doing his shtick in Music and Lyrics. They were treating themselves as a joke and had too many players who weren't original members and who just didn't fit in. Just saw Jesus & Mary Chain, though, and they were very good.
sphinx, sorry about not writing via e-mail. I figure, they're gonna read it anyway so I might as well send you my little love songs in public here. :-)
Musicians know that the safest form of private communication is faxes. All my faxes live because I pay my taxes. ;-)
National Lampoon: Lonely At The Bottom -
http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2533926&variant=play
It's John Belushi (before Saturday Night) in one of his classic impersonations ...
Aangus and Stan..thought I'd share some treasured moments from the one, the only Vanessa Daou.. love you guys. Enjoy the old-school chill... :) :)
Vanessa Daou - Sunday Afternoons
Vanessa Daou - Near The Black Forest
That Vanessa stuff is real cool, sphinx! I just realized that because that Belushi song is available, so is the Chevy Chase (before Saturday Night) thing that I commented I think around here the other day, let me get the specific song about "shooting up the highway on the roadmap of my wrist" ... this is it -
http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2533923&variant=play
Also noteable by Chevy on this album: Colorodo -
http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2533918&variant=play
(that's Belushi yelling "Hey" "You", BTW)
Just got back from India myself. Not exactly a relaxing get away and I got very ill. I had the time of my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXyX45A0Alk&feature=related Peter Gabriel...in you eyes
damn....In Your Eyes.........
Absolutely love British post-punk... Psych Furs, the Cure, the Bunnymen, etc.
Saw the Furs and the Bunnymen co-headline a few years ago and that was a treat. The Bunnymen still continue to amaze... here's a little something of them at their best.
"Never Stop"
I was a huge Furs fan back when they came out. "Love My Way" is the song that hooked me.
sphinx @ 48:
Damn, I thought that was going to be the old blues song!
When their debut LP came out, the premier "alternative" DJ in the Dallas area I lived in (George Gimarck) was classifying them as part of a UK postpunk "psychedelic revival" that included early Echo and the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, even early Cure and early U2. Compared to the punk and powerpop sounds that had dominated in recent years, this stuff was more atmospheric in a sort of trippy way, and the Bunnymen and the Explodes even cited 60s psychedelic bands as influences, surprising after the anti-hippy attitudes of the punks. I don't know if this was a categorization that this DJ just thought of himself or if it was something he got from the British pop press of the time. I think I remember Sounds and the NME referring to these bands as psychedelic at the time, but I don't trust my memory on it.
I can recall the word 'psychedelic' in reference to the Bunnymen for years now, and I think there are elements of truth in their sound. I thought that term was too limiting though, and too easy because they did and do cover the Doors quite a bit live. Their songs were definitely otherworldly, especially if you listen to 'Heaven Up Here' and 'Porcupine.' Very groove-based and experimental. They tightened up after that with 'Ocean Rain' and then went very commercial with the grey album before breaking up. I have to say, the reformed Bunnymen, minus Pete on drums (obviously) and Les on bass still manage to turn out really good albums. I still listen to their latest, 'Siberia' on a regular basis.
Any Furs fan should also check out the great track "The Sound of Your Name" by Le Concorde. This is my favorite band group from Chicago that for one track briefly reunited John Ashton (guitar) and Mars Williams (sax) from the Psychedelic Furs. You can get all their stuff on iTunes. Also check out www.myspace.com/leconcorde I'm in love with this band. They also wrote probably the best political protest song of 2005/2006, maybe 2007 "STARTLING REVELATIONS", which I'm pretty sure was being used on Air America for a while. You've got to hear these tracks, brothers/sisters.
Wow. Exciting video. Thanks. At age 45 I just visited India for the first time. Can't wait to go back. I could spend all night watching the YouTubes everyone posted too. Thanks again.
Just got back from India earlier today. i think you should check out Auroville if you get the chance. It's an extraordinary place. i have never seen anything like it in all my travels. it started in the 60s when a bunch of hippies from all over the world together with followers of Sri Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa planted 2 million trees and trucked in water to nourish them. As a result the temp dropped 5 degrees and the landscape now looks a lot like what it was 230 years ago. The children of the original Aurovillians are creating marvelous art and music. And if that doesn't grab you, the place is full of NGOs and people from NATO and the UN studying Aurovilles use of renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. The place vibrates with life and energy. It reminds me of the US in better days. the children of the original Aurovillians learn about 4 languages and create innovative music. It's definitely worth a visit. Go to the Center Guest House and ask Tineke to direct you to whatever you're interested in. Bon chance.
saw the Furs at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix back in Dec. of 89 with my brother and a bunch of my friends and his friends, East of Eden and the Gin Blossoms were the opening acts. Here's a song that makes sense again these days
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