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Into You Like a Train: Edsel Releases New Career-Spanning Psychedelic Furs Collection

July 26, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

The Psychedelic Furs Best of

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In late July 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, The Psychedelic Furs released their first album in almost 30 years.  Made of Rain found original members Richard and Tim Butler, joined by Paul Garisto, Rich Good, Amanda Kramer, and Mars Williams, in top form.  Presumably there were plenty of fans ready to hear new Furs music after appearances of their classic songs in the film Call Me by Your Name and the television fantasy Stranger Things.  As of this writing, 1982's "Love My Way" as featured in the former and "The Ghost in You" as heard in the latter have respectively accumulated over 91 million streams and 21 million streams on Spotify alone.

Both of those tracks, as well as "Pretty in Pink" which inspired the 1986 teen dramedy of the same name, are heard on Edsel's new 2-CD, 29-song career-spanning compilation (also available as an 11-song single LP).  The Best of the Psychedelic Furs traces the English band's evolution from 1980's self-titled debut through 2020's Made of Rain.  In his new liner notes, journalist Ian Peel poses the question, "Where exactly do The Psychedelic Furs sit in the history books, and why?"  He correctly opines that they'd figure prominently in chapters on post-punk, new wave, new pop, and alt-pop ("and inevitably, inadvertently falling down the cracks in between").  That diversity of sound is heard on the Edsel compilation featuring productions by Steve Lillywhite, Todd Rundgren (who expanded their sonic palette with additional instrumentation), Keith Forsey, Chris Kimsey, and others.

The Furs had considerable chart success in their native England, notching eleven hits on the U.K. Singles Chart.  All of those are featured on this collection other than the 1986 soundtrack re-recording of "Pretty in Pink."  The grittier original version of the song is included, however.  Three of the band's four U.S. pop chart entries (all of which also are among those U.K. hits) are here: "Love My Way," "The Ghost in You," and "Heartbreak Beat." (The exception is once again the 1986 re-recording of "Pretty in Pink.")  Five Furs songs made the U.S. Modern Rock/Alternative Airplay chart, and of those, the chart-topping "All That Money Wants" and "House" are here.  1991's World Outside is the only one of the Furs' eight studio albums to be wholly unrepresented despite it having yielded the Modern Rock No. 1 "Until She Comes."

For more than forty years, The Psychedelic Furs have remained true to themselves.  The band took a hiatus for most of the 1990s (during which time Richard Butler formed the band Love Spit Love, recording two albums) but they've been back on the road since 2000.  The Best of the Psychedelic Furs is available now.  It's been remastered by Phil Kinrade; the 2CD version (housed in a digipak) includes a 16-page booklet with photos, credits, and Peel's essay.  The LP has those on an insert, too.  You'll find order links for both the 2CD and 1LP formats as well as the track listing with discographical annotation just below!

The Best of the Psychedelic Furs (Edsel EDSL0085 (U.K.), 2021)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Disc 1

  1. Pulse
  2. Sister Europe
  3. We Love You
  4. Imitation of Christ
  5. India
  6. Pretty in Pink
  7. Mr. Jones (Single Version)
  8. Dumb Waiters
  9. All of This and Nothing
  10. Into You Like a Train
  11. She is Mine
  12. Love My Way
  13. President Gas
  14. Sleep Comes Down
  15. Only You and I
  16. Forever Now
  17. No Easy Street

Disc 2

  1. The Ghost in You
  2. Heaven
  3. Heartbeat
  4. My Time
  5. Like a Stranger
  6. Alice's House
  7. Heartbreak Beat
  8. Midnight to Midnight
  9. Angels Don't Cry
  10. All That Money Wants
  11. House
  12. Don't Believe

Disc 1, Tracks 1-5 from The Psychedelic Furs (CBS, 1980)
Disc 1, Tracks 6-11 from Talk Talk Talk (CBS, 1981)
Disc 1, Tracks 12-17 from Forever Now (CBS, 1982)
Disc 2, Tracks 1-6 from Mirror Moves (CBS, 1984)
Disc 2, Tracks 7-9 from Midnight to Midnight (CBS, 1987)
Disc 2, Track 10 from All of This and Nothing (CBS, 1988)
Disc 2, Track 11 from Book of Days (CBS, 1989)
Disc 2, Track 12 from Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl, 2020)

1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Side A

  1. Love My Way
  2. Pretty in Pink
  3. The Ghost in You
  4. Sister Europe
  5. Heaven
  6. Heartbeat

Side B

  1. India
  2. President Gas
  3. House
  4. All That Money Wants
  5. Don't Believe

Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Psychedelic Furs

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Robert Lett says

    July 26, 2021 at 11:53 am

    I just got it. I like it a lot.

    Reply
  2. Donald Loeffler says

    July 26, 2021 at 12:21 pm

    No "Until She Comes" from the "World Outside" album? That kinda sucks.

    Reply
  3. David says

    July 26, 2021 at 12:24 pm

    This is good news. But what would be even better news is if Edsel were to have each of the individual albums remastered, with bonus tracks.

    Reply
  4. Jim Vandegrift says

    July 26, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    The new L.P. is really good. Any fan should not be afraid to get it. They still got gas left in the tank.

    Reply
  5. Paul E. says

    July 27, 2021 at 12:44 am

    Love The Furs and bought “Forever Now” back in ‘82 in 6th grade. I just take issue with this/another compilation. 8 proper albums AND 17 best of releases…18 if you count the live one. At least they didn’t include some obscure, previously unissued track on this release.

    Reply
  6. Larry Davis says

    July 27, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    What I'm waiting for is Edsel to do a Furs career-spanning boxset with all albums, B-sides, 12"s, soundtrack cuts, odds & ends... that's what I thought this article was...that such a box is coming...until then, I have the 2CD Legacy collection...which is better...a B-sides/rarities collection on Legacy & the recent album...great band...

    Reply
  7. RobC says

    July 28, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    Great track list but was really hoping this collection would be the definitive one-stop shop ahead of the remaining remasters.

    Among the missing are minor singles and album tracks that would have easily fit here including Goodbye, Shock, Until It Comes, Don't Be A Girl, Pretty In Pink 1986, Run and Run, Danger, Here Come Cowboys & Should God Forget, Sometimes & There's A World Outside.

    Reply
  8. Louis Bova says

    August 1, 2021 at 11:45 am

    Good to see that songs from "Mirror Moves" , the only Furs albums that never got a remastered reissue by Mark Wilder back in 2002, finally gets refreshed.

    Reply
  9. Russell Finch says

    August 23, 2021 at 7:33 am

    Got this a coupe of days ago. Sound quality is poor - not a patch on the "Should God Forget" compilation. I hope Edsel don't reissue the whole catalogue if this is the best they can do.

    Reply
  10. Russell Finch says

    August 25, 2021 at 6:41 am

    Edsel tell me they have no plans to reissue the whole catalogue.

    Reply

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