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And of course, this gem from 1984 by #ThePsychedelicFurs. Written as a critique of Ronald Reagan, it works under the current administration. When will we ever learn?

"There are colors flashing
People wearing stars and stuff
There are engines cracking
There's a way to turn it off

It gets so hard at times
To take it serious
It really gets to be a drag
When all we really need is love

Here come cowboys
Here to save us all
Here come cowboys
They're so well inside the law
Here come cowboys
They're no fun at all
Here come cowboys..."

youtube.com/watch?v=X9ou8zehFo

#80sMusic #RevolutionDanceParty #Authoritarianism #USPol #TrumpSucks
#ReaganSucked #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #MusicVideos #FridayNightVideos #MAGACowboys #JukeboxFridayNight

Psychedelic Furs - World Outside

The reset continued here, integrating a bit of the Forever Now sound into the noisier earlier sound…and cutting out the dance-rock completely.

But despite the good set of songs, the album was out of step with the times, wasn't successful, and there wouldn't be another for nearly 30 years.

The Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days

I think the Furs realized a course correction was needed after Midnight to Midnight. They're achieved commercial success with Heartbreak Beat, but moved so far from the "Furs Sound" that they'd become almost...generic. Popular…but unsatisfying as art.

This album is looking backwards a bit, but it's a grower…and not an embarrassment.

Nice to have Vince Ely back on the skins…though this'd be his last Furs record.

The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now

For @SingwithFishes - with the fantastic original Barney Bubbles UK album art. (The US version of the cover is terrible.)

I loved Talk Talk Talk *so* much that the more polished sound of this was slightly disappointing at the time, but not so much that I didn't play the album to death.

These first three LPs (s/t, talk, forever now) were a spectacular run of music…

#GreatAlbums1980s - #ThePsychedelicFurs – Mirror Moves (1984). The Furs were not very psychedelic, but they were a brilliant pop band, infusing hits like "The Ghost in You" and "Heaven" with enough emotional depth to make them classics of their era. Richard Butler had one of those immediately recognizable voices, and when the albums served up tracks like "Here Come Cowboys," "My Time," and "Like a Stranger," it made the Furs much more than a singles act.