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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not their best, but not their worst, either., Feb 1 2004
I saw this tour in '84, so this album will always have a special place in my heart. Talk Talk opened up for them and the furs had three encores... what a show!Anyway, I see it's become fashionable to say this was the beginning of the end of the furs with this album - I completely disagree. I think this music is a bit more polished and accessible than their earlier output, but it's still a really good album. Heck, even Midnight to Midnight is a decent album, albeit their worst. I see this one hasn't gotten the remastering treatment that the first three albums have received since Sony acquired the furs back catalog. That's a shame. I bought this album on CD back in 84, and still have it. I bought into CD technology early on, and if you have any experience with earlier CD's, they sound HORRIBLE. I've since found this album on vinyl, but would've liked to hear this one remastered. The extras that Sony's been adding to the remastered versions would have been worth the asking price alone. Anyway, don't shy away from this one, it's a good furs album - but not their best.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"Inside You the Time Moves. . .", Jan 27 2003
It was during my sophomore year in high school when I was introduced to The Furs. I was hanging out in my friend's apartment (who had a 100 CD disk changer, which was somewhat of a miracle of modern techonology in the year 1994), and "Mirror Moves" came on. Hearing the first notes of "The Ghost In You," I immediately stopped the conversation to inquire of my friend what fabulous CD was playing. When he informed me, I asked, "Oh, the 'Love My Way' guys"? (Since The Psychedelic Furs had their time when I was in elementary school, and was thus into Sesame Street or The Smurfs, I had no other knowledge of the band other than that song, which I had heard, and still hear, on "Old Wave" nights at clubs). My friend, amused at the difference in our ages (10 years, so he was an adolescent who fervently rushed out to buy "Mirror Moves" when it first came out), told me that there was much much more to The Furs than (sic) " that obnoxiously overplayed and not-so-great hit song." I was soon to learn that he was quite right. I soon acquired a copy of my very first Furs album, and was captivated. I still am. The music is original, inventive, and timeless. And these artsy Brit boys (who are no longer boys; whatever happened to them, after "Love Spit Love?", anyway?!. . .) really know their stuff. They truly mastered the art of both producing delightful tunes and penning intelligent and unique lyrics, which is a fairly uncommon combination in most 80's bands. This album kicks off with the gorgeous and mysterious "The Ghost In You" and ends with the haunting and bitingly cynical "Highwire Days" (which has a very curious and compelling chorus at the end). The whole album is awesome, artsy without pretentions (at least not obviously so), and is really well-produced. The songs follow one another perfectly, weaving a sort of story which explores human frailty, the various complexities of relationships, and the perennial wonder of existence and time (and I have to add that The Furs have a very unique worldview). My favorite tracks are "The Ghost In You" (of course!), the dainty yet powerful "Heaven" (which has some truly interesting lyrics; e.g., "There's a clock on the wall and it counts my time," and "There's a face in the glass and it looks like mine), "Like a Stranger" (a song with an awesome melody and an elusive and fascinating heroine), and "Only a Game" (which pays a sort of odd homage to a "high heeled girl"). If you enjoy interesting, intelligent, unique, and artsy-ish 80's pop (well, this album is pop, after all, and is really different than their superbly raw self-titled debut and the album "Talk Talk Talk,") then I encourage you to get this album. It's a great place to start exploring The Furs oeuvre, as it is possibly the most user-friendly ("Forever Now" is user-friendly, too, but I prefer "Mirror Moves. . . I guess it's a matter of taste). So take that step into the world of The Psychedelic Furs. . . discover and savor "the ghost in you," spend some time with some cowboys, who are "here to save us all" ("Here Come Cowboys"), and bide your time at "Alice's House", where "the butler is serving tea, wearing a shirt without any sleeves"). It's a wonderful album to play while you're moving around your place, perhaps even dancing around, and making your own "mirror moves". . . Ah, yes. . . hope you dig this album as much as I do!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Heaven, Jul 2 2002
I love it when people write new reviews of cd's they've probably owned for 10 years. This is my all time favorite Furs cd. I remember buying it the week it was released and I think I've owned at least five copies of it over the past 12 years; I even own a vinyl copy. To me Mirror Moves represents the history of the Furs sound. It has that gritty somewhat punk sound they had in the beginning and moves into that 80s pop sound and then into some great melodies they had toward the end. These songs never get old and I still enjoy listening to this cd 12 years later. If you don't own a copy, buy one.
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