Retro Spins: The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

 

I may have to take a step back and bite my tongue. In my last post, I gave the Fur's 1980 debut album a pass, stating that I knew better was on the horizon.

Success in the USA came for the Fur's with their 1981 released Talk Talk Talk, which peaked on the Billboard 200 at number eighty-nine. With it came the first iteration of their song, Pretty In Pink, which would serve as inspiration for the 1986 John Hughes film of the same name. However, singer / writer Richard Butler would later say that the cinematic interpretation had very little to do with the song's original intent.

Playing through it, I was expecting the band to tone down their punk roots and adopt a more pop oriented sound. In hindsight, that may have been an unrealistic expectation.

While I did enjoy Pretty In Pink, It Goes On, and I Wanna Sleep With You, Talk Talk Talk didn't make me the fan I was hoping it would have. It wasn't bad by any means, it just didn't resonate with me as much as I wanted it to. I chalk that up to the punk sound it encompassed, which isn't necessarily a genre I flock towards.

I'm still holding out hope that later albums break the mold and offer more. I'm also still relatively invested in chugging through those, which I suppose is a good thing since I already own them.

Basically, that's all I have to say, and for that, my mistake was not writing this at the same time as listening to the album, as I often do. Too much time has passed since then, and I've relatively forgotten most of it.

Tomorrow, I'll dive into 1982's Forever Now.

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