THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS - FOREVER NOW - VINILO ORIGINAL PRIMERA EDICION CBS 1982

La formación británica, uno de los referentes del after punk surgido en las islas a finales de los 70 y compañeros de generación de Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Church, The Cure, The Chameleons, Love & Rockets… llegaron a gozar de más popularidad que muchos de ellos en la década de los 80 y cierto es, que pocos de sus contemporaneos pueden presumir de un número tan alto de grandes temas.

En plena madurez artística y en plena cresta de la ola. Su Forever Now de 1982 resuena como viento fresco y su fragancia eleva a la banda al limbo de los triunfadores.

"Diferencias artísticas" empujan a Duncan Kilburn y Roger Morris a abandonar el barco, reduciendo al grupo a cuarteto. Haciendo caso omiso a sus problemas internos, los Furs vuelven a dar otro zarpazo con el lanzamiento de Forever now (1982), disco considerado clásico, con el cual logran un sonido personal.

Graban en Woodstock al amparo del productor Todd Rundgren. De Forever Now brota Love My Way, un single que les brinda un furibundo éxito entrando directamente al paraíso del Billboard Hot 100. Ely les abandona tras perfilar los últimos flecos del álbum. Phil Calvert le sustituye en la siguiente gira, pero no llega a ver los estudios donde se prepara el nuevo material de la banda.

Canciones:

All songs written by Richard Butler, John Ashton, Tim Butler and Vince Ely.

Original UK LP release

Side one

1."President Gas" – 5:09

2."Love My Way" – 3:26

3."Run and Run" – 3:43

4."Merry-Go-Round" – 3:44

5."Sleep Comes Down" – 3:43

Side two

1."Forever Now" – 5:25

2."Danger" – 2:32

3."You and I" – 4:15

4."Goodbye" – 3:47

5."No Easy Street" – 3:54

Forever Now is the third studio album by the English rock band The Psychedelic Furs. The album represented a turning point in the musical maturation of the band, after a turbulent period of personnel changes in which they shrank from a six-man ensemble to a quartet. Working with the Furs for the first time, Todd Rundgren placed his own sonic imprint upon the album as producer and guest musician. Rundgren also added new types of instrumentation to the band's sound, including cello and marimba. The album was released in September, 1982, and featured the hit single "Love My Way". The UK release sported cover art by the artist Barney Bubbles, but this was changed to a completely different design for the US release.

In the year after the recording of their second album, 1981's Talk Talk Talk, the Psychedelic Furs underwent a tumultuous time of change and, in the words of guitarist John Ashton, "a bit of a dark period in the band's history".Two of the original members – saxophonist Duncan Kilburn and guitarist Roger Morris – abruptly and rancorously quit the band. The band's main patrons at CBS Records had largely left the company by this time; their successful recent producer, Steve Lillywhite, was now basically unavailable to them;and even drummer Vince Ely's commitment to the band seemed to be in question. Not only had their large ensemble been unexpectedly reduced to a traditional four-piece band, but the core members of Ashton, Tim Butler, and Richard Butler now mostly had to compose new songs without drums, utilizing a Casio VL-Tone synthesizer until they'd developed enough music for an album.