Forever Now [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

The Psychedelic Furs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000063CO8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,264 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Lose yourself....', December 18, 2000

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Michael Heminger "pantherboy" (Pardeeville, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Now (Audio CD)

This album was a high school graduation gift from a good friend and fellow music nut when it was new. I'll never forget the mood of exhileration this lent to my new 'life' outside the confines of school, and looking back, it seems as if the new producer (Todd Rundgren) gave them new breath as well.

"Forever Now" just beams with mirth and shimmering joy in places, transposing a lot of the personal angst of former albums to political targets("President Gas") and blossoming into melancholic or ecstatic love songs. "Love my Way" was the hit-that-should-have-been in the U.S. and I don't think they ever topped the soaring guitar-fueled you-and-me-against-the-world feeling of "Run and Run." Although softer around the edges, this album explores new spaces and the instruments (horn sections AND cello) never smother one another in this rich masterpiece that takes on new textures and themes with each listening.

If you ask them, I'm sure this is the work they want to be remembered for.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great album, terrible remaster, February 2, 2008

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Dana Hood - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Now (Audio CD)

I still own the vinyl import version of this record, but no working turntable. So I was thrilled to see this remastered on CD, until I got it and listened to it. The mastering engineer had to have been nearly deaf or amateur - compared to any other CD I own, recent or older, the sound of this CD is unbearably harsh, peaky in the upper midrange, and completely lacking any bass. Not only that, but it isn't even consistent from song to song. The bonus live tracks in particular are unlistenable without breaking out a graphic EQ.

Now, perhaps the original master shared some of these characteristics, but here was the label's chance to fix everything and bring this classic recording up to modern standards, and they failed. I absolutely recommend the music on this CD, but not this pressing. I just wish I could compare it to the vinyl, and to other CD pressings.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The pinnacle of the furs musical masterpieces, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Forever Now (Audio CD)

Forever Now reflects the bands formative years on the punk rock circuit while finding a new sound in an environment dominated by new wave. The result is an album which delivers surperb lyrics, catchy melodies and a hard rock beat. Before sliding into a more commercial sound this album delivers everything that was good about the eighties.