Behind the Songs: Until She Comes

A selection of quotes from The Psychedelic Furs on the song "Until She Comes".

Richard Butler (on the meaning of the song): "It's generally about addiction." (120 Minutes (MTV) 1991)

Richard Butler: "We also had the advantage of John [Ashton] having a studio set up at his place. The first single, 'Until She Comes,' we tried re-recording it up at Woodstock studio and we just couldn't get the same feel. It's an old cliche that the record often doesn't sound as good as the demos so we didn't bother trying to make it over. We tried a couple times, got back to New York and we basically used John's demos, as they were good quality recordings. We just rolled that on to the 24 four track and the majority of 'Until She Comes' is the demo." (B-Side 1991)

Richard Butler: "[Where] other songs that you might have had for a bit longer, you've had so much time to work on them before that just automatically you know your part. And it all comes together very quickly.

"But I don't think there's a great deal... there's a lot of songs on [World Outside], there's a lot of examples I can think of, like 'Until She Comes' being taken from the demo keeps that rawness." (B-Side 1991)

John Ashton: "We actually ended up using the part of the demo for 'Until She Comes' on [World Outside]. We took the drums, which were a drum machine, and looped it in with real stuff and the original acoustic guitar, and made the song." (Unknown source, 1991?)

John Ashton: "We took the demo version and spun in the original drum machine and acoustic guitar. We then worked from that. The original drums and acoustic guitar were never replaced. I'm very proud of that." (Should God Forget liner notes, 1997)

Interviewer: "The Furs did some releases without you. "Until She Comes" seems like a nice song. Have you played that live?

Paul Garisto: "I had left the Furs at that point to go play with Iggy Pop and I didn't think I would ever play with them again, but I ended up playing with them another eleven years. But, yes, we played that song live.  I loved playing it live." (Coffee Time News 2024)

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