Self-Written Compositions

Most of the music on the songs by The Psychedelic Furs were composed by several of the band members but the songs that interest me are the ones where the music is written by only one member. I want to talk about the four who were the main composers on some of the songs: Tim Butler, John Ashton, Rich Good, and Paul Garisto.

The idea of this topic came to me recently and I was originally going to do four polls on the PFurs Facebook fan page that I'm on. I would do each one for Tim, John, Rich, and Paul, list the songs they wrote, and people would vote for their favorites. Then after that I would post the results on here, and I thought this would be a fun project to do. Two days ago I did the one for Tim, and after I posted the poll I waited for it to be approved and uploaded. But later that day I found out one of the administrators deleted the poll. I honestly don't know the reason why they did it, but since it didn't work out, I decided to just talk about the songs on here. Oh well, at least I tried...

Anyway, let's begin.

Tim Butler

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Tim Butler was the main composer of (as far as I know) seven songs. Four from Mirror Moves, a b-side, and two from Made Of Rain.

1. The Ghost In You

2. Here Come Cowboys

3. Heaven

4. Like A Stranger

5. Another Edge

6. You'll Be Mine

7. Tiny Hands

As a bonus I will list the Love Spit Love songs Tim composed. He wrote five songs and they were on the first Love Spit Love album.

1. Superman

2. Half A Life

3. Am I Wrong

4. Please

5. More

John Ashton

John Ashton was the main composer of four songs (again, as far as I know) and they are all from Mirror Moves.

1. Heartbeat

2. My Time

3. Only A Game

4. Highwire Days

Rich Good

Rich Good was the main composer of four songs from Made Of Rain.

1. The Boy That Invented Rock & Roll

2. This'll Never Be Like Love

3. Come All Ye Faithful

4. No-One

Paul Garisto

Paul Garisto was the main composer of three songs. Two from Made Of Rain, and one that was recorded during the Made Of Rain sessions but didn't make it on the album; although a year later it got released as a digital download. I wish Paul had written more songs because he's a very talented writer.

1. Ash Wednesday

2. Turn Your Back On Me

3. Evergreen

There are three other songs that I don't know who wrote the music for. The first is "Anodyne," a song that was featured on the live DVD Live From House Of Blues (2001); the second is "Cigarette," also from Live From House Of Blues, which was turned into a song called "Angelic" from John Ashton's band Satellite Paradiso years later. Because of this I feel John might have written the music for "Cigarette," though I could be wrong. And the third is "Little Miss World," a song that was debuted at one of The Psychedelic Furs' concerts back in 2012. I wonder if that song will appear on the upcoming album, and I'm curious to know if the music was written by either Tim Butler, Rich Good, or Paul Garisto, or if it's a band collaboration.

Speaking of the upcoming new album, I'm looking forward to find out what the songs will be and who composed them, and since Zachary Alford is in the band, I wonder if he will do some compositions. It will be very interesting and I can't wait.