An Amazing Discovery

Yesterday I went out to do some errands with my family and I brought my iPod with me so I could listen to The Psychedelic Furs. But there was something special about that day. It was the third year anniversary of the second Psychedelic Furs concert that I went to, and the feeling of those special memories came to me. I was wearing my Mirror Moves t-shirt which I wore at that concert, and on my iPod I listened to a playlist I had created where it has the songs The Furs performed on that night, and I kind of got emotional when I listened to it, especially during "The Ghost In You."

But while I was listening to "The Ghost In You" there was something in the song that I discovered. My headphones have been acting up lately, and the reason why is because when the headphones are plugged in and if the jack gets turned the sound will go away. Not completely, just a faded sound where you barely hear the music and you couldn't hear the vocals. Whenever that would happen I would turn the jack over and over until the sound comes back. It really gets annoying sometimes.

Anyway, when the second chorus of "The Ghost In You" was playing the jack acted up and so I tried to get the sound back. As the chorus was ending a part of it caught my attention while the sound of the headphones was acting up. After when I listened to the playlist I played "The Ghost In You" again. When the choruses came on I turned the headphone jack to make the sound go away and here is something amazing: I could hear Richard Butler's backing vocals clearly. Not perfectly but enough where you could actually sort of hear the words! It reminded me of the live performances of "The Ghost In You" where at the end of the song Richard would sing the BVs part separately.

Hearing the BVs with the faded sound of my headphones was an awesome discovery. You'll probably think it's not really that exciting but to me it is. I guess there was something good that came out of the messed up headphone jack after all!

New Album Update #2

Yesterday I heard some information about The Psychedelic Furs' new album and this time it wasn't from an article online. On YouTube someone uploaded The Psychedelic Furs' July 12th New York concert in its entirety, and I clicked on it just so I could hear the new song "The Boy That Invented Rock And Roll." It was really awesome and I'm thinking of listening to the song a lot just so when I go see The Furs next month it will be familiar to me (if they will perform it). Anyway, after the new song ended Richard Butler thanked the crowd and suddenly he said this:

"We've got a new album coming out next year!"


Next year. No. Way.

After when I heard Richard say that I was absolutely excited and speechless. Honestly I kind of wish it was this year but I'm willing to wait. I feel it's more fitting to release the new album in 2020 because that year will be the 40th anniversary of The Psychedelic Furs' first LP. I'm already looking forward to see what the band will do for their 2020 tour, especially if it will be a tour promoting the new album.

I think this is the first time in my whole life that I had gotten truly excited over a new album. I mean maybe I had with Green Day and a couple bands I used to like, but not as super excited as this. It's a wonderful feeling to know The Psychedelic Furs will be back with new music soon. Also hard to believe how the new album will be the band's first in 29 years. Almost three decades... Wow, that's crazy.

I wonder how the songs on the new album will sound like, and I bet they will be amazing. Can't wait until 2020 comes, and now time to go listen to "The Boy That Invented Rock And Roll" again.

A New Furs Song?

A week ago The Psychedelic Furs started their Summer tour and lately I had been going on Setlist FM to see what songs they played. So far the ones that got me excited were "All Of This And Nothing" and "Sleep Comes Down" and I hope I will hear those two songs when I go see The Furs, especially "All Of This And Nothing." It would be a delight to hear that song.

But there was something that caught my eye and it got me excited. Last night The Psychedelic Furs did a show in New York City and someone updated the setlist for that concert. I looked and one of the songs on the list said "New Song?!?" I was blown away, and it made me wonder if it's a song from the upcoming new album. Or it could either be "Wrong Train" or "Little Miss World," those two songs that The Furs had done live before but hadn't recorded them yet. I'm really hoping it's a new original song, because ever since I heard a little info about The Psychedelic Furs' new album five months ago it made me super pumped for it. The thought of hearing new PFurs material is very exciting.

Here is the link to the setlist for the New York concert. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-psychedelic-furs/2019/the-rooftop-at-pier-17-new-york-ny-139e89f1.html


7/14/19 Update: Okay just now I looked at the setlist for tonight's show in Maryland and the new song has a name! It's called "The Boy That Invented Rock And Roll" and it looks like it might be a new Psychedelic Furs song! https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-psychedelic-furs/2019/the-fillmore-silver-spring-silver-spring-md-6b9ef662.html

I went back to the setlist for the New York concert and the new song's name was added. It said that "The Boy That Invented Rock And Roll" was performed live for the first time ever on that night!