Let's go back in time to 1980, I was wandering around The Wherehouse looking for something to buy, and came across the first Psychedelic Furs album (US Version) and was very intrigued, I had never heard of them or heard any other their songs, as it was before they got any local radio play, but something inside me made me buy it! Took it home and played it and was mesmerized! Still my fav release of theirs! I also saw them play at the Roxy in Hollywood on their very first US Tour....
What an intro, headphone material, couldnt believe this sound, i was 14, can you imagine, blew me away, ive got goose bumps listenhng now, i'm 50 summat!!
I just saw them live last night and I'm still riding that high... here it is around 40 years after I first heard them and their sound is hitting me like it did when I was 16 or 17 or however old I was. I've come full circle and rediscovering that sound again... and maybe myself again.
I 1st saw the in 1982 and was blown away By their musical Talent. They were such a part of our lives back then. And I recently saw them in Atlantic City And they blew me away again they are one of the best Bands of all time. I'm going to listen to them forever. You had to be there.
I'll never forget pulling up to the Ritz in NYC to see this new band. The line to get in wrapped around the entire block and everyone was excited to see these guys. I'd never even heard of them until I was offered one of the tickets at work...needless to say i became a.fan that night .
Yes. It fit beautifully and I as Pleasantly shocked to hear it. The next time I was in New York I had to ride around Tompkins Square on a bike listening to it in tribute
Yes. I like his work on the second Psychedelic Furs LP also, and on XTC's Drums and Wires, and Black Sea, and Penetration's Coming Up for Air. @@mikesabota2570
I've been looking for this song for 30 years. I just remember it as the sound of SAMO, aka Basquiat, riding his bike around a New York Park. It was a world defining moment for me as a 20 year old boy living in Seattle.
My fave getting ready to go out track for many years. Funny, my generally chilled out dog was laying down chilling to the intro sounds, obviously getting right into the groove as she then jumped out of her skin as the bass kicked in! She never does that!
Stunning musicianship, fantastic vocals and magnetic lyrics - India delivered the jolt of psychedelic energy to the culture of punk rock at precisely the right moment to launch their new genre. My favourite song..
WHY India is not regarded as the Greatest Anthem of the 80's I will never understand. Everything Joy DIvision, New Order, Duran Duran, even the SIsters of Mercy were trying to do, this song went farther. Genius, pure and simple.
Love this song and this album. Bought it when it came out and have never stopped playing it, but the 2 minute plus ambient music opening to this track still seems way too long after all these years.
This truly is an amazing album and a band which, at least for me, has stood the test of time. I listen to them again and again, and it never seems dated or at least it never seems as if I have overrated the band earlier. Their later albums were just as good- Book of Days and World Outside were excellent. Also teh last album to come out has shown they have not diminised.
India (Lyrics) The Psychedelic Furs India India You're my love song India you're my love song In the flowers You can have me in the flowers We will dance alone And live our useless lives India stupid on the carpet floor India stupid on the carpet floor We dance upon the carpet floor And reel around India India India India India I'm American ha ha ha India Caroline is really great She serves the muck Upon a tray And little rich boy don't you cry You kiss me in the anodyne See the ceiling raining spit The beach is backwards isn't it India don't you cry India see the ceiling raining tears You will cry a thousand tears All the women form a line Put your face upon a line This is for the discotheque This is stupid I object And I love you and I love you And please me please me please me Please me please me please me Please me please meplease me India India India India Composers: Richard Butler, Timothy Butler, John Ashton, The Psychedelic Furs, Vince Ely
This was the only P Furs album I ever had ... but I DID have the experience of trying to perform in a play (Indiana University, must have been 1984 or 5) with just a 'sound door' separating us from the incredibly loud Furs in the IU Auditorium (very shitty building design). Standing upstage, we couldn't hear our damn cues from downstage, cuz there was just this wall of volume coming from the left. :D A great memory, actually.
un album che mi accompagna da una vita , gruppo straordinario anche e non solo per la capacità di scrivere testi e arrangiamenti tutti assieme. si è capito che mi fanno impazzire?
Saw these in 1984....superb¬ One of the gigs I actually cried at because of its beauty.....Although I6m not Dave, I'm Helen, his slightly less wanky (and older) girlfriend
Man, I've got to say just before it kicks in that I'd really really forgotten just how fuckin fantastic the start of this album is. Wooooow. Indiiiiaaaàh! . Best gig ever, mean fiddler harlesden
What a great band seen them in 1986 when they headlined Glastonbury Friday night with an amazing laser show that left me transfixed in mute fasciation a group of roughly 15-20 us was on White Lightning and we were all just blown away. We all thought it doesn't get better than this until Saturday night when The Cure headlined. That was also amazing but, for me, the Furs edged it. Other bands there were Waterboys, The Pouges, Level 42 and loads of other great artists. Slight memory block as I type. Been huge fan ever since. Weather amazing too sunshine galore. What a Festival that was.
I’m giving The Psychedelic Furs a listen as my father (who’s been listening to them since this album released) has been recommending them to me for nearly 2 years now and I’ve never given them the chance, here’s hoping.
India India You're my love song India you're my love song In the flowers You can have me in the flowers We will dance alone And live our useless lives India stupid on the carpet floor India stupid on the carpet floor We dance upon the carpet floor And reel around India India India India India I'm American ha ha ha India Caroline is really great She serves the muck Upon a tray And little rich boy don't you cry You kiss me in the anodyne See the ceiling raining spit The beach is backwards isn't it India don't you cry India see the ceiling raining tears You will cry a thousand tears All the women form a line Put your face upon a line This is for the discotheque This is stupid I object And I love you and I love you And please me please me please me Please me please me please me Please me please me please me India India India India
I love this album and this track in particular. I had a hifi with built in alarm that would play the cd. A great way to wake up. I do find tho that the dynamic range in my vinyl copy is much greater than cd. When the bass first comes in on vinyl it's like it's right in your ear. Because of the way cd re-mastering is done it loses that dynamic range. I recommend everyone get the vinyl version.
It's late-ish at night.... Love the opening with the static beats...a little like 70s sci-fi.. Logan's Run.. snuffed out before they hit 30... I'd rather go out grey and gnarly like a sea washed tree stump...
Probably, this and " Sister" are their best songs.I really liked the first LP, but by the second, could see them morphing into another bad English Pop band . They had it in the beginning, though, - like a lot of bands that sell out.
sister europe? You are right on. After the love My way album, it was a bit to popish for me. heat beat and heart break beat no thanks ill pass .I saw them in about 84. great band first three albums.
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This entire album is an absolute masterpiece! Play it late at night when you are all alone. It will take you to another place.
ABSOLUTELY !
I hear you.
Am right now 40 yrs since first heard it still wicked
Exactly
This is my first time hearing it and I remember the Psychedelic Furs love my world it captured me for the rest of my life
This is how you start a debut album one of the most intense and mesmerising openers to a debut album John Ashton's guitar on this song is amazing
Quite a bass run, too.
Along with ‘I wanna be adored’ Stone Roses.
Let's go back in time to 1980, I was wandering around The Wherehouse looking for something to buy, and came across the first Psychedelic Furs album (US Version) and was very intrigued, I had never heard of them or heard any other their songs, as it was before they got any local radio play, but something inside me made me buy it! Took it home and played it and was mesmerized! Still my fav release of theirs! I also saw them play at the Roxy in Hollywood on their very first US Tour....
What an intro, headphone material, couldnt believe this sound, i was 14, can you imagine, blew me away, ive got goose bumps listenhng now, i'm 50 summat!!
I just saw them live last night and I'm still riding that high... here it is around 40 years after I first heard them and their sound is hitting me like it did when I was 16 or 17 or however old I was. I've come full circle and rediscovering that sound again... and maybe myself again.
Perhaps the best lead-in ever...You know something great is coming
It's right up there to be sure. Very few songs will induce goosebumps like this does.
Greatest intro
I listen this Song 1987 while driving on "Autobahn" in sunrise. This feeling still inspired me.
This and The Cult she sells sanctuary ... Furs an amazing band
Perhaps (probably) the best rock song ever 👍
I 1st saw the in 1982 and was blown away By their musical Talent. They were such a part of our lives back then. And I recently saw them in Atlantic City And they blew me away again they are one of the best Bands of all time. I'm going to listen to them forever. You had to be there.
I'll never forget pulling up to the Ritz in NYC to see this new band. The line to get in wrapped around the entire block and everyone was excited to see these guys. I'd never even heard of them until I was offered one of the tickets at work...needless to say i became a.fan that night .
Glad you went....this song sold me back in the day
This music is the only thing that helped me survive the 80’S. Btw, I loved the way this track was used in the film “Basquiat”
My favourite film x
Yes. It fit beautifully and I as Pleasantly shocked to hear it. The next time I was in New York I had to ride around Tompkins Square on a bike listening to it in tribute
i'll watch the movie then
This album rules.
Few things compare in rock and roll.
A true exemplary moment.
The sound that Steve Lillywhite gets on the drums and guitar interaction is unmatched. The space is so remote but so attractive.
You can tell Lillywhite had a hand in this as in the album Boy!!!
Yes. I like his work on the second Psychedelic Furs LP also, and on XTC's Drums and Wires, and Black Sea, and Penetration's Coming Up for Air. @@mikesabota2570
The first Furs song I heard, still my favorite, saw them live at the Country Club in Reseda, Ca when the album came out...epic
Same!
I want to go back and be sitting on the floor in dim light, with headphones on, listening to this album for the very first time. 🖤🖤🖤
Boy dont you KNOW IT
@@desireec.crooks78 Richard Butler has the most whiskey & cigarettes voice. Makes Tom Waits seem like a teenage girl :)
back to when I was 13? No thanks :)
Those were the days digger .
And I was 30. What a relief !!
Yep..been many many years..saw them first in glasgow 81..me 61 now..still love them.
Greatest debut album in history. The second album almost as great.
Great but no chance.. 'Roxy Music" is the greatest debut ever!
Agreed!
@@SKYSAW59 Don't forget the Cars debut.
@@deborahpaley21 not really.Ahead of that..
Pink Floyd
Cockley Rebel
Stranglers
Sex Pistols
Clash
X Ray Spex
Split Enz
Etc
Furs loving since 83...an elderly freak today, and would never regret it!
Get your freak on brother..
since '80, elderly 69 yrs old here
I've been looking for this song for 30 years. I just remember it as the sound of SAMO, aka Basquiat, riding his bike around a New York Park. It was a world defining moment for me as a 20 year old boy living in Seattle.
Saw them supporting Iggy Pop at the Hammersmith Odeon a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Some enchanted evening!!!
Think it was the Palais Thomas but yes a superb gig.
I loved the Furs in college and they helped me keep sane while my Grateful Dead loving friends tortured me with their jams.
Brother, Tha Furs and thy Dead share the same audience!
@@rikjanssens2616 Yuck. No way.
Funny, I am a DEad head and I LOVE the Furs.
@@jeffersonlawson6353 That's really strange. He he heh
@@rikjanssens2616 ummm hmmm
Their first tour was in 1980. First song. First album. The original 9:30 Club in Washington DC -front and center was me
Saw the Furs last night in STL. They ended their encore with India.. .I wish I could explain how awesome it was... ❤️
You don't need to explain,, if you know you know. 🙏😎
they also ended their encore in jacksonville oregon with india
When the chiming guitars come in about 2:10 it reminds me of " When You Were Mine " by The Church.
"Ah; bliss; the 😍 beautiful chaos; first heard this listening to uncle John peel as a 16 year old sweet Nostalgia!'
God! I miss the 80's
My fave getting ready to go out track for many years. Funny, my generally chilled out dog was laying down chilling to the intro sounds, obviously getting right into the groove as she then jumped out of her skin as the bass kicked in! She never does that!
Amazing album and song. I was blown away when I first heard them around 1983 at 13 years old. Unforgettable then and now.
I heard the Psychedelic Furs in the 80s I knew they was in touch with amazing music
Crafted by gods, what can you add.
That first drum crash. ❤
ABSOLUTE HEAVEN when it comes in blasting out LOUD!! 💥 MOONbeing☆ 💫
playing now, balcony, north Thailand 2020, tune
Right on.
@@undermoonlightglow hi everyone❤
This one starts quietly as john peel would say introducing this track ❤❤❤
Stunning musicianship, fantastic vocals and magnetic lyrics - India delivered the jolt of psychedelic energy to the culture of punk rock at precisely the right moment to launch their new genre. My favourite song..
Hey Hey take me to another place this album is awesome
timeless - would rock it in any decade....
this is it pure shit bingo love it
Greatness Timeless Masterpiece
This here is my all time favorite band. They just kicked ass.
Goose bumps since the first time I listened to that song in the 80’s
I was 10 years old when this song was released… I remember dancing to this song when I was 10
WHY India is not regarded as the Greatest Anthem of the 80's I will never understand. Everything Joy DIvision, New Order, Duran Duran, even the SIsters of Mercy were trying to do, this song went farther. Genius, pure and simple.
Richard Butler is a mediocre lyricist at best, nothing even close to Ian Curtis
@@HitlerGaymes123 Hey, we disagree, but that's all good. So much great music from that era.
The Roxy Music "Wall of Sound".. continued beautifully!
epitomises a time in my youth.........f****** fantastic and still doing it live.....with 3 original members
Love this song and this album. Bought it when it came out and have never stopped playing it, but the 2 minute plus ambient music opening to this track still seems way too long after all these years.
this one's perhaps the coolest!
This truly is an amazing album and a band which, at least for me, has stood the test of time. I listen to them again and again, and it never seems dated or at least it never seems as if I have overrated the band earlier. Their later albums were just as good- Book of Days and World Outside were excellent. Also teh last album to come out has shown they have not diminised.
I got to see them - they were sublime!
India (Lyrics)
The Psychedelic Furs
India India
You're my love song
India you're my love song
In the flowers
You can have me in the flowers
We will dance alone
And live our useless lives
India stupid on the carpet floor
India stupid on the carpet floor
We dance upon the carpet floor
And reel around
India India India India India
I'm American ha ha ha
India
Caroline is really great
She serves the muck
Upon a tray
And little rich boy don't you cry
You kiss me in the anodyne
See the ceiling raining spit
The beach is backwards isn't it
India don't you cry
India see the ceiling raining tears
You will cry a thousand tears
All the women form a line
Put your face upon a line
This is for the discotheque
This is stupid I object
And I love you and I love you
And please me please me please me
Please me please me please me
Please me please meplease me
India India India India
Composers: Richard Butler, Timothy Butler, John Ashton, The Psychedelic Furs, Vince Ely
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40 YEARS before Made of Rain. Amazing body of work. So fucking underappreciated.
Fantastic song
This was the only P Furs album I ever had ... but I DID have the experience of trying to perform in a play (Indiana University, must have been 1984 or 5) with just a 'sound door' separating us from the incredibly loud Furs in the IU Auditorium (very shitty building design). Standing upstage, we couldn't hear our damn cues from downstage, cuz there was just this wall of volume coming from the left. :D A great memory, actually.
Get Mirror Moves. It's amazing all the way through.
I saw them in 1980 and they opened with India, people went wild when they were hit with this wall of sounds. Still gives me goose bumps!!
They also opened with this in '86 NYC South Street Seaport.
Incredible debut album.....
Yes.
India......you're my love song.... India
un album che mi accompagna da una vita , gruppo straordinario anche e non solo per la capacità di scrivere testi e arrangiamenti tutti assieme. si è capito che mi fanno impazzire?
About 40 years ago many a memorable weekends in college dial it up to 11
Saw these in 1984....superb¬ One of the gigs I actually cried at because of its beauty.....Although I6m not Dave, I'm Helen, his slightly less wanky (and older) girlfriend
Man, I've got to say just before it kicks in that I'd really really forgotten just how fuckin fantastic the start of this album is. Wooooow. Indiiiiaaaàh! . Best gig ever, mean fiddler harlesden
... love the Furs ...for long time ...
What a great band seen them in 1986 when they headlined Glastonbury Friday night with an amazing laser show that left me transfixed in mute fasciation a group of roughly 15-20 us was on White Lightning and we were all just blown away.
We all thought it doesn't get better than this until Saturday night when The Cure headlined. That was also amazing but, for me, the Furs edged it. Other bands there were Waterboys, The Pouges, Level 42 and loads of other great artists. Slight memory block as I type. Been huge fan ever since. Weather amazing too sunshine galore. What a Festival that was.
Was there right at the front.... First time at glasters too. First two albums were mint
@@davidblockley7778 I was there too, it WAS amazing, wasn't it?!
Yes it was! And don't forget Ruby Turner.... :-)
@@worshipthenephilim lucky
I'm jealous
A favourite since first day
one of my favourite bands!🥰🤩
I’m giving The Psychedelic Furs a listen as my father (who’s been listening to them since this album released) has been recommending them to me for nearly 2 years now and I’ve never given them the chance, here’s hoping.
India India
You're my love song
India you're my love song
In the flowers
You can have me in the flowers
We will dance alone
And live our useless lives
India stupid on the carpet floor
India stupid on the carpet floor
We dance upon the carpet floor
And reel around
India India India India India
I'm American ha ha ha
India
Caroline is really great
She serves the muck
Upon a tray
And little rich boy don't you cry
You kiss me in the anodyne
See the ceiling raining spit
The beach is backwards isn't it
India don't you cry
India see the ceiling raining tears
You will cry a thousand tears
All the women form a line
Put your face upon a line
This is for the discotheque
This is stupid I object
And I love you and I love you
And please me please me please me
Please me please me please me
Please me please me please me
India India India India
Favorite FURS album.........FUCKIN TIMELESS!!!!!!!!!
Eddy Eddie or Chris
no longer here but still hear the
dodgy lead!
makes me smile
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This bass 💜💜💜
There are lots of A-mazing Furs songs......just let this be an introduction :)
Mirror Moves is their best album, although it's hard to beat Sister Europe as a single hit....FWIW.
Saw them back in 78 79 about 10 times in uk and in about 88 in USA
Great album
wish I could afford to go. sounds fun on 2023.:P
That guitar intro............................
Absolute best imho
I love this album and this track in particular. I had a hifi with built in alarm that would play the cd. A great way to wake up. I do find tho that the dynamic range in my vinyl copy is much greater than cd. When the bass first comes in on vinyl it's like it's right in your ear. Because of the way cd re-mastering is done it loses that dynamic range. I recommend everyone get the vinyl version.
All hail the non-rushed intro. Groups (see The Cure) do this when they are feeling they are moving toward a killer song.
You're my love song
The Psychedelic Furs are original and honest I can tell you that about the test the song they sang
If you don't want a ticket...Do Not Play While Driving.
Unbelievably next-level insistent push. Masterpiece.
This will always be my favorite song
Very recognizable entrance .... blistering guitar work ..my ears need band aids 😉
It's late-ish at night.... Love the opening with the static beats...a little like 70s sci-fi.. Logan's Run.. snuffed out before they hit 30... I'd rather go out grey and gnarly like a sea washed tree stump...
nice reference, or dare I say allusion
The original album was released on what year? 🤔
Most Excellent
Emerald City, preceded by the Reds. We was saturated on all kinds of wildass shit and that dancing was no tango. 🤩
Grazas por facerme a vida mais agradabel!!
their best song
D'accord!
Amidst the hackneyed punk bands, this was refreshing.
There a clever band in the fact that there well known but not that known at all ..
The way it should be.
Maravilla!!
What this song's about?
soooo luv the album cover.....a one mega pixel camera!..... seriously though.... fuckin classic!
Massive attack-teardrop, first 2:08 minutes
love
I would hope so
Did any one else’s parents name them India after this song...nope, just me?
That's my first question if I meet an India. Never been yes. Congrats to you having cool parents xx
longest LP fade-in in rock history?
Probably, this and " Sister" are their best songs.I really liked the first LP, but by the second, could see them morphing into another bad English Pop band .
They had it in the beginning, though, - like a lot of bands that sell out.
sister europe? You are right on. After the love My way album, it was a bit to popish for me. heat beat and heart break beat no thanks ill pass .I saw them in about 84. great band first three albums.
It could have been part of Lost in translation movie OST
Signed to CBS for a tiny 15k advance, and made their great music on their own terms. This is their greatest song.