Jeffrey McManus

I haven’t posted any oldies-but-goodies yet, but I should mention what I’m listening to at the moment, the most excellent Psychedelic Furs. It looks like we have most if not all of their catalog on YME. If you’re a teeny bopper surfing the New Wave revival, I’d recommend starting with "Love My Way" and then move on to their 2001 greatest hits compilation if that suits your fancy.

This is one of the two bands that I discovered because of mad crushes on girls in my high school, proving what anyone who saw Pretty In Pink already knows — cute high school girls were the primary disease vector for New Wave music. (The other band was The English Beat, which isn’t really new wave but you get the picture.)

Richard Butler, the Furs’ lead singer, will be doing a gig in San Francisco on April 3, so sayeth Upcoming.org.

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