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The Psychedelic Furs — All That Money Wants
Album: All Of This And Nothing
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6.9

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Total ratings: 2179









Released: 1988
Length: 3:37
Plays (last 30 days): 1
city sky comes down like rain
through all the alleys to the sea
i hear footsteps getting louder
drowning in my sleep
painted lies on painted lips
that promise heaven tastes like this
i don't believe that i believed in you
all that money wants

all that money wants
all that money wants

sunday's child will fall through faith
i feel i'm falling out of grace
grey city sky comes down like rain
to drown me in my sleep
people fade and i forget you
i hear footsteps see their faces
but it all means nothing to me now

all that money wants
all that money wants
all that money wants

city sky comes down like rain
through all the alleys to the sea
i hear her footsteps getting louder
i'm drowning in my sleep
painted lies on broken lips
that promise heaven tastes like this
came home pushed and full of pins

sunday's child will fall through faith
i feel i'm falling out of grace
i see the sky comes down like rain
to drown me in my sleep
people fade and i forget you
i hear footsteps icy faces
but it all means nothing to me
all that money wants

all that money wants
all that money wants
all that money wants
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 moocray wrote:


Plus the that friggin bassline. Try just listening to the bassline.

Plus the ability of the song to transform me to some post-modern abstract cosmic utopia. fact.



Exactly!
Just have to comment - 

I remember listening to this album in high school - that bass line.  that flanger guitar.  Perfect pop song. 
I am 21 again-working the door at W.C. Don's-the CBGB' s of Mississippi.  With nothing to lose-life was dirty but we drank and danced and smiled anyway.  Thanks for that little slice of my youth this morning. 
That flange. That bass. Those drums. Love this song.
i always feel like the vocalist has a kind of taunting bend to his voice. like he's trying to tell us all that we suck.

i wish i could put it more eloquently, but the words aren't coming.

that said, i do love the psychedelic furs. reminds me of high school for sure.
 TC1 wrote:

The Kevin O'Learry song!

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Hot take: Kevin O'Leary is a tool. 
The Kevin O'Learry song!

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I'm in heaven when I hear this song. 
 dfphillips1 wrote:

Not the Furs' best, but still a great band. I saw them live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in June 1981. I might have been the only person in the audience not dressed in new wave black.



hmmmmm...one of their best.  Strong guitar, hook, chorus, etc. 
GREAT TUNE!
Not the Furs' best, but still a great band. I saw them live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in June 1981. I might have been the only person in the audience not dressed in new wave black.
The Furs at their finest 
 kcar wrote:


Adam and the ants ?
When the Furs were on, they were ON.
The Psychedelic Furs made us feel divine.
 kcar wrote:

Bill has it in a folder labeled "ekin." You figure it out.


Suggest you also watch for the folder called "yobokies".
 123heyaho! wrote:
The song is alright, bit it's not really mellow, is it...?
 

Well it is in the "RP Rock Mix" so why would it be mellow? Just saying :)
I get the Psychedelic Furs confused with the Afghan Wigs. 
 LowPhreak wrote:

How about King Crimson - Easy Money? {#Jump}
 

How is everyone missing The Beatles - Money?  Too obvious?
 kcar wrote:

Bill has it in a folder labeled "ekin." You figure it out. 

 

The song is alright, bit it's not really mellow, is it...?
The perfect song for the first beer at the end of a day most of which was spent getting my balls busted trying (eventually succeeding) to get a small commercial video shoot into the Manhattan penthouse of a  multimillionaire.  To make $400. On a day the sky comes down as rain. WTF is wrong with this picture? 
 debobasu wrote:
Johnny Marr - Easy Money
Psychedelic furs - all that money wants...

If bill plays pink floyd - money and another like-minded song, someone's getting a donation. 
 

Some of us give money to RP regardless of what they play.
 edwinlegters wrote:
This just sounds so modern
 

yep, but that kind of modern I don't like
This just sounds so modern
- beginning guitar reminds me of Ask Of Me John by The Ocean Blue 
 thewiseking wrote:
the guitar tone, the riff, the vocals and lyrics..........just pure perfect pop
 

Plus the that friggin bassline. Try just listening to the bassline.

Plus the ability of the song to transform me to some post-modern abstract cosmic utopia. fact.
Show me the money!!1!11!!elf!!!
 thewiseking wrote:
the guitar tone, the riff, the vocals and lyrics..........just pure perfect pop
 
THE MIX.
I don't know what it is, but something about this tune makes me feel really good.
A great underrated band.
Forever reminds me of how while we used to wait for movies to show in the CU campus' UMC Theater back in the mid-80s, we'd often hear The Psychedelic Furs over the speaker system, and it was always the perfect thing to have going in the background on a hot date
 arserocket wrote:
I loved this band Feckin ekin

 
Don't take it personally {#Meditate} , Ekin hates nearly 40% of all music.
the guitar tone, the riff, the vocals and lyrics..........just pure perfect pop
I loved this band Feckin ekin
 ekin wrote:
Could you not found a worse song to play? wtf this song? yes i know there is PSD option but i really want to know how did you discover that bullshit?

 
Bill has it in a folder labeled "ekin." You figure it out. 

 moocray wrote:
This jam always makes that strange juice flow in my viscera.

 
Strange juice flowing in your viscera?  That sounds serious. Take your Obamacare card, if you have one, and get that checked. 
This jam always makes that strange juice flow in my viscera.
Perhaps the best of all of the 80s Pop Combos.
Jesus and Mary Chain, Camper van Beethoven, the Furs - hello my college radio days!!

Turning it up ... {#Bananajam} 
"Verde que te quiero verde" -  Lorca
8>9
so fine - takes me back to a mate's room playing this and fart sounds out of his bedroom window at the passing folks
What a great song!
 ekin wrote:
Could you not found a worse song to play? wtf this song? yes i know there is PSD option but i really want to know how did you discover ?

IMO, there is a worse song!  This acceptable song is a rebound from the sucko-barfo dreck that is "Heartbreak Beat."  But still a shadow of the "wall of sound" that really defines the Furs' best work for me.  
Richard Butler's voice.....

 youtube:Maratus personatus perform its very elaborate, oh-so-adorable mating dance.

Love the Peacock Spider


thank you....:)
 ekin wrote:
Could you not found a worse song to play? wtf this song? yes i know there is PSD option but i really want to know how did you discover that bullshit?

 
What's the complaint? Please be specific, inquiring minds want to know. wtf this song? is not a complaint, it's a brusque and rhetorical question.  
 ekin wrote:
Could you not found a worse song to play? wtf this song? yes i know there is PSD option but i really want to know how did you discover that bullshit?

 
Can I mambo dogface to the banana patch?
 ekin wrote:
Could you not found a worse song to play? wtf this song? yes i know there is PSD option but i really want to know how did you discover that bullshit?

 
Huh?  Are we listening to the same stream?  Mine sounds tops.
Could you not found a worse song to play? wtf this song? yes i know there is PSD option but i really want to know how did you discover that bullshit?
I came back from the coffee shop across the street in today's 2015, stepped into my home office and slipped into 1985. We like that. Jesus and Mary Chain, Psych Furs.  Classic '80s tunes. 
 
I see faces, dead people.......could be because they are filming another episode of "Dead People"  outside my house.
{#Bananajam}
 debobasu wrote:
Johnny Marr - Easy Money
Psychedelic furs - all that money wants...

If bill plays pink floyd - money and another like-minded song, someone's getting a donation. 

 
How about King Crimson - Easy Money? {#Jump}
Money!!! {#Cowboy}
Johnny Marr - Easy Money
Psychedelic furs - all that money wants...

If bill plays pink floyd - money and another like-minded song, someone's getting a donation. 
gotta love fur!

When I hear that opening riff,

I'm instantly transported back to the 80's.

 

...so much younger and better looking.


awesome furs
 Proclivities wrote:

Um, The Psychedelic Furs preceded Nirvana by about ten years.  They were great however.


 

Yes, that's not exactly a secret.
It is so cool to sit here in Denver and jam to this tune that trips me back to those times when I sat in Boulder just as high on all this as now.
Love the FURS .. Thanks for playing!
Love this album. {#Sunny}
 Smoove_D wrote:
One of those bands I just can't get into, even though people with good musical taste are into them. Like The Smiths.
 
Live you life, like whatever music you want to.  Don't knuckle under to peer pressure, Smoove_D.

Yessss...  love this groovy song...
 


Everybody in my church loves this song...


“I have serious concerns that this settlement may allow banks to skirt what they owe and sweep past abuses under the rug without determining the full harm borrowers have suffered,” said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D.- Md., a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and a vocal critical of the government regulators handling of the mortgage crisis.

 
..i wonder if Lazarus & his church congregation will like this..?..
Pure energy from one of Britain's greatest bands.
 linden wrote:
Sigh ...{#Hearteyes}
 
yeah, {#Angel}
Sigh ...{#Hearteyes}
Whoa, 13 comments from Romeotuma — he likes it, hey Mikey!  S'okay, I like it too.  {#Wink}
 romeotuma wrote:


This song is soooo good my nipples get hard when I hear it...

 
 
Man I liked it better when you told us the song was good for your ears. This I don't need to know...

 Sorcha wrote:
This song reminds me of a funny/cool memory from the 80s:  I was in London staying with a friend who knew the band, so when they came by the flat we all went out partying at Camden Palais and danced till 3am.  I haven't thought of *that* in a long time!
 

I remember you! 
 rdo wrote:
This sounds like a different version of the song.  It's not the same as the one on my copy of this cd.
 

Now it sounds better.  This must have been fixed with a better upload (?) .  It was a lot different 2 years ago.
I was then and am still now too metal to like these guys....
One of those bands I just can't get into, even though people with good musical taste are into them. Like The Smiths.
 romeotuma wrote:
Excellent...  we be dancing...
 
We be dancing here too


I LOVE THIS.
Love this album — it has a place in my collection of physical CD's that I still own... (so hard to go completely digital)

oh Libby... you loved me and I treated you like a dog. Songs haunt me.
7>8.
Fine & sweet like a pig cooked in maple syrup like mamma used to make....mmmm
city sky comes down like rain
through all the alleys to the sea
i hear her footsteps getting louder
i'm drowning in my sleep
painted lies on broken lips
that promise heaven tastes like this
came home pushed and full of pins sunday's child will fall through faith
i feel i'm falling out of grace
i see the sky comes down like rain
to drown me in my sleep
people fade and i forget you
i hear footsteps icy faces
but it all means nothing to me
all that money wants
This song reminds me of a funny/cool memory from the 80s:  I was in London staying with a friend who knew the band, so when they came by the flat we all went out partying at Camden Palais and danced till 3am.  I haven't thought of *that* in a long time!
Jumped up and started to dance. It was like being back in school...
I have this on cassette, and I still love it.  "Heartbreak Beat" makes me want to turn off the lights, turn up the music, and dance.{#Dancingbanana}
 firefly6 wrote:

Their material is overdue for remastering!

 

Absolutely. Great album, but the CD version is terribly compressed and digital glarey. 
I don't believe that I believed in you...
 Rickvee wrote:
The Furs were Nirvana meets David Bowie - i.e. greatness.
 
Um, The Psychedelic Furs preceded Nirvana by about ten years.  They were great however.

These guys were awesome in concert a few months ago! Richard Butler still has the same great voice and the band was tight. I'm not a huge fan, just know the popular stuff since I grew up in the 80s but glad I went to the show. I'd see them again...

I spent the whole song thinking this sounded like a band called Love Spit Love that i used to have an album or two by.  After my initial shock i looked up Psychedelic Furs and found that most of the members were the same. Quite liked this one.
This sounds like a different version of the song.  It's not the same as the one on my copy of this cd.
 1wolfy wrote:
Great CD
  {#Yes}  {#Bananajam} {#Roflol} {#Dancingbanana_2} {#Notworthy} {#Dancingbanana} {#Music} {#Bananasplit} {#Sunny}


Still sounds fur-tastic!  A big 8!
My favorite (although I feel like saying favourite) furs song.



Their material is overdue for remastering!

The Furs were Nirvana meets David Bowie - i.e. greatness.
Damnit!

I can feel my wallet opening and now the browser's calling up this CD on Amazon. I'm not even touching the keyboard.

Bill, I don't know how you do that but stop it. It's expensive.  {#Surprised}

gave this a 9 ... seems like it deserves higher.. hmmm
Love my furs..pet my furs
Damn it's good to hear the Furs again!
just a great song.
I love brit-pop, dark and sweet. hello from Poland
Funny- I lived through all this and never heard this. Maybe not a deep cut for anyone else, but glad I heard it. Maybe not a lot of range for this band, but they did what they did well.
Great CD
luv the furs. keep it coming.
i know of two films that were inspired by songs. Sean Penn directed The Indian Runner based on Highway Patrolman by Bruce Springsteen and Richard Butler's lyrics inspired Pretty in Pink. That talent shines through on many many Furs songs it's great to hear this played by someone other than myself.
winter wrote:
Never much liked the Furs - not sure why. Maybe something about the singer's voice? It's not a bad voice (a little like Morrissey, now that I think of it), and he uses it well, but it just doesn't work for me.
A little like Morrissey. That gets a big HUH from me. I remember when I first heard Mirror Moves I think, the Ghost in you*, was the track, that he sounded like Bowie....with a slightly worse cigarette addiction. -Adrian (* I loved that song at the time )
RP is a time machine, wow.
Classic band.
Big 'Ol' Skool' Furs fan here. Good track. And Guiguy- Big ups on the SM New Gold Dream! Amazing album. Yes I said Album
Good furs.
coding_to_music wrote:
Reminds me of the movie "The Breakfast Club" and the band Simple Minds...
Yeah, how 'bout some SM; new gold dream....
I liked them better 15 years ago.
I love the Furs. I saw them twice about 15 years ago and my ears are still ringing.