It’s time to get back to my favorite decade. For the month of March, I’ll be looking back at some of my favorite jams from the 80s. These songs often came to me via MTV or the radio. NYC-area stations WDRE, WPLJ, WNEW, K-ROCK and Z100 introduced me to everything from irresistible pop confections to under-the-radar post-punk anthems. I would not be who I am today if it weren’t for the 80s. It was the decade when I discovered music can be a truly powerful thing. #31DaysOf80sSongs
Listening to Mirror Moves so many years later, it sounds to me like a near-perfect musical interpretation of the times. The baritone delivery of Richard Butler is one of the period’s most ownable voices. A warm assurance that there were probably few better decades than the 80’s to grow up in and grow in our love for music. While “Pretty in Pink” got all the soundtrack glory, Mirror Moves, in many ways, captured the essence of the Brat Pack era better than any other Psychedelic Furs album. It all started with the album opener “The Ghost In You”.
This is my favorite Psychedelic Furs track and one of my favorite 80’s songs period. I can listen to it over and over again, getting swept up in those euphoric arpeggios on the keyboards and a melody that’s one for the ages. For me, “The Ghost In You” seems to exist in a time capsule. Locked away to preserve its beauty and form, it seems like it hasn’t aged one bit. But every once in a while, you have to pull it off the shelf, give it a good dust-off, and play it to remember just how good we had it.
“Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade.”