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The Psychedelic Furs — All That Money Wants
Album: All Of This And Nothing
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Released: 1988
Length: 3:39
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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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Saw Richard Butler on his solo tour in the mid-90s at a small venue. Incredible show and good 80's vibes in the crowd.
Posted 3 months ago by IndyDoug    [ Reply ]
 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!
Posted 10 months ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Just have to comment - 

I remember listening to this album in high school - that bass line.  that flanger guitar.  Perfect pop song. 
Posted 1 year ago by tgrier    [ Reply ]
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. 
Posted 1 year ago by Kingsized    [ Reply ]
That flange. That bass. Those drums. Love this song.
Posted 1 year ago by tgrier    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 TC1 wrote:

The Kevin O'Learry song!

https://www.azquotes.com/pictu...



Hot take: Kevin O'Leary is a tool. 
Posted 1 year ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
The Kevin O'Learry song!

https://www.azquotes.com/pictu...
Posted 2 years ago by TC1    [ Reply ]
I'm in heaven when I hear this song. 
Posted 2 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
 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. 
Posted 2 years ago by SeannRooney    [ Reply ]
GREAT TUNE!
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 3 years ago by dfphillips1    [ Reply ]
The Furs at their finest 
Posted 3 years ago by walter22    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:


Adam and the ants ?
Posted 3 years ago by noe.architecte169    [ Reply ]
When the Furs were on, they were ON.
Posted 3 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
The Psychedelic Furs made us feel divine.
Posted 3 years ago by Grayson    [ Reply ]
Posted 4 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

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


Suggest you also watch for the folder called "yobokies".
Posted 4 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 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 :)
Posted 4 years ago by tmcmurph1    [ Reply ]
I get the Psychedelic Furs confused with the Afghan Wigs. 
Posted 4 years ago by argexpat    [ Reply ]
 LowPhreak wrote:

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

How is everyone missing The Beatles - Money?  Too obvious?
Posted 4 years ago by bpemby    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

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

 

Posted 4 years ago by jjjeanae    [ Reply ]
The song is alright, bit it's not really mellow, is it...?
Posted 4 years ago by 123heyaho!    [ Reply ]
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? 
Posted 4 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 4 years ago by changodelaplaya    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by bahalana    [ Reply ]
 edwinlegters wrote:
This just sounds so modern
 

yep, but that kind of modern I don't like
Posted 5 years ago by giammin    [ Reply ]
This just sounds so modern
Posted 5 years ago by edwinlegters    [ Reply ]
- beginning guitar reminds me of Ask Of Me John by The Ocean Blue 
Posted 5 years ago by notestobilly2222    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 5 years ago by moocray    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by Joan_Fernandez    [ Reply ]
Show me the money!!1!11!!elf!!!
Posted 5 years ago by chasmen    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
the guitar tone, the riff, the vocals and lyrics..........just pure perfect pop
 
THE MIX.
Posted 6 years ago by Rockit9    [ Reply ]
I don't know what it is, but something about this tune makes me feel really good.
Posted 6 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
A great underrated band.
Posted 7 years ago by nicknt    [ Reply ]
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
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 arserocket wrote:
I loved this band Feckin ekin

 
Don't take it personally {#Meditate} , Ekin hates nearly 40% of all music.
Posted 7 years ago by markybx    [ Reply ]
the guitar tone, the riff, the vocals and lyrics..........just pure perfect pop
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I loved this band Feckin ekin
Posted 7 years ago by arserocket    [ Reply ]
 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. 

Posted 7 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 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. 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
This jam always makes that strange juice flow in my viscera.
Posted 8 years ago by moocray    [ Reply ]
Perhaps the best of all of the 80s Pop Combos.
Posted 8 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Jesus and Mary Chain, Camper van Beethoven, the Furs - hello my college radio days!!

Turning it up ... {#Bananajam} 
Posted 8 years ago by MediaGrrl    [ Reply ]
"Verde que te quiero verde" -  Lorca
8>9
Posted 8 years ago by johnnycache    [ Reply ]
so fine - takes me back to a mate's room playing this and fart sounds out of his bedroom window at the passing folks
Posted 8 years ago by arserocket    [ Reply ]
What a great song!
Posted 8 years ago by fiddler    [ Reply ]
 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.  
Posted 8 years ago by bluejay08003    [ Reply ]
Richard Butler's voice.....
Posted 9 years ago by Ptijoc    [ Reply ]

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

Love the Peacock Spider


Posted 9 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
thank you....:)
Posted 9 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
 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.  
Posted 9 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 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?
Posted 9 years ago by dwhayslett    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 9 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
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?
Posted 9 years ago by ekin    [ Reply ]
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. 
 
Posted 9 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
I see faces, dead people.......could be because they are filming another episode of "Dead People"  outside my house.
Posted 9 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}
Posted 9 years ago by Julietre    [ Reply ]
 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}
Posted 9 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Money!!! {#Cowboy}
Posted 10 years ago by Josephhartgreen    [ Reply ]
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. 
Posted 10 years ago by debobasu    [ Reply ]
gotta love fur!
Posted 10 years ago by Hogtownmike    [ Reply ]

When I hear that opening riff,

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

 

...so much younger and better looking.


Posted 10 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
awesome furs
Posted 10 years ago by cmonahan    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

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


 

Yes, that's not exactly a secret.
Posted 10 years ago by Rick_V    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 10 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Love the FURS .. Thanks for playing!
Posted 11 years ago by BuffaloGrunt    [ Reply ]
Love this album. {#Sunny}
Posted 11 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
 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 your life, like whatever music you want to.  Don't knuckle under to peer pressure, Smoove_D.
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]

Yessss...  love this groovy song...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]


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.

 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
..i wonder if Lazarus & his church congregation will like this..?..
Posted 11 years ago by cShaggy    [ Reply ]
Pure energy from one of Britain's greatest bands.
Posted 12 years ago by Thin_Air    [ Reply ]
 linden wrote:
Sigh ...{#Hearteyes}
 
yeah, {#Angel}
Posted 12 years ago by plaice3    [ Reply ]
Sigh ...{#Hearteyes}
Posted 12 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
Whoa, 13 comments from Romeotuma — he likes it, hey Mikey!  S'okay, I like it too.  {#Wink}
Posted 12 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
 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...

Posted 12 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
 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! 
Posted 13 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
 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.
Posted 13 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
I was then and am still now too metal to like these guys....
Posted 13 years ago by cakkafracle    [ Reply ]
One of those bands I just can't get into, even though people with good musical taste are into them. Like The Smiths.
Posted 13 years ago by Smoove_D    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:
Excellent...  we be dancing...
 
We be dancing here too


Posted 13 years ago by The_Enemy    [ Reply ]
I LOVE THIS.
Posted 13 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Love this album — it has a place in my collection of physical CD's that I still own... (so hard to go completely digital)

Posted 13 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
oh Libby... you loved me and I treated you like a dog. Songs haunt me.
Posted 14 years ago by muse_Kidd    [ Reply ]
7>8.
Posted 14 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Fine & sweet like a pig cooked in maple syrup like mamma used to make....mmmm
Posted 14 years ago by arserocket    [ Reply ]
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
Posted 14 years ago by peacockangel    [ Reply ]
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!
Posted 14 years ago by Sorcha    [ Reply ]
Jumped up and started to dance. It was like being back in school...
Posted 14 years ago by adamdbenson    [ Reply ]
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}
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
 firefly6 wrote:

Their material is overdue for remastering!

 

Absolutely. Great album, but the CD version is terribly compressed and digital glarey. 
Posted 14 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
I don't believe that I believed in you...
Posted 14 years ago by peacockangel    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
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...

Posted 14 years ago by js5280    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 15 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]
This sounds like a different version of the song.  It's not the same as the one on my copy of this cd.
Posted 15 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
 1wolfy wrote:
Great CD
  {#Yes}  {#Bananajam} {#Roflol} {#Dancingbanana_2} {#Notworthy} {#Dancingbanana} {#Music} {#Bananasplit} {#Sunny}


Posted 15 years ago by WayUpNorth    [ Reply ]
Still sounds fur-tastic!  A big 8!
Posted 15 years ago by iscoot4peace    [ Reply ]
My favorite (although I feel like saying favourite) furs song.



Their material is overdue for remastering!

Posted 15 years ago by firefly6    [ Reply ]
The Furs were Nirvana meets David Bowie - i.e. greatness.
Posted 15 years ago by Rickvee    [ Reply ]
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}

Posted 16 years ago by The_Enemy    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by andrewimft    [ Reply ]
gave this a 9 ... seems like it deserves higher.. hmmm
Posted 16 years ago by AphidA    [ Reply ]
Love my furs..pet my furs
Posted 16 years ago by Kdubba    [ Reply ]
Damn it's good to hear the Furs again!
Posted 16 years ago by smehan55    [ Reply ]
just a great song.
Posted 16 years ago by moocray    [ Reply ]
I love brit-pop, dark and sweet. hello from Poland
Posted 16 years ago by Rolins    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 16 years ago by djengs    [ Reply ]
Great CD
Posted 16 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
luv the furs. keep it coming.
Posted 17 years ago by gormeister    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 17 years ago by gernick    [ Reply ]
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 )
Posted 17 years ago by stubbsz    [ Reply ]
RP is a time machine, wow.
Posted 18 years ago by Mack    [ Reply ]
Classic band.
Posted 18 years ago by SteveGriff    [ Reply ]
Big 'Ol' Skool' Furs fan here. Good track. And Guiguy- Big ups on the SM New Gold Dream! Amazing album. Yes I said Album
Posted 18 years ago by MiketheKnife    [ Reply ]
Good furs.
Posted 18 years ago by littleblueriver7    [ Reply ]
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....
Posted 18 years ago by guiguy    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by Danny_G    [ Reply ]
I liked them better 15 years ago.
Posted 18 years ago by ad4tise    [ Reply ]