In 2001, the Psychedelic Furs reformed after a nine-year hiatus and have toured worldwide since then. Cant wait for more. Fathom that legendary, distinctive voice closer to the bone, introspective and personal-- over acoustic guitar, awash in a string symphony or a choral strain. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2007. Directed by Lee Daniels. Well,I'm proud to say I've been there from the Furs' eponymous debut of 1980,and from that to this,Mr Butler continues to produce fascinating music (although I have to admit 'Love Spit Love' were a disappointment).
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Yee Hing Princess always gives her best efforts into whatever she does in training & out in her day yard. Stream Gone Girl (2014) - "She" By Richard Butler.MP3 by BradPittOnline.tumblr.com from desktop or your mobile device Even when it comes to having a roll at the beach it's just the same effort! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2008.
After graduation, he worked in a silk-screen print shop but got the idea to form a band.[1]. I'm just gonna hop right on this bandwagon with the other reviewers and give this album a "5 star" rating! Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2006. Need help? It is such a bonus that Richard Butler has re-discovered that form and "Good Days, Bad Days", "California" , the catchy "Broken Aeroplanes" and "Sentimental Airlines" are as vibrant and original as those early years but in a more mature way. The entire record is well-produced--maybe a little over-produced, even--but it's also cut with a disarming electronic edge; check out the digital spit-and-polish on Postal Service-lite tracks like "California." Richard Lofthouse Butler (born 5 June 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and painter.. Butler came to prominence in the early 1980s as lead singer of the rock band The Psychedelic Furs and went on to found the alternative rock band Love Spit Love in the early 1990s, during a hiatus of the Psychedelic Furs. A Butler County Sheriff’s sergeant was driving to work in his marked patrol vehicle about 7 a.m. Sunday when he noticed a vehicle followed him - for 11 miles. His voice has always been unique and it sounds even better now. Unable to add item to List. This album is very, very special. There's a problem loading this menu right now. One of his works, Girl With a Map, has been used as a CD's cover art.[6]. I think that he and Mike Ness (Social Distortion) have *the* quintessential rock voices. Why hasnt the English press caught onto one of their finest singer songwriting treasues? This is a keeper. Pack up and move to New York and become an artist .... and then surprise everyone with a sublime set of original songs in 2006? In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. "Love Their Way: The Psychedelic Furs will take the Rialto stage providing a look back on college rock memories", "Back In The Pink: An Interview with Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs", "Is Gone Girl David Fincher's Creepiest Trailer? This album just gets better and better the more you hear it. Nearing 50, his voice sounds clean and easy as he opens the record with a deft falsetto over the soft, adult alternative bounce of "Good Days, Bad Days." A Ranking", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Butler_(singer)&oldid=979886170, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 10:06. Through the '80s and '90s, as the Furs broke up and he re-emerged with Love Spit Love, Richard Butler kept that growl. Butler started art school in London with the idea of becoming a painter.
It Must Have Been Love (Symphonic Version) [5], In the early 2000s, Butler became interested in the art scene and began painting again. Whilst the Furs lost the plot a bit by the mid 1980's, they still produced some of the best Bristish music ever with President Gas and Talk Talk Talk.
Butler's mother was an artist. ), Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2006. The Psychedelic Furs went on hiatus in the early 1990s and Butler became the founder and lead singer of Love Spit Love. Lyrics to 'She' by Richard Butler. (But too bad about those third-party prices ... the cost of excellence, in rare supply? The result is a collection of songs that's an incredible melding of Butler's incisive lyrics and signature voice awash in Carin's mysteriously captivating musical landscape. Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2009. Here Came The Psychedelic Furs: B-Sides & Lost Grooves. Richard Butler 03 Dec 1850 Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom - 28 Apr 1925 managed by Daniel Messemaker. [3] Joined by guitarist John Ashton, guitarist Roger Morris, drummer Vince Ely and saxophonist Duncan Kilburn, the band quickly gained commercial success. For his KOCH Records solo release, titled simply Richard Butler, Butler collaborated with Jon Carin, an accomplished musician who has worked with Pink Floyd, Pete Townshend and Bryan Ferry.