Psychedelic Furs - President gas - Live Rockpalast berlin nov 1981

[@robertsresale]

Very interesting version - I wonder if this is how the song began when they first wrote it and then it morphed into the studio version - either way the song is a masterpiece...Psychedelic Furs have been my Favorite Band for 30 years, yet they are the ones I have never caught in concert....yet!

[@BobbyGeneric145]

robertsresale robertsresale62966eBay i used to listen to my Furs albums on Saturday mornings in the autumn during high school and it is the most beautiful memory.

[@BobbyGeneric145]

Robert, I saw them here in Brooklyn a couple months ago 2018 and they were AMAZING! Best show I've ever seen... better than McCartney, The WHo, Dylan, Jonestown, WIllie, etc. They were simply AMAZING so other way to say it.

[@square1971]

yea, this is an odd version. they also only played 2 songs that would eventually be on Forever Now, guess it was an off timed show, being in between albums.

[@labratty2139]

I would dance at the Naked I in Boston’s combat zone to this song.. A Classic

[@Soundofsilver2007]

I like the paranoid atmosphere

[@emiliolepre6029]

You seem to b missing the main point: 99 percent of The Furs' charisma was actually due to Richard Butler's voice + acting on stage, believe U me, I saw them several timemes in Milan, London and Berlin back in the early 80's...if they'd mixed down his voice to let you listen to the guitars it would have been a shame!!!

[@paolacicchetti1966]

Correct!

[@01aleph]

Too much compression in the mix, probably sounded better live and the instrumental part is a little different, pity this song is one of their best, but Richard Butler is great.

[@Bends95]

I’m more of a fan of the version that’s on Forever Now but that being said this is still a very solid version..especially that strong saxophone from original member Duncan Kilburn!

[@wetwarefed]

"that is what it is really to have style - when you set about performing the act of life -"

[@wetwarefed]

strangely the whack jobs in our courtyard hadn't never red much or thought as much to consider style -

[@wetwarefed]

goes to show how they value information -

[@wetwarefed]

youth are more of a nassau hall audience in such regard where divinity scriptures could have been -

[@wetwarefed]

could have been what?

[@wetwarefed]

bloated -

[@harikavisuals]

They are good citizens🌵

[@stevengray4595]

Reminds me of rolling joints while driving to Leeds for a confined spaces course.

[@charlesdoran]

is this the original lineup?

[@Enevan1968]

Sure is.

[@earinsound]

nothing's perfect...but wish the guitars were both higher up in the mix.

[@paolacicchetti1966]

this is a protest song, it has been sung like this deliberately.

[@wetwarefed]

if on a winter's night -

[@wetwarefed]

she revenged itself upon the protagonist -

[@wetwarefed]

where superficiality were a tangible mankiller -

[@wetwarefed]

how sordid like would appear the portrait of dumb as shit -

[@wetwarefed]

Shits! where prejudice, presumption, and no sociological demographic were conversant !

[@wetwarefed]

might have been better to send the lards to have a read -

[@wetwarefed]

of a Hawthorne's scarlet letter -

[@wetwarefed]

as superstitious maelstrom haggling for power to abuse and coerce a boy -

[@wetwarefed]

the have not even the fair sense to question authority -

[@wetwarefed]

like worshipers of mud -

[@wetwarefed]

with their chai boys and fat uglies

[@wetwarefed]

educationally the dismal set of the dumpster -

[@wetwarefed]

is a bit like a dog vomit on a bloody carcass -

[@wetwarefed]

and three neo nazis -

[@wetwarefed]

and then recently i discovered a latently revelatory . . .

[@wetwarefed]

latently revelatory - what?

[@wetwarefed]

who wants to be your sugar daddy-

[@infernicide666]

This version SUCKS in comparison to the version that would later appear on Forever Now. Glad they reworked it and took out the saxophone for the album version.

[@xhippy4682]

Disagree. Although I love the album version, this is the most in your face version of the song. And that's the whole point.