YMMV / The Psychedelic Furs

• Awesome Music: Pretty much all their albums before 1986 had a bunch of 'em: "Flowers", "India"; "Pretty In Pink" (the original); "Love My Way"; "The Ghost In You". Even their post-Audience-Alienating Era era had a few decent tracks like "House".
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans ignore everything from Midnight To Midnight and onwards, particularly the re-recording of "Pretty In Pink", which is considered highly inferior to the original.
• Hype Backlash: Well, not hype per se, but the group's popularity has dropped off significantly since their 80's heyday. Many listeners these days are turned off by the similarity in many of the band's songs (especially in their post-85 work), Richard's technical skill-lacking vocals, and the lack of edge or quirkiness in their work compared to contemporaries like The Cure or Echo & the Bunnymen. Most people that admire the group nowadays are either 80's nostalgists or casual 80's music fans, not hardcore Post Punk/New Wave devotees.
• Narm: Two words: Richard's voice. It's very much an acquired taste.
• Replacement Scrappy: The re-recording of "Pretty In Pink" was not liked by the older fans.
• Seasonal Rot: One of the most infamous examples in New Wave history. Their early LPs were full of energetic, witty, and smartly composed tunes that still hold up well today. However, after their promotion in the Pretty in Pink film rocketed them to stardom, they appealed to the unwashed masses and dumbed-down their discography with hollow 80's drums, meaningless lyrics, and too many tracks that sounded exactly the same. The low-key heart in cuts like "Flowers" was replaced with the overblown shallow tedium of dreck like "Shock". The group ran on fumes for a few years churning out mediocrity, eventually breaking up in 1992.
• So Okay, It's Average: How most folks feel about their post-85 recordings. Of course, some New Wave/Post-Punk elitists feel the same way about the band's entire catalogue...

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