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There's some Talk Talk of a band called The Psychedelic Furs

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Here's how I remember it:                                                                 Psychedelic Furs on Spanish TV 1984 Summer of 1982, my 14th year. Mike Wassenaar and Mike McClellan started a Friday night show on KBEM called Ready Steady Go. That show turned me on to a lot of bands that became lifelong favorites. I remember hearing the Psychedelic Furs being played, but there were so many other cool songs being played I think I put them on the back burner.   A few months later, after I started as a freshman at North High (coincidentally the same place they broadcast RSG from), one of my new friends KT said "there's a band we like that's gonna be on King Biscuit tomorrow but I can't remember who it is. But I know we both like them so you need to listen." I took her up and was happy to find out it was The Psychedelic Furs. I remember listening to it while soaking in the bathtub. I was sold, and went out to find their records the next day. Sadly I had no