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Mirror Moves by The Psychedelic Furs
Mirror Moves is an album by The Psychedelic Furs, released in 1984. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 87 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Ghost In You”, on 49 lists with a best position of #30.
Mirror Moves, the fourth album by English rockers the Psychedelic Furs, came out on Columbia in 1984, two years after Forever Now. Drummer trouble shaped it: with their drummer gone, the band was down to a trio of Richard Butler singing, Tim Butler on bass and John Ashton on guitar, and producer Keith Forsey stepped in to play most of the drums himself, with session man Thommy Price handling two tracks.
Forsey gave them a slick, shimmering, dancefloor-ready sheen, and Richard Butler's sandpaper croon sounds positively romantic against it. "Heartbeat" is the club track, all pulse and sparkle; "Heaven" is a swooning, starry-eyed rush; and "The Ghost in You" is a gorgeous, haunted slow-dance, as tender as the Furs ever got. "Here Come Cowboys" went out as a single too and got plenty of play on MTV. Even the sleeve has a story: its design was a tribute to Barney Bubbles, who had died the year before, and the credits nod to him directly.
It went gold in the US, the second Furs record to do so, and it had at least one very famous fan: in 1985 Robert Smith of the Cure named it among his five favorite albums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Mirror Moves on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ghost In You | 49 | #30 | – | 1984–2026 | |
| 2 | Heaven | 32 | #50 | – | 1984–2023 | |
| 3 | Heartbeat | 6 | #61 | – | 1984–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.