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Certain Songs #1663: The Psychedelic Furs – “Mr. Jones”

October 23, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Talk Talk Talk
Year: 1981

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While you really can’t count Bob Dylan as a musical influence on The Psychedelic Furs, there is no doubt that he was a lyrical influence on Richard Butler, and Mr. Butler acknowledges that on the rip-roaring “Mr. Jones,” a post-punk sequel to Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” which traded in the slow-burning thin wild mercury sound of Dylan’s track for speedy post-punk.

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