Listen to Furniture
A per-track guide to where you can hear each Furniture release today. Pre 1986 tracks can be found on Bandcamp via the re-issue of When The Boom Was On and the On Broken Glass collection. The Stiff-era catalogue is on Spotify via the 2010 Cherry Red Wrong People reissue. The Arista-era records (1989–91) never made it to streaming and are long out of print — for those we go informally to YouTube which helps out with a number of other lacuna.
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September 1983 — When the Boom Was On
Mini-album / 12" EP · Premonition (Survival)
Streams from the 2019 Emotional Rescue reissue on Bandcamp.
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April 1984 — Dancing the Hard Bargain
7" single · Survival
Original 7" not on streaming. An extended mix of the title track is on the 2019 On Broken Glass EP below.
- A: Dancing the Hard Bargain — no known upload of the 1984 mix
- B: Robert Nightman's Story Bandcamp same recording on When the Boom Was On above
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December 1984 — Love Your Shoes
12" single · Premonition · cat. PREM 12 002
B-sides and mixes are on the 2010 Cherry Red Wrong People reissue and the 2019 On Broken Glass EP.
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May 1986 — Brilliant Mind
7" and 12" single · Stiff · cat. BUY IT 251 · UK No. 21
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June 1986 — The Lovemongers
Compilation LP · Premonition · cat. PREM 6 · originally compiled for Japan
Compilation made for Japan. The YouTube upload is the full album but the links below will start and end at the right points.
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November 1986 — The Wrong People
Album · Stiff · cat. SEEZ 64 · produced by Mick Glossop
- A1: Shake Like Judy Says Spotify
- A2: Love Your Shoes Spotify
- A3: Brilliant Mind Spotify
- A4: She Gets Out the Scrapbook Spotify
- A5: I Miss You Spotify
- B1: Make Believe I'm Him Spotify
- B2: Let Me Feel Your Pulse Spotify
- B3: The Sound of the Bell Spotify
- B4: Escape Into My Arms Spotify
- B5: Answer the Door Spotify
- B6: Pierre's Fight Spotify
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October 1989 — Slow Motion Kisses
7" / 12" / CD single · Arista · produced by Mike Thorne
Arista-era catalogue is out of print and not on streaming.
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February 1990 — One Step Behind You
7" / 12" / CD single · Arista · produced by Mike Thorne
Arista-era catalogue is out of print and not on streaming.
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February 1990 — Food, Sex & Paranoia
Album · Arista · cat. 210 377 · produced by Mike Thorne
Never cleared to streaming. An unofficial full-album YouTube playlist exists.
- A1: One Step Behind You YouTube
- A2: Slow Motion Kisses YouTube
- A3: Swing Tender YouTube
- A4: A Taste of You YouTube
- A5: A Plot to Kill What Was YouTube
- B1: On a Slow Fuse YouTube
- B2: Subway to the Beach YouTube 2008 live recording — no studio upload found
- B3: Song for a Doberman YouTube
- B4: Love Me YouTube
- B5: Friend of a Friend YouTube
- B6: Hard to Say YouTube
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September 1991 — She Gets Out the Scrapbook: The Best of Furniture
Compilation · Survival · cat. SURC 13
The compilation itself is not on streaming. Links below point to each song’s streaming home where available.
- 1: Brilliant Mind Spotify
- 2: Make Believe I'm Him Spotify The Wrong People album
- 3: Farewell (new recording) YouTube
- 4: Song for a Doberman YouTube
- 5: Dancing the Hard Bargain — no known upload of the 1984 mix
- 6: Love Your Shoes Spotify
- 7: Robert Nightman's Story Bandcamp on When the Boom Was On reissue
- 8: Slow Motion Kisses YouTube
- 9: I Miss You Bandcamp on When the Boom Was On reissue
- 10: How I've Come to Hate the Moon (new recording) YouTube
- 11: Bullet YouTube Lovemongers version
- 12: Turnupspeed Spotify on The Wrong People reissue
- 13: One Step Behind You YouTube
- 14: She Gets Out the Scrapbook Spotify The Wrong People album
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19 April 2010 — The Wrong People (reissue)
Expanded CD reissue · Cherry Red · cat. CDMRED441
First CD release of the album. The original 11 tracks are listed under November 1986 above; bonus tracks are listed here.
- 12: Brilliant Fragments (B-side) Spotify
- 13: To Gus (B-side) Spotify
- 14: Turnupspeed (B-side) Spotify
- 15: Me, You and the Name (B-side) Spotify
- 16: It Continues (B-side) Spotify
- 17: Brilliant Mind (Extended Mix) Spotify
- 18: Love Your Shoes (Extended Mix) Spotify
- 19: That Man You Loved (previously unreleased demo) Spotify
- 20: Never Said (previously unreleased demo) Spotify
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April 2019 — When the Boom Was On (reissue)
12" reissue, 33⅓ RPM · Emotional Rescue · cat. ERC072
Remaster of the 1983 mini-album (tracks as listed under September 1983 above). Available from the Emotional Rescue Bandcamp page.
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April 2019 — On Broken Glass
EP (12") · Emotional Rescue · cat. ERC073
Extended mixes and unreleased material from 1984–1986 12-inch singles.
Rarities & unreleased
Tracks credited to Furniture that never appeared on an official release, surfaced on YouTube by fans and tape-traders.
- The Unspoken Things YouTube This song was also featured in the session the band did for Janice Long in 1985 (see below).
- I Want To Learn Your Language (Wheat) YouTube ~1988 Wrong People-era demo, circulated via the Wrong People listserv.
- My Heart, Your Playground YouTube ~1988 Wrong People-era demo, circulated via the Wrong People listserv. Jim mentions writing it in the Melody Maker Romania feature, April 1988.
Live & sessions
Janice Long Session
Session recorded for Janice Long's Radio 1 show, broadcast 20th February 1985.
The Tube
Furniture's appearance on Channel 4's The Tube, broadcast 11th March 1986. They perform 'I Miss You' and 'Brilliant Mind'.