Tears for Fears: C or D?

just saw them last night and it was a pretty great show, did all the songs you'd expect about as well as you could hope for

Last week I actually heard "God's Mistake" at a CVS.

they played my 2 favorite songs at the end of the main set and i just took out my earplugs and felt total euphoria for a few minutes

Good to know, thanks!

I have a friend whose last name is 0yarzaba1, and I always wanted her to marry Roland of this band so she could be Mrs. Orzabal-0yarzaba1.

Saw them in Boston and they ruled! Played a surprising amount of stuff from "The Hurting" and at one point Roland said, "We're not just known for our 80s hits you know... OK, we are!".

haha he did that EXACT same patter at the Baltimore show

Any album tracks worth noting? I'd flip if they played "The Working Hour."

i love the last song on big chair i wonder if theyd ever play that one live

Their Robert Wyatt cover is great, sea song. Not as good as the original but what is?

i see they are playing in september (that is some planning ahead for them) around here. too bad bimble isn't around to weigh in on the show he saw ...

but all the youtubes of their shows in 2010 point to it being a good time. maybe a little bit too much of a good time.

Go see them! They killed last year, and who knows how long they'll keep going. No idea if a new album is in the works but I'd welcome it.

i heard a couple of their classic songs like shout etc. in an early 90s film and immediately it was like the music of a long gone era, the 80s. they are about as far from 90s as the 1910s are from the 1920s.

That's true.

total classic, i just bought their songs from the big chair dvd

too bad they're only doing a west coast tour /:

Dug out The Seeds Of Love for a listen this afternoon, and 'The Year Of The Knife' just blew my fucking mind all over the place. Yeah, it's totally overdone and overproduced in every possible way, but my god the track just gets me so amped up in the best way possible.

"Advice For the Young at Heart" is so pretty: this reflecting pool of sound.

Is it really overproduced if it's so fucking great? Love these guys and can overlook almost everything. The reunion album is ridiculously fun.

Let us not forget that Jennifer Lynch scored one of Julian Sands' scenes in Boxing Helena to "Woman in Chains."

I loved that song so much I bought the first solo album from Oleta Adams. Which I promptly sold.

The reunion album is ridiculously fun.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, November 26, 2012 3:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IS it?? i have to check that out cause i used to LOVE these guys.

Oh yes - it's great to hear Curt sing again and the Beatles homage are flying left and right, all with Roland's unique sense of sound. It's on Spotify so get to checking!

I still own the Adams album; it ain't bad.

Soto otm re: 'Advice For The Young At Heart', it's a gorgeous Curt vocal - and the piano on it sounds incredibly beautiful. Lovely chorus, too.

I listened to The Seeds Of Love again in bed last night with the headphones on, and I found the album was absolutely perfect for that setting. The first side of the album is impeccable, in my humble opinion - as for the second side, the only track I'm not too keen on is 'Standing On The Corner Of The Third World'... but the closing three are again absolutely wonderful. There's some great live versions of these tracks floating around Youtube as well! The production style on it is often criticised, and yes, it IS overdone and overproduced - however, I'm finding that this is one of the reasons I'm enjoying the album!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcE36uNvoA

"Elemental" is their weakest album, and yet it still has KILLER bits like the epic "Goodnight Song". The next album, "Raoul And The Kings Of Spain", is underrated in their catalog, it's really strong all the way through.

Everybody Loves A Happy Ending is definitely worth a listen - especially anyone here likes later period XTC, although it reminds me quite a great deal of the Boo Radley's Kingsize album in places too, weirdly.

And yeah, McBoing-Boing, I completely agree about Raoul And The Kings Of Spain and prefer that one over Elemental myself, too :)

*that likes

just in case anyone was wondering, 10 years later I totally love "Woman In Chains"

I love the way that 'Woman In Chains' builds up from that tiny intro up to the "SO FREE HER" outro.

Are there any interviews/articles etc. out there documenting the making of The Seeds Of Love album? I'd be very interested in hearing the details of how this record was made, probably even moreso than Songs From The Big Chair...

ditto

Here's one.

good read! had no idea they discovered oleta adams in a hotel bar in kansas city

She was also their pianist on that tour. I think it works;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QziJg1I-BA

I've been geeking out on ]The Seeds of Love since this thread revival btw

I've been geeking out on ]The Seeds of Love since this thread revival btw

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:03 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, the very same! I've been kinda stuck on it for the last few days: listening to it on headphones, analysing it, poring over it, getting lost in it... there's so much stuff in there. Funny thing is, I've had this album for quite a while now, but I can't ever recall immersing myself in it to the degree that I have over the last few days!

Cheers for the link, anyway, Alfred - just about to give it a read :)

Elemental is a pretty cool record, i get that goofy "bring to me my big old sweater" song stuck in my head all the time

"Cold" is the jam.

DOG'S MY BEST FRIEND'S DOG however

An enterprising deejay should play it after Pearl Jam's "Pilate."

lol

Christ almighty, they spent 10 months working on the record (The Seeds Of Love) with Chris Hughes and then junked the whole lot before starting afresh? Assuming those tapes haven't gone missing/been overwritten/been erased, just imagine the amount of alternate takes and versions there must be of these tracks!?

Over two weeks spent editing various takes for the drums together for 'Badman's Song'!? Talk about meticulous.

The Seeds of Love is Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden beholden to boomer notions of love, peace, and jammin'.

With a bit of Skylarking thrown in, too.

Over two weeks spent editing various takes for the drums together for 'Badman's Song'!? Talk about meticulous.

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:45 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the hilarious thing is that was AFTER they decided to 'simplify' and get away from overly programmed music!

Yeah, it's like they couldn't completely shake off their perfectionist tendencies. Which is completely fine with me, I guess, because the end result sounds great. Those editing sessions must have been really fucking tedious to get through, though!

Eh, this was just them indulging their inner Peter Gabriel (not a coincidence both Phil Collins and Manu Katche play drums on the record). Tears For Fears was always a prog band at heart, bless 'em.

Well, none of the tracks sound Gabrielicious.

No, but they are fussy.