Tears for Fears: C or D?

I haven't played that Wilson remix, is it all that different?

The Seeds of Love = Songs From The Big Chair > The Hurting > Raoul and The Kings of Spain > Everybody Loves A Happy Ending > Elemental

I was just today thinking about starting/finding a thread about songs that you didn't realize were sublime until you were able to escape their once-numbing ubiquity, specifically with respect to "Head Over Heels". I don't know how there was ever a time when that thing sounded to me like just another meh radio pop song.

Love this band so much. I'd also like to nominate "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" as containing some of the best lyrics to ever crack the Top 40.

Very poor sentence there but that's what happens when I try to type while people are talking at me. You get my drift

I was just today thinking about starting/finding a thread about songs that you didn't realize were sublime until you were able to escape their once-numbing ubiquity, specifically with respect to "Head Over Heels". I don't know how there was ever a time when that thing sounded to me like just another meh radio pop song.

― I Stepped On Your Samwich (Old Lunch), Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:44 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is exactly where I'm at with Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

sowing the seeds of love is one weird album, man.

when that simply red dude heard the gospel piano-jazz tune on this album he must have said "argh, back to the drawing board!".

heck, even the level 42 dudes must have been green with envy.

and the dream academy were in the middle of making their album when they heard the title track to this album and they went "argh! maybe if we add dolphin noises and poly styrene to our john lennon cover everything will be okay..."

the blue nile were so devastated by this record they didn't record again for 7 years.

sorry *THE SEEDS OF LOVE*. not sowing the seeds of love.

blue nile >>>>>> tears for fears imo

Dream Academy have worn me down over the years to the point where I now either enjoy or tolerate all of their songs. I know that's faint praise, but it's something.

'Street Fighting Years' was the Minds' 'Satanic Majesties Request' to TFF's 'Sgt. Pepper'

"Street Fighting Years" was the Minds "Cant Stop the Music" to TFF's "Flash Gordon".

those Talk Talk kids didn't seem to be too bothered by "seeds of love".

God, I fucking love The Seeds of Love. I listen to it far more than The Hurting and even Songs From The Big Chair these days. I'd love for them to put out a box set for The Seeds of Love, there must be so much fucking outtake material out there somewhere.

Then Play Long reaches the difficult third album: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/tears-for-fears-seeds-of-love.html

Yeah, obviously I disagree. I personally don't find this to be an "irritatingly unsatisfactory" record at all, and while the production is completely rammed with detail, I still wouldn't call the sound "oxygen starved" ... 'Advice For The Young At Heart' is a wonderful song with production to match, IMO, and side 2 is wonderful when it clicks. It's not Songs From The Big Chair part 2, but that's a good thing.

Love is a promise
Love is a souvenir

Time to eat all your words!

Correct number one.

I'd swap out "break it down again" with "badman's song" and shuffle a few towards the end, but mostly otm

"The Working Hour" is majestic.

tears for fears deliver on the bombastic promise of simple minds at their worst and most anthemic

it's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand

tears for fears deliver on the bombastic promise of simple minds at their worst and most anthemic

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, June 11, 2017

otm

I've said it before, but Tears For Fears may be the only band in the world influenced by '80 Genesis​, bless 'em.

no quibbles with that list. excellent

Was hoping this would be news about the loooong promised new album. Feel like these guys have at least one more great album left in them - the last one had a few excellent moments

I don't hear '80s Genesis in TFF.

The drums, guitars and synths alone on "Songs from the Big Chair" are totally '80s Genesis, especially a song like "Broken;" Manny Elias definitely had Phil Collins on the mind. The songwriting is much better than '80s Genesis, though, which (go figure) makes a big difference!

The songwriting is much better than '80s Genesis

Interesting argument but I can't fully agree with it. Big Chair was a solid album but the albums after were fairly spotty. Although I guess one could say the same of the solid Duke and the spottier records that followed from Genesis. But Genesis seemed to understand the value of concision in their pop songs far more than TFF. The tracks on Seeds Of Love in particular run overly long and would've benefited from an editor's knife.

welll, it WAS the year of the knife

The Hurting is generally brilliant with a few patchy parts. Songs from the Big Chair is near perfection. Can't get on with most of seeds of love at all though. Badman's Song sounds like every negative cliche of bad 80s production that usually isn't true, but here is 100% accurate.

I need "I Believe" and none of the 90s stuff, but sounds about right.

honestly when I say Tears for Fears I pretty much only mean big chair, which is one of my favorite albums.

I'd be happy if they just released a 10" of covers every 6 months.

New single coming soon!

Elemental is such a jam

^ that album's great. first CD I ever bought :)

New album coming soon called The Tipping Point, apparently. New single is called 'I Love You But I'm Lost'

hmm, same title as a great sharon van etten track

'My Demons', 'End of Night' and 'Up Above the World' are other tracks apparently confirmed to be on there - the general vibe of the record has been described as "clubby"

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Elemental is such a jam

― MaresNest, Wednesday, October 11, 2017 6:16 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The two Curtless TFF albums tend to get swept under the carpet for some reason - there's some great material on both.

DOG'S A BEST FRIEND'S DOG

Raoul and the Kings of Spain in particular came out to very little fanfare other than from the TFF hardcore. Everyone else ignored it.

I'm not much into the Orzabal solo record, though.