even then a reunion of the principals
not even that, it's just their first new material since 2004 but smith & orzabal have been playing together the whole time since then
comeback rather than a new reunion
― ufo, Sunday, 27 February 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
this is also objectively a better album than the 2004 one
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Sunday, 27 February 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
i think they're also just much cooler & more popular now than they were in 2004. synthpop & sophistipop have come back in style since then, they're regularly sampled & cited as big influences by newer acts, quite a few of their singles have now reached beloved pop classic status that idk if they quite had back then. they also recently upgraded to headlining arenas in just the last five years or so, which is pretty unusual for a legacy act who reunited over a decade ago and had mostly been playing theatres in the years since.
though i might have expected there would have been a bit more interest back then than there was, since the "mad world" cover was a huge hit not long before. but it looks like they also had some label trouble when trying to release everybody loves a happy ending and the labels it ended up on probably didn't have the resources or desire to give it much of a push at all, idk. the fact that they'd never officially broken up & orzabal had been using the name as a solo project for a while that also probably didn't help.
are those 90s orzabal-only albums any good btw, i've never checked them out
― ufo, Monday, 28 February 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
elemental is great, still have yet to listen to raoul
orzabal's solo album tomcats screaming outside is also v good
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 28 February 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
Title tracks for Elemental and Raoul are both memorable. The absence of Curt's input is noticeable, as both albums tend to drift. I'd welcome a birdistheword reconstruction of Raoul since I suspect that there's a pretty decent album buried in there (esp when considering the expanded version.)
― doug watson, Monday, 28 February 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAc7sFurdUI
one of their best songs
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 28 February 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
god, and "mr pessimist" too... i don't listen to this record enough
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 28 February 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
Elemental is weird, split between like 3-4 amazing songs, 3 not very successful experiments, and a few pretty good songs in between. In addition to the big single Brad just posted, I love "Cold" and "Fish Out of Water", which is a Curt diss track lol. With Raoul, I only like the title track
― Vinnie, Monday, 28 February 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link
"Cold" is terrific.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 February 2022 03:40 (two years ago) link
_Elemental_ sounded great cranked on the car stereo, back in the day. "Goodnight Song" is a top 5 TFF track for me.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 28 February 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
The first three tracks of Elemental are especially great, lyrics about his knitwear withstanding, when he opens up and bellows out a chorus he sounds fantastic, it's kinda what I want from TFF (unfairly, I know) big open, dramatic choruses.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 28 February 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
This month's Classic Pop mag has a fantastic long interview; they've really been through some shit, i had no idea. Cracking episode of Sodajerker here too. They seem to be in a very good mood of late; amazingly!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4aBnSKodONCeCoVGww28gi?si=2569cc0492ee48b0
― piscesx, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLEeETqgSFA
― Maresn3st, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
Really liked the vocal analysis, I think I realized something unusual was there when I've tried to sing the song myself (and sound bad). Now that he points it out it's very clear to hear how Curt has to slide up to the right note many times
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
And back to Tipping Point, bonus track "Secret Location" is dope, reminds me of the upbeat tracks on the latest Tame Impala album
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
Lol I just saw Brad already made that comparison
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
"Break It Down Again" just came on and I am really liking it, though at the time I yawned at it for seeming out of date
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
Trying to remember how Chris Morris described "Sowing the Seeds of Love"??
― djh, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:30 (two years ago) link
xp I like it too, it's a really nice single. I threw that on to my copy of "Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits)" as an extra.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
https://consequence.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/darker-waves-festival-lineup-2023-new-order-tears-for-fears-poster.jpg
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link
Posting here instead of on the New Order thread, this is right in my back yard
Clan of Xymox!
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
It's all truly ridiculous and still somehow perfectly appropriate.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
tempted by this one since I couldn't make Cruel World.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
I know many people planning on going one way or another and I hope everyone has a good time and you could not *PAY* me to go to something on the beach in HB on a Saturday night.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
I did a lot of beach parties in high school on the beach in Huntington Beach. Meet at the stacks. Only problem for me is I don't do festivals.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 01:10 (one year ago) link
Lineup is so good it seems fake
The idea of seeing X'ian Death on a beach in the OC is making me giggle. Looks totally awesome
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link
Thought B-52s did a farewell tour already?
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
KISS did one in the 90s
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:42 (one year ago) link
That many acts in a single day, how do they even do that? They must all share the same gear.
― henry s, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
that just wrapped up so I guess this could be considered a finale. I've actually never seen them so that's part of the reason why I'm tempted by this (along with the Cardigans, who are never going to tour the US if their FB comments are to be believed)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
iirc the B-52s have stopped touring but said they’d still play the occasional festival and suchbonkers lineup but seeing as i couldn’t get it together for cruel world, which was literally seven miles from my house…
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
Pre-Tears For Fears Graduate appearing on Mike Reid's Runaround children's quiz show in 1980! What a strange (and not very good) band, what were they trying to be? Now a-gih a-gih a-gih gooooooooooo!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Il4Sh9TQQ
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
kind of a new wave take on 60s mod pop?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:44 (one year ago) link
really hate that madness-esque turnaround thing at the end of the verses
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
when i say that madness-esque turnaround thing, i might actually mean ian dury-esque, but you know what i mean
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
New wave take on mod with a fucking flute?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:53 (one year ago) link
weren't there some mod/garage/freakbeat-type bands with flutes? like the troggs or someone
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:17 (one year ago) link
I'm not saying it's not a weird thing btw, just groping for some sort of context
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:18 (one year ago) link
what were they trying to be?
PJ Harvey
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link
(xp) "Wild Thing" had an ocarina on it. Never mind the mod thing though how many new wave acts had a flautist in their ranks?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:30 (one year ago) link
(xp) lol
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
I read "ocarina" as "cocaine"
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
Annie Lennox was a flautist, there's flute on a couple of Eurythmics tracks. Not sure she ever used it in the Tourists though (I have never listened to the Tourists)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link
But that's by the bye really, the flute on that song is very much part of its 60s-ness imo, the new wave bit is the production and clunky chorus
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Plenty of flute examples in and around the era. Genesis and Jethro Tull (of course); Tears for Fears love their prog. But "Down Under" was only the next year, and not long before we get to "One Night in Bangkok." That TFF song def. sounds more like the '60s than 1980 to me, disco-y Ian Dury turnaround bit aside.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
Kraftwerk had flute through Autobahn
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
not sure they were going for a prog thing really, this was how they were presenting themselves at the time...
https://bluehatrecords.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/elvis-should-play-ska-flyer-with-tour-dates.jpg
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
uncanny how the logo on the kick drum resembles a 'play' icon, that was clever of them
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link