There's a forthcoming 4cd box set for The Hurting coming soon!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 6 September 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
Way too much Hurting for me.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 September 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/tears-for-fears-the-hurting-four-disc-box-set-exclusive-details/
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Friday, 6 September 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
The Hurting has a few good tunes (I don't see "Watch Me Bleed" praised much) but no way in hell is it better than SFTBC or TSOL.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 September 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL_N1dVtddM
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
holy hell
― karajan up the khyber (NickB), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
this is demented
― karajan up the khyber (NickB), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Isn't it.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
I actually like the covers they've been doing. Quietly gearing up for something in a way that makes me eager to see what they come up with next. The covers & the Tumblr are a perfectly executed strategy.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
10 years between albums, I'm expecting something akin the XTC 's "Apple Venus", IE a great album after so much time off.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
"My Girls" seems slightly pointless.
― djh, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
Lyrics still no less obnoxious, but at least the sound of this cover doesn't make me feel queasy.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:11 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd be happy with something with the production depth of The Seeds Of Love, myself!
― zip-a-dee-doo-dah, motherfucker! (Turrican), Friday, 20 December 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
"The Working Hour" is made for car boomin' systems.
The 80s had big overdone sax in so many pop songs, and it just overwhelmed everything with its heavy slick sleazy stripper-pole sound so often. But this song has a sax intro that is kind of dated, but the saxaphone in it is strong and expressive in a way more like the clarinet in Joni Mitchell's For Free.
I fucking love this song.
― Tsuga, Saturday, 21 December 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
Can't think of a better example of big overdone 80s sax myself.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Saturday, 21 December 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
"Woman in Chains" is so pretty.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
'Advice For The Young At Heart' is perfection to me... the song, the production, the vocal...
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link
i have this weird thing where lots of songs vaguely remind me of "Advice" and i tend to feel instant affection for them just because of that (examples: Wye Oak's "We Were Wealth," India Arie's "Just Do You").
― scott c-word (some dude), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
"Advice..." is their sophisti-pop song (those bongos remind me of "Shattered Dreams") so Curt Smith singing it makes sense.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
do we have a dedicated sophistipop thread or anything?
― some dude, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
as a kid i loved the "Head Over Heels" video because there was a monkey in it. as an adult, i love it because of the guy making ridiculous faces and saying "YEAH!" after playing a synthesizer solo in the library.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9-Vb-Sj7uU
― some dude, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
This one is old: S&D: Sophistipop
These have candidates: Swing Out Sister - "Breakout" C/D
Johnny Hates Jazz "Shattered Dreams" C/D
^^ that one ends with a request like yours, ship
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
these two seem to share a common ancestor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH16ax3t1T4
both great videos.
― 3×5, Thursday, 13 February 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, I thought the second video was the actual music vid. Here is the song, to compare with DJ Shadow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEMtSPZNch8
― 3×5, Thursday, 13 February 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
Shadow's was an actual sample of the Pekka Pohjola track. The descending four chord sequence isn't particularly complicated and it's possible that Orzabel came up with them on his own. Have there been any lawsuits?
― doug watson, Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
No way is that a coincidence. Tears for Fears added eight beats, so it's not exactly the same, but the first eight are exactly the same chords, in the same key played in the exact same rhythm, on the same instrument (which I assume is a Wurlitzer electric piano). I think Tears for Fears borrowed it from an obscure record, then DJ Shadow sampled the same record.
― 3×5, Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
From Steven Wilson's site.
My remix of Tears for Fears’ iconic 80’s album “Songs From the Big Chair” is included on a 30th anniversary reissue, to be released by Universal Music Group on 4th November.
Songs from the Big Chair was one of the biggest albums of the 80’s, and particularly successful in the USA where it reached number one in the Billboard chart on its way to selling several million copies. It features two US number one singles, Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World, as well as 2 more hit singles Head Over Heels and Mother’s Talk.
It’s a brilliant record by a truly innovative 80’s band – both accessible and ambitious. The reissue will be available in several different formats including a stand-alone Blu-Ray and a comprehensive 6 disc deluxe edition with live tracks, singles, B-sides, TV/radio appearances, remixes, videos, and the original mix.
There will also be a vinyl edition of my new stereo mix. The new stereo and 5.1 mixes were overseen and approved by Roland Orzabal (and are included as flat transfers with no mastering). More details and track listing are available on SuperDeluxeEdition.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 26 October 2014 08:50 (nine years ago) link
Didn't know Wilson did this. I love his Crimson remixes.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 October 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Down the rabbit hole with this 5 disc deluxe edition, it's super annoying that the Stephen Wilson remix is only on DVD and not CD, making it more of a pain to rip (and making it unavailable on Spotify)
― MaresNest, Monday, 12 January 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I haven't played that Wilson remix, is it all that different?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 12 January 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
The Seeds of Love = Songs From The Big Chair > The Hurting > Raoul and The Kings of Spain > Everybody Loves A Happy Ending > Elemental
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 20 April 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
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, 21 April 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
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 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.
― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 09:46 (nine years ago) link
sowing the seeds of love is one weird album, man.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
when that simply red dude heard the gospel piano-jazz tune on this album he must have said "argh, back to the drawing board!".
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
heck, even the level 42 dudes must have been green with envy.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
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..."
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
the blue nile were so devastated by this record they didn't record again for 7 years.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
sorry *THE SEEDS OF LOVE*. not sowing the seeds of love.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
blue nile >>>>>> tears for fears imo
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
'Street Fighting Years' was the Minds' 'Satanic Majesties Request' to TFF's 'Sgt. Pepper'
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 16 July 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
"Street Fighting Years" was the Minds "Cant Stop the Music" to TFF's "Flash Gordon".
― everything, Thursday, 16 July 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
those Talk Talk kids didn't seem to be too bothered by "seeds of love".
― rushomancy, Friday, 17 July 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
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.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Saturday, 18 July 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Then Play Long reaches the difficult third album: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/tears-for-fears-seeds-of-love.html
― agincourtgirl, Sunday, 30 August 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
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.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 30 August 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Love is a promiseLove is a souvenir
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link