"Year of the Knife" does grate.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Well, it's really just the title track that I can't stand. It seemed like a goofy pastiche when it was first released and then it was horribly overplayed during a summer job when all I had for music was a radio. I generally skip the first three tracks. Woman In Chains was also overplayed and while Badman's Song should've worked, I never warmed to it.
I love everything from Advice onwards, even Year Of The Knife. Wish the more percussive Tears Roll Down was about twice as long. It would've made a great opener (although maybe it wasn't recorded during the album sessions?)
― doug watson, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:34 (two hours ago) link
*great
― 3:10 to yur mom (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
I wish "Woman in Chains" had been overplayed in the States.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
i don't think it would be possible for a song as good as "woman in chains" to be overplayed
― ufo, Thursday, 20 August 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
unreleased demo version of "rhythm of life," which they eventually gave to oleta adams for her album: https://youtu.be/1Asyb8IY2hw
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
My intro to her. VH-1 loved it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
i know the tff version is just a demo, but i think they made the right call in letting her have it.
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
A....lot of music on this box set. The interesting stuff consists of jams that loosen the shackles from "Badman's Song" and "Standing on the Corner..."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 September 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
if you feel like polling the seeds once more, consider pulling the trigger for roland and oleta
Match E4!1 Tears For Fears/Oleta Adams! https://t.co/ZBLvBkddXt2 David Bowie/Pet Shop Boys! https://t.co/rHzr43VrOb3 Womack And Womack! https://t.co/rGYaMETfOF4 Positive K! https://t.co/Hu3O6BhX8H— World Cup Of Duets (@peoples_pop) October 13, 2020
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Thursday, 15 October 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
"Love Wars," man.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
ha yes, that song is also excellent. so is positive k. a shame that name recognition is pushing the pet shop bowies ahead
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Thursday, 15 October 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
The super deluxe reissue of "Seeds Of Love" arrived the other day, haven't spun it yet but the preview tracks have been intriguing. I'm most interested in the Townhouse jams and demos.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 15 October 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
They're worth a listen.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
The original CD issue sounds so incredible, don't think I could remotely handle the new version
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
'Advice' just came up on shuffle, and...huh. Wow. They never really did much for me in my youth but anytime I hear the singles these days I'm a little taken aback. Think I might be ready to give the albums a go.
― Please Hammer Stop Hurting 'Em (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
it's a world gone crazy, old lunch in chaaains
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
For a band whose records seemed freighted with so much "significance" in the 80s, they've kind of vaporized since. If they didn't deserve the hype then, they don't deserve the indifference now.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
every time I play this album I like it more
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
(at the time I vividly remember being appalled by the Seeds of Love single/video and wouldn't go anywhere near the album)
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
My brothers and I used to sing it as 'sewing machines of love'.
Who am I kidding, 'used to', we did this as recently as our xmas zoom call.
― Please Hammer Stop Hurting 'Em (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
SEWING MA-CHINES (yup, works for me)
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
new curt smith interview where he intimated that a major inspiration for “woman in chains” was alice cooper’s “only women bleed”: https://www.spin.com/2021/11/curt-smith-tears-for-fears-5-albums-i-cant-live-without/
also reveals other things lol, but i can’t say i expected that
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 November 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
lol wow
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 November 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link