Tears for Fears: The singles

hahha how bold are you! I admire it. I'm not a New Yorker, hell I'm not even a northeaster east coaster type person. But I adore you for carrying the true punk rock torch when no one else wanted to carry it :) Also I did finally visit New York last year in October and I felt a lot of peace out of it, in the end. I was surprised.

But who can hope to understand new wave if they don't understand punk? Sigh...

I was in a lot of pain in NYC in October, but I played some Lou Reed, and he got me through it. I felt peace because of him. I was only into the Coney Island Baby album then.

Sorry, Alex. I know you don't like Lou much.

Rock & Roll Heart is my fave album of his. But I can't even think about playing him now. I'm not even in the right mood for him.

TEARS FOR FEARS

tears for fears are playing a winery here in No Cal next month. I'm sure the tickets are $100 a pop; is there any reason at all to go, or will it be painful?

I was about to poll Tears For Fears singles thanks to the 89/90 Modern Rock #1s poll and went "wait, didn't someone do this before...?"

the more we change, etc

also these guys are still awesome

er 88/89, ykwim

you kick with it, man

I still can't believe we forgot to put Tears for Fears on the Best of the 20th century poll

tempted to repoll all the zero vote songs

I'd only vote for "Woman in Chains" though.

Can't wait for Adam Levine's remake of that.

"Woman in chains, because I'm a sensitive and non-sexist guy and because they asked me to"

so taaaaaaalk to herrrrrrrr

Inspired by the re-emergence of this thread I played "Woman in chains" for the first time in years, and once the song kicked in around the 40 seconds mark I thought "This sounds like..." and dashed off to the link piece between "What you want" and "Soon" and they do sound kind of similar.

man I consistently underrate how great "Woman In Chains" is

MEN OF STONE

"Woman In Chains" is good but you know, "Goodnight Song" is a stellar album closer.

I wanted to buy Seeds Of Love when I was a kid, but my mom didn't like the sound of titles like "Woman In Chains" "Badman's Song" and two numbers about knives so I had to settle for a cassingle of the title track.

so free her
so free her

^ A brilliant moment in a great song.

Would have voted for 'Advice For The Young At Heart', which has become my favourite TFF song ever.

yeah it's amazing that one. the story of the making of that album is incredible/nuts.

there was a Guardian piece a while back that posited the notion that Seeds Of Love was at points referencing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ht5we3qzY

Yeah, it's the kind of studio perfectionism that I don't really hear about so much anymore. Which is kinda strange in a way, given that more people are able to make great recordings with home studios, but understandable in another - not everyone has access to the calibre of players on The Seeds of Love!

saw TFF this year live at camp bestival.
f*cking hell they are a boring live act.
i mean really really boring.
clearly a studio only band ..

i loath predictable poll results...

I heard Break It Down Again the other day & I seriously love it. Has a little bit of a Simple Mindsian thing goong on that I can't describe properly

^ That song is awesome. TFF were my first ever favourite band when I was a child, and "Elemental" was the first album I seriously loved.

I'm cranking The Seeds of Love now. It's pretty much my favourite TFF LP these days and is their masterpiece in my mind.

Elemental is pretty underrated. There's a few excellent songs on it besides Break It Down Again, that would not be out of place on a greatest hits album

yeah it's a good album. I prefer it to the albums that followed however more 'legitimate' they are by having Curt Smith involved