Tears For Fears

Synth-Pop band founded by two long-time friends: vocalist+bassist Curt Smith and guitarist+vocalist Roland Orzabal, they began playing music in a schoolboy band called Graduate, the pair started Tears For Fears recruiting keyboardist Ian Stanely and drummer Manny Elias, in 1981 they recorded two singles "Suffer The Children" and "Pale Shelter", a year later "Mad World" peaked at #3 on The Official U.K. Singles chart, in March of 1983 the band debuted with "The Hurting", it climbed to the top of The U.K. Albums chart, broke the Pop Albums chart in the States spawning another top 10 U.K. hit, "Change", it also entered The U.S. Mainstream Rock chart reaching the #22. Two years later the group released the worlwide breakthrough LP "Songs From The Big Chair" that quickly sold eight million copies, it reached the #1 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart helped by three singles, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", "Shout" both #1 on The Billboard Hot 100 and "Head Over Heels" which peaked at #3 in the same chart, all the three singles also ranked in the top 10 of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. TFF resurfaced in 1989 with their third effort, "The Seeds Of Love" but did not receive the same critical approval and commercial performance compared to its predecessor, the record became a top 10 hit in British and American albums charts; the single "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" peaked at #1 on Modern Rock chart and #4 on Mainstream Rock chart. Shortly before the release of 1992 collection set, Smith left the band, the ten-years retrospective included a new song, "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)", the single hit the top 10 of the Modern Rock chart. A new album credited to Tears For Fears came out a year later, "Elemental" was essentially a solo record from Roland Orzabal, it reached the #45 on The Billboard 200 chart and generated the single "Break It Down Again" which became #1 on Modern Rock chart. Curt Smith, meanwhile, released his solo debut album that same year, "Soul On Board", which went ignored. Orzabal issued 1995's "Raoul And The Kings Of Spain" the fifth album under the name of Tears For Fears. The band founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith are back together after 13 years, with the new album "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending" and a new single "Closest Thing To Heaven".

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The Hurting

(1983)

1. The Hurting
2. Mad World
3. Pale Shelter
4. Ideas As Opiates
5. Memories Fade
6. Suffer The Children
7. Watch Me Bleed
8. Change
9. Prisoner
10. Start Of The Breakdown

 

Songs From The Big Chair

(1985)

1. Shout
2. The Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels/Broken [live]
8. Listen

 

The Seeds Of Love

(1989)

1. Woman In Chains
2. Badman's Song
3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
4. Advice For The Young At Heart
5. Standing On The Corner Of The Third World
6. Swords And Knives
7. Year Of The Knife
8. Famous Last Words

 

Tears Roll Down
(Greatest Hits 82-92)

(1992)

1. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
2. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
3. Woman In Chains
4. Shout
5. Head Over Heels
6. Mad World
7. Pale Shelter
8. I Believe
9. Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down) [NEW TRACK]
10. Mothers Talk
11. Change
12. Advice For The Young At Heart

 

Elemental

(1993)

1. Elemental
2. Cold
3. Break It Down Again
4. Mr. Pessimist
5. Dog's A Best Friend's Dog
6. Fish Out Of Water
7. Gas Giants
8. Power
9. Brian Wilson Said
10. Goodnight Song

 

Raoul And The Kings Of Spain

(1995)

1. Raoul And The Kings Of Spain
2. Falling Down
3. Secrets
4. God's Mistake
5. Sketches Of Pain
6. Los Reyes Católicos
7. Sorry
8. Humdrum And Humble
9. I Choose You
10. Don't Drink The Water
11. Me And My Big Ideas
12. Los Reyes Católicos [reprise]

 

Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

(2004)

1. Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
2. Closest Thing To Heaven
3. Call Me Mellow
4. Size Of Sorrow
5. Who Killed Tangerine?
6. Quiet Ones
7. Who You Are
8. The Devil
9. Secret World
10. Killing With Kindness
11. Ladybird
12. Last Days On Earth

 

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