Tears for Fears: C or D?

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Awful hair, super-gated 80s drum sounds, over-emoting vocals - what's not to love? Were they just new wave hippies? What was all that shouting about?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what they were shouting about, but it was certainly CLASSIC.

Search: "Mad World", "Shout", "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", "Mothers Talk", "Sowing The Seeds Of Love", "Shout", "Head Over Heels", "Shout" and especially "SHOUT".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

yes but Destroy the following on your way:

'Advice For The Young At Heart'
'Woman In chains'
'Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)'
'Elemental (Album)'

'Sowing The Seeds Of Love's is great tho, i think the way the song has three stages and the way they are sequenced is utterly superb...i mean the bit where the brass comes in taking over from the existent verse/chorus sequence...AND THEN that amazing 'Lucy In The Sky...' style rip off towards the end - supoib, tho you could just listen to 'Sgt Peppers' i suppose

― blueski, Thursday, 3 October 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The Last New Wave Band. Classic beyond words.

― Matt C., Thursday, 3 October 2002 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't for the life of me figure out what people like about these guys. "Shout" has to be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Dud!!

― Manny Parsons (Rahul Kamath), Thursday, 3 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Blueski, there was definitely a time when I would agree with your destroy list. I think I've mellowed since high school, though; in fact, I'm downloading "Woman In Chains" right now to see if I still hate it.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

well, part of the reason I brought this up is connected with that "manufactured pop = apex of culture" thread - because Tears for Fears have always been resoundingly pop in my mind: they had hits (even a bit of teenybopper status), they were catchy, they were self-consciously produced with the the "finest" technology of the time, they were big label, big hair, big everything. At the same time, they constructed their songs in a very Beatle-esque pop idiom and a lot of their lyrics are angst-ridden, rather dark, definitely morose. Maybe they were going for an overarching adolescent tragedy theme. At any rate - stuff like this seems to have completely fallen off the "pop" radar (at least in America). They make me long for a time when genuinely weird (or at least more idiosyncratic and ambiguous) songs could easily be seen as having a wide market appeal, and fell into a larger context of pop history. I mean, it isn't hard to draw a line from Cole Porter to the Beatles to Tears for Fears, but it seems much harder to extend that line to, say, N'Sync. What can I say, I'm a rockist I guess... anyway, Songs from the Big Chair is a great record.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 October 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic, classic, a thousand times classic. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is part of the soundtrack of my daily life.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

2 words: Pale Shelter

the hurting is CLASSIC

― geeg, Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say complete Dud, but yeah, "Pale Shelter" is actually pretty good.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: THE HURTING

DESTROY: Everything after SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR

Not sure about that 'last New Wave' bad claim.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

classic!!!!
Search: Thier videos. The best video ever made is thier video for Change (the second is David Bowie's Blue Jean)

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic, but I only have the first three albums, so I'm not sure how bad they flamed out in the 1990s.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple of songs off Elemental are good, but there's a lot of garbage as well. I will defend "Laid So Low" though - it's got the nice vibe of some of the SFTBC stuff but moves faster. Overall, they've certainly had enough high points that I can call them classic.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

They make me long for a time when genuinely weird (or at least more idiosyncratic and ambiguous) songs could easily be seen as having a wide market appeal, and fell into a larger context of pop history.
Shakey is totally OTM. But I never really listened to much after Songs From The Big Chair. Curt Smith was a stong force in the group, it seemed to go slowly downhill after he left.

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

after my 13th birthday (1985) i was going to buy my first LP. i went to the local musicstore with a friend, and after a while i held songs from the big chair in my hand and a copy of (whywhywhy) rhythm of the night by debarge...
my friend said: you're going to buy the tears for fears album, i know it. and just to make a point of making my own decision i chose the other one... fool...

― willem (willem), Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Pale shelter. Yes!

Woman in Chains. No!

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend of mine has a compilation of Tears For Fears extended mixes and when he played it in the care it sounded utterly brilliant - like ZTT meets Ultramarine.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I mostly can't stand this kind of 80's stuff with wimpy sounding vocals. And I am a "sensitive," not entirely stereotypical, (i.e., wimpy) guy. I heard some Tears for Fears recently after not having heard them for a while and I found myself wondering why I ever had any doubts about them being bad.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always thought they were a bit meh, but then I watched Donnie Darko and IT ALL MADE SENSE! Now I think they're classic.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The Urban Mix (Long Edit) of "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" highlights the quintessential pain of the 80s remix in the best possible manner outside of the extended mix of the Bangles' "Hazy Shade Of Winter".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Donnie Darko was my epiphany (& SEARCHSEARCHSEARCH the Gary Jules cover of "Mad World"!!!) - I only know "Shout" & "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", but if I get back to Dunedin in the next few months there's a really cheap copy of Tears Roll Down that shouldn't be going anywhere.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Had that Millennium Edition compilation in my hand the other day for $8 or something, but it doesn't have "Mad World" on it! Nuts to that.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 4 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Dan did you decide you still hate "Woman In Chains"? I do hope so.

I just bought a v.cheap compilation in Fopp - they weren't very good is my expert opinion. "Pale Shelter" is pretty smart though. Spandau Ballet did it all with much more panache.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ack! Spandau Ballet?

My wife was *B L A S T I N G* Spandau Ballet all day yesterday (courtesy of the GOLD best-of,.....god help us).

TFF-wise again, yes...."Woman in Chains" is gawdawful. But there's simply no arguing with "Change," "Pale Shelter" and "Mad World." Hell, I still love "Shout" and "Head over Heels" as well.

Spandau Ballet, though? There is a special circle in Hell reserved for me where that is all they play.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

TFF were the first band I ever saw, around the time "The hurting" came out. I was 14, so it seemed like a life-changing experience even though I was aware even then that they were going through the motions to some extent. I do like quite a lot of the first two LPs.

I don't really see what Spandau Ballet have got to do with it, Tom.

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

can't we show more love for 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love'?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Both TFF and SB started off doing brittle dark synthesised pop and then got more and more soulful as their careers went on.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

And they both had vocalists who were perhaps a bit too prone to giving it some welly.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

There is nothing wrong with "Woman in Chains" if you think of it in the correct way: as a house track with no beats. That way, you get to admire the stately buildup, the development of the first and second movements, and then the eruption of that "And I feel" followed/mirrored by the "So Free Her" after-chorus. But if you have to have beats in your house music, then god help ya sons and daughters. And you have to love the sentiment of the song if not the way it's executed...UNLIKE anything Spandau Ballet ever "did."

And "Sowing the Seeds" is quite perfect, for what it is, which is the best Beatles homage that XTC was too anal to ever truly accomplish. Partridge actually did a fair amount of mentoring for Roland and Curt--I bet he was pissed off when they outdid him on this one.

My crackpot theory: Tears for Fears was not a very original band at all, but every time they took on a challenge they met it. I am at work now so I can't spend time defending this theory. Maybe I'll start a blog or something.

My son's favorite song these days is "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," which he was singing while sitting on the toilet this morning. (He's four, so it's still cute.) At least he wasn't singing his second fave: "Shout, shout, let it all out..."

― Neudonymz, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"can't we show more love for 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love'?"

Always thought it sounded too much like Elton John slaughtering "I Am the Walrus."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I must say I'd never really thought of SB and TFF coming from the same place at all - SB were always a bunch of new romantic poseurs, TFF started out as an (overly) earnest John Peel band.

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Agreed. TFF had too much stylized angst....all that primal scream therapy business, let's remember. Spandau Ballet were, by contrast, a bunch of martini swiggin' party boys with exceptionally dubious fashion sense.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Too much stylized angst"? There's no such thing!

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, SB started out as an overly earnest The Face band. My perspective is as a 7/8 year old who linked them when they were in the charts and a late-20something who links them now on purchase of cheapo G Hits albums.

Early SB is full of angst!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"To Cut a Long Story Short" sure isn't happy fun time stuff. (I was listening to Gold for a bit yesterday myself...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

What'd y'all think of that "Mad World" cover at the end of Donnie Darko? Who is that artist?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Early SB is that "let's spend our honeymoon in East Berlin" angst. Early TFF had their psychotherapy schtick. Equally pretentious, of course, but in different ways. SB's was more of a club thing, a fashion thing.

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is that to me, explanations of origins aside, it still sounds and (nebulosity alert) 'feels' quite similar. I think the soul-trajectory thing is quite similar too.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with Tag.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Sowing ther Seeds of Love was a wondrous record, absolutely faultless.
In fact, the whole Seeds of Love album, bar the cripplingly bad artwork, was a masterpiece. I can't believe people are pulling apart Woman in Chains?! Year of the Knife is great, too.
The Hurting was a perfect pop album... Change and Mad World - lovely.
Songs from the Big Chair wasa bit too commercial, I thought ~(and had another shockingly awful sleeve)... but there's no doubting the power of the songwriting.

Great news is that Roland and Curt are now back together recording a new Tears for Fears album. And about time, too.

― russ t, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Every song by Radio 4 sounds like a punk cover of a different Tears for Fears song. FWIW.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

My download of "Woman In Chains" never completed. I think this was a sign.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess TFF did Ford Mondeo soul and SP did wine bar soul - both equally ersatz. But TFF did at least have a nice line of three or four fine pop singles before they discovered "production values" and Roland Orzabal's hideous self-importance - Suffer the children, Pale Shelter, Mad World and Change. "Everybody wants to rule the world" stands up well too. I imagine Robert Elms liked Spandau.

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes - SB were always aspirational Norf Lahndan soulboy geezers - even when they were wearing kilts. It's just that at the beginning there was a lot more Bowie to their soul (the name could be the title of an instrumental on 'Low'), and by the end there was a lot more Capital Radio. I think the initial Blitz kid pose was very opportunistic on the part of Kemp, M, Steve Dagger and Robert Elms (incidentally, search for great footage of Elms reading out one of his pomes before SB played their gig at the Scala). The career of the Spands is essentially the trajectory of the (Steve Norman) wedge haircut - from signifying mid-70s icy, moderne sophistication to representing Essex casual Farah's and loafers style.

TfF, on the other hand started out as repressed middle-class Montessori school weirdos - ten years earlier they woulda been into Genesis... the first two lps really define 80s progpop (see also Blancmange, Kershaw, Jones). They got into "soul" in the same way someone like Peter Gabriel did - as though they at last had found their "true voice" and got a bit less uptight, but more pompous (and less fun).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. Their songs have ended two great movies on the perfect note... the aforementioned "Mad World" in Donnie Darko (which also has a great "Head Over Heels" sequence) and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" in Real Genius.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Spandau's "Musclebound" is one of the weirdest records of the record: it makes me think of *Oswald Mosley*, for God's sake. I still think Paul Morley nailed them right back in '81, though (he set them up as a sort of new Suzi Quatro up against the Associates' Bowie, if memory serves).

I had a wonderful emotional experience with an unintentional soundtrack of "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" late last year, which makes it hard for me to discuss the song objectively. I've always thought it was TFF's best moment.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

God, what am I writing? "weirdest records of the decade", of course.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

classic. Though there's enough weak stuff on the greatest hits album that I don't feel like digging any deeper than there.

I do sooo love "Head Over Heels," "Shout," "Everybody Wants To..."

"Sowing The Seeds Of Love" rocked my world as much as any other cassingle. My mom wouldn't let me by the album cuz she looked at the song listing and noticed "Woman In Chains" "Bad Man's Song" and the songs about Knives and assumed they were metal or something, or at least violent and mysoginist.

They were pompous assholes though. I never liked "Change" but after I saw the video on VH1 Classic I turned around. Orzabal looked so cute dancing around with those kabuki people.

Relatively smart new wavers=classic, definitely

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Phhhhff......!!!!!! Jerry - Blancmange.... PROGPOP?

Oh please......labels labels labels. Boring boring boring.

Blancmange were a brilliant, witty, much underrated band who should've been a whole lot bigger than they ever were.

Progpop? I smile as I type it, even......

― russ t, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:05 (two years ago)

Thought B-52s did a farewell tour already?

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:34 (two years ago)

KISS did one in the 90s

― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:42 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

Thought B-52s did a farewell tour already?

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 (two years ago)

iirc the B-52s have stopped touring but said they’d still play the occasional festival and such

bonkers 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 (two years ago)

three months pass...

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 (two years ago)

kind of a new wave take on 60s mod pop?

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:44 (two years ago)

really hate that madness-esque turnaround thing at the end of the verses

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:46 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

New wave take on mod with a fucking flute?

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:53 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

what were they trying to be?

PJ Harvey

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:25 (two years ago)

(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 (two years ago)

(xp) lol

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:31 (two years ago)

I read "ocarina" as "cocaine"

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:31 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

Kraftwerk had flute through Autobahn

― J. Sam, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:24 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

I'd say they were just young and confused because the flute calls to mind capering prog folk before it does the groovy 60s.

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:35 (two years ago)

yes to young and confused plus also throwing whatever instruments they'd learned as kids into the mix, just cos it seemed like a good idea at the time

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:37 (two years ago)

some more footage here that has them sounding somehwere between xtc, secret affair and madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuFviRPwzc

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:43 (two years ago)

“Elvis Should Play Ska”. A light jab at Elvis Costello, after the famous rocker took a swipe at the genre, the track is filled with the up-strummed chords, a spiky guitar solo and some fantastic drumming. No horns, but the track is so bouncy and catchy they aren’t really needed.

Wonder if this song was written before 2 Tone took off. The skank of "Detectives" and "Chelsea" seems an odd thing to object to.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:44 (two years ago)

The album is pretty good IIRC but then I like this sort of thing.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:44 (two years ago)

Elvis Costello, after the famous rocker took a swipe at the genre

Wait, what? At the least EC was pretty tuned in to and in tune with 2 Tone.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:57 (two years ago)

kind of interesting that Mark Hollis started out making fairly similar music in The Reaction as their careers maybe followed somewhat similar paths through the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlxZ8FW2q8g

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:00 (two years ago)

xp I took it as a bad choice of words and what they meant was Elvis having done skaish tunes

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:03 (two years ago)

more like "took a stab" perhaps?

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:06 (two years ago)

They sound more like XTC than anyone else tbh. The mod connection seems like a bit of bandwagon jumping.

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:07 (two years ago)

would imagine that xtc's influence was pretty strong in that part of the country

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:16 (two years ago)

Indeed!

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:20 (two years ago)

was actually living somewhere between bath and swindon at that time, but would've been too young to have recognized the pungent scent of partridge in the breeze

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:23 (two years ago)

That I know or have known numerous people who went to school with TFF is one of my not-at-all-claims-to-fame-but-I-like-mentioning-it

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:25 (two years ago)

were they too visible from westbury white horse?

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:43 (two years ago)

watched this live a couple weeks back, Curt Smith performing Mad World at a temple here in L.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAFYGHvEhA

― omar little, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:33 (two years ago)

xp Probably not - Beckford's Tower is the main spot in Bath to see the horse

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:38 (two years ago)

my username is v. shit but that's what I get for making an account here about eight years before I began posting

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:40 (two years ago)

I read "ocarina" as "cocaine"
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

the legend of zelda: cocaine of time

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:03 (two years ago)

Trying to remember the Chris Morris quote about Sowing The Seeds Of Love.

― djh, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 19:25 (two years ago)

Really had no idea Orzabal and Smith had made music like this. I always thought "kick out the Style, bring back the Jam" was a weird line because TFF are closer to the Style, but now I'm rethinking things

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:28 (two years ago)

The album is pretty good IIRC but then I like this sort of thing.

What sort of thing is it though?

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:45 (two years ago)

Tuneful jerky new wave+power pop hinterland

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 12 October 2023 00:05 (two years ago)

There was this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBq6pBhyNq8

― PaulTMA, Thursday, 12 October 2023 00:13 (two years ago)

one year passes...

blood incantation turned me onto “seeds of love”. great record

― secretary of state for fractal pluripotencies (||||||||), Wednesday, 20 November 2024 12:55 (one year ago)

What is the connection to Blood Incantation? Wouldn’t have expected much influence from that record. It’s my favorite Tears for Fears though.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 20 November 2024 15:33 (one year ago)

I think they bought a copy of that record in a What's In Your Bag? episode.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 November 2024 17:00 (one year ago)

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