Tears For Fears

For those who are not aware. It's actually a live album with additional bonus tracks.

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For those who are not aware. It's actually a live album with additional bonus tracks.

A kind of Three Sides Live.

I've heard good things about their recent work but haven't investigated it yet. I liked the first two albums, loved Head Over Heels which is still a favourite 80s single. I liked some of Seeds and saw them on that tour, but was a bit irritated by the rather overbearing presence of Oleta Adams.

I lost touch with their work after that but did go to one more gig after Smith had left, which I enjoyed much more. Orzabal was a good front man, restrained and with a dry humour. That show gave me my first inkling of Radiohead, now a huge band for me but unknown to me then, when Orzabal said he wanted to do a song by a new band from Oxford, and then performed Creep solo on guitar. I liked it enough to later check them out.

Check out "Graduate", the 6 piece (or was it 5?) from which TFF emerged. Great single, "Ever met a day". Late 70's I think.

The new songs sound good. The beginning of The Girl I Call Home is reminiscent of the keyboard pattern for San Jacinto.

I really enjoyed The Hurting when it came out and I think Songs From the Big Chair is a masterpiece and one of my favourite albums from the 80s. I saw them on that tour at Massey Hall in Toronto. Although a great performance, it was also painfully loud and was the last concert I ever attended without earplugs. At least one of those shows was filmed and bits show up in documentaries. I really wish that show would get an official release.

The Seeds of Love has many great moments, but isn't as consistently strong as Big Chair for me. Sowing the Seeds of Love itself is just a little too much of a Beatles homage to stomach and the chorus is boring.

After that I lost touch, so if there is a good later album to investigate, please suggest one to me.

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I saw them on that tour at Massey Hall in Toronto. Although a great performance, it was also painfully loud and was the last concert I ever attended without earplugs. At least one of those shows was filmed and bits show up in documentaries. I really wish that show would get an official release.

At least this show got an official audio release in 2021! https://www.discogs.com/master…-Hall-Toronto-Canada-1985

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At least this show got an official audio release in 2021! https://www.discogs.com/master…-Hall-Toronto-Canada-1985

I did not know the audio was released! Thanks, I will look into getting that. I still wish they would also release the video.