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1. Shout
2. Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mother's Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels/Broken
8. Listen
Product details
* Audio CD (1 Mar 1985)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Polygram
* ASIN: B000001FC0
Amazon.co.uk Review
Although the opening track, "Shout", takes on the theme of catharsis that dominated THE HURTING two years earlier, the progression evident from that debut to SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR is manifest in every other facet. While many of the band's synth-pop peers continued to develop along a linear route, Tears For Fears vaulted into the potentially insipid worldof '80s MOR.
Curt Smith sings on the radio-friendly "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", but Roland Orzabal's stronger voice takes centre-stage for much of the album, includingthe spirited single "Mother's Talk" and a falsetto on the stadium-sized "Head Over Heels". "The Working Hour" is the perfect realisation of the new sound: a smooth six-minute arrangement of saxophone, piano, and guitar that's marked by a restrained sense of drama. SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR is an excellent album and, shading Simple Minds' ONCE UPON A TIME, arguably the finest example of epic '80s pop. The 1998 remastered edition includes seven bonus tracks.
Previously featured:
'Dare' - The Human League
'Five Leaves Left - 'Nick Drake'
'The Queen Is Dead' - The Smiths
'OK Computer' - Radiohead
'Pet Sounds' - The Beach Boys
'Bat Ouf Of Hell' - Meatloaf
'Revolver' - The Beatles
'Definately Maybe' - Oasis
'Dark Side Of The Moon' - Pink Floyd
'London Calling' - The Clash
'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret' - Soft Cell
'Love' - The Cult
'Andy Warhol' - The Velvet Underground & Nico
'Nevermind' - Nirvana
'Play' - Moby
'Poetic Champions Compose' - Van Morrison
'Upstairs At Eric's' - Yazoo
'At Folsom Prison' - Johnny Cash
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