i have about 20 badges , posters, patches, and loads of other memorabilia...

Careful what you say.  Somebody, not I, will strike you down for getting it wrong about Primal Therapy and what TFF records were and were not about Nuclear war.
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I like the songs of TTF during the 80's

Me too!

I was and still am a fan.  "Mad World" and all the songs from that album were my favorites from them.

  They had a few decent songs.  All I know from TFF is what was on the radio...

I wasn't crazy about them but didn't mind them either.

I liked a handful of their songs, and use to have a CD of their greatest hits.

Tears for Fears were a smash success from the get go almost everywhere except the U.S.
'the Hurting' was overlooked in the States, and I never understood why.

I've been a fan since I was a kid.  'Change' was one of my all-time favourites growing up.

Heh! I bet hardly anyone remembers them in this guise...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oUqRXz9KkA

...when Curt & Roly were part of a mod/ska outfit called Graduate (circa 1980)

Yep, I have been, and still am a fan of 'Tears for Fears'. My favourite song is probably 'Everybody wants to rule the world'. It seemed to define an era for me.

I love the video, Paul. Thanks for showing it.  8)

Their song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was *very* popular on MTV in early 1985. I remember it (the video) well !
That one and "Shout" were heard quite often in 1985, but the one I really like, "Head Over Heels" didn't get as much play on radio or MTV, although it's probably the one I'll catch on the radio nowadays more than any of their other songs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZzCyJVb4o

And don't forget their last great song, "Sowing the Seeds of Love", which came out as the '80s were coming to an end.



Correction.

Their song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was *very* popular on MTV in early 1985. I remember it (the video) well !
That one and "Shout" were heard quite often in 1985, but the one I really like, "Head Over Heels" didn't get as much play on radio or MTV, although it's probably the one I'll catch on the radio nowadays more than any of their other songs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZzCyJVb4o

And don't forget their last great song, "Sowing the Seeds of Love", which came out as the '80s were coming to an end.



Correction.


They did a few albums in the '90s, but I think mostly loyal TFF fans bought those!
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The video for 'Head Over Heels' was filmed at the University of Toronto.  I worked with a guy who said that library has a signed picture of the duo hanging on the wall

The video for 'Head Over Heels' was filmed at the University of Toronto.  I worked with a guy who said that library has a signed picture of the duo hanging on the wall

Really? I was attending U of T at the time. Dang. I missed that.

The video for 'Head Over Heels' was filmed at the University of Toronto.  I worked with a guy who said that library has a signed picture of the duo hanging on the wall


Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a cool video, too!

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a cool video, too!




Me thinks you really like "Head over Heels" because it was used in the movie "Donnie Darko".  ???

Me thinks you really like "Head over Heels" because it was used in the movie "Donnie Darko".  ???



Off hand, yes, but I also liked the song way before the film came out, as well.

The film, Real Genius (a really great and under rated film, by the way), also has a Tears For Fears song, in it too.

Namely, Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

Songs from the Big Chair was a great album.  I also like the later stuff, including Seeds of Love.

It's a really great video, and is very visually stunning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbvxALFWvHs

"Sowing" what a great song.  They threw in everything but the kitchen sink!
:)

Loved 'The Hurting'. I went to see them in 1983 on the back of that album. They were huge in the U.K at the time.

Loved 'The Hurting'. I went to see them in 1983 on the back of that album. They were huge in the U.K at the time.


"The Hurting" is one of my all-time favorite albums.  "Change" and "Pale Shelter" were indie hits in the States, but it wasn't until "Songs from the Big Chair" that TFF broke through bigtime over here.  That one sold something over five million copies here in the 24 months.  They sort of blew all their powder at once and they couldn't beat that Big Chair success.  Even though "The Seeds of Love" went U.S. platinum (1m+).  Reaction was:
"Hey, Tears for Fears are back!"
"Oh?  Yeah, I remember those guys."
:-\\

Me thinks you really like "Head over Heels" because it was used in the movie "Donnie Darko".  ???



Can't anyone have a TFF discussion WITHOUT mentioning Donnie Darko? Don't get me wrong, I can't say as I dislike the film....In all honesty, I haven't seen it. I just tire of hearing about it...and it seems today's youth think Gary Jules wrote 'Mad World'....sigh

Can't anyone have a TFF discussion WITHOUT mentioning Donnie Darko? Don't get me wrong, I can't say as I dislike the film....In all honesty, I haven't seen it. I just tire of hearing about it...and it seems today's youth think Gary Jules wrote 'Mad World'....sigh


It's true.  I had to inform a singer-songwriter program host that TFF wrote "Mad World," not Gary Jules.  He was grateful to know.  Of course, he could have also looked over his program notes before hand.  I like to mention who wrote the piece as well as who performed it.  That's what you have to do when you get into jazz and classical after all...anyway  that's all radio chit-chat. 

Can't anyone have a TFF discussion WITHOUT mentioning Donnie Darko? Don't get me wrong, I can't say as I dislike the film....In all honesty, I haven't seen it. I just tire of hearing about it...and it seems today's youth think Gary Jules wrote 'Mad World'....sigh


I mentioned D.Darko since he's in one of the pictures at the bottom of all Penny Wise posts...

I mentioned D.Darko since he's in one of the pictures at the bottom of all Penny Wise posts...


Fair enough.

Can't anyone have a TFF discussion WITHOUT mentioning Donnie Darko? Don't get me wrong, I can't say as I dislike the film....In all honesty, I haven't seen it. I just tire of hearing about it...and it seems today's youth think Gary Jules wrote 'Mad World'....sigh


Donnie Darko is alright. I was told it was a brilliant film, watched it and thought it could have been better but that's me. I'm difficult to please, lol.

I used to get annoyed that people didn't go beyond the surface of music to find out different (and orginal versions) of the same song but there is no point. I was the same at one time. I got angry that Boy George covered, what I thought to be Ken Boothe's original version of 'Everything I own' in 1974. It would be 10 years later that I would understand David Gates of Bread wrote the original (and very different in contrast) version in 1972. We can all fall foul of it, lol.

I hated what Kanye West did with "Memories Fade."
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Listening to "Head Over Heels" right now.  LOVE THIS SONG. 

Listening to "Head Over Heels" right now.  LOVE THIS SONG. 


Me too!

Listening to "Head Over Heels" right now.  LOVE THIS SONG. 


Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coincides with my own!
-- King Henry VIII in the movie "A Man for All Seasons".

Me too!


Me three! 

Then the high school marching band under the direction of Mr. Slimeball* did their rendition.  The song could no longer be cool...not for me! 

* A free-association nickname I had for his real name, which I'm not going to use because he's probably out there somewhere.  It took twenty years to wind down from that one!  I wasn't in the band but I had friends in the band and I a few bad run-ins with the dufus.  He had a Doug Niedermeyer style of teaching, which I know turned some students off to music for life.  That's a crime in my book.
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http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af9/Da_Snauce/P4170104.jpg

Why yes, I was.

And I just saw them a few weeks ago.