Tears for Fears is a really good band. For awhile, they were even my favorite band. Not anymore but probably still top 5. Good stuff. In fact, just this week, I bought their re-mastered "Songs From the Big Chair" album which is most likely their best one and the one with the songs they are most remembered for. Shout, Mother's Talk, Head Over Heels, I Believe and of course, Everybody Wants to Rule The World. However, the other tracks on there are also very good. The Working Hour for instance I find better than most of the songs on the album. Maybe it's helped by the fact that I never heard it before either and so I feel like I discovered while the other songs I have heard many times over. Listen is also a neat tune. Broken is alright. All in all, it's just a solid album front to back.
The extra tracks given on the re-mastered CD aren't anything great. The extra tracks just aren't close to matching the stuff the 8 songs the original album contained and the remixes of some of the songs are interesting but I prefer the original songs. Still, it's free, it's extra and it gives you another dimension to their music. Why should I gripe?
Really, if you aren't familiar with Tears For Fears, get familiar with them. Great stuff. If you want more reason to check out Tears For Fears, they are the ones who wrote Mad World, now most famously associated with Donnie Darko and Gears of War ads. Pale Shelter, Change, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Advice For the Young at Heart. I love it all. So many great tunes. Go to Youtube and check out their awesome videos. I recommend Head over Heels. It's probably the corniest video they ever did but it's set in a library! How many people can rock out in a library? Only one group. Tears For Fears. Plus, that's like the only video that seems to show Roland Orzabal smiling. In other videos, he always seems serious or grouchy. You may also what to check out the video for Pale Shelter where he gets a paper airplane in the eye near the end of the video. At least, it looks like it hits him in the eye. Ah, 80's music videos. How great you were.
But my point in all of this is: EASYCURE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED!.