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         Tears For Fears - The Hurting (30th Anniversary Edition Box Set 3-CD)(2013)              


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Tears For Fears Originally released in 1983, the debut album from Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, otherwise known as Tears For Fears, instantly blasted off one of the most stellar careers of the 1980s. Immaculately produced, stunningly sequenced and comprised of a sequence of timeless electronic pop classics, ‘The Hurting’ sympathetically explored themes of childhood angst, adolescent heartache and the struggles of the transition from boy to man. It also gave birth to four of the era’s essential singles: ‘Suffer The Children’, ‘Pale Shelter’, ‘Change’ and the landmark megahit ‘Mad World’. Compiled with the full involvement of Roland and Curt, ‘The Hurting 30th Anniversary Edition’ brings together the original album remastered at Abbey Road studios, plus all of the relevant B-sides edits and remixes from the period, many of them available for the first time.

CD1: The Hurting
The Hurting would have been a daring debut for a pop-oriented band in any era, but it was an unexpected success in England in 1983, mostly by virtue of its makers’ ability to package an unpleasant subject  the psychologically wretched family histories of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith in an attractive and sellable musical format. Not that there weren’t a few predecessors, most obviously John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band album  which was also, not coincidentally, inspired by the work of primal scream pioneer Arthur Janov. (But Lennon had the advantage of being an ex-Beatle when that meant the equivalent to having a box next to God’s in the great arena of life, where Tears for Fears were just starting out.) Decades later, “Pale Shelter,” “Ideas as Opiates,” “Memories Fade,” “Suffer the Children,” “Watch Me Bleed,” “Change,” and “Start of the Breakdown” are powerful pieces of music, beautifully executed in an almost minimalist style. “Memories Fade” offers emotional resonances reminiscent of “Working Class Hero,” while “Pale Shelter” functions on a wholly different level, an exquisite sonic painting sweeping the listener up in layers of pulsing synthesizers, acoustic guitar arpeggios, and sheets of electronic sound (and anticipating the sonic texture, if not the precise sound of their international breakthrough pop hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”. The work is sometimes uncomfortably personal, but musically compelling enough to bring it back across the decades.

01. The Hurting 04:19
02. Mad World 03:35
03. Pale Shelter 04:34
04. Ideas As Opiates 03:45
05. Memories Fade 05:05
06. Suffer The Children 03:53
07. Watch Me Bleed 04:18
08. Change 04:14
09. The Prisoner 02:55
10. Start Of The Breakdown 04:58

CD2: B-Sides And Remixes
The early single version of Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love) is included in seven and twelve-inch variants, while debut 45 Suffer The Children makes four appearances on the bonus disc, including the instrumental version and the original twelve-inch remix. The so-called ‘new version’ of fourth single Change (originally appended to the UK cassette of The Hurting) gets its CD debut, as does the early B-side takes on album tracks Ideas As Opiates and The Prisoner. The first Tears For Fears B-side, the quirky Wino, is present and correct having been omitted from 1996′s Saturnine Martial & Lunatic flip-side compilation.

01. Suffer The Children (7″ Version) 03:44
02. Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love) 04:03
03. The Prisoner (B-Side) 02:44
04. Ideas As Opiates (B-Side) 03:56
05. Change (New Version) 04:39
06. Suffer The Children (Remix) 04:20
07. Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love) (Extended Version) 07:06
08. Mad World (World Remix) 03:42
09. Change (Extended Version) 06;00
10. Pale Shelter (Extended Version) 07:09
11. Suffer The Children (Instrumental) 04:27
12. Change (7″ Edit) 03:57
13. Wino (B-Side) 02:25
14. The Conflict (B-Side) 04:03
15. We Are Broken (B-Side) 05:16
16. Suffer The Children (Promo CD Version) 03:58

CD3: Live Sessions
The autumn 1982 live radio sessions with David ‘kid’ Jensen and John Peel are commercially released for the first time. These eight tracks (four for each session) can be found on CD 3 within the box set. Change and Start Of The Breakdown  -  live from Oxford  -  complete this disc (both originally issued on the limited edition seven-inch double-pack of non-album single The Way You Are).

Peel Session 01.09.1982:
01. Ideas As Opiates 03:52
02. Suffer The Children 04:04
03. The Prisoner 02:52
04. The Hurting 03:49
Jensen Session 20.10.1982:
05. Memories Fade 04:53
06. The Prisoner 02:47
07. Start Of The Breakdown 03:59
08. The Hurting 03:50
From “The Way You Are” Single:
09. Start Of The Breakdown 05:54
10. Change 04:58


Artist: Tears For Fears
Genre: Pop
Format: Mp3
Bitrate: 320Kbps
Grootte: 358Mb
Speelduur: 02:34:26
Covers: Ja

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Tracklist: Zie boven bij de info.


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