The Seeds of Love

Artist: Tears for Fears
Label: Island / Mercury
Category: Music

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Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3

UPC: 602498300794
EAN: 0602498300794
ASIN: B0009S2TUC

Release Date: 2005-06-21

Chronicles: The Hurting/Songs from the Big Chair/The Seeds of Love

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Tracks:

The Hurting
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Ideas As Opiates
Memories Fade
Suffer The Children
Watch Me Bleed
Change
The Prisoner
Start Of The Breakdown
Pale Shelter
The Way You Are
Mad World
Change

Tracks:

Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Mothers Talk
I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)
Broken
Head Over Heels / Broken
Listen
The Big Chair
Empire Building
The Marauders
Broken Revisited
The Conflict
Mothers Talk
Shout

Tracks:

Woman In Chains
Bad Man's Song
Sowing The Seeds Of Love
Advice For The Young And Heart
Standing On The Corner Of The Third World
Swords And Knife
Year Of The Knife
Famous Last Words
Tears Roll Down
Always In The Past
Music For Tables
Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams

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Album Description

The "Chronicles" box sets are specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box. Each album was selected to symbolize a classic period for the artist. Each disc includes original CD booklet. <P>Titles in this set include: "The Hurting," "Songs From The Big Chair," and "The Seeds Of Love".

Customer Reviews:

Great Synth-Pop Set- Terrible Packaging.......2005-08-17

The first three Tears For Fears albums are all quintessential 80's pop. That is to say, the singles are phenomenal, the album tracks have cool synth experimentation, but there are a few slow spots on each disc.

"The Hurting" is almost like a therapy session on record. Some of the lyrics may be a little too introspective, but the hooks more than make up for it. Mad World is an amazing song (follow it up with great cover version in "Donnie Darko") and Pale Shelter remains a sturdy single.

"Songs From the Big Chair" contains this group's biggest hits. Shout is almost like an ode to primal scream therapy, and Everybody Wants to Rule the World may be the best single of the entire decade. Head Over Heels turns out to be part of a pretty cool song suite. There is no filler on this album with the possible exception of track 8 (the instumental last track of the original album which just doesn't really seem to go anywhere).

"The Seeds of Love" start to drop the synth-pop vibe for more Beatles-like sounds and late 80's pop values (which these guys actually do quite well). The title track and Woman In Chains are the singles here, but my favorite is Standing On The Corner Of The Third World, featuring Manu Katche on drums and some really cool worldbeat sounds.

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