Tears For Fears: The Hurting (West German ''Atomic'' Pressing) CD Track Listing

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Tears For Fears The Hurting (West German ''Atomic'' Pressing) (1983)
The Hurting (West German ''Atomic'' Pressing)\n\nOriginally Released March 25, 1983\nCD Edition Released 1985 ??\nRemastered Edition Released In Europe August 3, 1999\nRemastered Edition Released In U.S. March 13, 2001\n\nAmazon.com Album Details \nRemastered Reissue with Four Bonus Tracks. CD Booklet Contains Extensive Liner Notes and Rare Photos. \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's debut featured the morose synth-pop hits "Pale Shelter" and "Mad World." -- Scott Bultman\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: 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. More than two 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 for this listener, but musically compelling enough to bring him back across the decades. The Hurting was remastered and reissued in an expanded version in 1999. -- Bruce Eder \n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nDigitally remastered reissue of the hit English new wave/ pop duo's 1983 debut album with four bonus tracks added, 'Pale Shelter' (Long Version), 'The Way You Are' (Extended), 'Mad World' (World Remix) and 'Change' (Extended Version). The album also features the original version of the top 75 hit 'Change'. 14 tracks total. 1999 release. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nRaw and Powerful, October 3, 2000 \nReviewer: Laurent Boulanger from Craigieburn, VICTORIA Australia\n'The Hurting' is Tears For Fears's first album, which first came out in the UK and went straight to the No.1 spot on the chart. When it was released in 1983, most pop music was trash and meaningless. Using their teenager experience and frustrations, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith came up with this amazingly depressing but essential album- by dealing with our angts and pains, we are ready to face the world. The strength of this album is its raw honesty and the amazingly emotional and convincing voice of both singers. Roland and Curt share the vocals on the songs, but it's virtually impossible to tell who sings what song. The added acoustic guitars give the album a different feel from the synth/electric guitar follow up album, 'Songs From The Big Chair'. Basically, if you're tired of listening to meaningless lyrics, and don't mind outdated drum loops, then get this album. The additional extended remixes are good for fans, and the only one which stands out, 'The Way You Are', is addictive, even though Roland originally dismissed it as a 'bunch of noises' rather than a song. 'The Way You Are' was written between 'The Hurting' and 'Songs From The Big Chair', when the duo had discovered synthesisers, reverb and Fairlight programming. A must for fans or anyone who hasn't recovered from their childhood traumas.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBreathtaking Journey Into the Halls of Angst, December 16, 2000\nReviewer: Douglas Coronel "Music Guru" (Santa Clarita, CA United States)\nTears For Fears has the dubious distinction of not realizing their full potential in all musical releases after their debut album. Perhaps nowhere else is there such a flagrant example of a band having amazing genius and intellectual prowess and throwing it out on a second release for catchy commerical tunes. For those of you who put on the headphones and listen to Pale Shelter or Mad World and then listen to Everybody Wants to Rule the World, you know exactly what I mean. This album is like a sacred manual on how to write intelligent songs that touch the emotions deep within. The keyboard arrangements are phenomenal on this CD, the vocals are full of pain and reflection. Buy this and treasure it.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nHealing the Hurting, June 1, 2000\nReviewer: Tasha (somewhere in the wilds of England)\nFor anyone who was ever denied love as a child... Lonely children, wounded children, violated children, sorrowful children, discarded children... Too intelligent and insightful to be considered "pop," this album belongs with psychology books on healing childhood abuse, not with cool 80s dance music. If there were a category for healing, literary concept albums, this would be in the top 10. Sometimes just hearing your feelings expressed by another, knowing you're not alone in the dark, can be all the therapy you need. Give this one to someone still hurting.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nStandard 80's directions, April 24, 2000\nReviewer: "shadboy" (Canada)\nThis is by far the best Tears For Fears LP recorded. As with most 80's bands, the first was often the best they had to offer. It contains all the usual melodies we came to love in the 80's. Depression mixed with wide open sound was the norm. The group was once mentioned by Robert Smith of The Cure as being the exact thing they never wished to become. You decide.\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Chris Hughes, Ross Cullum \n\nAlbum Notes\nTears For Fears: Roland Orzabel (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Curt Smith (vocals, keyboards, bass); Ian Stanley (keyboards, programming); Manny Elias (drums, programming).\n\nAdditional personnel: Caroline Orzabal (vocals); Phil Palmer (guitar); Mel Collins (saxophone); Chris Hughes (programming); Ross Cullum.\n\nIncludes liner notes by Ian Cranna.\nDigitally remastered by Jon Astley and Chris Hughes (Close To The Edge).\n\nTears For Fears developed on the periphery of the early '80s electro-pop phenomenon; their Bath base isolating them from the confidence and cool of their Sheffield compatriots--the Human League, ABC and Heaven 17--and the urban sleaze of Soft Cell. THE HURTING is nevertheless an assured debut; Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith weaving contemporary technology with traditional arrangements in a fashion that would soon come to dominate '80s mainstream pop.\nThe result is an enduring and fascinating combination of pretension ("Ideas as Opiates" is as impenetrable as its title) and naivetT (the regression of the title track). Angst and catharsis are persistent forces, evident in Orzabal's howl, the crashes of "Memories Fade," and the claustrophobia of "The Prisoner" and "Start of the Breakdown." But THE HURTING also bursts with inspired pop melodies, not least with the schoolgirl la-las of "Suffer Little Children" and the busy percussive loops of "Change." 1998 remastered edition includes four bonus tracks.\n\nIndustry Reviews\n4 stars (out of 5) - ...THE HURTING remains a landmark work....dated by the real saxophone on 'Ideas As Opiates' and 'Memories Fade' as by the crashing programmed rhythms and Fairlight whistling ...it's nonetheless a highly emotional pop record...\nQ Magazine (07/01/1999)\n\nRanked #14in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983.\nCMJ (01/05/2004)\n\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nBritain's Tears for Fears stand out among the current crop of identikit synth-pop groups by virtue of their resourceful, stylish songwriting and fetching rhythmic sway. Granted, the adolescent angst and bleak, pained romanticism of singer-instrumentalists Curt Smith and Roland Orzabel sometimes come off as an adequate imitation of Joy Division, at best. But for every lapse into sackcloth-and-ashes anguish on The Hurting, the duo's debut album, there is a heady, danceable pop tune like "Change." On that track, a breathless core riff and nervous percussion accelerate the song's strong disco pulse. And on both "Mad World" and "Pale Shelter," beguiling hooks and panoramic guitar effects suck the listener into dizzy whirlpools of cleverly synthesized orchestration. "Start of the Breakdown" is a successful venture into artier territory, a macabre play-by-play of emotional collapse that's heightened by the stark contrast of exotic percussion flourishes and a bleak, descending keyboard motif.\n\n\n\nTears for Fears may be too concerned with their own petty traumas, but it is a testimony to their refined pop instincts that they manage to produce this much pleasure from the pain. (RS 399 - Jul 7, 1983) -- DAVID FRICKE
This rock cd contains 10 tracks and runs 41min 50sec.
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