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Post by mr80sography on Aug 16, 2020 9:43:34 GMT
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Post by Jules on Aug 17, 2020 9:03:39 GMT
Hi! I'm glad you joined, but sadly I'm not sure we've ever got a big enough userbase to answer questions like this properly. I'll start by listing my favourite songs: The Hurting Head Over Heels / Broken Badman's Song Sowing the Seeds of Love Year of the Knife As you see, I tend more on the rocky side of things. I don't think TFF have released a bad song on an album in the 1980s. That only started in 1993. Across the entire discography, my ranking is such: 1. The Seeds of Love (1989) 2. Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995) 3. Songs from the Big Chair (1985) 4. The Hurting (1983) 5. Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004) 6. Elemental (1993) But every album has its fans. You might want to look at the many TFF threads on the Steve Hoffman Music Forums too, such as this one: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/tears-for-fears-album-by-album-discussion-thread.874477/If I have the time, I'll check out your podcast.
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Post by Mr D on Aug 20, 2020 8:47:15 GMT
Favourite songs
1 The Working Hour 2 Pale Shelter 3 Advice For The Young At Heart 4 Me And My Big Ideas 5 Closest Thing To Heaven
Worst
1 Badmans Song - Yuk 2 Year of The Knife - Dull 3 Ideas As Opiates 4 Don’t Drink The Water 5 Los Reyos Catholicos
Albums
SFTBC Elemental ELAHE
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Post by Jules on Aug 21, 2020 22:14:05 GMT
Mr D, you have two songs from post-80s in both of your lists. The OP wanted only 80s songs though... But the worse "crime" is listing no less than three of my personal favourites in your worst list! just kidding. Hopefully we'll get some more replies...
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Post by Jules on Mar 19, 2021 22:25:39 GMT
Just a quick heads-up that I have finally gotten to listen to your interview with Nicky Holland. Very insightful! I'll be checking out the other episodes concerning TFF when I have the time, and I hope more fans will also check them out. Recommended!
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Post by iveivan on Mar 21, 2021 8:23:06 GMT
Just a quick heads-up that I have finally gotten to listen to your interview with Nicky Holland. Very insightful! I'll be checking out the other episodes concerning TFF when I have the time, and I hope more fans will also check them out. Recommended! I’m enjoying all of your TFF episodes mr80sography, especially the interviews with Chris Hughes, David Bates and Nicky Holland who I haven’t heard from before. It’s great when you gently pick interviewees up on things that seem out of line with what we think we know already about that band’s history.
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Post by Jules on Apr 14, 2021 14:10:55 GMT
He's done it! He's done it! He's gotten Ian Stanley on the podcast! Wow....
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Post by iveivan on May 21, 2021 16:41:53 GMT
He's done it! He's done it! He's gotten Ian Stanley on the podcast! Wow.... Great couple of interviews. I found myself agreeing with a lots of his opinions.
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Post by Jules on Jan 17, 2022 17:54:04 GMT
I just finally listened to part one of the Ian Stanley interview and I think it's essential listening. Some important points:
- The drum machine on "Mad World" isn't slowed down but treated with a harmonizer. - The pre-chorus of "Mad World" has a similarity to the repeat motif in Cat Stevens' "Mathew and Son"! - The vocals on "Rule the World" were done very late, during mixing - Chris' songwriting credit on "Rule the World" is debatable; Ian says they gave it to him as a gift. - The horn part was taken out for the album version and later put back in for the Urban Mix - We get some more background for the b-sides, although Ian doesn't even remember "The Conflict"!
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Post by Jules on Jan 27, 2022 22:56:25 GMT
Some random points from the second half of the Ian Stanley interview:
- Roland is a very generous guy. - Chris Hughes plays a bit of bass guitar on "Listen" - Roland and Ian were trying to write a song for Michael Jackson after the Big Chair tour but never finished it. - Ian's only contribution to "Always in the Past" was the (improvised) sax part - which earned him a co-write! (But only a third of the publishing.) - Ian plays a pizzicato string part on "Woman in Chains". - At about 1:10:00 in, Roland's vocal from "Famous Last Words" gets soloed - woah! - Ian doesn't like most of the Seeds album, thinks nothing of ELAHE but thought "I Love You But I'm Lost" was great. Somehow that sums up how I feel about his relationship to TFF's music - he was very important for SFTBC but if he had stuck around, the band could not have progressed and evolved as much as they did. - Ian REALLY didn't want to to the "three words" thing.
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